Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1897-10-14
NORTH DAKOTA

+ A party Of Lidgerwood sportsmen
shot four large pelicans.
A diphtherla quarantine has been es-
tablished at Marvel.
Wolves killed al tive-months-o colt
in McHenry county.
Great damage is reported all over
the state from prairie fires.
Deposits in banks in Trail county
have reached the top notch.
Senator Gordon has sold a farm
near Grand Forks for $4,000. 81.
Two harvest hands were held up
and relieved Of sos near Fargo.
A harvest home festival will be held
ut Cavalier on the TIA Of October.
The wheat crop in Rolette county
averages about ten bushels to the acre.
Frank Conley was bound over at
Glendale charged with horse-stealing.
Over 5000 worth of jewelry stolen
from Hillsboro jeweler was found
at Thief River Falls.
Cavalier county will elect some new
county commissioners shortly, and all
parties hold conventions next week.
Charles Anderson was arrested at
Fargo on the charge of smuggling an
Arabian woman with n chair.
Frank Johnson fell from the Great
Northern bridge at Nloorhead and re-
ceived a broken arm.
Seven blind pigs have been closed at
Cooperstown on injunctional orders
from Judge Glaspell.
The Great Northern Bank of Minot
has received a new time lock, burglar
proof safe of the finest make.
The resignation Of Lieut.. Hughes Of
Battery A has been received and ac-
cepted by the governor.
A Walsh county farmer raised a
squash that measured five feet and six
inches in circumference.
n. F. Rasmussen of Valley City, eX-
state railroad commissioner, is i'll Of
typhoid fever.
Valley people who attended the fair
at Mandan are loud in their praises of
that event.
A son Of Bard Bardson of Mclean
county is reported killed at Fingal, on
the 500.
1t is stated that detectives en-
| Z
struck another valuable clue.
Fire destroyed three loads of barley
and three wagons belonging to Pratt
& Posey, near Courtenay, the first Of
the week.
The threshing machine of n. A. Alb
bott, near Thompson, was burned re-
Gently. Three stacks Of wheat were
also consumed.
Gov. Briggs health is understood to
be some better, and he will spend the
winter in California for further i'm
prOvement.
Land Commissioner Watt and the
county officials of Cass county have
leased number of parcels of land at
good figures. r.
The little son of Mr.. and Mrs. H. M.
Wade of jamestown came very near
causing the death of his baby sister by
The farm residence of Ronald Nc
Donell, a few miles south of Valley
| City, burned last week with all it's
contents.
Miss Kit Booker Of North Dakota
has returned from India, where she
went as missionary several years
| since.
A trio of prisoners tried to break
out of the JAMESTOWN Jail, but failed
| in the attempt, and are now repenting
| in chains.
Emmons county has suffered from a
disastrous prairie fire, and many set
tiers have lost part of their property
and hay.
| There are twenty-four prisoners
awaiting trial in the county Jail of
Richland county, all of them hoboes
or piggers.
Capt. Baker of Bismarck has ship
ped in over 1000 head of cattle for
feeding and fattening this winter in
Burleigh county.
Ed Mark, foreman on the farm of
Congressman Johnson, had his hand
accidentally crushed, and it was am
putated at Devils Lake.
The State Bank Of Drayton has APP
piled to the state department to have
it's capital stock decreased from $780,
900 to $4,000.
The board Of trustees Of the soldiers
home decided not to open bids for the
erection of a new hospital, owing to
the lateness Of the season.
The barn Of H. J. Box, in Richland
county, was burned with eleven head
of horses and 5000 bushels of wheat.
feeding her fly poison.
Tom Kearnes, who shot Jack Sulli-
van at Cakes last year, and was sem
fenced to one year in the penitentiary,
has served his time and been released.
The Mayville normal school has re-
Gently opened with an attendance OF
nearly double that Of any previous
year.
jamestown enters into a contract
for three years with the electric light
company Of that place for street
lighting.
The jamestown fair people will ne
/ gotiate loan and pay all debts on
the grounds, and keep them for fair
another year.
Rev. G. H. Davies, who has been the
popular pastor Of the Baptist church
of Lisbon for the past ten years, has
left there, and will take charge of the
Baptist church at Wahpcton.
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