The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-04-17
North Dakota
Kernels
Fishin' season is on.

IL Aai lilGiS SICNdIOT at IT6dI Benz
Will be raised and improved.
The Methodist camp meeting grounds
at jamestown are being improved.
The Spanish swindIe game is being
worked to a FRAGILE in North Dakota.
Many lakes which have been dry
for years in the northern part of the
state are filled up this year.
North Dakota milIers met at Grand
Forks to protest against the reduction
on the wheat n lour tariff.
Will Thompson, a boat builder at
Valley City, is missing and 1t is fear
ed that he has been drowned.
Della Warner. of Grand Forks was
sentenced to pay a fine Of 500 or serve
thirty days for immoral conduct.
Much interest is being taken in golf
at Grand Forks and the game will be
quite generally played there this sum
mer.
Helen Lambrakis, who was terribly
burned in an explosion Of gasoline at
Rugby several weeks ago, is reported
worse.
The Haggart Construction Co. of
Fargo landed the contract to construct
a big trunk sewer at Valley City. The
bid was $61,373.61.
Brakeman Rutherford of jamestown
disappeared from a freight train and it
Is feared he was knocked from a car
into the Missouri river. .
Labor was scrace to do city work at
Valley City and a man who was serv-
ing a thirty day sentence was pardon
ed so that he could get to work.
The contract for the new New Rock
ford-LewistOn branch of the Great
Northern has been let to Guthrie &
CO., and sub-let to an Iowa firm.
E. M. Larson, a prosperous farmer
near Daily in Barnes county, lost all
OF his buildings by fire. Ten head Of
yearling cattle were burned to death.
The foundations OF the new Minot
normal building have been found to be
faulty and part of them have been
condemned by the architects, Haxby &
Gillespie.
A fierce prairie fire swept away
$4,000 worth Of property at Cannon
AFbll III lIld VICINITY. MANY farm
houses and barns n much stock
were destroyed.
Three men were tried by an insan-
1ty board at jamestown and two were
dismissed. With one it was a case Of
too much booze and there was a lack
of evidence in the other case.
st. Thomas will vote on the propo-
sition of bonding for $4,000 to be used
for building an electric light plant,
and there is $4,000 in the treasury
which can be added to that sum-,
A farmer named Baumgarten of
Stanton was the first man arrested
under the new game board. He shot
a deer that had been driven from the
lowlands by high water, pleaded gull
ty and was heavily fined.
Hans Hagen of Medina was badly
burned while lighting a gas lamp. The
torch was almost out and he plunged
1T into a gallon can of wood alcohol
which exploded with a terrific roar and
scattering burning oil all over Hagen.
The conviction Of Theodore Kahel-
lex. one of the most prominent demo-
Gratis in the state and a we'll known
hotel keeper at Kenmare, on a charge
- SAHoY les DCSl sci d6luS US
the supreme court n a new trial
granted.
A big row over the ownership of a
large tract of farm land is on at
MinOt before Judge Leighton. Thorn
hill & Willis have been restrained
by Jourgen Olson from taking posses
sion of the land which is known as the
HaVlicheck farm.
Six horses belonging to Gustav
Waydeman who lives on a farm south
of Anamoose, kicked a hole in the
granary n ate such large quantities
Of wheat that when they afterwards
drank heavily the water caused the
wheat to swell and all of the animals
were killed.
Mayor Murphy in his annual mes
sage to the city council at Grand
Forks predicts a big growth during
the coming yea and urges the need
of a municipal slaughter house and a
water softening plant, similar to the
splendid Fargo plant.
c. F. Trefz, field secretary of the
chamber of commerce of the United
States, will make a tour of North Da-
kota, speaking at various commercial
clubs in the state. He will speak at
Fargo, Wahpeton, Grand Forks, Devils
Lake, Williston and Minot and possib-
ly Bismarck n Jamestown.
From 10000 correspondents of the
bureau of statistics the agricultural
department has learned that to raise
colts on farms to the age of 3 years
1t costs on the average of $104.06 This
covers all expenses. Deducting the
value of work done by the ~3-year-old,
the net cost is 1864, and the average
selling value of the horse is $1S6.I7.
The profit to breeders is over 29%.
Sharon Reporter: Roy Miller, the
man who is always in a hurry, had a
close shave catching his train to
Fargo last Saturday, in fact, he didn't
only have a close shave, but he only
had half a shave, for his train was
ready to pull out while he was shaving
and he had to run for it when only
half shaved.
Aneta Panorama: Build a siio-bet-
ter have a silo than an auto. II you
once get a silo you can soon have an
auto. We do not mean that it is better
to have a silo than an auto because
We think that you should not have an
auto, but because we know a silo is
a money maker while an auto at its
best is a money spender. Nothing on
a, farm will bIIV Won an aJIfn a1IfoLar