Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1897-09-09
IN NORTH DAKOTA
GnterestinE News Items From all
Parts of the state.

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-Four new elevators will he built
along the Cavalier extension.
Fire damaged the Lawrence resi-
dence Mt Jamestown $1,000 worth.
Five glandered horses We're shot Mt
Rolla.
The Congregational association meets
In jamestown Sept. to 8.
Wheat has improved In Stutsman
county during the past two weeks.
The first of this years grain has
been marketed at Jamestown.
The residence Of B. N. Orlady was
! burglarized ut jamestown.
Prairie chickens are hard to find in
the eastern part of the state.
Seven summer schools are in prog
ress in this state, with 600 teachers in
attendance.
The wheat acreage of North Dakota
this year is 1884, acres, an increase
over last year Of 63S,0O0.
There are sixteen Women's Relief
corps in North Dakota, with a total
membership of 4S4.
The residence of B. o. Underdahl,
near N1inot, was struck by lightning
and burned to the ground.
William Price of Cando jumped off q
load Of hay and was impaled on
pitchfork. He will recover.
S. B. Mahaney has located at Will
low City, rented an office, and says he
is permanently fixed there.
Fire destroyed Gray's barn, at Spir-
1o1-a u c,+o ut
$1,000 was burned to death.
Trail county's new Jail at Hillsboro,
is nearly completed. The building is
50x90 feet, and cost $4,000.
Adjutant General Miller is besieyed
with applications for the enlistment Of
militia companies.
Deaths are exceeding the births of
Indians on the Standing Rock reserva-
ton.
A sixty-year-old husband at Grand
Forks brings suit for divorce against
his wife who is fifty-seven.
Two Dickey county farmers had
duel with pitchforks, but no serious
damage was done.
a Cando machine firm has sold fifty
the storage Of 100000 bushels Of flax
ing Irvine up to date.
The linseed oil mill at Fargo is near
ing completion, and will be ready for
the storage Of 100000 sbuhels Of flax
seed in thirty days.
The Northern Pacific has put in
much-needed and convenient loading
platform at Jamestown for the benefit
Of farmers.
The residence of George W. Down
ing of Velva was burned to the
ground, the inmates having a narrow
escape.
j. S. Waters, E. N. Morrison and
Miles White Of Bottineau bid in the
Bismarck water works plant for $751;
OOO.
The buildings on the fair grounds at
ished this week, including the grand
stand.
Threshing has begun on many farms
in the valley, and the grain will be
rushed to market at once. The present
prices are tempting.
The supply Of mosquito nets in the
central and eastern part Of the state
has become exhausted, there have
been so many calls for them.
Leck & Co. Of Minneapolis have the
contract for building st. Johns Catho-
lie church at Wahpeton. The total
cost of the edifice will be $4,000.
At meeting of the agricultural col
lege board at Fargo, the resignation of
Mrs. Holderman, matron, was called
for. and Mrs. James Nelson was ap-
pointed her successor.
The lateness of the harvesting sea-
son finds an unusual amount Of stand
ing grain, which affords a shelter for
the chickens, and ducks will suffer &C.
cordingly.
Two hoboes escaped from the corri-
dor of the Ramsey county Jail, stole
several dollars worth Of stamps from
the register Of deeds Office and
skipped.
Archie Menus of Caledonia, an eight
year-old boy, caught his hand in the
cogs of well-boring machine and ev-
cry bone was crushed. The hand was
amputated at the wrist.
E: Smith Peterson of Park River
publishes an announcement that he
will apply to Gov. Briggs for pardon
lOE Nlllldm w. OlcuueuHluS VI WdlSu
county, who was convicted and SEN
fenced Sept. 1, 1896, for the crime Of
bigamy and sentenced to one year and
ten months in the penitentiary.
A young man, a stranger in Grand
Forks, was run over and killed by
Northern Pacific freight train, just as
it crossed the river into Minnesota.
The superstition is that he had been
riding on the train and, in jumping off,
missed his footing and fell under the
wheels.
A Medora special says that this sea-
son has been the dryest since 1886; not
over two inches of rain has fallen
since April 1. Range cattle are poor,
and not many will be ready for mar
ket before the end of September. The
losses last winter were very great,
especially in cows.
The State Pharmaceutal association
met in Fargo, and besides transacting
the usual routine business, elected
the following officers: T. w. Kibbee,
Drayton, president; G. l.. Lee, Valley
City, first vice president; L. A. Tan
berg, Casselton, second vice president;
w. s. Parker, Lisbon, secretary treas