The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-10-04

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at over 500 were taken from each
place. .
An alleged forgery case against Fl.
E.. Wood, collector for a machinery
firm, was dismissed by a Lawton JUS
tice, the decision being that there was
no case against Wood.
While in a state of intoxication from
over indulgence in alcoholic drinks c.
j. Roswell tried to end his misery last
night at Des Laos by drinking some
lysol, but he attempt at suicide only
resulted in his being arrested and
taken to Minot for an inquiry into his
sanity.
A special train consisting Of four
baggage cars filled with silk and one
pullman and a diner. passed through
North Dakota Thursday on the n. P.
en- route east. The train was being
than passenger train time over the
system.
The directors of the North Dakota
Corn and Glover convention more ia
miliarly known as the Grand Forks
mid-Winter fair, met at the office of
the association at the call of Pres.
Fred l.. Goodman, and decided upon
Feb. 2 to 7 inclusive, as the dates for
the big agricultural exposition.
Formal announcement has been
made Of the consolidation of the well
known law firms of Middaugh G. Hunt
and Cuthbert & Smythe at Devils
Lake. H. G. Middaugh, the senior
partner of the former firm, and F.. r..
Cuthbert of the latter firm, were for
merry partners when the firm was
known as Burke. Middaugh & Cuth-
bert.
Leo Bruguier, a halfbreed Indian,
who was awaiting trial on a charge
or CRANE larceny, and a negro, charg-
ed with having stabbed a brakeman,
broke from the county Jail at Nc
lntoSh by forcing an exit from the
rear part of the building. Bruguier
was captured, but the negro is still at
large.
Earl Paul, a transient was taken off
OF the train at Devils Lake by the
sheriff. Paul Is said to be a check
artist and is wanted by the State
bank of Hamlet, this state, for alleged
forgery of five checks amounting to
$96. His game was worked by buying
goods at a store, paying in check and
taking the change.
Sheriff Wright and Deputy Wright
or Stutsman county made a raid on
an old building on the outskirts Of
montpelier and caught four men with
elSht quarts of liquor n an abund-
ance OF empties. The raid was made
Thursday evening and was an entire
surprise to the men, transients, who
had taken squatter possession of the
building.
Officer Ole Dahl of the local po-
lice force was rather roughly handled
Thursday at about 8 o'clock by N.
McManus, better known as kid" Nc
Manus of 1nkster, a well known and
popular young farmer of that locality,
as the result of a dispute between
the officer and McManus over lam
guage the latter is sale to have been
using on De Mers avenue near Third
street.
Vice President Slade of the North
ern Pacific, has offered a fine
months old, pure bred Jersey bull
as a prize for the best grade heller
between one and two and a half
years old exhibited at the North Da-
kota Industrial exposition, which will
be held at Bismarck this year, Oct.
Z to 10. This is a chance for farmers
having grade cattle in their dairy
herds to get some easv money. Beef
qualities will not count in the iudg-
ing.
Minot Reporter: Oct. / to
the northwest following a month Of
almost uneXcelled weather for the
t~hreshers and finds a large majority
of the GRAIN o1roo1y throsbnl arl +1o
farmers doing their fall blowing. In
comparison with the miserable
weather of last fall during which con-
siderable grain was lost and spoiled,
it looks as if the farmers of this Sec
ton should be mighty thankful for
the conclusion they have reached for
the year.
Two thousand head of beef cattle,
valued at more than $3.50, 600, are being
rounded up by ranchmen in the Bad
Lands north of the Little Missouri
river in North Dakota. They will be
tralled across the prairie forty to fifty
miles to a crossing OF the Missouri
known as Goodall's ferry and there be
loaded into iatboats and taken across
the Missouri. thence trailed forty miles
farther to Plaza before a shipping
point will be reached. They will be
sent over the 500 line from Plaza to
Chicago and st. Paul.
Word has, been received at Valley
City from Tacoma, Wash. of the death
Of Con SchWinler, one Of the -four first
white men to. settle in Barnes county.
Mr.. Schwinler was born in Prussia in
February, 1845, and came to North
Dakota in 1874, settling first at Sibley
Crossing.l The following winter he
built himself a cabin on the present
site of the normal school power house,
long before there was a town here.
He has been identified with the growth
of. this section of North Dakota, and
has large interests in Barnes county.
The young son of Mr.. and Mrs. A. S.
KelsYen of jamestown is in bandages
for a few days, the result of investi-
eating a beehive at the VIM. Schultz
farm near Montpelier. The boy is 2h
years old and Of the usual inquiring
mind and, Guiding his parents, began
an investigation of the hive. Remov-
ing the cover he started something.
When the terrified child reached the
house his parents removed bees from
his air, ears and clothing. The child
was stung about fifteen times and had
he not been something of a Spartan
for courage the result might have been
much more serious. Both eyelids were
stung and the boy is kept in the dark
for the present for fear Of injury to
his eyes. Otherwise he is all right but
will hereafter shy at bees.
CONSUMPTION of Intoxicating liquors
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