Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1898-04-14
NORTH DAKOTA
Bathgate wants a new bank.


The supreme court is in session at
Bismarck.
Mayor Dinnie was reelected Mt
Grand Forks.
The annual Bismarck extension Of
the 500 is being laid-in the usual way.
Fargo is looking for building boom
this season.
Mandan will hold June race meet
lpg.
Buffalo hasn't got the grist mill it
Wants yet.
There are between sixty and seventy
cases on the supreme court calendar.
A tent Of the X. o. T. NJ. has been
organized at Jamestown.
The Bismarck land office has been al
lowed an additional clerk.
John Erstad of Newberg has been
adjudged insane
The Valley Ciy Telephone exchange
has 112 subscribers.
Five patients were admitted to the
insane asylum last week.
\ hundred Mennonites have recently
located near Langdon.
for this season of the year
If the state militia are called out
they will rendezvous at Fargo.
j. Moody Watson has been nominal
ell for postmaster at kensal.
Scarlet fever. measles and diphthe-
ria are prevalent in Pembina county.
A silver club has been organized at
Tower City.
The State elevator at Hoople is to
have 10000 bushel annex.
A number of farmers around Lisbon
are seeding.
The pride of Buxton is its bicycle
corps.
Walhalla sportsmen Will organize a
gun club.
The removal Of Fort Yates to Bis
marck new seems assured.
The Washburn Touring mill had to
Slut down for want of wheat
Logan county has put bounty of 81
on wolves
The new State bank at Steele is do
ing a good business.
Arthur G. Sorlie has been appointed
postmaster at Buxton.
b. F. Spalding of Fargo announces
his candidacy for congress.
jamestown Odd Fellows are talking
of erecting two-story lodge hall.
Michael Feist of Mcintosh county
lost six of his eight children by diph-
iberia.
The First National Bank of Bath
gate has liquilated and gone out OF
business.
Geneva Carter, a little three-year-old
child of Wahpeton, swallowed a mar
BILE. and is dangerously i'll as a result
Mary Devine has been appointed
postmistress at Englevale, Ransom
county.
Daniel J. Butts Of Sykeston has been
granted an increase OF pension from
81 to SO per month.
The contract for the ferry at Winona
will be let by the commissioners of
Emmons county next week.
An Emmons county citizen is said to
make good money catching wolves.
He fishes for 'em.
Logan county will pay 81 for each
wolf killed there during the year CON-
mencing April 1.
Frank Gaulke has entered upon his
duties as deputy collector Of internal
revenue at st. John.
The school library fund at Walhalla
is increased $50 by proceeds received
from a public entertainment.
A Steele county man has sowed a
third Of an acre of onions, just for
starter.
The Mandan board of education has
elected teachers for the coming year
except superintendent.
J. P. Birder has qualified in a bond
Of $4,000 as assignee for Frances
Brothers at Hoople.
Sheldon will vote on the 10Th inst Oh
issuing $4,000 bonds for u school
building.
The Bismarck military post amend
ment to the sundry civil bill was re-
ported adversely.
1t is stated there is a prospect of the
foreclosure of $4,000 Of bonds Of the
city Of Steele.
The Walter A. Wood machinery
warehouse was burned at Fargo, en-
failing a loss Of about $4,000.
NOhAtS ACCOMPLISHMENTS AAA Z
purchased 500 bottles Of strychnine to
be used as a gopher eXterminator.
Large numbers of the genus hobo
are vending their way toward the
coast
Miss Lola Fish won the DemOrest
medal at Towner. There We're seven
contestants.
Fred Johnson. the new postmaster
at Leeds, has assumed the duties OF
the office.
The widow Of Marquis de Mores has
contributed 5000 to the Catholic church
at Bismarck.
Fat Rourke will be appointed United
States district attorney Of North Da-
kota next month.
Miss r. Thomas has resigned from
the Gilby school, much to the regret of
tie pupils and parents Of that place.
A. A. Berg formerly prominent
young business man at Grand FOrks,
died at the insane hospital at James
town.
Large shipments of fax are reported
some of the western counties where