Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1910-01-20
AROUND THE STATE.

The annual meeting of the state
press association will be held at
Fargo in February.
Jud La Moure III. was recently
born to MIR. and Mrs. Edward La
Moure, of Pembina.
The North Dakota editors are
practically unanimous in their OPP
timism. They believe that 1910 has
a lot of good things in store for the
people of the state.
The experiments being conducted
at Fargo with the new wireless tele-
phone system are said to be highly
successful The instruments have a
capacity of 100, 900 volts.
\ Merle Naismith, of Sarles, was so
badly kicked by COW that he
couldn't resume his school work
after the holidays: and a lot of his
school-boy chums are envying him.
The new bridge over the lttle Mis-
souri, river at the Nitsey ranch, in
the western part Of the state. to he
built by the Northern Pacific, will
be $50 feet high and about 5000 feet
long.
At a public meeting held recently
in Bismarck the citizens of that
town decided unanimously in favor
of issuing bonds for the erection of
a S5O.0W city hall and fire engine
house.
This is one winter when, so far,
the easterners have had no occasion
to point the finger of scorn at North
Dakota unless the storm reports
from the Atlantic side of the con-
tinent have been greatly eaxgger-
ated.
ID. G. Tufts. formerly receiver of
the Fargo land-otiice. has been sem
fenced by Judge Amidon to a
term of six months in the Cass
county Jail and a fine of S2l6s. Is,
after he had pleaded guilty to em-
bezzlement.
Pres. Hill. of the Great Northern.
has had transportation sent to Wah
peton to be distributed among one
hundred farmers of Richland county
who will attend the coming farm
ers' institute to be held there, as an
encouragement to the institute idea.
Harry Dunn. boiler-maker at
DEVILS Lake, has been taken to the
insane asylum at Jamestown. His
malady appears to take the form of
peculiar interpretations of the
scriptures, and he claims that he
has had revelations that he is to be-
come millionaire.
Some forty homesteaders who
have believed right along that they
live in Mckenzie county may dis
cover that they are living in Dunn
county. Owing to an error in the
official map, the boundary division
Of the two counties was laid out
wrong, and the matter may yet have
to be settled in the courts.
Prof. Waldron, of the agricultur-
al college, is the author Of timely
paper on the culture of trees in this
state. and he incidentally takes a
rap at the unscrupulous tree agents
who take advantage of their Gus
toners ignorance of the matter and
sell them practically worthless stock
at excessively high prices.
| Adam Lesmelister. of Harvey, has
collected bounty for $50 coyotes he
has killed during the past year, with
the assistance of his dogs. AS the
state and county bounty amounts to
$3.50, Adam has evidently made
enough at the business to keep the
wolf from the door. This mighty
hunter used feet-footed and savage
Russian boar hounds. which he orig
inally imported from eastern Europe
where they are used in hunting
wild-boars.
The death of James Morris, aged
seventeen years, occurred at a Bis
marck hospital recently, after an
illness of several weeks with typhoid
fever. In a conversation with his
mother on the morning of the day
of his death he predicted that he
would die at 9 o'clock in the evening
of the same day. The boy was right
to the minute. This is the fifth death
that has occurred in the Morris fam
ily at the hour Of 9 p. m.
Foster predicted in these word:
warm wave for the very days or
which the temperature reached it:
lowest point this winter Warn
wave Jan. Z to II. : And still some
people believe in the fraud. He alst
gives forth lot of nonsense about
Cotton, Hogs Cattle, Grain, which
with any one else would call for