Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1897-10-28
NORTH DAKOTA

Frank Kelly is the new deputy post
master at Langdon.
The Mayville fire department will or
ganize a brass band.
w. r. Garrett, recently admitted tc
the bar, will locate ut Cavalier.
DR.. Bentley of Bismarck is going out
of the "trottin' hoss' business.
Rev. McQuarrie of Niagara has gone
into the evangelistic field.
Gabriel Dumont, of Reil rebellion
fame, lives ut Olga, N. D., now.
Asa ]. Cole, Monango, has been
granted an original pension.
Cando will have merchants carnl,
val the first week In November.
j. w. Gardner has disappeared from
Ramsey county, leaving unpaid debts
Dickey county wants more school
teachers.
Two men Mt Minot thought they
could outpull horse, bet 500 on the
result, and lost.
The Boston public library has pre-
sented the town of Cakes with 500 vol
umes of books.
The brothers Topp have been arrest
ed at Lisbon for selling clarified sweet
cider with too much booze in it.
S. j. Seal, one Of the best-known ma
chinery men at Fargo, has been pro-
noted, and will go to Helena, Mont.
Farmers in Eddy county have har-
vested splendid yield of flax, which
will be of substantial benefit to them.
Miss Fritz, dressmaker, had a mar
row escape from aSphyXiatiOn at Far
go.
At Cakes, 176 people signed the
pledge during course Of temperance
lectures.
Joseph Birch, formerly of Hamilton,
N. D., went to Klondyke last May, and
in two months cleared up $4,000.
The hunting season for deer is open,
but no more than five can be killed le-
gally in one day.
The regular November term of the
United States court will convene at
Grand Forks on Nov. 8.
Mr.. John Flittie, the Northern Pa.
cific land agent, now makes his head
quarters at Wahpeton.
Ayrus Francis of N1inot, survivor
of the Mexican war, is granted an in
crease of pension.
A postoffice has been established at
the agricultural college at Fargo, with
Louise B. Evans as postmistress.
A trio of New Rockford sportsmen
brought in sixty geese as a result of a
days sport.
Campaigns for the election of county
commissioners are warming up all
over the state.
The government fleet of the upper
Missouri is going into winter quarters
at Rock Haven.
Stutsman county farmers deny that
their grain is not threshed, and threat
en- to thresh the fellow who set the re-
port afoat.
Grand Forks will be re-rated by fire
insurance companies doing business
there, and an appreciate cut in rates
will be made next month.
The Fargo land office has received
notice that two sections of indemnity
lands in Sargent county has been pat
ented to the Northern Pacific.
Blind pigs were pulled at Lidger-
wood last week, and the officers cap
tured farayhernalia enough to equip
half dozen saloons.
The 20 per cent dividend of the Sec.
ond National Bank of Grand Forks
will result in the distribution of about
$4,000.
For shooting at Mrs. Caroline Pud-
well with intent to kill, John Friess
goes to the penitentiary for two years
and half from Stark county.
Congressman Johnson is said to have
employed the Campbell system Of sub
soil culture with good results on his
Petersburg farm.
Kidder county commissioners have
agreed to pay DR.. Adams of Northcott,
Pa. $50 per month to act as county
physician.
The Fort Yates Indians recently re-
ceived $4,000 in payment for their
services for hauling freight from Man
dan and for cattle furnished the post.
The members of the agricultural col
lege faculty are doing good work in
giving practical addresses at farmers
meetings as opportunity offers.
has secured the contract for furnish
luS 'WO lOllS VI llSllllc COtll W Tie StilC
capitol for $2.03 per ton.
LaMoure county promises to float it's
warrants at par in a few months.
Geese are numerous on the feeding
grounds around Minnewaukan.
\ Stutsman county farmer has be-
gun suit against the Northern Pacific
for $1,000, damages claimed to Il tree
claim, from Il fire alleged to have been
started by the road.
The yield of the Grandin farm in
wheat this year was 15S,O0O bushels,
an average of twelve bushels per acre.
The whole crop has been sold at SO
cents, amounting to $135,SSO.
Generally speaking, threshing is
about completed. and farmers every
where are pushing blowing, that the
wheat lands may be prepared for next
years crop.
Belcher, the man who was arrested
for stabbing Senator Plain at Milton,
was released from custody ut his pre-
liminary examination, it being held
that he acted in self-defense.
Fl. S. Blood, superintc: "t OF
schools of Bottineau count. ar
raigned in the United States G., ma
pleaded not guilty to the indic.uicnt