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Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1895-08-22
letters from another woman, atteI
cd suicide at Wichita, Kan., BY H. 4apg
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letters from another woman, atteMpt
cd suicide at Wichita, Kan., BY IT, Gng
morphine.
AS a result of a drunken 0rgte
Joe Campbell's roadside station &t
Turkey Greek, Ariz., Ernest ArnsA
mining man, lies dead; Joe Campbell.
the stationkeeper, lies at the point KS
death, and Ed Payne, young c0wlyOys
has bullet in his right leg.
III. Davidson, alias Kimball, who
murdered q man named Donnell In
Hamburg Iowa, last Septelnber III
locked up in jail at Riverside, Gals,
awaiting the arrival Of the shefiG sof
Sidney county, Iowa, to take the SpriB-
oner back to the. scene of the cr1u1sA
At keystone, w, Va, J.. AZ. Stroud,
coke boss for the Pulaski Iron c0n1pa-
ny, shot w. A. Gilbert and James
Owens, two white miners working Tor
the same company. The trouble orig
mated ut a dance given by strikers
last month. Gilbert may live but
Owens will die.
Hans Hanson was sentenced, In the
United States court ut San Eranciseo,
to be hanged Oct. Is, for the murder
Of Maurice Fitzgerald, mate of the
bark Hesperia. Hanson and Thomas
st. Clair killed the mate as the first
step in mutiny. st. Clair Will die
the same day as his companiOn in
crime.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1895-08-22
AROUNDTHE GLOBE.
DIGEST OF THE NEWS FROM ALL
PARTS OF THE WORLD.
|ATI Important Occurrences OF the
Past Week, Boiled Down and ARR
anged for Rapid Reading, From
HomeT Abroad.
Wa.hlaEton.

Naval officials have been punished
for usury and irregular payments on
the receiY ng ship Vermont.
Statistics received at the Indian bu-
reau show that $4,000 Indians are now
engaged in farming, stock raising and
other civilized pursuits.
The president has appointed Burton
E. Bennett of the State Of Washington
to be United States district attorney
for the district Of Alaska.
The new naval dry dock at Port
Royal, S. c., will be ready for use
soon, and If all works well, the navy
department will be relieved of what
appeared to be disagreeable necessi-
ty of sending the Indiana. the first OF
our big battle ships, to Europe to be
locked before her trial trip.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1895-08-22
Wanted to Lynch Him

Pomeroy. Ohio. Aug. 18.-John B.
Lindsay, charged with tho murder Of
William Gundiff on Aug. Z, after a
preliminary hearing, was sent to Jail
to-day without bail. The court room
was crowded with West Virginia min
ers, friends of the murdered man. who
openly declared they would lynch
Lindsay If he was admitted to bail.
Hundreds followed him to the Jail
door and raised a veil when the door
closed on him. 1t has been a noisy.
day, but no outbreak is now expected
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1895-08-22
Saturday, Aug. II.


Telegraph linemen are stringing q
new wire from Jamestown to Fargo.
A hobo confined in the Jamestown
Jail for refusing to work, dug his way
out underground and escaped.
The eastern part Of the state had a
hail and electrical storm, which, how
ever, did not do mich damage.
L. 9. Smith, formerly of the Fargo
Sun, will start paper at Davenport,
Cass county.
G. b. GRADER, ex-editor of the Har-
lem New Era, Sargent county, died
from excessive cigarette smoking.
II. II. Bush, formerly cashier Of the
Moorhead mill, is now manager and
one Of the owners of the Mayville
Roller mills, and is making quite a
success.
The Hankinson starch factory is con-
tracing with farmers for potatoes at
70 cents a bushel, and will start up
this fall.
"A hobo who was entering a freight
car loaded with watermelons at
thompson, was shot in the side, but
not seriously injured.
David Gillespie was shot and killed
by his nephew, John Gillespie, at Cav
alier. They had some trouble over a
tract Of hay land.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1895-08-22

The easy, safe and certain protec-
ton of our bread, biscuit and cake
from oil danger of EMBELLISHMENTS
is in the use Of the Royal Baking Pow
der only. This powder is mentioned
because of the innumcrable reports In
its favor by high medical authorities.
by the U. s. Government, and by the
official chemists and Boards of Health.
which leave no doubt as to It's entire
freedom from alum, lime, and ammo
mia, Its absolute purity and whole
someness. While Its use Is thus a
safeguard against the poisonous alum
powders, 1t Ia satisfactory at the same
time to know that owing to It's grea ter
strength 1t IL more economical.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1895-08-22
A1ANkATo,s POPULATION.
A Clerical Error Deprives the City
of One Ward.

