Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1898-04-07
FORTH DAKOTA

.JoRTH DAKOTA
Rolette county wants q now court
house. " Ne" eoui'
Pinkeye is reported among horses nj
Cooperstown.
An early-closIng movement is on a,
Bismarck. - W a.
Wells county is prosperous and her
warrants are ut par.
There is good opening for tailor
shop at Frazee.
tailors, union has been organized
at Valley City.
The Standard Oil company will build
warehouses at Churches Ferry.
Ihe Grafton, roller. mill is shipping
-too barrels CT -four per day.
Sheldon Will probably install an cleo
trio light plant.
The state fair will he held ut Man
dan, Sept. 27-3O.
immigration this year will add TO-
'ooO to the population of the state.
Insurance statements will be ready
Tor publication about April 10.
Flour mills of Valley City are closed
no wheat to grind.
Fessenden will have new bank in
the course of a few days.
w. II. Fehling of Casselton has been
appointed q railway mail clerk.
A Dawson man paid 5000 in back
taxes on town lots. Prosperity has re-
turned.
The body Of Herbert Woodward, who
was drowned at Grand Forks, has not
been recovered.
Eighty-six applications for recording
of cattle brands have been filed with
the secretary Of state this month.
A boot-legger operating at Crary is
in Jail at Devils lake in default Of $500
bail.
Prof. I. G. Williams of Ada Ohio,
has been elected superintendent of the
Lisbon schools for the coming year.
Customs amounting to $500 were
collected at Neche on q train load OF
cattle from Manitoba to Pierre, S. d.
s. J. Pound, a peddler, residing il,
Griggs county, suicided by blowing the
top Of his head off with shotgun.
Enderlin is discussing q waterworks
project and will have an electric light
plant in operation May 1.
Large amounts of back taxes are be-
ing paid in to county treasures under
the provisions of the Wood bill.
Jamestowns registration this year
is the largest in the history OF that
city.
a Barnes county nimrod claims to
have killed the first wild goose of the
season.
There is an unusually brisk demand
for good work horses in the Red River
valley this spring.
Large additions have been made to
the public school library at Galesburg,
Trail county.
Eighteen families will settle be.
tween Monango and Merricourt, Dick
cy county, having recently purchased
eighteen farms.
Several offers Of school bonds Of con.
siderable amount are pending before
the board Of university and school
lands.
The Northern Pacific has filed in the
Bismarck land Office selections OF place
lands, comprising 80 900 acres in Starl;
county.
Richard Daley, the new postmaster
at Devils Lake. will assume his duties
April 1S. A. w. Coggswell is to be
deputy.
County superintendent Of Emmons
Mclean and Kidder counties disinclint
to unite with Burleigh in holding a
summer school at Bismarck.
Agent Bingenheimer of Standing
Rock, orders that no liquor be brought
40 Ho 10, Of ,o,,
mediate arrest and Imprisonment.
Citizens of Wheatland are resisting
the application of Needham & Percy
for a druggists permit to sell intoXi
eating drinks.
Doc Williams of New Rockford Of
fcrs 500 for proof Of the person who
poisoned his dog. The dog-poisoner is
at work at Cooperstown again.
James and George IcCabe of Graf
ton have purchased 1000 head OF cat
tie in the provinces, and will ship then
to the Northern market.
Ol,is Benson has been found guilty
at Fargo of rape on his scven-ycar-olJ
daughter. The minimum penalty is
ten years in the pen.
j. ]. Dow the veteran hotel man of
Grand Forks, has leased Il hotel al
Muncie, Ind, and takes possession the
first of the month.
The commissioners Of pcmbina coun.
ty have settled the long-contested ele
vator tax case by accepting a compro
mise OF $500 in payment Of the tax.
The Bank of Neche has secured the
arrest OF w. NJ. Williams Of Bathgate
on the charge OF obtaining money OH
false pretenses. Williams is held fol
trial under 81 900 bail
Work on the ong-distance telephone
into Jamestown will begin next month
if the council will rub out some objec
tiOnable features of the franchise or
dinance.
NJ. Cronan Of Chicago tried to com.
nit suicide in Jail at Devils Lake
where he was held pending removal to
the Jamestown asylum. He was tax
ell back to Chicago by relatives.
Halvorson and Richards will employ