Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1914-02-12

DAKOTA, THURSDAY, ]
Minot concern, is carbonized at the
mine. all the gases and moisture be.
ing removed. 1t is then taken to
the plant and stored in bins till
needed. The Jumps are pulverized
into dust as fine as anthracite dust
and from there goes to the mixing
machine and mixed with the binder,
heated dry and passes on to the
press. From there it is elevated to
the cooling table and dumped into
bius ready for the consumer.
Bismarck, N. D.. Feb. 4.-The
police today are looking for two
burglars who Sunday morning broke
into the branch office Of Armour and
Company, stealing two hams and a
quantity of bacon. Several bars of
soap we're also taken. No clue has
yet been obtained as to the identity
of the plunderers. 1t is believed
that they are hoboes out of employ
ment seeking forage for the winter
Evidently the thieves made an at
tempt to force the back door of the
plant by means of crowbar but
failing in that smashed back win
dow and obtained eptrance through
that.
Dickinson. N. n. Feb. 6.-Leon-
ard Leady, of Bowman, was sem
fenced in chambers last night by
Judge w. C. Crawford in this city,
to four years in the penitentiary for
setting fire to the M. d. Kirchner
meat market property in Bowman,
in December. He had been under
suspician for some weeks and when
arrested confessed. saying tt a t
Kirchner paid him fifty dollars for
doing the job in order that the own.
er might collect some three thous.
and insurance carried on fixtures.
Two others are implicated and are
now In the Bowman Jail with Kirch-
ner. Leary is % years old and has
a wife and child at Bowman, where
he had worked winters when off his
homestead across the line in South
Dakota.
Grand Forks, Feb. 6.-In connec-
tion with the recent eeting g
Of the Educational Association
held in Grand Forks recently, the
report Of the Russell Sage Foun-
dation Educational Division upon
the public school systems of the diff
ferent states was discussed and the
fact was brought out that North
Dakota takes a general rank of
eighteenth with all Of the states. in
her public schools. There are seven
teen ahead Of us and thirty behind
us which is a good showing for so
young a state. Judging is made
upon the ten principal points and
the str.e standing In each is al fol-
loUs: 10 ,he matter of children in
s :hu.l. We stand 18th; in the matter
of schmtl plants and property. we
stand Iwertieth; j x"rense per
child. l2.h; il schutl lays per child,
9th; in scho ye +, 81 in attend
ance 89iii: in expenditure and
wealrr, Oh; in daily cost, 4tb; IN
high schools, 30; and in salaries paid
32nd. These statistics show the
strong and weak points-study then.
Devils Lake. N. D., Feb. d.
Champagne. given j. A. Balleuger
as a wedding present. was largely
responsible for the fact that Benson
count! officials caused an injunction
to be placed against his drug store
at Leeds, it being contended that he
was keeping the beverage for SALE.
Before the district court, Mr.. Bal
lenger was successful in proving
that the champagne found in the
store was the remains" of a case
given him several months previous
by an aimiring friend at the time
he became a benedict. Several bot
ties Of wine, found in Mr.. Ballen-
gers residence, also were wedding
gifts, and these were used by the
prosecutors in an attempt to show
that Ballenger had engaged in the
illegal sale Of liquor. Judge Butts.
in dissolving the injunction. main
tains that there was sufficient
grounds for the action taken by the
Benson county prosecuting nfficer,
but he also maintains that the de-
fendant's explanation of how he