Clerical Error Deprives the City
of One Ward.
st. Paul, Aug. 1S.-Through an over
sight in one of the clerks of the CEN
sus bureau an error was made in bull
letining the returns from Mankato,
whereby that thrifty city was rather
lily treated. Since the 1890 federal
census was taken Mankato has added
two wards, one of which in the first
bulletin was not sent out. The city
now consists of six wards and has a
total population of 1O,173, the popula-
tion of the Sixth ward being S75. This
gives Mankato IN increase in it's popu-
lation during the past five years OF
1885. The state enumeration of st.
Paul, as indicated by the salary paid
the enumerators. will be 14O.497. To
this number will be added the names
secured by the citizens committee.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1895-08-22

The American Line steamer Ohio is
ia be retired from the regular feet be.
cause she is too small to be profitable,
and ia otherwise inferior to the later
built American vessels. She WAS a
good ship In her day. and carried
many distinguished persons across the
ocean; but the present model OF ma
rine architecture is the st. Louis. and
Its twin. the st. Paul. which come. by
the way. from the same shipyard
'where the Ohio was constructed. ~
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1895-08-22
Sins and Si.ners.


A "bishop of Hawaii has been work
ing the brethren on the Pacific coast.
n. G. Narramore, a we'll known Los
Angeles statesman, was killed by rob-
bers on his California ranch
George w. Carter of Abba, Iowa,
was waylaid and robbed of 5000 and
several notes and drafts at Ottumwa.
Peter Hoffman has been arrested in
Hammond, Ind, for making and pass.
ing silver counterfeit dollars.
At Cana, Dayie county, n. C., Mar
shall Cain shot and killed his brother
Fillmore Cain.
George Traver, Chicago dentist,
was found dead in a ravlne in Mex.
leo. 1t is believed he was murdered
and robbed by his native servants.
Lon Perry, an ex-member of the old
Cook gang, noted desperate and n
dangerous man, was captured near
Huntsville, Ark.
Hazel, the nine-year-old daughter of
Mrs. j. 6. Rardin, at Greenfield, Ind.
took poison because she had been Sc
vere]y punished by her mother. She
will recover.
A posse in pursuit of Ed Kaviness,
who shot and killed Byron McGcech
in Dunn's saloon at Mancos, Col. Nc
Czech had been paying attention to
KGviness' divorced wife.
Louis Stern OF New York was SEN
fenced. at Kissegen, Germany, to two
weeks imprisonment for insulting a
public official. and to pay a fine Of 600
marks for resistance to the authority
OF the state.
Mrs. William Campbell. driven In
sanely jealous by her husband, who
read over 10 her batch OF old love
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1895-08-22
Peonle in Print.

Miss Susan B. Anthony is much bet
ter, and will soon be able to resume
her lecture tour.
Frederick Engels, head of the inter
national Socialist movement, is dead
at London.
Judge d. ID. .McCollum. a prominent
Northwestern .jurist, died at his home
in Cherokee, Iowa.
Walter Dennison. Ann Arbor, Mich,
and H. f. Decor. Detroit, have been
awarded scholarships for study in the
American colleges at Athens and
Rome.
Col. Fellows. the district attorney,
has returned to his Office in New York
from England, where he has been
spending the latter part of his vaca-
ton.
Rev. A. C. Vandewater, one Of the
oldest Methodist Episcopal ministers
in Illinois, died at his home near
Pana. He was about eighty years OF
age and was wealthy.
Ex-Mayor Fl. J. Grant has returned
from his European wedding tour. he
says the liquor law was largely re-
sponsible for the defeat of the Liberal
party in England.
Charlotte Nelson, well known to the
American stage, was quietly married
at the chapel of the Church of the
Heavenly Rest, in New York, to Jo-
seph 81. Neill, wealthy planter of
Guatemala, Central America.
Isabel Garrison. OF the Chicago Tri-
bune, is at Quebec, to select site. on
behalf of the Sons of the Revolution,
for a monument to Gen. Montgomery,
as near as possible to the spot below
the cliff where he fell.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1895-08-22

1Ai. *, not sugar for Salisbury, after
all. His party in parliament has a
majority over all other parties, but
not working majority, SO the life of
the new Tory administration hangs
upon coalition. This fact is said to be
displeasing to the premier, represent
ing as it does a great disappointment
But not even Salisbury can have the
whole earth.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1895-08-22

The new census in Wisconsin shows
a growth in the leading cities since
1890 Of about Is per cent, but the in
crease of population in the country
is nearing the 100000 mark.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1895-08-22
Tuesday, Aug. ID.

