Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1898-03-10

fered severe lacerat1On OF Tue scdil
from the accidental discharge of small
shot from a gun resting against a
tree from which ties We're being cut.
George Dixon sued the City of Graft"
on for $4,000 for injuries received III
4 defective sidewalk, ara lost the case,
on the ground Of contributory negli-
gence.
George Marshall got verdict for the
value of 600 bushels of wheat, which
he stored in the Andrews Il Gage ele-
vator mt Grafton. and which was de-
stroyed by fire.
Work on the Fosston extension Is
progressing fast. \ temporary track
abs been la!l Tor several miles, and a
steam shovel is ut work five miles be-
yond Fosston.
Il. j. Schwellenbach, formerly North
ern Pacific agent at Jamestown, is
now chief train dispatcher with the
Wisconsin Central, with headquarters
at Waukesha.
The murderer Of the late DR.. Young
1t Buffalo, wlso was adtudged insane
and committed to the asylum. has been
discharged AS cured, af!Gr two years
treatment.
On motion of attorneys, the court di.
rected Il verdict for the city OF Grafton
in the case brought by Gen. Dixon to
recover 5.u:.:::; damages for alleged in
juries ca:.::ssl; ~ defective sidewalk.
Miss Edith Hutchinson Of Wahpeton
will be sent to the Kelley institute in
Fargo by the county commissioners of
Richland county, for the morphine
habit.
Ilnute Haakenson, living near Kin
drel was struck on the head by fall
ing tree which he was cutting, sus.
tanning a compound fracture of the
skull. Trepanning was successfully
performed, and he will probably recov.
er.
Wahpeton has taken up $1,000 of its
bonds due in six years, and effected a
saving of $1,7O0 in interest. An issue
of $4,000 Of sewerage bonds has been
negotiated, and the board of education
is advertising for bids for erecting
$40 coo school building.
Henry Wesley Of Eldridge, claims to
have arrangements made for manu-
featuring threshing machine that
AN be sold for one-third the price pai8
Tor threshers now in use, and that the
york can be done at half the usual en-
Dense. He says the machine illbe on
the market this summer.
Negotiations are practically closed
by which the towns of Wyndmere and
Moselle are to be moved to the cross
ing of the Northern Pacific and 500
railroads, in Richland county, about
eighteen miles east of Minor. Wynd-
mere is less than two miles from the
site of the proposed town.
A special from Anderson Ind, says:
Eastern Indiana Dunkards held a mass
meeting to-day and began colonizing
to go to North Dakota, to join $4,000
who are there. One hundred will go
from here, leaving March %, and meet
ing other colonists in Chicago the next
day.
The annual meeting of the enforce.
ment league of North Dakota will be
held in Grand Forks OH Thursday
March 81. Quite numbei. of prom
inent speakers will be present. Re-
ports OF the work for the past year will
be presented and plans made for the
coming years work, new officers elect
ed, etc.
Bottineau county is looking forward
to the largest immigration in it's his
tory the coming spring. This is guar.
.anteed by the large number of home
seekers who visited the state last fall
and filed on government land in that
and adjoining counties. In some town.
ships in the county as high as fifty
homesteads are filed.
The firemen of the state, through the
efficient secretary Of the sta tie associa-
ton, H. L. Reade of Bismarck, are act
i've iii their opposition to the repeal of
the 2 per cent now collected from in
surance companies and paid to fire OF.
CARNATIONS, and are urgently petition
ing for the retention Of the tax and pro-
testing against a bill pending in the
senate at Washington, which, elf en-
acted, would do away with the tax.
Judge Winchester has decided the
case of Mcdonald VS.. Billings county
in favor Of the county. Mcdonald was
elected county judge OF the county.
served for several years unaware Of
the fact that there was a fixed salary
to the position allowed by law, AID
then put in Il clai mfor $500 salary. 1t
transpired that Mcdonald was not 4
full citizen of the United States, hav-
ing never taken out his second papers,
and the county fought the claim. The
case will go to the supreme court.