Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1898-10-27
NORTH DAKOTA

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Bottlneau schools are closed Oh ac-
count of diphthcria.
! Wllliston ladies contemplate organic
Ing Il Red Cross society.
A tow mill is among the Sheldon pos.
sibilitics in the near future.
The Agricultural college team chal-
lcnges anybody to play foot ball
\ mail pouch was stolen from the
500 train near Fcsscnden the other
day.
.Ncw Rockford. Darlington, Cathay
and Sykeston are to be connected by
phone. .....
Two ladies will build and operate
hotel in the new town of Wishek Oh
| thrSoo.
The new Pisek roller mill is complet-
ed and started un last week. 1t has a
1OO-barrel capacity.
The plans ard specifications for the
how Catholic church ut Fcsscndcn are
completed.
Thirty-tivc car loads Of cattle were
shipped from, Napcleon on-the-Soo one
day last week.
| Anton SNCllSIuu is lEc iol!liilSS AoA
tn" senate from the Twentieth district,
and o. Gilhcrtson for the house.
Clark Nelson, at Sow Rockford, had
an arm fcarfu!iy ci,cwcd up in the
gearing CT Il 1hrcslcr engine.
Wimblcdon's new school house is
nearly completed, ana her citizens feel
proud of it as Il handsome structure.
| II. S. Lockert of Williston, with his
hounds, has killed tiity-lline coyotes
aud ten buffalo wolves this year.
McCabe Brothers shipped 1000 head
of cattle from Lakota to the Eastern
market Saturday.
Mrs G. II. Mcrrifeld Of Forlnan
wants Il divorce from her husband
now in Alaska.
The enterprising Stutsman county
town Of Courtenay expects to market
nearly 100000 bushels of wheat and
flax this year.
Some 10000 sheep from Medora are
to be shipped this week. This means
nearly hundred car loads or five av-
erage trains.
Tie new building of Jacob Kotsche-
var at Dunseith, nearing completion,
will be the largest store building in
that thriving city.
Rev. w. 2. McVey Of Hutchinson.
Mimi. has been transferred to the
Grand Forks NJ. Il. church, while Rev.
Mr.. Clifford goes to Minneapolis
Patrick II. Gatfney Of Jamestown
has been appointed as deputy clerk Of
the district court, owing to the removal
Of Clerk Il. L. Branch to Ohio.
Charles Smith of Osnabrock drove
into an open we'll one recent dark
night, but all hands got out without
serious injuries.
The Bismarck flour MILL recently
burned, was insured for $4,000. The
cause of the fire has not been deter
mined.
The many friends of Presiding Elder
Ryan Of jamestown will be panied 10
know that he is very i'll with typhoid
fever.
The barn at the state penitrntiary
was burned Monday evening, with i'm
Elements and machinery and one horse.
Loss, $4,000.
| p. II. Throdahl Of Devils Lake was
Knocked out of his Buggy, robbed Of
$35 and left lying in the rain, stunned.
The footpads escaped.
Five highwaymen held up and shot
William Armstrong, a thresher, who
was walking from Arvilla towards
Grand Forks. The shooters escaped.
A young man named Knowles was
killed by the accidental discharge Of .
gun Oh Sunday last at Medford. He
died in half an hour.
Park River has organized choral
society with 4 large membership Prot.
D. Carlos McAllister has been engaged
for a ten-Weeks' course Of instruction
Patrick H. Gaffney of jamestown has
been appointed deputy clerk of the
district court of Stutsman county, vice
T.. Il. Branch, who goes to Ohio.
The Jimtown artesian we'll is getting
worse and worse. and is putting the
people out very much-out of water,
motive power and humor.
Matt O'Neill, in Judge Pollocks
court, for running 4 gambling joint at
Gardner, was given thirty days and
| taxed SfOO.
A fellow at Sheldon stole a horse and
saddle and sold them for SIS, and got
caught Better have stolen SIS; the
penalty would not have been us Sc
we're.
| BatkGate city dads are preparing to
have pure city water this winter
Good heads, those Bathgate city dads.
Bad water means typhoid fever, and
typhcid fever is bad. Bladder, baddest.
Night Waterman Kramer of Lidger-
wood had Il hard tussle with Il Norwe-
gian harvest hand last week, and. to
escape knife, he had to shoot the
man in the leg.
Hon. Hugh Watt. state land commits
sicLer, conducted the leasing of the
school lands for Walsh county, at Graf
ton lest Saturday. The total amount
Of the leasing amounted to $2,O39.7S.
The telephone line between Drayton
| and PittSburg has proven SO success