uSDuay> huSs AOs
Oats thresEed in the vicinity of Mo-
mango yielded forty bushels per acre.
Pembina is to have another elevator
10000 bushels capacity.
A. I. Walker of Richland got sixty
bushels of barley per acre.
Wahpeton ladies want curfew ordi-
nance.
Fire destroyed the Salvation Army
barracks at Grand Forks.
Mayville has an artesian we'll which
spouts 5000 gallons a day.
Larimore is putting tramps to work
on city cisterns, and gets rid Of 'em
that way.
Stutsman county hires it's harvest
hands at $1.25 per day, and plenty Of
them at that
The jewelry store Of s. p. Pratt,
Glendale, was burglarized and about
$50 worth OF jewelry taken.
John Goosen. Euclid, got 1000 BUSH
els Of barley from twenty acres-ffty
bushels per acre.
Barnes county will be in it with
fair, and has elected officers and got
ten to work.
The board Of the state agricultural
college, situated in Fargo, held meet
ing Thursday afternoon. Professors
Keene, McArdle and Kaufman had
their salaries raised $500 per year.
They now resolve 81, 400, $1,000 and
$1,000 respectively. President Worst
was authorized to visit the first grade
high schools of the state and make the
necessary arrangements for their be-
coming fitting schools for the college.
Plans for the erection Of poultry
house were submitted by Prof. Shep-
pard. They will be considered at a
later date.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1895-08-22

The war dog is to be something more
than mere figure of speech. The
German war department has succeed
ed in training dogs to carry messages
between outposts and to distribute
ammunition to soldiers in the field.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1895-08-22
The Bay stnte.

Boston, Aug. 1S.-The statement OF
the first count in the fifth decennial
census Of the State of Massa chusetts
was given out to-day by Horace q.
Wadlin. chief of the bureau of sfatis-
tics of labor. The population of the
entire state is given as 2.495.345. m
increase Of 3.2O4. or 2S.4S per cent
as compared with the census Of 1885.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1895-08-22

The army of Germany and the rail.
way army of the United States con,
tain about the same number of men.
1T is Uncle Sans impression that he
has decidedly the advantage in this
arrangement
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1895-08-22

If any more torpedo boats are to be
built on the interior waters it is to be
hoped they will be more successful
than the Ericsson, which is more de-
structive evidently to her own crew
than she could apparently be to an
enemy.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1895-08-22

The Japs have repaired the Chinese
battle ship Chen Yuen, which they
captured in the war, and made her as
good as new, and this, with the new
war ships they have ordered, will give
Japan navy that may make Russia a
little cautions.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1895-08-22

The longest bridge in the world is
the Lion bridge, near Saugong, China.
1t extends IA miles over an arm of
the Yellow sea, and it is supported by
300 huge stone arches. The roadway
is 20 feet above the water and is en-
closed in an iron net work.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1895-08-22

All the reputation as soldier which
Campos ever made has been lost in
the past three months. But, perhaps,
after ALL the present rebellion is more
formidable than was that of a quar-
ter Of century ago.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1895-08-22
Friday, Aug. 10.

Sneak thieves are getting in their
work.
The Grand Forks street fair man
agement has secured another long list
Of prizes.
Cass county has the biggest wheat
or liar in the state. He claims to have
wheat seven feet high and growing.
G. H. Cowle Of Stutsman county gets
a reissue of pension, as do the minor
children of Adolph Rossicott Of Fargo.
Frank Blair, young hobo, is under
arrest at Grand Forks charged with
breaking the seals of a Northern Pa
ci6c car. He may be tried in the Unit
ed States court.
Foster, the weather predictor, says:
Aug. Il to %, Sept. Is to 20, Oct. 10 to
20, and Nov. IL to 1S, are dates when
severe, dangerous, and destructive
storms may be expected
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1895-08-22
The Casualty Record.


Twenty residences were burned at
Berlin, Md. Loss, 100000.
Miss Stella Dye was burned to death
in her fathers house at Arlington,
Ind.
Sprague. Wash, a thriving town
fifty miles from Spokane, was wiped
out by fire.
Five bodies have thus far been re-
covered Of the victims of last weeks
cloudburst near Adelaide, Col.
G0ttlieb Geitman, aged sixty, and
Harry Weinberg, aged thirty-tive, were
instantly killed at Philadelphia by a
cave-in while at work in a gravel pit.
The works of the Tuscarora Adver-
Using company at Coshocton, Ohio,
is estimated at $4,000.
four-year-old boy at Omaha threw
lighted match at his sister. Her
dress caught fire and she was fatally
burned.
Although he drank one gallon of
whisky, John Sonwell, the "snake
charmer" who was bitten by RATHER
in New York museum, will die.
At Anderson, Ind, Nellie Regain was
killed and her mother badly hurt by
a runaway team. The wagon was
loaded with beer, of which only two
bottles were broken.
Thescore or nome members of the
Methodist church at Quakertown, Pa,
who We're injured when the church
was struck by lightning, are still suf-
fering from the shock.
Mrs. George w Pauley, a lady prom
inent in church and social circles at
Moline, Ill, is dead. She was thrown
from bicycle eight weeks ago, and,
though at first the accident was not
thought to be serious, it was after
ward found that her neck was dislo-
Gated at the oceipital Joint.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1895-08-22

