Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1897-04-01
IN NORTH DAKOTA.
1nterestln9 news Items From All
Parts Of tho state.

cltsed by the sheriff.
Mrs. Long Of Fessenden was chased
by q large wolf.
Churches Ferry expects building
boom in the spring.
School lands in Grand Forks county
leased for So, 1919.
Rev. Peters of Cando has gone to
Virginia for immigrants.
II. w. Milham OF Glendale has taken
charge of the Cakes Touring mill.
Valley City is figuring on q $1,000
electric light plant.
Langdon will vote on the question Of
bonds.
Mickey O'Brien, a Reynolds blind
pigger, has been pulled for perjury.
The survey of the post site has been
completed at Bismarck.
Three more patients have been dis
charged from the insane asylum.
Churches Ferry has voted to incor-
porate.
It is reported Governor Briggs will
make Southern trip for his health.
Veteran Tom Ellsberry at Rolla has
been granted an original pension.
The Grafton charter scheme was
turned down by majority Of 141.
Diphtheria patients at Willow City
are rapidly improving.
A guest ut the Merchants hotel in
Grafton dropped $175 diamond ring
in the wash stand sink.
The $4,000 damage suit Of Dunstan
VS.. the city of Jamestown resulted in
q verdict in favor Of the city.
Contracts have been let for the con-
strnction Of a $4,000 brick block at
Langdon.
The Andrews & Gage elevator. which
burned at Drayton recently, will be re-
built.
An attempt was made to set fire to
tho national elevator at Harlem last
week.
E. D. Ervine of Emerado is missing,
and with him $7OO of money belonging
to the Foresters lodge Of that place.
Casselton township has $1,000 in it's
treasury, and the people will not be
taxed the coming year.
The insane asylum lands are to be
bonded for the erection of additional
buildings.
AN N. P. freight train got stuck in
tue snow at Windsor, and the engine
was derailed.
John Cameron, living in the Turtle
mountains near Dunseith killed four
bears with an axe.
There is no doubt but the severe
winter has caused the death Of q large
Of ivpin aki0G-Anc
Ar effort will be made to secure
palvon for Jesse Lindsey Of Dickin-
son. convicted Of horse stealing.
Charles Guyon of Valley City tried
to start fire with kerosene, and had
his hands and arms badly burned.
John T.. Schultz has been appointed
county physician Of Kidder county, at
a salary of $50 per month.
A temperance league has been or
the Rankin lecture.
Mrs. r. H. Court, we'll known and
highly-respectcd settler, died recently
at Buffalo.
William Sperber of Oakdale, Dunn
county, has been granted an original
pension.
John Smith OF Jamestown, who was
injured OIL a defective sidewalk, sued
the city for $4,000, and got 5000.
John T. Fitzgerald. killed in the re.
cent wreck near La Moure, carried &c.
O00 life insurance.
The long distance phone will be ex-
tended to Langdon next season-it is
said.
The site for the state reform school
has been secured and the work Of con-
struction will commence in the near
future.
Langlon will have electric lights,
and the town has made a tive-year
contract with the company putting in
the plant for lighting it's streets.
The Drayton roller mill is giving
bran, and five pounds OF shorts for one
bushel No. hard wheat.
The body of an unknown man was
found at Buffalo. 1t is not known
whether it was a case of foul play or
of freezing in the recent blizzard.
The people of Vicking have sent u
petition to Washington asking that the
mail route between that place and
Oberon be restored.
H. Young is under arrest for sneak
thieying at Jamestown. Young had
been lodging in the churches and burn
ing the parsons fuel.
Twenty-Five Indians from the Fort
Yates reservation want to sever tribal
relations and take up claims in the
vicinity of Painted Woods.
J. II. Bcssard had Patrick Burns ar
rested ut Grand Forks, charged with
the larceny Of q deed from his office.
He was arrested at East Grand Forks.
The deed was valued at 5000.
William Kelley, n farmer living near
J.arimore, got lost on his way bone
from a neighbours, and wandered about
thirty miles during the night. He was
quite badly frozen.
Joseph A. McEachren Of Elkwood,
committed suicide by hanging himself
from a rafter in William Thom's' gran
airy. The coroner's jury returned q
verdict Of premeditated suicide.
At a meeting Of the Fargo city coun-
Gil resolution was passed to submit
the question Of establishing and main-
tanning public library, to a vote at
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