Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1897-01-14
IN NORTH DAKOTA
lAterestlng News Items From all
Parts Of the State.

Dickinson has 493 kids Of school age
forty three more than last year.
Chief of Police Mahoney OF James
town is very i'll with pneumonia.
There is a report current that Bat
terry A of Lisbon is to be mustered our.
Coyotes are causing considerable
trouble around Devils Lake.
There are $4,000 Of delinquent taxes
in Pembina county.
Thirty families Of Dunkards are 10
locate in Dickey county IN the spring.
| Forman's artesian we'll is being sunk
twenty-five feet per day.
| A tannery is among Ellendale's late
" established industries.
| A number of horses suffering from
CHAMBERS have been shot ut Fcssenden.
Il. A. Koppang of Trail county is
i'll ut Los Angeles, Cal.
The State Educational association
met ut Fargo for a four days session.
Mayor Patterson Of Bismarck is con-
valescent from a siege Of pneumonia.
Shopnfters have been operating at
Mandan.
Forty-six pupils at the state deaf and
dumb asylum.
Mimic has 314 youngsters Of school
age-increase of eighteen this year.
Nick Gauche has been appointed
postmaster at Oriska.
Ebert S. McMaster and w. p. Welch,
both of Grand Forks, have been issued
patents on inventions.
1t is practically settled that Ellen
dale will have another mill, finer than
the one burned down.
Old Grimes is not dead. He is in the
Grand Forks Jail for doing up farmer
at Aneta for SOS.
A mass meeting was held in Ender-
lin recently, and it was voted to incor-
porate the village.
Work is progressing on building at
Portland to be used for additional
school room.
Jamestown is defendant in a $4,000
personal damage suit-defective side
walks.
Two antelope were captured alive
near Langdon-but the game law step
ped Inland they were released.
The bodies of a number Of horses
that persisted in the storm have been
found in Mclean and Kidder counties.
Rev. James Byers, Of the Presbyte-
rian church at Buffalo, has accepted
a call to Mandan.
Cass county has expended SOL in
giving paupers the Kelley cure during
the past year.
J. F. Mahaney, the druggist acct
IxslI IL OIL
Sc, 900 life insurance.
Sneak thieves have been stealing coal
at Rugby. Several arrests have oc-
Cured.
Warren p. Nash, an aged and re-
spected citizen of Grand Forks, is dead
from Bright's disease. His wife died
two months ago.
Fred Barnard Of Wahpeton was siHst
in the legs while trying to escape from
the officer, who had arrested him for
stealing coal.
Charles Olson of Valley City offers
$25 reward for the recovery of the
the storm Nov. 26.
Mr. and Mrs. Christ II. Nelson Of
Hillsboro went to sleep in room with
q coal stove that leaked. They We're
unconscious when found.
The school census just completed at
Devils Lake shows 200 boys and 232
girls-an increase of forty over last
year.
F. J. Mclean, who has been chief
clerk Of the division Of the Great
Northern at Grand Forks, has been pro-
noted to chief in the office Of the au-
ditor of disbursements in st. Paul.
Roger Waite of Fairmont, twelve
years old, was hooked between the
eyes by COW, the bridge of his nose
being broken, and he having an eX-
ceedingly narrow escape with his life.
Richard Wilson and Charles Brown.
who were arrested in the act of rob-
bling the Great Northern depot at Graf
ton. plead not guilty at a preliminary
hearing, and were held to the district
court.
A pack Of wolves chased James p.
Wall several miles one day last week,
near Cando, and he had to run his
team to keep away from them. They
followed him into his barnyard, and
he found it almost impossible to drive
them off.
Judge LADDERS residence in Wahpe-
ton had a narrow escape from fire last
week by the tipping over Of a lamp
The clothing Of one of the children
caught fire, but was quickly extin-
guished.
George Barcelo, the county register
Of deeds Of Langdon, has just returned
from Montreal. whittier he went about
Thanksgiving day, to be present at the
reading Of his late fathers will and the
division Of the property. Mr.. Barcelo's
share Of the fortune is about $4,000,
and he will leave for Montreal in q
few weeks to make that city his fu-
ture home.
The village of Cakes is disturbed over
a case Of wife desertion. A few days
ago A. NJ. Bunker packed his clothes
into satchel and walked out of town.
leaving his wife and children to care
for themselves as best they can. Moth
ing has been heard Of him since. This
is the sequel Of q period Of domestic
infelicity in which the wife and chill
dren have the sympathy Of the entire
community. Not only has Bunker
squandered about $500 of money left
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