Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1897-09-30
IN NORTH DAKOTA
lnterestine News Items From all
Parts OF tho State.

| fires last week.
Pierce county is particularly pros
porous this fall.
Driscoll Bros. of Grand Forks lost
their separator by fire
There are 1877 pupils enrolled in the
Bathgate schools, with four teachers
in charge.
The roads seen, to be supplying cars
| for wheat to the satisfaction OF all
this year.
Ex-Secretary Of State Flittie contem-
| plates locating permanently in Wahpe-
ton.
The Ramsey County Agricultural as
ISOLATION holds It's annual fair Mt Dew
ills Lake, Oct. :, s and ..
4 sneak thief stole about seventy
| five bushels of wheat from Maj. Buttz,
near Lisbon.
Ransom county commissioners are
petitioned to issue $4,000 worth Of
bonds for a new court house.
Warren Haines of Mandan jumped
off q vicious broncho and broke his
right leg above the ankle.
II. B. Moses, in the jamestown stock
yards, fell from his horse and sus-
tanned a broken collar bone.
Continued reports Of disappointing
wheat yield in the James river valley
come in. Much straw but little grain.
Burglars ut I4arimore stole Z. M.
Parkers watch, and left q revolver In
its place.
The merchants of Cando have en-
tered into an agreement to close their
| places of business on Sunday.
The geological survey report shows
gain Of IA per cent i'll the coaI out
put of North Dakota.
Judgment by default has been taken
by Chicago firm for $113 against
Melby school district, in Eddy county,
for school supplies.
Victor Steiner, a murderer, par
doned from the penitentiary a year
ago on account Of failing health, has
died at Bismarck Of consumption.
A gentleman from Miles City neigh
liver with a bunch OF 2,4OO sheep. He
The government is making a survey
of the Red River valley with a view OF
determining if anything can be done
to avert the occasional spring floods.
States Attorney Hamilton and a
posse of Larimore citizens rounded up
every hobo in that city and made them
take walk.
Deposits in the bank at Sheldon are
larger than ut any time since 1891.
Several Ransom county threShing
crews have struck for $1.75 per day.
Michael Kelly, a brakeman in the
Great Northern yard at Grand Forks,
got pretty badly squeezed between two
cars.
A movement is on Goot to erect a
hospital in Grafton, two stories high,
with public and private wards, trained
nurses, etc.
Grand Forks is rapidly becoming
divorce center. In twenty-four hours,
ending Saturday noon, six divorces
were secured in the district court.
The w. J. Rooney State bank at
Largdon was started just year ago.
1t has paid 1S per cent on the invest
ment and enjoys good line Of depos-
it's.
The postoffice at Cypress, Cavalier
county, has been discontinued, mail
going to Hannah; the Office at Glen
field Foster county, has also been dis
continued and mail sent to Corinne.
A tax levy sufficient to produce $751;
600 was ordered by the Grand Forks
city council. This is the amount esti-
mated as necessary to run the city for
the year ending Aug. 80, 1898.
Walter Good, the escaped convict,
was recaptured by Wesley Baker in
der, Good shot himself through the
breast, but the wound will not prove
fatal. He is mere lad, just OF age.
Harry Breveton, for some time a
popular assistant agent at the Cakes
union depot, was drowned in the
James river at Columbia recently. lie
and a companion were hunting, and
the boat upset.
A farmer named Corrick, with a
load of wheat, fell through bridge
| over Tongue river, in Pembina county,
distance Of twenty feet. He was not
seriously injured.
Frank G.. Grambs of Bismarck, for.
merly a Casselton boy, has received
word from Washington that he has
been granted the contract for putting
in the steam-heating apparatus in the
Industrial school building at the
Standing Rock agency.
Samuel Swanson has been arrested
in Grand Forks, charged with clipping
from Winona with his brothers wife.
| ID. w. Hines, of Farmers Rail-
road fame, confined in the asylum at
Jamestown, is now sane, and will
shortly return to his home in Pembina
county.
Mrs. Samuel Bierline, living on a
ranch some distance from Dickinson,
went out to ride with her little boys.
The horse became unmanageable, the
wagon upset and Mrs. Bierline was ill.,
stantly killed. The children were not
injured. Mr.. Bierline was East at the
time, selling horses.
A two-year-old child of John Christ,
near Lead, was stepped on by 1,4OO-
pound horse, and had its little life al
most crushed out, the horse stepping
upon it's right breast. A doctor was
called, and Notwithstanding the
the chances were apparently largely
against recovery, it ia helieyed he will
| pooovor