Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1898-02-17

| vi 1IHNOufO equity uiC AAN'>'1e
alarmingly.
Theodore Lane is suing the James
River Valley bank for $4,000, claiming
he was injured to the extent by horse
which he bought Of the bank.
| James Crawford, who :vas under
bonds to stand trial for blind plugging
Mt st. Andrew, Walsh county, avoided
trial by jumping his bail.
The Valley City electric light plant is
inadequate to the necessities or the
city and another dynamo will have TO
be procured.
The Northern Paifc taxes in Rlch-
land county have been paid amounting
to $15,3S2 Taxes for 1897 are paid III
full.
The manager of the Dwight farm,
Richland county, is arranging for big
auction sale the latter part of the
month.
The Lan"t!on Implement company
has recently been organized for the
purpose of conducting farm nipple nsnt
business ut Langdon and Hannah.
On request of the officers of the srs-
pend.:. ,n,ilN ut LnrimOrr for further
time to lucet obligations. the appoint
ment of & receiver will be postponed.
A petition is in circulation ut Devils
Lake asking for the pardon OF A.
MacKay, who was convicted week or
two ago for running blind pig.
DIR. Ballwin's drug store at James
town-clcsc.i since last September on
account of violation Of liquor law-has
been rco.ened.
| II. leaving Il Ger It Los Angeles, ca
| Col. w. II. Robinson sustained pain
! full accident breaking the ligament OF
| the left knee.
The board of trustees of the asylum
| visited the asylum at Fergus Falls,
| Mimi, to get pointers for the new Waru
| building to be constructed at ameS-
| town.
jamestown has gotten so good Of late
| that it has disposed Of the services OF a
night policeman and has reduced the
sa;a:y OF the chief of police to $3.50
| month.
Fire destroyed the barn and twenty
head of stock belonging to Carl Fran
cine, a farmer living mile from Ellen
dale. In.%ndiarism is suspected, and
Elias anderson is under arrest.
The secretary of the interior has de-
MED the nation for review in the case
| of James b. Power VS.. Gounder Olson
involving lands in the Fargo land dis
trict.
| The new officers of Towner County
bank are: G. J. Lord, president; j. j.
Dougherty, vice president; Harry Lord.
| cashier; c. A. Lapham, assistant
cashier.
Elias anderson is under arrest
charged with setting fire to farm build
1ngs of Carl Francine near Glendale,
whech were destroyed, together with
large stock Of cattle.
The bankers at jamestown elected
President Gardner, of the Edgerley
bank, as chairman for the Fourth dis
trict and Cashier Tracy, of the First
National OF Valley City, as secretary.
J. c. Hamilton, 500 agent at Kill
bernie, has left his wife in charge OF
the station and gone to Alaska. where
he has Il contract to build a railway
line from Copper river to Dawson.
The residence and farm buildings
of Joseph Keogh of Cleveland town.
ship, Ramsey county, were burned to
the ground together with his horned
stock, several head of horses and 1,00O
DCSlolS OIL grain.
1t is reported that the states attorney
of TOwner county refuses to serve i'll
functional orders issued by Judge Nor
gan against blind pigs and that the
states attorney is to be arraigned on
the charge Of contempt of court.
The First National Bank of IIillsboro
sold a half section Of land for 5000,
or $3.50 per acre. The land is eight
miles from the nearest market, con-
tains no improvements whatever and
is in stubble.
The Northern Pacific is paying taxes
on lands assessed under the so-called
retroactive law, which have hiterto
escaped taXation-which payment is ac
cepted as conclusive evidence that the
law is constitutional.
ugust Soncie, treasurer of Botti-
neau county, gives notice that warrants
Of that county up to and including
registered No. 779 will be paid on or
before eb. 10. after which interest
thereon will cease.
Diclkinson's new militia company is
drilling four times a weck-and goes to
church on Sunday in a body. in uni
form. There is an organization the
older companies need to keep their eyes
on.
The Kiddcr County State Bank at
Steele has been chartered. Capital
stock $4,000. Incorporators, J. +.
| Robinson and J. E. Robinson, Austin,
Mimi, and G. L. Farnham, Caring
ton.
1t is said the action against Sheriff
Skies of Pierce county, alleged incom-
potency and is based in part on the fact
that Skies allowed Geornc Sennctt to
escape from his custody. Service in
this action by the sheriff was avoided
by decamping.
Mrs. Matte NJ. Davis, superintend-
ent of Cass county schools, has an I'M
expended balance of $235 Of clerk hire
fund which with 500 appropriated by
the county commissioners will be used
toward expenses Of the teachers sum-
mer school at the agricultural college.
During the absence Of I. P. Lowry of
Walsh county, in Nebraska, thieves
broke open his granary in Vesta and
stole a load Of wheat and a load of bar
ley, and bored holes in the flax bin and
ran off IL load Of flax-about $75 worth
in all.