Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1897-09-02

though not fatally, injured.
Logan county accepts the PROPOSE
ton of the Northern Pacific for settle
ment OF taxes.
A. G. Omlid, a Grand Forks county
farmer, died on shipboard, while re-
turning from a trip to Sweden.
The four men sentenced from La
Moure county to the pen are doing
time.
A ten-year-old Wells county boy was
accidentally shot through the head and
killed while out hunting gophers.
Killers store at Dawson was robbed
recently, mostly Of shoes. Fifty pairs
were taken. No arrests.
Harry Hurley expects to thrcsh out
eighteen bushels of wheat to the acre
in Trail county.
Carl G. Keppler sues the Red River
Valley National Bank at Fargo for
$4,000 personal damages.
Miss Pretson has completed an ex-
tensiye tour Of the state in the inter-
ests of the w. G. T. u.
A large amount of horse stealing is
being done in the western part OF Nor
ton county.
An artesian well has been sunk near
Hllsboro that is said to flow 5000 bar
rels daily.
Work on the buildings at the fair
grounds has begun and will be rushed
at jamestown.
Ramsey county comes to the front
with an agricultural association with
a capital stock Of $4,000.
The wind and rain has helped the :.
crops in Stutsman county by destroy
ing the plant lice that have been doing
damage.
Horse thieves are operating around
LarimOre. Two horses were stolen out
of the pasture on the farm of H. II.
Arnold recently.
Walsh county commissioners have
taken the precaution to have the sup
posed lepers isolated, and have en-
gagged nurses for them.
While unloading some machinery at
Fargo, a casting weighing over 500
pounds dropped on Billy Harris foot,
crushing it terribly.
-Four Of the blind-piggers of Minot
nave been arrested and bound over to
the district court; three others skipped
cut.
Charles Queen, the Enderlin blind
digger, was found guilty and SEN
fenced to pay $500 and languish 80
days in the county Jail.
Wild geese are breeding in large
numbers in various parts of the state.
Inc season has certainly been a pro-
pitious one for all web-footed critters.
Eight Trail county farmers are suing
Duluth commission firm for SIS, 900.
Tor wheat that is said to have been
misused.
D: c. Boyd of Rolla recently met
WIN most serious accident, being
thrown from horse and rendered un-
conscious for two days.
States Attorney johnson has yigor-
ously prosecuted the cases against the
blind-piggers at Minot, and scyer,.l Of
them have been bound over.
Maj. William Camp of Pemhins ia
dying from paralysis. He is ono of
the oldest settlers in that vicinitv and
cock.
An explosion in the 500 Coal mine
at Mlnot was caused a few DAVIS aco
py the CARRYING of a lighted lamp into
Tue h!ne: George Egan was so badly
burned that he died. and Ed AM .
teamster was also badly injured,
Ar. Simon Johns Of Portland, Trail
county, a graduate Of the state mi
Iefsity class of '95, has been annointad
ny state Superintendent Halland sc
clerk IN the department of public sn'
stfuctlon at Bismarck.
In July, at the Devils Lake Cbout,u
WA state federation of womon's
t tln was organized. Delegates from
..ie dilterent women's clubs of tha
,,"'" met at Fargo and arranged n
ploAfamhe for the first ANIMAL moot
ing 10 be held in October. -'e''-
Inc total value of the persona, mon
cry IN the state, as returned w., - ~ ~
c"uhty boards of EQUALIZATION ne ne
year. is S2O,S77,44S. There oro ~ ' 1as
persons assessed, and 4O541 .o,, 'ay
polls returned. o''7A school
mary Mary sundt, Norwegian girl twon-
this no',n aears OF age, who has been in
nv C vTuntry Tor year, was assanltad
r, I hirai Mccormack, at Larimore
VIZ hi rec, her as cook and s tvte;
s,n ,t iler 1or his farm, when no os
rostod nel' Mccormack has been "r
cnmrt =, "ilu pound over to the distria+
~1 ~ III the sum of $1,000. N''''''c'
wer "e ro business places at Devils ro,,o
salo o i AIDED by burglars. At E is,'Me
ter and ', 4eS, broke open the cash rc"is
e. I Inu LOOK $40. From BranclltIa nS,S.
Gorr rasiams clothing store som "." ,,
M, Wear was taken. At Fox,s "I nun" 'n.
cnro NJ sI d small sum Of money wns '. 81
ro1en from the register. Thes c Mis se
h o!,e mas arrested John Swoon ',rn or
ncct"d ,, On suspicion that he wns a n,,
into ,n with the affair, his shoes @S , con-
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