Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1897-09-23
IN NORTH DAKOTA
auterestins News Items From ~"
Parts Of the State.

from rear Cando.
Mrs, Lydia Poe of Cass has been re-
moved to the insane asylum.
4 disastrous hail storm visited por-
ton of Dickcy county last week.
w. Sleeper, Mclean county 1ar1h-
or. lost seventy-tive tons OF hay, MS
stable and cattle shed by prairie IRE.
Joseph Roney has drawn $40 1or
wolf scalps from the LaMoure county
treasury.
The little city of Sheyennc. Eddy
county, has doubled in size this sum-
mer.
A new residence for the warden OF
the penitentiary is being pushed 10
completion.
Morton county got S41,7 54.G2 in the
compromise settlement OF Northern
Pacific delinquent taxes.
The Grand Forks wooden mills are
running twelve hours Il day, ana arc
still behind in orders.
The arrest Of some travelling men ut
Whcatland will test the law forbidulng
peddling without license.
Miscreants destroyed the drums ana
flags Of the Salvation army ut Devils
Lake.
Ransom county estimates that she
will harvest $4,000 bushels Of wheat
this year.
The Fargo National bank OF Fargo,
n. d., has been authorized to begin
business. Capital, $4,000.
A barn containing eight horses, be-
longing to p. II. Martin, near Tower
City, burned. Loss, $1,000
AL Stewart, a Csss county lad, was
shot il the mouth by young keDoe,
who was playing with revolver.
An elevator of $4,000 bushels capac-
| ity has been built at Towner, and an
other is building at Omemee.
Special police have been put on at
Larimore to keep the railroad yards
clear Of hoboes.
Fire in Fargo destroyed the rear por-
ton Of the residence Of L. N. Stone.
Loss, $1,000.
A prairie fire near Steele caused tall
hustling among the farmers, but no
serious damage resulted.
The Great Northern, as we'll as the
Northern Pacific, is making extensive
improv aEents in it's road bed through
the state.
H. G. Killday Of Newark, N. j., at
tempting to swing under a passenger
coach on the Great Northern, at Am
enia, was killed.
The Northern Pacific is putting in
1000 ton ice house at JAMESTOWN, to
supplant the old house holding 375
tons.
n Fargo man was accidentally shot
in the mouth. bat the bullet was so
spent before striking him that it did
n charm.
w. II. Quinn of Devils Lake, held to
the grand jury under $3.50 bonds, on
the charge Of selling cigars without
boxing them, went to Jail in default
of bail.
BY the giving way of scaffolding
IN Dickinson, six carpenters We're pre-
cipitated to the ground, three of them,
Messrs. Cunningham, Gamble and
kou, sustaining slight injuries.
The three men, Thomas Hart, Thorn
as Harris and Thomas McCloud,
charged with burglarizing Langseth's
tailor shop at Valley City, have been
bound over in $500 bonds each.
Ferdinand Paape, near Hankirson.
ID attempting to manage an unruly
team attached to binder, fell in front
OF the machine and was so mangled
that death soon followed.
The four-year-old daughter of Jo-
seph Conn was standing in a field of
gram unobserved, and was caught by
a binder and horribly mangled. She
lived but few hours.
Arrangements are now perfected for
holding the James River Valley fair
commencing on the 21st of September,
Irotting stock is already arriving for
practlce on the new grounds.
owing to misplaced switch at the
junction six miles north of Mayyille
flreman Clinton Sherman of Brecl1in,
ridge is dead, and Engineer Ed 1,ruov
IS slightly bruised. -Four cars and an
engine were ditched.
Iax Commissioner Fernald Of tho
Northern Pacific has paid into tho
once OF the county treasurer of Rur.
leigh county $4,000, the same beinu
t taxes due on the company's lands in
that county. "Au" ~
Peter Stevenson, section foreman
at Grand Forks, just recovered from,
a siege of illness, was caught between
TWO cars and had his foot smashed no.
cessitating an indefinite extension ~
his vacation. N'''i VI
Inc schools at Devils Lake ononod
with 80 pupils in the seven fnnart
Ments. The North Dakota school p1 eor
the deaf, 0. Il. Bangs, superintendent
MN, lii open at once with fifty-six nunils
MS is sixteen more than fhe hn rIi'ils.
is intended to ACCOMMODATE ~ ''''u'ns
Theo. Gullickson, who has cDoroo .,
brewery storehouse in Fargo ~ wo -.
arrested, arr for selling drinks direct fr m
u oHI warehouse, and Cora O3man
glrl with bad reputation , wns "a a
s taken in, charged with yio]a tI' a 4So
sta'e law. Gullickson was discharo tn1
Fargo is making preparation. 49,
!ne Annual w. G. Il. U. convant 4n 1or
pe held the 17th-2Oth. All rai1nn,, 10
fift, n nn 4 rate Of fare and ona
hntn;. on the certificate plan, and o tho
1 MD.eis nave granted reduced NV uot tale
Inc Inc state federation Of c1,,h. ia ,..,s;
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