Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1891-06-25
STATE NEWS.

STATE NEWS.
The real estate market is improving.
Live stock, shipments to the Chicago
market have aleeady begun. Prices are
good.
Careful investigation shows a healthy
and uniform growth of grain in all parts
of the state.
The recent sale of school lands at 500 to
$26 per acre demonstrates that North Da-
kota real estate is in good demand and
that everybody has faith in the prospects
of the state.
Farmers are cautioned against leaving
their sheeb out in the rain, especially while
the lambs are young. Every sheep owner
ought to have sheds sufficient to shelter
his flock. A good many sheep and lambs
have died from exposure during the recent
rains.
| The citizens of Buford and Flannery
counties are preparing petition to the
governor for organization to be sent in
as soon as the law creating them into
one county under the name of Williams
county, takes effect.
Hon. LEWIS THOMPSON, one of the
prominent members Of the last legisla-
ture, died at his residence in Buxton, on
Friday last. Mr.. Thompson was one of
the foremost citizens of Trail county and
leaves behind him a wide circle of
friends who regret his sudden removal.
The following is floating around
among the exchanges, and if based upon
solid foundation, is worthy of atten-
ton: "Saloonkeepers and others who
deal in cigars would do we'll to closely
study the law enacted by the last con-
gress in regard to the sale of cigars. Sec
ton 1852 of the Revised Statutes says
that cigars must be sold to the customer
direct from the properly stamped box.
A dealer who takes out handful of CT
CARS and laws them before the buyer to
choose from, or saloonkeeper who
brings customer cigar on plate or
in glass makes himself liable to fine
of $780,"
THE department agriculture claims
to have demonstrated the success of a
new grass, and Secretary Rusk is quoted
as follows: II am more than delighted,
and words cannot adequately convey the
Importance of our demonstration. Here
after grass can be grown in the semi-arid
sections of the west and northwest. You
can say to the people of the Dakotas that
the department has been experimenting
in order to find good grass for that Sec
ton, which will grow without irrigation.
We caused $50 acres to be tried in an arid
section of western Kansas, and the result
is before u.s. The bronnes, or Austrian
grass, has grown to luxuriance upon soil
which has received only IL inches of
rain in five months. The same grass
will thrive in Dakota, North and South.
We are enthusiastic over the discovery
and will now undertake to procure seed
enough to furnish the people for next
season. This will tend to largely solve
the problem of irrigation, for the rain
will come to the grass, while the verdure
can mover go to the rain"
SUPERINTENDENT OGDEN thought he
found evidence of collueion in the sale of
school lands in Grand Forks county and
now it appears another county is also in
the same boat-at least the Grand Forks
Herald says that "Cass county lost about
$1,000 on single quarter section of
school land. A bona fide bidder offered
as high as $21.60 per acre, but one, who
afterward appeared to be stool pigeon,
bid s21.65 and got the land. When the
time came for putting up the money, the
bogus buyer failed to put in an appear
ance, making it necessary to sell the land
again on subsequent day, when it was
sold for SIG per acre, the man who really
wanted it and was willing to pay S21.6O
being unavoidably absent, so that the
school fund lost $1,000 and the party
who wanted the land most and was will
ing to pay the highest price for it was
cheated out of it. All such cases as this,
where collision undoubtedly exists,
ought to be rigidly investigated and set
aside and the parties guilty of collision
properly punished.
Another River Craft