Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1911-06-15
AROUND THE STATE.

Three children of Mr. and Mrs.
Geo. t.lhard Of Burnstad died within
a week.
llocks Of wild pigeons are report
ed to have been seen near the inter
national boundary line
| \ tifer at t,wythe, played sobadly
a dog couldn't stand it any longer
and bit a man in the thigh
| At Napoleon dealer was cheated
In a hide deal and announces that
he was UP against u skin game :
1t is asserted that there are more
than hundred steam and gasoline
prairie-breaking outfits in operation
IN Dunn county.
| The Napoleon homestead has com
pleted quarter of a century Of ac-
ltlvlty. Editor Bryant saws there's
something in a name.
\ Missouri judge rules that it is
lawful for man to spank his wife.
So, also. is it lawful for him to thaw
out dynamite Forum
In Minot q lady cared for six years
for a grave which she supposed 70
be her husbands, and then ascer-
tanned that it belonged to some one
else
The Alexander Chronicle thinks if
some of the money spent in viewing
Mckenzie county roads was spent in
road building travel would be
easier
The St Anthony elevator at Penn
was struck 10y lightning last Thurs
day afternoon. The fire department
responded quickly and little damage
resulted
Two residents of Penn have
patented dairy milk-can that is
said to possess many advantages over
the present ones from sanitary
standpoint
| II takes a good merchant to be a
good advertiser. The public knows
that, and is right in assuming that
the best advertiser is the best mer-
chant Washburn Leader
The democrats Of the state are
taking desperate chances to land
Burke for u fourth term as governor
by boosting him for president. vice
president and for position i'm the
presidential cabinet. Forum
There are said to be thousands of
bushels of wheat in the western part
of Mercer county left over from the
1910 crop. This is now being sent
down the river on the Benton Pack
ct Company S boats and shipped over
the 500 line from Washburn.
Marmarth got an unenviable rcpu-
tation as result of the arrest of a
imam on the charge of using his own
daughters as prostitutes and taking
the money they earned and the ar
rest of another for nameless crime
of which his own son was the victim.
Falling into a watering tank in
which there was about two feet of
water. the two-year-old son of Mr.
land Mrs. Gottfried Reich. was
drowned at Gackle. in Logan coun-
1 ty, one day last week The little
lad was alone at the time of the ac-
| cident, and the body was not discoN
cred until after search Of about
five hours
| a man named Abrahamson. who
was arrested charged with the seduc-
tionof Mary Kiddcl. at the hearing
| at Medora was released from the
charge and fined S2a for assault
on the person of Charles kidder
The evidence Of Mary kidder showed
| that her father. Charles kidder, had
acted as procurer for his daughter.
| and he has been arrestd on this
charge
The North Dakota department of
the Grand Army Of the Republic is
lholding its annual cncampment in
Grand Forks this week yesterday
and to-day. The Women's Relief
Corps is also in session there One
of the interesting additional features
of the encampment is the war
relic museum, created through the
activity of the officers oft he Willis
la German post, of Grand Forks.
Miss Belize Wolkes, aged twenty
one. q waitress at the Exchange no.
ltel. Moorhead, was struck by a
Northern Pacific freight traina. few
ldays ago, and received injuries from
which she died Miss Wolkes had
gone on the railroad track to
chase Oft two pet dogs belonging to
Mrs. O'Nell. wife Of the Exchange
proprietor She shouted to the dogs,
stepped on the track and then off
again, stepped on the track again.
and the oncomlng train struck her
] A. Hazel of Saline. is dead
from injuries that he received in a
runaway accident. While driving
home from a prayer meeting that
had beeu held near his home. his
horses became frightened. the buggy
being overturned Just few rods
from his residence. the horses break
ing away Mr. Hazel was not found
till the following morning, after he
had lain in AN unconscious condition
nearly eight hours The shock was
too great for him % withstand and
death resulted
Arnold l.ongavan, son Of James
Longavan, had q miraculous escape
from death one day last week. at
Minot, when peanut and popcorn
machine exploded with terrific force