Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1898-09-29
NORTH DAKOTA

| The Leeds State Bank has Il cOmmo-
dious new tire-p:Oof vault.
Mcintosh claims 900 votes ought to
be cast this fall in that county.
Risbeeites are happy. The Great
| Northern depot is ut last reality.
Jamestown ladies object to the pas
turing of geese i'll the city park.
IL. l.. Kelly has been appointed post.
master ut Kuhn, I.aNloure county.
Tie Mandan Odd Fellows lodge pur-
chased one of the 500 war revenue
| bonds.
Miss Sadie r. Wehhcr is a candidate
for superintendent of schools in Ward
county.
The Northwestern Telephone compa-
ny has Il very stable law suit on It
Grafton.
The enterpris:ng town of Sheldon has
grand opcEilg"-an $4,000 school
building.
Peter \. Schumacher Of Reynolds
has been granted Il patent on Il new
harvester.
Considerable building and other i'm
provements are reported 10y the James,
toN IL llipefS.
Judge Sautcr has dissolved the tenn
porary injunctions against druggists
at Langdon.
Prof. \. l.. Woods conducted teach
ers' institute for Pierce and Henry
counties, held at Rugby.
Twenty-one trains, aggregating near
ly GOO cars, arrived and departed from
jamestown last Sunday.
Five miles of track was laid west Of
Kuhn on the Soo's Bismarck extern
sion, in two days last week.
Charles Gillespie threshed 800 bush
els Of wheat from e.:lt acres of fertil-
lied land in Cavalier county.
Premium lists of the Grand Forks
street fair have been issued, and are
being mailed in large numbers.
Judge Glaspcll made short work of
the term Of court at Fessenden, there
beng no cases on the calendar.
Col. Hankinson's apple crop down at
Hankinson, is a fine success this year,
So worth being sold from one tree.
\ number of knights Templar of the
state are preparing to go to the big
conclave ut Pittsburg in October.
Stewart Heron Of Lisbon has the
contract for building the new Ransom
county court house. The contract price
is $3.50.
y party Of Dunkards from Guthrie
county, Iowa, landed in Darlington the
latter part of the week, AND will take
up farms.
Langdon elevator men claim farmers
n fhrnS n tbni,s in on Of
being cut, thereby lowering the grade
more or less.
Karrl Ohlgren. while stealing n
ride on 500 freight. fell and was de-
capitated. The. accident occurred at
Paramount.
The railroad authorities have smoked
out blind-pigger, who had taken up
quarters under 4 trestle Of the road
Eear Ardoch.
The woman's department in connec-
ton With the Mandan fair will have
curio display that promises to be some
thing very fine indeed.
Lawrence Brekke, Stutsman coun.
ty boy. writes to his father in Buchan-
an that he is running Il lodging house
at Dawson City, ALASKA.
a. l.. Carey, at one time insurance
commissioner, now a Great Northern
conductor, had charge of the first
wheat over the FOsston-Duluth line.
The government force, which has
been dredging the Red river in the vi
cinity Of the Forks for several years,
is idle this summer. No appropriation.
w. o. Beard, a real estate dealer of
New Rockford, fired two pistol shots
at hoboes who attempted to hold him
up, and protected himself from rob-
berry.
haul the other nght-$31O, cash-from
up for it, but probably the wrong
man.
John Patterson, at Portland. got be-
tween a moving traction engine and Il
stationary separator, and had a very
tight squeeze indeed, but not with seri-
Gus results.
The reports of the government show
that the business done at the Devils
Lake land Office makes it the second in
the United States, with Indications
that the report for the year 1888 will
show it the largest.
IIObOcs at Paramount robbed Il man
Of $3.50, and then nailed him up in a
box car; but his yclls were heard the
next day, before he was shipped out Of
the country.
4 farm barn belonging TO l. y
Smith, near LidgcrWOod, with its con-
tents Of hay and grain, was burned re-
Gently. The fire originated from the
sparks Of an engine.
Lieut. Way, Of the North Dakota
Rough Riders, has returned to his
home at Devils Lake. and the other
officers have been in Washington and
are expected home ut any time.
Charles Shurock, formerly of Fargo,
has purchased the interest Of Mrs.
Wilson in the lumber yards at James
town. He has been managing for
some time, and is now in full control.
Ed BrOckman, q CaSS county pa
ticnt at the asylum. who was taken
there a short time ago, with !: com
plant similar to hydrophoba, is re-
ported as rapidly improving.
The last quarters receipts came with