The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-02-17

A. T. Crist, cashier of the Dickey
State bank. died In Fargo.
Gambling and slot machines have
been banished from Lisbon.
Ninety-six have filed intentions to
become u. S. citizens al Mandan.
VIM. Kavanaugh was elected presi-
dent Of the jamestown z. M. c. A.
The Devils Lake U. c. T. council
starts with seventy five members.
The Odd Fellows hall at Milton had
a narrow escape from the flames.
The III -wlnter fair of the Mouse
River Fair association is on at Minot
tomorrow.
Motorcycles will be featured at the
Grand Forks auto show which begins
tomorrow.
An effort is being made at Mandan
to find a suitable home for a baby,
whose mother is dead.
The Missouri Slope fair directors
elected C. f. Massingham president
and A. w. Furness. secretary.
No man has been named as yet to
succeed D. S. LittlehaIes as foreman
Of the N. p. shops at Mandan.
Emmett Watt has been arrested at
Cando, charged with breaking into
the Great Northern depot there.
Peter Miller is suing the 500 rail
road for $500 for damages alleged
to have been received at Carpio.
James /. Davis, a Great Northern
brakeman, was fatally injured under
the wheels Of an engine at Minot.
All bids for the construction of the
new Minot normal school were re-
jected because they were too high.
Geo. w. Taylor was sent up for
ninety days at Grand Forks on a
charge of issuing worthless checks.
Mrs. Ucelia Brooks lead body was
found near Oakdale. She lost her
way on the prairie and froze to
death.
Mrs. Magdaline Schmidt, who died
in Fargo recently was one Of h
settlement.
E. ]. Stone of Fessenden, averages
SIS a week from seven cows that he
Is milking at the present time. He
has ten cows altogether.
David Cohn and C. A. Grow. promi-
nent clothing men of Minot, got into a
%squabble over a check perforator, took
the case into court and Cohn won out,
Harry Stair of Crookston, known
throughout North Dakota as an expert
trap shooter, was taken seriously i'll
at the hardware convention at Grand
Forks.
Darlington expects the Great North
ern to buy the N. P. Turtle Lake
branch and use it for the western
Ee%xtention, which it has been supposed
bswould be built west from New Rock
ford.
A team of horses, nosed the door
of a deserted claim shack open near
Flasher, entered the shack and the
door shut behind them and the catch
caught, leaving the horses to starve
to death.
Peter King, an Indian, who shot
Miss Maud Sweet on a reservation
in Minnesota and then killed himself,
was we'll known in the vicinity of
Alexander.
The Langdon Republican says that
Superintendent Hoover is recognized
as one of the strong school men of
the state, and wonders why he is not
to be retained. Many others are just
AS puzzled.
Joe Bruening Of Darlington has
trapped seven foxes, n wolf, about
three dozen weasels and other ami
mails. The furs netted him $50. The
seven foxes were all caught at n
straw pile.
Mrs. E. G. Hager struck a match
in the bedroom Of her home neal Tow
er City. The head of the match flew
in several directions, one piece setting
fire to some clothing and 1t was only
by heroic work that the home was
saved from total destruction.
Mrs. Eat Fam, an Indian woman, said
to have been born near Hillsboro, is
trying to get a contract with the state
fair at Grand Forks to let her husband,
the latter a pure blood Aztec Indian,
throw knives at her during the fair.
The Mandan Commercial club wired
to the department of agriculture ask
Ing If the department would approve
an effort to get a further ~appropria-
ton for the Mandan experiment sta
ton of $500 but was turned down.
Mrs. Frank Pieterick Of Forman was
awarded $4,000 damages against Cor
Weaver for the death of her husband,
who died in the back room of a blind
pig establishment u by Weaver,
following a row in which Pieterick
was hit over the head by another man
and his skull fractured.
The Great Northern railway con-
tractors are moving a lot of material
road construction in Mckenzie coun-
ty. Many farmers are taking advan-
tage of the opportunity, and after
bringing grain into Williston, haul
back a load of supplies, thus making
an additional income.
Northwood Cleaner: J. w. Scott
and c. J. Sundahl are both opposed
to the paying of road taxes in cash
same to be used for real road max.
ing under competent authority. These
| gentlemen go On record in this mat
ter as opposing a progressive and far
reaching measure, which would work
out for the building of good perma-
nent roads wherever road work was
done, instead of the hap-hazard, hit
and miss methods that now prevail.
The work should be fairly appor-
toned among the respective districts
even as now, but a road fund, and
road making under a contract calling