Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1897-12-23
NORTH DAKOTA

NORTH DAKOTA
There are fifty divorce cases pendl 4.
IN Grand Forks county.
The Wells county tax eases hav.
been submitted to the supreme ,.nurt.
Cakes has telephone system put lr
by the $780,
Extra trains are run on the Walhalla
line to handle increased traffic.
Richland county rcailxed $4,000
from tax sales.
The Grafton rink is proving a popy,.
lar place Of amusement.
Fargo has 5000 damage suit arts.
ing from defective sidewalk.
Rugby people are moving to reor-
ganize their immigration association.
Cando will be lighted with electricity
in the near future.
The supreme court has adjourned
sine die.
There are thirteen cases of measles
at Courtney.
Wheat thieves are reported in Enc
mons county.
Minor will be made q money order
Office after Jan. /.
The local telephones have been re-
moved from Sheldon.
w. Nj. House has prerarcd a chart
and atlas of Richlend county.
Judge Glaspell will hold court ut
Valley City this week.
The Paramount nil, is completed anl
corurenceu operations Tuesday.
Mrs. Laura J. Einshuth is a teacher
In the Darlington schools.
Senator Benedict of Lidgerwood ex-
poets to locate in Wells county.
A steam heating plant has been put
in the Fort Yates school.
The Dual City Gas company Mt
Grand Forks has quit business. Lack
of patronage.
\. f. Carlson Of Valley City was run
over by a wagon, necessitating ampu~
tation Of a leg.
Kenney McNutt tried to suicide at
Grand Forks, via the arsenic route
Ile was pumped out.
H. E. Payne, deputy supreme chief
ranger, will organize Forester lodge
at Sheldon.
Two drug clerks at Hillsboro have
been arrested for violation of the pro-
hi3ition law.
G. B. Little.has applied to the Bis
marck city council for ten-years tel
ephone franchise.
Frank Blackboy, full-blooded In
dian. has been arrested charged with
ro1>hiror ho Lx,,>t nNottoy, roctoHioo
The use Of iiy'i.e coal appears to be
taking a boom in the eastern part &c
the state.
A. P. Carlson of Valley City, who
was injured by heavy loaded wagon
passing over him, had leg amputated.
L. G. Tyler succeeds in the manage
ment of the Great Northwest at st.
John.
1t is probable that the forestry re-
serves in Bottineau county will be re-
stored to the public domain.
The building of the new electric
light plant is in progress at Devils
Lake.
NJ. N. Chamberlain, the new post
master at Cakes, was q member Ut
President McKfnleys regiment.
The timely discovery of a broken
Hannah, Great Northern line.
Two hundred thousand dollars of
zeal and chattcl mortgage releases are
on file with the register of deeds in
Walsh county.
Hon. John NJ. Cockrane Of Grand
Forks has been retained to defend
Miss LuXton at her trial for the MUIR
der Of Ole Halverson.
The total sales of land Of the Great
Northern land department In the Red
River Valley, for the month Of Novem-
Der " ere 12,45O acres.
The remains Of the Emmons county
man who was killed by drinking ON
monia in a Mandan saloon a few weeks
ago, have been inferred at Salem, Orc.
The jury in the suit of Rebecca Cole
man against the City Of Fargo for
$4,000 damages, returned a verdict Tor
$500
The farm. residence Of f. G. Horton,
at Edgerley, was destroyed by fire,
the family barely having time to es-
cape in their night clothes.
FraLk Perley, brakeman employed
on the Bottineal branch Of the Great
Northern, lost finger between the
bumpers.
The ownership of Hunter Island, in
the Rainy Lake river, is likely to be-
some the subject of international
complications.
A soldier named Bowers, belonging
to Company D, is missing from Fort
Yates. and believed to have walked
into an air hole in the river.
Judge Lauder has denied a petition
for grand jury at Minor, on the
strength of q numerously-signed pro-
test.
a Napoleon, N. d., man walked int"
the school room, spanked a boy. and
tuen proceeded to the tribunal OF just
ice, plead guilty and paid fine Of SIS.
The agricultural college board has
accepted the heating plant recently
placed in the institution and ordered
it paid for.
Increasing demand for lands in the
western part of the state employs two
agents Of the Northern Pacific at Dick
illSOn.
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