Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1896-10-08
IN NORTH DAKOTA
Tntcrcstinx News Items From NIL
Parts of the State.

Mrs. John Sand of Fort Ransom,
broke both her arms in a runaway,
John Houghton had three ribs bro
ken in a runaway at Cooperstown.
William Sandy has resigned as a
county commissioner in Griggs county.
Mayville's fire department has voted
to get a new engine.
Lidgerwood will erect new town
hall.
Wimbledon h.Mllums rotten-egged
Rev. Cooley. the colored evangelist.
r. ID. Cowan is the new postmaster
at Rolla.
The foundation has been laid for the
new flour mill at Grandin.
Griggs county wheat goes from eight
to ten bushels.
A burglar who had burgled several
buildings in Cakes was captured near
Cogswell.
A hobo was arrested at Buttzville
for threatening to burn Maj. Buttz'
buildings.
The Jamestown man arrested for
cruelty to horse was bound over to
the district court.
buggy at Grandin and rendered I'M
conscious for some time.
The NIinot land office is doing Il rush
ing business-ninety filings in one day
last week.
The Richland county tax levy has
been reduced two mills under that of
last year.
A 12-year-old girl near Lisbon was
kicked by a horse and will probably
die.
Fargo has a gang of toughs that
cause the good citizens there much an
noyance.
Prudent farmers throughout the state
are blowing fire breaks. A wise thing
to do.
Wheat in Nelson county. except in
the hail district, will average eighteen
bushels.
4. NJ. Smith of Missouri hunted at
Cooperstown without an outsiders Ii
cense and was arrested and made to
pay $25. n
Sheriff Hans Holtber Of Mclean
county had threshing machine
burned up, and the indications are
that it was the work of an incendiary.
Eli Titman, a Northern Pacific brake
man. was killed at Valley City. his
head being crushed between two fiat
cars.
Little Dannie Wilcox, near Cakes,
was lost for two days, sleeping one
night in straw stack. He was final
ly returned home.
The National elevator at Devils
Lake was burned some time ago and
the company has decided to build at
once.
McHenry county will make a de-
mand on the defunct First National
bank Of Minot for moneys deposited
with that institution.
Burglars made off with some clothes
and cash at Fargo, the man of the
house hearing them but not caring to
modest them, pretending to think it
was the hired girl moving about.
The sentence of Joseph German, a
lifer from Walsh county, has been
committed by the governor to year
and seven months. His term expires
next month.
to Sherbrooke from Killarney charged
Will SLSdlluS WdSCA 41Oul ASlP van
Wrinkle. Sheriff Linn made the cap
ture.
The business men at Dunseith have
taken steps toward opening Leeds
and Dunseith overland freight route
and asking the government to extend
its star route from Island lake to Dun
seth with new postoffice at OK
Creek.
Martin Wlaley was found dead i'll a
box car at Hillsboro. Death is sup
posed to have been caused by excess
i've drinking. The dead man was a
farm laborer and his home was Gin
cinnati.
H. L. Blout. prominent cigar dealer
of Fargo, was arrested, charged With
selling cigars from other than original
packages. He was given hearing be-
fore the United States commissioner
and held to the next term of court for
trial
The w. G. T. U. state convention
closed it's sessions at jamestown. to
meet in Fargo next year. Mrs. J. Rus
sci of Valley City; Mrs. E. Edwards Of
Fargo; Mrs. Ida Morrill, Of ;Vahpeton,
and Mrs. H. Pierson of Lisbon, were
elected national delegates. Miss EliZ-
abeth Preston was reelected president.
The most disastrous fire in the his
tory Of LAngCon cccu- red recently.
Fire was discovered coming out Of the
First National bank building, OH the
second floor. This was the largest
business block in the city, and con-
tanned the bank, the Courier-Denocrat
Office, the drug store of H. D. Alert &
Co. and the offices of e. p Gibson, DIR.
Smith and DR.. Semple. This was
burned. The drug store Of r. I. Don
ovan was the next to go.
Delaney Bros, who purchased all
the growing cattle they could get in
Ransome county last spring pa. ing
out many thousands of dollars to the
farmers therefor, have just shipped
eleven carloads Of them to Chicago.
These cattle, which have been fattened
on the wild prairie grass in the vicinity
of Lisbon, at a cost Of only 81 per
head for herding. are in prime condi-
ton and have netted the owners $40
per head. This shows that stock-rais-
ing is most profitable in North Dakota.
and if farmers would Only pay more
attention to this line of farming and
fat the stock themselves, they would
soon get ahead.