The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-01-17

Horace Bagley Of Towner and John
g. Thorpe Of Wahpeton have formed q
law partnership and will practice at
Towner.
The M. E. hospital commission de-
cided that the selection of q location
for the hospital should be left to the
conference.
The initiative, referendum and recall.
proposition seems doomed to hard
sleding as some Of the ministers have
fled protests against 1t.
H. M. Shirk Of Bantry has patented
a pillow share that does not have to be
bolted onto the pillow. but can be taken
off and put on in an instant.
The cold wave last week is said to
have caused a number OF farmers to
abandon their plans of coming to Far
go for the Trt-State meeting.
The editor Of The Lansford Journal
fell over some planking left carelessly
on the sidewalk of his home town-and
now he is a strong advocate for passa-
BILE sidewalks.
The Towner County Democrat says
diversified farming will mean fenced
farms and that will mean that the
roads will be impossible in the winter
because of drifts.
Every hotel in Fargo, every rooming
house and many private homes have
been pressed into commission to house
the great crowds that have locked here
for the TTi-State convention.
Col. A. b. Kerlin of Devils Lake, one
of the North Dakota presidential elect
ors, is said to have risked his life to
cast his electoral vote. He was Ill at
Seattle. but came east to cast the vote.
Governor Hanna has issued requisi-
ton for Roy Doyle, now In Minneapo-
lis, for the alleged abduction OF Hazel
Ryder, the Bedford girl who was lured
to the twin cities by Doyle on a prom
Ise or marriage.
There are many blue sky bills.
aimed at the protection of the public
schemes, before the Legislature. AZ
blue sky" bin in some form is sure
to be passed.
The Ryder Journal says: IT the geek
that started the nutty dope about
Hanna knocking the He'll u Of He'll
strom, will IN to Ryder, The Jour
L udl IIHdh& Will MALCEQUl " R1kOL@gI1 lLn
through the rye in Ryder"
Attorney Torkleson, new states at
torney In Bowman county, says that it
is impossible for him to live up to his
oath of Office and allow slot machines
to operate throughout the county
therefore slot machines must 3 (.
Professor BoIley took exception to
J. j. HilIs claims that the land needs
! phosphateg-ih his address before the
Trf-State convention, and he claims
that the land iB plant sick and needs to
be purified more than 1t needs to be
enriched.
North Dakotans can sit snug by
their firesides and ~sympathize with
the u~nfortunates that have lost for
tunes in the fruit raising districts of
California through frosts. and those
other ~unfOrtunates who fear foods and
snow slides In the far west.
The ground lis frozen SO deep in the
western part Of the state. because OF
the lack OF snow, that 1t is said to be
dangerous to horses and other stock,
as huge cracks have opened into the
ground into which the animals are H.
able TO step, with broken legs a pos
eibigity.
The men who know, state that North
Dakota should have more farmers and
smaller farmR-and the logic 0g this
reasoning is admitted by practically
every citizen, Including the ~farxnerg-~-
and yet 1t Is a fact that with the conn
ing OF the great tractor plows and
other machinery the farmers are doing
out for all the land theg can get hold
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