The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-03-05
North Dakota
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the senate.
A big defamation contest was held
at Fort Totten.
The new board. Of control is getting
busy at Bismarck.
Williston adopted the commission
form of government.
Many new banks are being organic
ed in North Dakota
Co NJ Of Devils Lake will give
its annual ball March "a
Col. w. T. Baldwin, a pioneer of
Nelson county, died suddenly.
The weather March is handing out
Is the genuine Zion brand.
There were 996 births and 403
deaths in the state in January.
A 8 year old boy at Sanborn, Otto
Thornburg, died Of heart failure.
r. c. Spriggs was reelected exalted
ruler of the Grand Forks Elks.
The ice is thirty-four inches thick
on the Red river at Grand Forks.
The county treasurers raked in a lot
Of coin during the past few weeks.
They are still talking about big
yields in the vicinity Of Devils
Lake.
within a few weeks four farmers
telephone lines will be in operation
out of Wilton.
1t has been a. great many years since
the United States has had two living
eX-presidents.
Charles Wagner Of Mandan was
| shot in the abdomen while engaged in
target practice.
A Red Cross society with fifty Ia
dies as charter members was organic
| ed at Grand Forks.
The merchants of Devils Lake will
organize as part Of the North Dakota
Merchants association.
Electric lights were installed in the
| 500 depot at Lidgerwood and the G.
N. will follow suit.
The Grand Forks State Fair as
ISOLATION plans a permanent silo eX~
hlbit on the fair grounds.
The books Of Commissioner of Agri-
culture Gilbreath were found to DE
correct on investigation.
A Citizens institute will be held at
Williston under the direction Of the
extension department Of the u.
Interest in basketball is on the
| x,a -, -V,I ATN~NI TalrA, 60, nc nrA ,anrF
beginning to think Of baseball.
Evelyn Key, aged 10, of Mandan
was taken sick with bladder trouble
in school and died that evening.
Sheriff Hendrickson did some
detective work m landed a couple OF
alleged blind piggers at Ambrose.
There is a scrap on between Grand
Forks county and the city OF Grand
Forks over the payment Of bridge
taxes.
concert band, which is giving the peo-
pie of that city some splendid enter
tainment.
The legislators visited the Wash
burn Ignite mines at Wilton, a spe-
cial taking about 800 people from Bis
marck to Wilton.
A suit for $4,000 against the 500
line for violation of the eight hour law
in North Dakota was filed in federal
court in Minneapolis.
o. A. Whitford, janitor of the Con-
gregational church of Sanborn. fell
through a basement door of the
church and fractured two ribs.
George Strong, the man accused at
Minot with making a murderous at
tack on r. P. O'Neil in the KoZy lunch
room. is having his trial in the magic
city.
Interest in the coming basketball
battle between Kenmare and Minot
is so intense that it is probable that
a special train will be run to Ken
mare.
The programme for the teacher
officers meeting of Stutsman county
which will be held March 13, ID, at
jamestown is announced and contains
some fine features. ...
There are so many cases Of measles
at Grand Forks that the council took
special action, ordering each case
isolated and in case this order was
not obeyed, the case was to be
qu%arantined.
Among the public nuisances is the
man who stands in the aisle at the
close of the theatre Or other public
meeting and calmly chats with a
friend while hundreds of people are
kept waiting.
The ~coroner's jury found that Christ
Miller Of Burlington, who was thought
first to have died from heart failure,
at Minot, came to his death as the
result of a fractured skull caused by
a fall from a car.
The supreme court has held in a
decision just handed down against the
city of Grand Forks, that the city
is liable for icy sidewalks, even
though a person who is injured IN the
walks, knows that they are in a
dangerous condition.
Ward county has been awarded
$l46.50 in a verdict against a man
named Hines who was ordered to
abate a nuisance on his property, that
was endangering the health of the
community, and who refused to do so,
the work being done by the county.
r The officials of the State ChiIdren's