Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1897-10-21
NORTH DAKOTA

Reports of loss by prairie fires still
continue to increase.
A twenty-acre addition to Park Riv-
er has recently been plated.
Edgeley will vote on the incorpora-
ton question again.
The measles scare is over Mt Cakes
and the schools are open again.
Little blowing has been done in Stuts-
man county-too dry and hot.
Cando Is enjoying rapid and whole
some growth.
Obcron Is shipping from ten to twen-
ty cars Of wheat per day.
Judson N. Willis of Huron has been
granted an increase of pension.
Geese are numerous around Mime
waukan.
Fargo will have new directory in
side Of sixty days.
Nelson county officials have pulled
four blind pigs at Aneta.
Fletcher Sankey fell from scaffold
ut Fertile and broke his leg.
The first oil has been made by the
new linseed mill at Fargo.
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light plant In operation by Dec. l.
H. p. Bogue of Bismarck has been
granted a pension.
Not half the threshing is completed
in Cavalier county.
A steel bridge is to be constructed
over Wolf creek ut Freeman, and a
new bridge will be built over the Jim.
w. p. Isaacson, who was badly in
jured at the quarries at Spencer re-
Gently, died from his injuries.
Osnabrock wheat buyers have paid
out $4,000 for wheat already this sea-
son.
Burglars dynamited the safe of the
Pelican River Mining company, and
got $1.5O
A Mrs. Sleight of jamestown fell and
broke her collar bone. Sleight acct
dent.
Range stock is being rushed to the
Eastern market. Grass on the range
is short, and stockmen are selling close.
A thresher engine went up to Col
fax. in Richland county, but didn't sue
coed in killing anybody.
There is no abatement Of the havoc
of the prairie fires and threshing cn-
CINE explosions.
With a $4,000 church and numerous
business blocks going up, Wahpeton is
right on top of the wave.
A farmer near Osnabrock raised
wheat that weighed sixty-three pounds
to the measured bushel.
An Emmons county game warden
claims that he has caught 900 wolves
in the past seven years.
A couple of Dickey county men ex-
changed wives, and each, finding he
had been s:windled, got mad about it.
TO build court house or not to build
q court house is the question in Ran
som county.
Farmer Hines will soon be released
from the asylum, it is said, and return
to his home at Hanna.
Grand Forks estimates it's population
at S,42O, from the advance sheets Of
the new directory.
-Four separators were burned in
Trail county last week, all within
few miles of Lidgerwood.
Changes in railroad circles take a
number of men from jamestown to
Mandan.
Two hoboes were held up by others
Just outside of jamestown, and about
$50 secured.
A man named Larson was arrested
while making an effort to get out Of
the state without settling with his
creditors.
Petitioners new directory finds S,420
-, nd . AH0 in
East Grand Forks, making total of
II $50 in the two cities.
Charles Primeau, an old pioneer on
the river, who migrated up the Mis-
souri, in 1887, is dead. The funeral &C.
CURED at the agency cemetery.
Three travelling men, Joseph Smith,
Fred Hall and Bob Farr, had mar
row escape from a prairie fire while
on a return trip to Roseau.
DR.. A. B. Herrick, who has been 10.
Gated at Lisbon for sixteen years, has
accumulated a competency, and leaves
for the East, where he will locate.
Thomas Densmore died at Fertile re-
Gently. He was known as Long
Tom," measuring six feet ten inches
in his stocking feet.
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a gasoline tank with a torch. He
found it-but the doctors hope to pull
him through.
The man who was burned in Maj.
Blacks barn, near Valley City, last
week, is still unidentified, though it is
thought his name is Frank McManny.
Cavalier county estimates that the
revenue from it's wheat crop this year
will exceed that of the bumper year Of
1895 by $4,000.
While working on a threshing ma
chine near Huron, Mike Eckhart had
his left hand drawn into the machin-
cry and badly hurt.
Fire badly damaged the barn Of J. J.
Robins Of Huron. Prompt action by
the fire department averted serious
conflagration.
Over seven hundred heads of families
have settled upon land in Ward coun-
ty this year, the majority of the new
settlers being Dunkards.
Another indictment has been found
agai. st President Salyards, Of the de-
funct Minot bank, upon the evidence Of
some Of his associates in business.