If hot water be taken an hour be-
fore breakfast it will ward off dyspep-
STA. If drunk favored with lemon
and sweetened wit, sugar whn1 one
has been out i'm the cold. it will ward
or cbjlls. Il r.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1895-08-22
A. 1t May Be.1

Toots-I won't be home tonight.
love.
Mrs. Toots-Why not?
Ioots-The saloon closes at IL
o'clock and I've got to get inside for
over Sunday.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1895-08-22

Blue Earth City. MIMI. Aug. 49,.
Treund. the supposed murderer of
cara Ober. was to-day bound over "a
the grand jury, which cQpvoiaos hero
January next. The feeiInr n very
strong against him. 80
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1895-08-22
It Towner 18th a number Of shoes IL
their possession. 81
Thur.dax. AIR. II,

Thursday, Adg. IL
The crop OF prairie chickens In
Dickey county is immense this year.
Wheat will average f1teen to twen-
ty bushels in BurleigA Av.
track.
Dickinson will 81 Sls Of
cattle this week. l.
Henry Jones OF Wykdmers gets his
pension renewed.
The Northern Pnciflc is having an
additional additional wire stFns from Fargo to
Jamestown is lonesome. The tough
hobo who absolutely refused to work
has escaped from jail.
Stutsman county furnished Fargo
with car load of fine cattle last week.
What's wrong with Cass?
John Erie, a pioneer and dealer in
agricultural and farm machinery ut
Church's Ferry died of consumption.
The grill on account Of whom Frank
Naysmith of Cando was arrested on
the charge of seduction has married
another fellow.
The Hankinson starch factory will
have q big run this fall and will pay
big prices for potatoes. The 500 line
has made special rate so that the
tubers can be shipped from as far
west as Kuhn. The factory will thus
benefit large portion Of the state.
Conductor Ed Nelson, Of the Great
Northern, did shoot q hobo at Thomp-
son. A gang was swiping watermelons
from the train. The injured man will
recover.
Mr.. and Mrs. Nels Romer of Suits
man county are being congratulated
on the birth Of daughter. The new
arrival had a lucky veil, said to be a
charm.
While attempting to board fast
moving train on the Northern Pacific
ut Fargo messenger boy was thrown
between the platform and train and
dragged several yards, miraculously
escaping death.
Gov. Ain has appointed Mrs. Mary
bartholomew a delegate to the nation
al prison congress, which meets at
Denver Sept. Il to 18, and she has
departed therefor.
The state normal school board has
adjourned till Sept. 6 without taking
action regarding the continuing Of the
Valley City normal school, as the. citi-
zens have not raised the necessary
funds for keeping the school open the
coming year. 1t is hoped both schools
will be opened at the usual time.
The Glendale city council passed
the curfew ordinance, which takes ef-
rect after Its publication. A new bell
has been purchased and hung at q
central location on Main street, and
on its ringing at o'clock D. M. all
children under sixteen must be off the
street or they will be liable to arrest.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1895-08-22

student-Professor. won't you give
me an idea for an essay?
ProfesS0r--Writc about q student
VINO wanted to write an essay and
hadn't any ideaS.--New York weekly.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1895-08-22

According to Capt. Maury, the gulf
stream runs up hill. He shows that
after emerging from the Gulf of Mex~
leo this famous current of warm water
broadens out toward the north and be-
comes correspondingly more and more
shallow. Thus, it's depth off the ISL
and of Bemini is about 200 fathoms,
while off Cape Hatteras it has shall
lowed to about 100 fathoms. He cal
culates the ascent at ten inches to the
mile.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1895-08-22

