Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1897-11-11
NORTH III 'i: DAKOTA

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the state Is reported active.
A 200-acre Walsh county farm has
been sold for $500.
The new Touring mill will soon be In
operation at Devils Lake.
Grand Forks will soon advertise for
bids for the new electric light plant.
Sargent county win send delegation
Of its citizens to Klondike in the spring
Mrs. Taylor Crum won her case be-
fore the supreme court.
North Dakota farm lands are In in.
creasing demand.
George Wilson is wanted Mt Cakes
for Bookkeeping, but has skipped.
Mrs. Lizzie X. Stone died of dropsy
at Kempton. N. D., aged Sky years.
The new roundhouse at Hannah is
completed.
The Great Northern has a new depot
at Wales but no agent.
Hannah expects daily mail service
soon. Good for Hannah.
Evangelist Moody will visit Grand
Forks.
Hundreds of acres Of fax yet remain
to be threshed in Griggs county.
Deer hunters may not legally kill
more than FIVE during the season.
EX-President Deering Of Fargo col
lege is soliciting insurance.
A couple of divorces from the Man.
dan colony were married in Fargo.
Rev. Orchard has entered upon his
duties as Y. NJ. G. A. secretary at Far
go.
An Eastern lady who owns property
at Lisbon, has arrived there to pay
So, 001 of delinquent taxes.
A Pembina man who has been voting
ever since 1887 has decided to take out
his first papers.
William Scott has been arrested and
bound over for running a blind pig ut
Lakota.
EX-GoE. Swineford of Alaska is in
speeding the land and surveyor gener-
ais office at Bismarck.
The Grafton city council have extend
ed for two weeks the time for receiving
bids for $4,000 of city bonds.
Grafton's free reading room is grow
circlhates 400 volumes monthly.
Miss Mabel Gelston of the Grafton
high school, resigns On account of ill
health.
Hundreds of acres of fax are yet to
be threshed in the vicinity of Coopers-
town.
a Wimbledon barber named Fisher
has skipped With $50 and q saddle be-
longing to preacher.
Some one swiped ten coats from
general store at Minnewaukan--p repar-
ing for winter.
Archie Bogart, a Great Northern con-
ductor blacklisted during the strike Of
1894, has just been reinstated.
T.aMoure and Grand Forks merchants
have the Chicago grocery peddlers on
the run.
The Citizens Bank of Walhalla has
been organized, with capital Of $10,-
600.
Suspects will be arrested for assault
and robbery of the elevator agent, Cay
lord, at Woods. One is said to be a
prominent resident of the locality.
Trail county banks have million and
a quarter dollars on deposit-an aver
age of $500 for each family in the
county.
Highwaymen attempted to hold up
Pat Fahey, at Lakota, but he got away
without being touched for his roll, con-
tanning something like $500.
At the Williamsport term of court
Ruby Caldwell was fined $50 for as
saulting Mrs. Andrew Slater with
dangerous weapon.
Mrs. Sarah Mcdonald of Cass county
jumped into well with intent to COM
NIT suicide, and was rescued. She has
been taken to the asylum.
Senator Charles Plain of Milton has
almost entirely recovered from the eff
fects Of stab which came near result
ing seriously some months ago.
Three draymen have been arrested at
jamestown for not having licenses and
have appealed their cases to the district
court.
Hon. Ole Axvig, ex-member of the
legislature, has bought farm adioin-
ing Milton, put up colossal buildings on
it and is now a full-fedged Miltonite.
A drunken man jumped off the bridge
at Grand Forks and landed on terra
firlna, twenty-seven feet below, none
the worse for the trip.
Complaint is made that the Northern
Pacific is failing to pay delinquent tax
es in Richland county, as agreed to in
the compromise proposition.
The auditor of Stutsman county is
advertising for forty tons Of anthracite
coal for the court house-lignite is
passed up.
David Martin, president of the ALI
ance Hail association, has leased his
farm in the Red River valley, and will
embark in the stock business in the
James River valley.
A fire department has been organized
in Pembina. ]. D. Winlaw was elected
chief; Archie Mcdonald, assistant
chief; w. w. Felson, secretary treas
urer: NJ. H. Miller, treasurer.
e. Cornell the horse-thief, for whom
extradition papers were granted by the
governor, has been brought back to
Cass county and held in $500 bail for
horse-stealing.
Nearly $1,000 changed hands at Fes-
sender on a foot race between Fort
Totten Indian and r T ThOmnSOn Of