Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1897-04-08
LIN NORTH D 4, K OF
+ 8. KJ;,hmshala been incor-

pOrated. ; Ss hit. &
A lodge Of Oddfellows has been insti-
tuted Mt Dickey.
Grand Forks people will make tramps
work for their board. @
Foster county. will NOT have . spring
term Of district court.
Two blind pigs were burned in Walsh
county during the past week.
Grufton netted s., 1926 in the first year
Of ownership Of the electric light plant.
Charles Schroeder Of Hankinson has
been appofntedsd deputy oil inspector.
Towner win have 3 new $4,000
school building.
Courtney has had IN experience with
u confidence man.
Frank Wilson win run his private
telephone line to Grafton.
Several immigrants from Norway
will settle near Bottineau this spring.
A divorce at Grand Forks had her
diamonds swiped.
A camp Of Modern Woodmen has
been instituted at NorthwoOd.
Valley City people presented the fire
department with a purse Of $500
The total snowfall In North Dakota
this winter has been sixty-seven inches.
DIR. G. M. Coe of Meckinock was
found dead in bed from an overdose Of
\ morphine.
H. g. DuPuy has been appointed as
sistant states attorney of Walsh cOun-
ty.
George Sandback, an elevator agent
at Minor, was injured by being caught
in the machinery.
Marie Dale, a little Hi!lsboro girl,
was severely bitten in the face by a
savage dog.
Mercer county wants to clear up its
debts by giving it's creditors bonds
bearing 6 per cent interest.
The annual meeting of the Christian
Endeavor society for the PembinA
presbytery will be held at Crystal in
June.
The sheriff of Morton county has lev
led on car load of Val Blatz beer in
the warehouse ut that place. Cause,
/ violation Of the prohibition law.
A. g. Swain of New Rockford, whose
wife suicided in Valley City last, fall,
has lett the state and bought a farm
for $4,000 in Arkansas.
Bishop Morrison, recently consecrat-
ed bishop Of the missionary jurisdiction
| of Duluth, has consented to make WIS.,
itation of North Dakota in May.
Jack Daley. and all-around tough,
was shot and instantly killed at Kuhn,
by the colored keeper of a blind pig,
who Immediately gave himself up.
jamestown will hold an annual fair
this year, Sept. 81 to "a, inclusive. A
corporation is to be formed under the
name of the North Dakota Fair and
Exposition association.
O. Haugen, n merchant, committed
| suicide ut Michigan City by, cutting the
arteries of the wrist with razor. Do
/ nestle trouble was supposed to be the
cause. He leaves a wife and five chill
dren.
Lewis Hamstead and X. w. Gorthy
were arrested in Griggs county for
stealing wheat from Fred Ixuder. One
hundred and fifty bushels were recov-
cred. Others will be arrested, and
bad gang of wheat thieves broken up.
]. H. Conlan, assistant roadmaster
Of the Dakota division of the Great
Northern, has been appointed roadmas-
ter, taking the place Of J. A. Manner,
who is transferred to the Breckenridge
division.
A petition is being circulated in
Wells county, asking the county COM
| missioners to permit saloons to run
| upon condition that the parties who
operate them pay fine into the county
| treasury.
Agnes Baldwin, the only female con-
vict at the penitentiary, will be free
woman this spring, her sentence eXpir-
ing in few weeks. Agnes was sent up
from Devils Lake for completely in the
killing of man, in which an AK was
the weapon used, about seven years
ago. 4-@
The chess games being played be-
tween Forman and Minor by telephone
are soon to be concluded and the cham
pionship decided by series of three
games. Each town has now won a
ed forward to with a great deal of in
The little daughter of Andrew Stor-
field of East Grand Forks, who had
the misfortune to slip and fall back
wards into a tub of scalding water,
died from the injuries received The
Cullu Was uciIlv SlA years OAu, AuO
the parents are much distressed over
the fatal accident.
Black Hawk and Cadott, the half
breds suspected of numbering the Spi-
Ger family at Winona, and arrested by
Emmons county authorities, have de-
manded an immediate trial They will
be given a preliminary hearing before
local justice as soon as they complete
their testimony in the United States
court. in the case against "Red' Cald-
well, whom they allege sold them
liquor the day preceding the murder
A strange accident, which resulted
fatally, occurred at Geneseo. The
eight-year-old son of j. Brooks of that
place was eating some bread and eggs
and in some inexplicable manner
choked. The father and mother tried
every means to relieve him, but as he
held his teeth tightly shut no assist
ance could be .Gven him, and lie
choked to death. The boy was weak
mentally and cripple.
The Fargo & Southwestern railway,
which has been blockaded between La
MOure ard Lisbon for the past month,