Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1891-06-18
NORTH DAKOTA.
Heavy rains everywhere.
Il IS great wheat weather.

Il IS great wheat weather.
Two saloon men have fed from Lakota
tearing prosecution.
George Main has been declared the duly
elected auditor of Towner county by Judge
Morgan.
o. A. Hovelet, while seeding on the farm
of L. A. Thompson, six miles from Buffalo
fell dead of heart disease.
Senator Engle was obliged to have one
Of his eyes taken out. The operation was
successfully performed at st. Paul.
Some losses of sheep and lambs are re.
ported, owing to the wet weather, but big
wheat crop will make up for them.
Trail county school lands brought an
average of $26 per, acre which is the high
est of any of the Red River counties.
Carlton B. Cross, postmaster at Hastings,
Barnes county, has resigned, and A. Gus
sars is recommended as his successor.
The Argus notes the coincidence that
whenever there is an open air concert in
Island Park, somebody goes and gets mar
ried the next day."
The residence of John Conyers at Cando
was destroyed by fire on Tuesday. the 10Th
ult. The building and contents were val
ued at about $500.
Hon. H. j. Mallory of Dckey county has
been elected president of the State Sunday
School association, and Rev. E. S. Stickney
reelected secretary.
D. T. Chandler, of Osakis, Mimi, has
been at Hillsboro, looking for location
for a 250-barrel flour mill. The citizens Of
fer site and $4,000 bonus.
The surveyors are at work again on the
500 line at Sheldon and are pushing the
grade stakes northwest. Three contract
ors have arrived, one with twenty-five
teams.
In the United States court, William X.
dealing in intoxicating liquors at retail
without having paid the special tax to the
United States.
Those who come to this country from
the east or south or west all agree in the
opinion that North Dakota people are as
well to do as those in other states. Stick
to North Dakota. The stayers are the
ones who will be on top in few years.
The statement of the comptroller Of the
currency shows the capital stock paid in
from North Dakota national banks is So.
1SS,400; surplus fund, $422, 497; loans and
discounts, S4,713, 1856; due from reserved
agents, $416,31O66; reserved held, 2O75 per
cent
The Indian bureau awarded contracts as
follows: For furnishing supplies for
building purposes to be erected at Stand
ing Rock Agency, Henry F. Douglass of
Fort Yates, bnilding material, IS ,S44; John
P. Hogan of Fort Yates, building material,
$7.915.
Bishop Walker is now in South Dakota
holding services for Bishop Hare, who is
now in Japan. On his late trip to Stand
ing Rock Indian agency he baptized three
parOOses, six boys and girls, four adults
and married couples, and also made ar
rangements for the erection of new
church there.
Turtle Mountain Star: Mrs. W. A. Sher-
wood has a fine flock of thoroughbred
Brahma cacklers which are in the habit
of laying eggs measuring 715x615 inches
The Star office had one on exhibition over
night Tuesday and said egg supplied the
editors large and rapidly increasing family
with good square breakfast.
Entries of land in the Fort BerthoId
reservation cannot be filed until thirty
days after the extensive surveys are COM
pleted. Surveyor General Williams will
have charge of the surveys. 1t is supposed
that the lands are more adapted to graz
ng than to agriculture and that stockmen
will eventually control them largely.
State Superintendent of Public In
the different schools in the state asking
them to report to him what aid he may ex-
pect from the different sections of the
state in the way of exhibits tor the worlds
fair, and that they at once send in list of
the probable line of their instruction in
penmanship. drawing, moulding clay, etc.
Judge Lauder has just decided an i'm
portant question in Lisbon, and that is
that keepers ofintoXicating liquors have no
civil recourse in case their stock is de-
stroyed. The case arose under violation
of the city ordinance that made such mer-
chandise liable to confiscation. After the
goods were destroyed an action was
commenced against the mayor and other
officials of the city for their value, but
Judge Lauder directed verdict for the
defendant.
The North Dakota Medical associa-
tion at their meeting in Fargo elected
the following officers for the ensuing
year: w. S. Shurlock, president; DR..
.Rounswell, Larimore, first vice presi-
dent; DR.. Herrick, Lisbon, second vice
president; Geo. E. Jackson, Grand
Forks, secretary; DR.. Mclean, Hillsboro,
\ treasurer; DR.. H. M. Wheeler of Grand