The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-09-13

- ~ LAIN NSSAANt ANSt4Sf
who contracted blood poisoning as the
result of being bitten on the hand by
a. mule, is reported to be recovering
at a Minot hospital.
The Mayville normal has establish
ed a model rural school in connection
with the normal and farmers Of that
vicinity are urged to send their chill
dren to this institution.
The Sheyenne Valley Canning &
Picking Co. Of Lisbon a opened it's
canning plant for mother season n
is canning large quantities Of tomatoes
ad other produce.
Although chickens were reported to
be plentiful in North Dakota this
year, very few parties came back with
the limit. In Minnesota it is said
there are mighty few chickens in some
places.
Kuhn Messenger: The first thresh-
ing report handed in to us was that
Of Ludwig Johnson. He had a few
acres of hard wheat, on land planted
to corn last year that went 22.5 BUSH
els to the acre.
At a special election held at May
NAAAS W WV Ol1 Nv thinning "Ao l.
creasing Indebtedness propositions,
two Of the propositions carried, one
was voted down and the other two
resulted in a tie vote.
Thousands of people have passed
through the magic city in the last
few days to register for land at the
Fort Peck reservation, indications are
hat there may be a land rush such
oc nna11rrnH in tho norlU DAVIS
In a drunken row in a box car at
| Apple Creek Antoine Rigori, an Ital-
ian laborer working on railroad con-
struction gang six miles east of Bis
marck, was slashed and cut with
knives by his six companions and
died almost instantly. "
Recent developments in the case Of
the murder M lear suicide near La
kota lead to the supposition that the
murdered man who was known as
Frank Fisher, may be the son Of
George l.. Fisher of Tucson. Ariz.,
whose son has been missing for eight
months.
The six little children Of oJhn Staff
serving a term of ten years in the PEN
| itentiary for shooting his wife to death
in a barrel on his farm near Minot
several months ago, nave been legally
disposed of by the states attorneys
office in Minot and are now living in
good homes.
The Better Farming association
urges every farmer that has corn
to go into the standing crop now be-
fore frost to save an abundance Of
seed for the coming year. Every eff
fort should be made to save as many
bushels of seed as there are acres Of
corn in the field.
That the cow will soon be queen of
the average North Dakota farm is the
| opinion of J. T. Nelson Of Glen Ul1in,
successful merchant, active official Of
the North Dakota Retail Merchants
association and progressive booster
| for Morton county in particular and
the west slope in general.
It will be six weeks before the tun-
mel for the new line Of the Great
Northern on the east bank Of the yell
lowstone river in western Mckenzie
county will, be completed. Delayed by
the scarcity of labor and by engineer
ing features which have doomed up
more gigantic than first anticipated,
construction companies engaged in the
task nave been unable to get the work
completed on schedule time.
Cakes Journal: The Cakes car
penters are all busy in the country
now helping to build new and larger
barns and houses-larger barns to
store away the goods and larger
houses for greater comfort and con-
venience to the people. The prosperity
Of the worthy farmers and the work
for the good workmen makes them
have a larger ambition.
ut Is the sentence of this court that
you work thirty days in the harvest
field" said Judge Murphy, Of James
town, Thursday when ne settled a
case of domestic infelicity and incom-
patibility. And the sentence was re-
ceived in earnest and today the man
Is hustling at the excitable end of a
t~hreshing machine and the whites
winged dove of peace rests above the
home in Jamestown.
Jamestown Capital: The first frost
of the fall season is reported in the
valley Thursday night. though upon
the prairies outside Of the valley a
temperature Of Al was h lowest re-
ported. At midnight the temperature
was As above zero and toward morn
ing there was a drop of FOL degrees.
In the lowest places in the valley a
light frost formed but it was without
injury to tomatoes m other tender
vegetation, it Is reported.
Don Nierling of Jamestown return
ed Thursday from his trip to Panama
with the Shriners, where the ceremon-
ial degree of the order vas worked
in one Of the immense locks of the
canal. He reports the best kind Of a
trip imaginable with a splendid gath
ering. There was nothing to mar the
trip in any way n every minute OF
the trip by rail and steamer was thor
oughly enjoyed. Their steamer skirt
ed the west coast of Cuba, distant
only five or six miles; also the east
coast Of Mexico, Honduras n Nicar-
aqua. Mr.. Nieriing say the canal has
to be seen to appreciate the immensely
of the undertaking Of the government
AS n Of the features of the trip he
saw exploded a charge Of twenty tons
OF dynamite which removed the bar
rier between the waters of the interior
and the Pacific a Eleven miles
of the canal yet remain dry but it is
intended to flood this in October tc
bring into use a number of dredges
which now are idle n cannot be got
Into commission. MI. Nierling was
a. member OF the Shrine band and blew
happy notes all the way down and
back-and is ready to return tomor.
row for another such trip.