Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1898-02-03
NORTH DAKOTA

The expense of the Villers murder
trial is estimated ut $500.
Wolves are numerous in Richland
county.
The farmers in Morton county will
erect Il custom grist mill.
The bank at Pembina will probably
lie reOrganiZed as Il state bank.
Fesscnden is to have a creamery, cp-
Grated on the cooperative plan.
The early-closlng movement has been
inaugurated at Devils Lake.
George w. Harmon is the new com
\. NJ. Packard is the new foreman of
the AIandan hook and l,udcr company.
Cando is lighted With electric lights
now.
Mandanites are forming n Klondike
party.
Glen Ullin, Morton county. has two
brass bands.
James Smith is the new postmaster
ut st. Johns, N. ID.
The state industrial school will open
at Glendale about Sept. 1.
Stealing houses has become Il winter
pastime in Towner county.
One man caught 400 pounds of fish in
one day up near Towner.
Seward French will open an office in
Minor.
Sargent county has 1,66S children Of
school age.
Judge Pollock is holding court ut La
kota.
\ Rebekah lodge has been instituted
at Cakes.
Viola T.. Woodward of New Rockford
is granted pension.
Daniel Healy of Armenia has been APP
pointed Il railway mail clerk
Game. except wolves, is unusually
scarce this winter in North Dakota.
Wild geese have been seen in Polk
county inside of the last week.
Col. \. p. Peake of Valley City has
purchased Il controlling interest in the
East Lehigh coal mine, near Dickinson.
Tie quarantine at Hamilton has been
raised and schools will reopen on the
3ist inst.
All state educational institutions are
overcrowded and in need of additional
buildings.
Bleckmer is a new postoffice estab.
lished in Richland county, with Otis
FoOte as postmaster.
Surveyor General Blewett is figuring
OH putting in a flour mill at Dickinson
when his term expires.
Several buildings arc being erected
at LakOta, carpenters working bare
just us in summer.
The Lisbon cheese factory is to be
operated the coming season on Il larger
scale that heretofore.
Walsh county reports Il school enum-
Grafton of 6,S57, gain Of $40 over
1896.
S. J. Rice, Of Omemee, is in Jail at
Devils Lake, charged with assault with
criminal intent.
Dickinson women are moving toward
the establishment of free reading
room and public library.
An electric light plant is being put in
at Devils Lake and pipes being laid for
water mains-all in January.
Three brothers Greebe We're arrested
and Jailed at Rugby for operating a
blind pig.
George A. Bangs and Ledru Guthrie
have formed Il legal partnership 1T
Grand Forks.
A number of farmers Of Morton
county propose to build a custom grist
mill Mt Mandan.
United States Court Clerk Montgom-
cry is in Washington settling up his
accounts with the government.
Harvey Randall "A Cavalier county
farmer. committed suicide by shooting
himself through the head with Il rifle.
Rolette county is expecting rush of
in the spring. Rolette is
one of the best counties in the state.
Northwood wants good hotel. and
the party who will erect it will set
$1,000 bonus.
There are 1,195 children of scaool age
in Stutsman county, an increase OF 40
in the last year.
William Lcvincs is under arrest at
DunSeith OH the charges OF stealing
yoke of oxen and load of wheat.
Reynolds NIasons are fitting up a
lodge room on the third floor Of the
Roclaway hotel.
Fully 600 new members We're initial
ed by lodges Of Workmen throughout
the state last Tuesday.
Daniel Miller, prominent citizen Of
Steele, died suddenly while visiting rel
atiyes in Pennsylvania.
Judge Winchester suspended sentence
in the case of Robert Taylor, charged
with bootlegging at Steele.
The school population of Stutsman
county has increased SIS per cent in five
years.
Harvey Harris has been appointed
sales solicitor for the Northern Pacific
in Burleigh county.
A former Bismarck man, Robert
White, is reported to have located an
Alaska gold claim worth Million
December business in the Bismarck
land office exceeded that for the cor
responding month in any year in the
last decade.
horse halonpinD tO n Mr. Starnhar.r