Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1898-12-29
Nekinock wants n hall In which to
hold n,,1,lio tv0thnrInDS

Wleu UL NHllcy lily.
A Chicago firm Ia talking of estab-
fishing clothing factory Mt Fargo.
A new steel bridge will be put across
the river ut Pembina to cost about a.
600.
Numerous wolves are reported IN
Dickey county and wolf hunt Is gug-
gcsted.
William Henderson and Anton
Anderson escaped from the county jail
at Langdon.
Thomas Ballinger was found dead
in bed on his farm four miles from
Jamestown.
The new fire whistle ut jamestown
Is said to have IL voice capable of wax
ing the seven Sleepers.
Mahlon Vnllle Of Cakes is pushing
his acetylene gas machne-which Is
reported as a good one.
Plenty of SNOW is reported in the
pineries this winter and a number Of
teams are busily employed.
In Fargo $500 has been raised for
the widow of Switchman McWhorter
who was killed in a collision.
Max Bass promises to bring into the
state large number Of experienced,
we'll TODD farmers next spring.
The Indian schools Of the state were
inspected by a. o. Wright of Madison,
Wis. supervisor of Indian schools.
Ed. Clark has been bound over to
the district court in Stutsman county
for selling liquor without Il license.
T1,,inn hNtQ1 ar
Fargo has fallen heir to a snug sum by
the death Of a relative in Sweden.
G. Ii. Sheldon Of Leeds has an estate
in California from which he annually
ships dried fruits to supply local deal
ers.
Devils Lake has no houses to rent and
an opportunity is offered for some en-
terprising capitalist to build dozen
or so.
Miss Maude NJ. Baxter Of Missouri
has been appointed q teacher at the
Fort Totten Indian school at 5000 per
annum.
Two election contests have been
started in Wells county, involvin gthe
offices of sheriff and superintendent Of
schools.
Messrs. Brown and Carlow, Of Min
newaukan, shot twelve deer while
hunting in the western part Of the
state.
A new steel bridge will be built
across the Missouri at WillstOn, the
county issuing bonds for $1,000 to pay
for it.
There is reported a big demand for
land in the Fargo land district and the
business of the land Office there is in
creasing.
4 wolf hunt, to comprise a party Of
$50 men with guns and dogs, is being
organize, in Ransom county to exter-
inmate the pests.
A number of Devils Lake business
are talking Of putting in a system of
water works and may float $4,000
bonds for the purpose.
The receipts at the Harvey roller
mill on Nov. g. were 1900 bushels
and the output was 10000 pounds, or
a trifle over 2O4 barrels.
Conductor James Ross, of the Great
Northern, is at his home in Devils
Lake recovering from the results of q
train accident at Petersburg.
A fourteen-year-old Indian boy got
drunk at Veblin, Richland county, re-
Gently, and while craZed with liquor
fatally shot himself with a revolver.
Five thousand bushels of grain was
loaded at the Hannaford side track in
one dayla st week. One car load was
worth 81 ,632-kind of grain not stated.
In wrestling match at Reynolds
Fred Fair, succeeded in throwing VIM.
johnson three times in eight minutes.
The latter had wagered $50 that Fair
could not do it in fifteen minutes.
Rev. Sidney Stone, from the Presby-
terry of Ozark. Mo-, was installed as
pastor Of the Hunter church last week.
Revs. A. c. Monson, E. D. Gallagher
and Il X. Fisher took part in the cere-
mony.
Rev. F.. T.. Wiley. who Travelled ex-
tensively through the state during the
campaign, has been engaged by the
Johnson Land and Mortgage company
to write a t'fty-Dagc pamphlet descrip-
tive of North Dakota.
Thomas Rattray has recently located
200 families Oh four townships of land
in the Beaver Lake country east Of Ed
monitor, N. w. Il. The settlers come
from Ada, Mimi, and El Paso, Wis,
and settle on the land in June.
Grfain stealing has been reduced to
a science in Park township Richland
county. Ivy farmers report the loss
Of $40 bushels Of flax, 80 bushels Of
wheat and 60 bushels of oats. taken,
presumably, by the same person.
Among recess appointments favor
ably reported by the senate committee
are those of John Satterlund, register
Of the Bismarck land office and Henry
e. Baird. and Ole Serumgaard, re-
c"iver and register of the Devils Lake
office.
Charles Smith of Leeds was indicted
last spring for maintaining common
nuisance. He left for the Klondike
just before the sheriff arrived, and re-
turned last week to find the sheriff
waiting with open arms to gather him
in.
Otto Auster arrived in Fargo from
Kindred the other day, made the ac-