Emma Goldman, the woman Anaref-
list, tried to force herself into a meet
ing of working girls in New York and
was elected by them with the deelara-
tion that she was not working wom-
AN and they did not want any anarch-
istss her masculine confreres were
served in the same sensible way, they
would swiftly disappear, for they will
not work. They are only vampires
that suck the blood of honest labor.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1895-08-22
NOR TH OAK OTA NEWS
INTERESTING NEWS FROM ALE
FARTs or THE sTATH.
~ CoAaensed Record Of the Imrer.
taat HNppenings OF tho Week IN
North Dakota, Arranged for NnDi0
q RealtAG.
sunday, AuK. II,

ES..s4 cWhWNyS AW8s IL
Grand Forks business men are hust-
ling for an extension OF the Milwaukee
road to their burg.
+ "A Grafton man positively refused
to be held up by hobos. He pulled
gun and landed them in Jail.
& The new postmasters in, North Da-
kota are: Burlington, A. G. Smith,
vice ]. l.. Cotton, resigned; Yule, Janet
Lang, vice Lincoln Lang, resigned.
1t is estimated that $500 car loads
Of cattle will be shipped from Dick
inson this season. That would take
train of cars fifteen miles in length.
Last fall a man named Gust Olkey
was robbed and left for dead near
officers arrested one Mckay on sus-
disappeared. Yesterday he was found
did him up.
Edgerly is becoming quite pleasure
resort. The water from the artesian
well has formed a large deep lake.
On the bank of this lake the enterpris-
ing citizens have erected a convenient
bath house. Every afternoon scores
Of mirthful people may be seen row.
ing or bathing in the saline waters of
this beautiful lake.
Mrs. e. w. Camp of, Jamestown left
her little child in baby carriage on
the sidewalk while she did some trad
ing. The wind blew the carriage I'M
der team standing hitched near. The
carriage was upset and the baby was
thrown directly under the thoroughly
frightened team which began to kick,
but fortunately did not strike the
child.
Monday, Aug. IL.
Owners of fine dogs at Devils Lake
have organized society for mutual
protection.
Near Northwood hobos attempted to
do the highwayman act, but got the
worst of it,
Wells county is going to have
handsome new court house at Fessen-
den, the new county seat. The build
ing will be of brick and stone, and
will cost about $4,000
The Jamestown bicyclists will build
a quarter-mile cinder track before fair
time, and will have the proud distinc-
ton Of having the finest and only
track Of the kind in the state.
DR.. Richard Cheller, representative
of the imperial government Of Ger
many, is in the state to investigate
into the methods Of North Dakota
farming, etc., and to get q general in
sight into our agricultural methods.
A Belgian at Wheatland slept with
the hobos to save hotel lodging ex-
penses. Next morning his empty pock-
ct certified that his nights outdoor
lodging cost him $40, all the money
he had.
While loading stone into wagon at
Lisbon for Maj. Engle Clarence Vos-
burg, thirty years old, slipped and fell,
large stone falling on him, causing
such internal injuries that he died
shortly afterward. Deceased, who has
long been resident of Lisbon, leaves
a wife and five small children.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1895-08-22
RIOTERS TAKEN
THE SHERIFF sxv0OPs DOWN VI
SPRING VALLEY MINERS.
He Arrests Over Thirty of the u
Who Took Part In the Receu
Attack Upon Colored Miners
and Carts Them on TO
jail, .kg
CATTLE RusrLnRs STRUNG
Two Brothers I'm south Dakota Ar,
Said to Have Been Lynchel by
i the Vigilantes.

Spring Valley, ILL.,, Aug. 1S.-Sherifs
Clarke of Princeton to-day arrested
over 80 Of the men who ran the ne
groes out of Location. He was as
sisted in the work by Is armed depu-
ties. The sheriff and his men went
to No. 8 shaft this afternoon, and as
the men came up he promptly served
them with warrants. They We're all
placed in closed wagons and heavily
guarded. They were not allowed to
change their pit clothes nor wash
their faces. The sheriff started of
with his prisoners and will arrive IN
Princeton about II o'clock tonight.
The arrests were made very quietly,
and no trouble was encountered.
Chamberlain, S. D., Aug. 1S.-A re-
port has reached here that the noto-
rious Bedderly brothers, who have
long been terror to cattlemen on &C
count Of their bold and wholesale
thefts of cattle, have been lynched by
vigilance committee in Buffalo
county.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1895-08-22

.hdeacon Wolfe cables from Foo
that no reliance can be placed
he Chinese authorities. This is
It true. In order to make China
missionaries the Chinese pow
have to set up another GOV
n writing in the ''Popu-
tonthly" says that chill
tually lie are usually
isorders of mind or
cally interfere with
# conceptions and
he internal to the
expression"
and Honduras
republic to be
public of Cen
e is very high
new republic
smaller than
.4e United States
-..y great affair, after