The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-02-28
Ness is guilty.

Residents along the Missouri are
preparing for the highest water for
years. .
The Concrete Pile Co. of jamestown
expects the banner year of its
history.
Three farmers clubs of Grand
Forks county are holding institutes
this week.
The Dakota Lumber Co. has sold
its Cogswell business to the Hamilton
Lumber Co.
That lurid glare in the west is a
reflection of the pryotechnic display
at Bismarck. ,
Ferdinand Piper a Cass county
farmer was swindled out of $4,000 at
Hot Springs, Ark.
1t is probable that the Fifth judicial
district, presided owe by Judge Cof-
fey, will be divided.
The bill which banned public drink
ing cups and which was killed in the
house will be reconsidered.
A number of organizations have
taken up the matter Of getting farm
ers to test their seed grain.
Individual deposits in Mclean
county banks, subject to check on
Feb. 4 amounted to over $500, 000.-
Editor Hobbs of The Haley Record
is much impressed with the hustle ot
G~ascoyne, after q visit to that burS.
A number of North Dakota EIks
will so to Crookston to help the
Queen City Elks celebrate March &c.
Three horses died from some
mysterious at Gwinner and the
state veterinarian made an investiga-
ton.
Senator Marden has introduced a
bill in the legislature providing for
the manufacture of sacks at the state
prison.
The senate killed the joke auto
mobile bill sent to it from the house.
The uniform textbook bill walked the
plank.
School in traction engineering, con-,
Quoted by the big traction companies
have been held in many cities and by
many companies.
Agents Of the Midland Continental,
railroad are busy in South Dakota,
securing r~ight-of-way for the extern
sion from Edgeley south.
|. In a few short weeks the farmers
by the thousands will be ripping up
the rich North Dakota soil and get
ting the seed into the ground.
The dead body of Henck, alias
Smith, alias Stoddard, who committed
suicide in the county Jail at Bismarck,
is still being held by Burleigh county
officials.
Superintendent Borchert of the bet
ter farming movement in Stutsman
county is having splendid success with
a series of farmers meetings hat he
is holding.
John Donnelly & Sons of Walsh
county sold $2,260 worth of stock from
their farm last year and they say that
they raise more grain than If they
had no stock.
Pres. A. G. Crane, whose salary was
held up because the board claimed
there should be no salary paid, until
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ceive the money.
There will be more structures erect
ed in the business district In Fargo
his year, representing a bigger out
lay of capital. than in any other year
in the history of the city.
Steve Louth, wanted at Palermo for
stealing a team of horses from B. T.
Pagenhart. who is engaged in the liv-
cry business there, was arrested neal
Sherwood yesterday afternoon.
j. J. Roddy of Minot has brought
suit against the Lyceum theatre Of
that city for damages alleged to have
been sustained in a fall through u.
trap door in one of the exits leading
VIM. Hardy who lives northeast of
Buffalo Springs. in Bowman made a,
wager that he could carry a live 1591
| pound pig three mikes on horseback.
and he turned the trick and as a re-
suit wen the pig and a cow.
Jake Benzler of McClusky found
two of his best horses dead in his
yard recently and the other day when
he went to remove some of his grain
from his granary found that 1000
bushels of oats, and 1000 bushels of
wheat was heated and bin burnt and
most of it a total loss.
Thomas Turnipseed left Regent
very suddenly for Montana, and
number OF merchants in that vicinity
would like to know just what part of
| Montana he win locate in. In de-
parting, the young man with the agri-
cultural name forgot a little matter
of settling up accounts.
Valley city Times Recorder: That
1913 is opening auspiciously for.
North Dakota. no one who watches
the signs of the times, can doubt.
Weather conditions are right, and. the
| spirit of the business men and farm
ers of the state is right for a real
booster year. Much of text falls bust
ness depends upon the crops. but even
more the progressive and optimistic
spirit of the men who raise the crops
and those who buy them, viii deter
mine whether North Dakota is to take
another big stride forward before an
other year rolls around.
Wasted Garcagm.
Chicago Tribune: Indignant Wife
I wonder what you would have done IL
you had lived when men were first
compelled to earn their bread by the
sweat of their broWs?
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