Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1898-01-06
jamestown has full fledged literary

An amateur dramatic company mas
been organized at Williston.
An acetylene gas plants is to put in
the state soldiers home OH trial.
There are good many cases of ty-
phoid fever in the Red River valley.
The city council of Crank Forks has
made an appropriation Of $500 to buy
an electric light plant.
The county commissioners OF Suits
man county will put Il $1,000 steam
plant i'll the court mouse.
Merchants on the jamestown Il
Northern lines petition for Il daily pas
senger service.
Ed. johnson, Fargo man. has dis
appeared, leaving Il youny wife Whom
he married last May.
1t is said the Bismarck post1tice
will be removed one block east to Il
more central location.
The public examiner has called for
reports of the condition of state banks
at the close Of business Oh the 10th
inst.
| z. J.. Atwood succeeds Z. f. Horn
| as postmaster at COurtenay. The lat
ter has handled the mails for thirteen
years.
A farmers co operative creamery is
under construction at Ransom, with
ammonia cold storage plant, to cost
$4,000.
Receiver Hanway of the defunct
Mtars bank ut Fargo has been placed
under $1,000 bonds for miSappropri3-
ton of funds
Mrs. deI4endrecie has incorporated
a college Of osteopathy at Fargo with
capital of $4,000 A charter has been
| issued
Rev. Palmetto who has been max
ing Il trip through Asia has returned
to the United States but will not re-
turn to North Dakoa.
The Methodist church people pur-
chased the old post chapel ut Fort Bill
ford and will place it in position at
Williston for Il church.
A surprisingly light sentence is that
which sends the Sanborn homicide,
Ferdinand kleinschmidt, to the pcn-
Tertiary for eighteen months for kill
ing his son.
John \. Wilson, Il pioneer settler of
Foster County, and Il commander OF
tuC lIlC W. IA. II. IOol stI Ntl
died at Austin, Mimi, after a linger-
ing illness of seven months.
Stutsman county comes in for the re-
vival Of prosperity and the records
show that more mortgages have been
released the past fall than in len
years.
The Dual City Gas company. which
has been supplying Illuminating gas
at Grand Forks has failed and Judge
Amidon has appointed w. S, Russell
of Grand Forks receiver.
Smuggling of cattle from Canada to
tile state has been going on induStri-
ollSly for sometime and Il Botlineau
farmer has been arrested for bringing
in fifty head without paying the duty.
District court has been in session in
Devils Lake for Il month land it is
stated the grand jury has indicted all
Of the liquor dealers, who have had
important business away from home
since the jury has been in session.
The railway station agent at La
Moure mourns the loss of package
containing $3.50 which he had prepared
for remittance to the ST. Paul Office
1t was stolen from hi sdesil while Ire
was salling tickets.
The comptroller of the currency has
received information of the failure of
the First National bank Of Pembina
The bank had Il capital of $4,000 and
deposits of $4,000. Receiver Anheicr
has been place in charge.
An old man named Wilson died
alone in Il cell in the Jail at Forman
He had been brought in preparatory to
beklg examined for insanity and died
from the shock and exposure of the
trip.
Latest figures upon the Dakotah fire
at Grand Forks place the loss at $751;
600 with insurance at S211,5UO. This
covers the buildings and firms losses,
and represents nothing of the private
losses Which guests of the hotel and
dwe,lers in various flats suffered.
Alfred Rude, the principal witness of
the state i'll Il wheat stealing case at
Cavalier had a narrow escape from
death as Il result Of drinking poisoned
whisky. 1t is suspected the poison was
caused to be administered by some per-
sons vitality interested in The outcome
of the case.
Engineer Jack Dawson of the Great
ANOl 4AASt WIFI IL pCNulltll IlSiNtuL
at Rugby the other day. The bucket
a the new coal chute worked hard and
Mr. Dawson went to the assistance
of his fireman, and as he stepped back
on the engine fell. Tho steel lid to
the bucket dropped just as he fell, and
caught his head, tearing his right ear
and bruising him considerably.
Alison Cunningham. the man wanted
in Colorado for murder and who was
captured near Minot last summer by
w. B. Livermore, has been tried and
sentenced to twenty years imprison-
.ment for the crime. The women in
plicated in the case has been acquitted
Cunningham murdered man named
Barnard and escaped from the officers
and was captured near AIinot. The
woman in the case was the wife of the
murdered man.
Ruined, Then Deserted