Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1911-07-13
AROUND THE STATE.


for by the finding of a place IN one
of the main cables where forty-live
wires have been cut by caiber
bullet. evidently shot hy some cee-
brator about Tuesday. Several par
ties are under suspicion and Will
probably be prosecuted.
Grand Forks Herald. 1t Will not
bc Very long before all the men that
visit this section can be given en-
ployment. During the past two or
three days there have been several
calls from the country for men.
The farmers in this section are
looking forward to cutting bum
per crop this year. and some of
them are already making their prep
aratlons. In such cases. employ
ment is found for a few of the
needy and consequently some of
them are already making for the
farms.
Edinburg (Walsh County, Trlb-
une: Some apprehension is being
felt that shortage of harvest
hands may occur. and steps are be-
ing taken by the railroads to pre-
vent this, it possible. 1t will require
several hundred thousand men to
gather the crop this year. for it Will
be unusually heavy in handling,
both on account of big yield ard
the unusual amount of straw. 1t
is estimated it will take 10000 men
to gather the cropin the three west
ern provinces of Canada. This num-
ker is not available. inasmuch as On
tario has bumper crop and is
drawing ON the east for help In
the wheat raising states there is al
so danger of a shortage. and. unless
the south is secured for help, high
wages Offered. and reduced rates Sc
cured from the railroads. harvest
hands will be a scarce article.
Sioux county is a myth, says the
Mandan Pioneer. There will be no
Sioux county created out of that
part of Standing Rock reservation
in North Dakota. After giving as
surance that the county would be
organized. after causing those in
terests which stood for the two coun-
ty seat locations to spend time and
money and lots of it in getting sig
natures to petitions; after engcnder-
ing a lot of bad blood in the county
seat fight and getting things i'm such
a tangle it was next to impossible to
straighten them out, Governor
Burke has laid down, afraid to take
the responsibility of naming a coun-
ty seat. He has decided, it is said
what was self-evident to most peo-
lple of Morton county, that there is
no crying need for the creation of a
new county. Fort Yates will con-
tinue as the chief center on the res
ervation and Selfridgc will exist as
a speck on the railroad map.
Geo. Heap saw a little excitement
on his way to Anamoose recently,
says the local paper. 1t seems that
two negroes boarded the train re-
Gently at Drake. and. when the CON
ductor asked one of them for his
ticket. he cool!y insisted that it had
already beed taken up. The CON
lductor atonce stopped the train and
put him Oft, leaving the brakeman
to keep him off as the train started.
| The negro drew a razor and slashed
deep cash in one leg of the brake
man. In this interval the negro who
l.had remained on the train stationed
himself near one end Of the smoker,
drew a revolver and ordered all
hands up. A man who sat just be
hind the negro, failing to interpret
1.-THE order as intended, threw his
hands up, but so violently as TO
knock the revolver from the negro's
hand and land an upper cut under
his jaw. which landed the dusky son
l.of Hamon the floor in less time than
| it takes to think it A number of
volunteers piled on, and. when the
conductor returned, he found the
NEGRO beaten into something resem-
|bling black Jelly. The authorities at
| .Anamoosc took the negro in charge.
and. when the one with the razor
walked in, they nabbed him, and the
utmost diligence was used to pre-
| vent a mob's taking hand in the af-
fair
Fargo, July Z The grasshoppers
were doing a sort of merry-g -go-round
yesterday afternoon. but they were
thigh in the heavens. There were
millions of them lowering over the
.city for several hours, and they were
apparently moving in circle. At
the outer edge of the sun. if one
was in the shade. they couldbe plain
rs seen with the naked eye Anold-
timer says that they We're being
slowly drawn high in the heaven
and then, destruction was certain.
One ola-timer who has lived There for
mary wears tells Of how in the years
Of lC ng ago the grasshoppers would
move In the same manner, and then,
4 after flying for some distance. would
A alight, and 50 interested We're the
/ farmers i'm the movements OF the
4 hoppers that whenever and where
ever they came down would be the
\ subject of a telegram that would be
4 sent to all the newspapers over the
country. a well lknown business
man Of the city said yesterday after.
4 noon that he remembered when he
i was boy and going to school that
that on one occasion when the IN
sl.sects were vacating it became Sc
dark, 50 dense We're the creatures
THAT school was dismissed 1t is be
Ilieved that the hoppers have done
A about all the damage they Will d'
1 this season. and that their day are
numbered. The damage was not