Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1898-03-31

| Bisbec. is rapidly filling up with
good class Of settlers,
Cavalier county has $4,000 III its
| trensury mud no outstanding indrbteu-
/ ness.
In the Devils Lake land Office ''"3
homestead entries were filed between
jan. ] and March 10.
| During the last year the Mr'h''''s,
church at Langdon paid over Sl'""o "
| Indebtedness.
| August AbruIiamson Of Glthicid'
| Foster county, will operate 'hfe' gang
| blows this spring using liac'loh en-
| CINE MS II motor.
| There is SO much money hi' IN Neiis
| county that the auditor Will nave W
advertise for an additional drIoSl'o'!
for the sum of - 800.
| G.. 6. Halliday. II young business
man Of Wheatlund, has gone liiSah'
HIS mania is that someone has klleu
two Of his brothers at Buffalo
Burleigh county commissioners oh'r
S71.UOU refunding bonds for tweh'!
years ut per cent, to retire per cent
bonds of eual amount.
The Mccormick Harvester company
has received verdict Of $3.50 from the
Northern Pacific for property burned
at Kichardton, Stark county.
j. A. Grigsley, Immigration agent OF
the Northern Pacific, will conduct 300
families from Pennsylvania to loca-
tons in the Red River valley.
The Wahpeton board of education
has awarded the contract for its new
school building to Thomas Cole 4 Co.,
Fergus Falls, for $6,194.2l
Dickey county farmers are import
ing some thoroughbred cattle, four be
ing shipped in recently that cost ST.
100.
The Devils Lake electric light plant
will be in operation in a week or so.
Over GOO lights have already been con
tracted for.
Over 100 quarter sections Of land
We're proved up on in Richland coun-
ty last year. adding 100000 to the
taxable wealth of the county.
Large shipments of Canadian cattle
are being moved to South Dakota, pay
ing customs duties at North Dakota
ports of entry.
The cattlemen will appeal from the
decision of Judge Winchester sustain
ing the constitutionality Of the Stark
county boundary law.
The Great Northern has raised the
price of it's land in Northern Minneso-
la the price now ranging from $3.50
TO $40 per acre.
A couple OF Dickinson men who had
been staked for the Klondike dropped
the other fellows money in places in
Seattle.
1t is said that the Northern Pacific
shops at Mandan are to be closed OK
cept for making ordinary running le-
pairs.
Emmons county officials are investi-
eating the loss of $1,000 in transit
from Williamsport to Bismarck. The
suspected mail carrier is still in Jail.
The hobo season begins little ear
ly this season in the Red River valley.
Forty-fve Of them We're run out OF
Fargo the other day.
A commissioner will have to be ap-
pointed in Kidder county to fill the va
cancy caused by the death Of Commits
sioner Shoemaker.
A former Cando man named John
Darling, who has been in Klondike for
several years, is closing deal where
by he gets $4,000 for his interest in a
mining property. .....--.. ~
The work Of weighing the mails on
the North Dakota division Of the n.
N. road is being done. The mails are
said to be heavier than usual, owing
to the Klondike rush.
Reports of Special Examiner Nc
Donald as to the condition of suspend
ed banks in this state are expected this
week, to be followed by the appoint
ment Of receivers.
D. II. Houston of Hunter has patent
ed an Improvement for a kodak, and
has sold it to kadak company, under
an arrangement that will net him
about 100000.
The county seat fight in Pembina
county is waxing warm, and Cavalier
is early in the field, securing names to
a petition to have the matter brought
to vote. 1t will require 2,400 names.
l.. X. Kelly will retire from business
at Milton and seek health in the south.
Material used in the extension Of tel
cphone lines this year is to be first
class.
Elevators are shipping their stocks
Of grain so that the assessor will find
little in store on the LIST of April. The
wheat was practically all shipped ear
ly in the winter.
Max Wallace, son of J. ID. Wallace
Of Drayton, was crowded against the
side OF stall by pet pony and near
" crushed to death before being res
cued. His injuries are painful, but
will not result seriously.
The great exposition, opening over
ture and intended barbecue of the
ltausom creamery at Lisbon, so ex
tensively billed, was postponed, but
not until many had gone there, and
returned disappointed.
Secretary of the Interior Bliss has
affirmed the decision of the land office
in the case Of the Northern Pacific VS..
Jacob Boshee, involving 10000 acres in
the Bismarck district, the company's
selection Of which is held Tor rejection.
The skeleton Of man was found on
the bank Of Otter river, near Wahpe-
ton. but nothing remained to identify
it. 1t is believed he was painter who
disappeared from Breckenridge some
time ago.