Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1898-07-14
IN NORTH DAKOTA

A bank has been established ut Fin
lay.
Measles are prevalent in Pembina
county.
Harvey may have fax Milf she
can get it.
A. L. Loomis has taken charge of the
postoffice at Fargo.
The St. Charles Hotel, at Dickinson,
has been reopened.
| Work has commenced on the Dickey
county telephone system.
| Lightning struck and burned a barn
and killed a horse at Fairmount.
| The Walhalla Catholic Cemetery as
ISOLATION has been incorporated.
A. B. Hoag, an old citizen Of Cakes,
dropped dead on the streets there.
A. G. Rankin has Just closed series
Of temperance lectures at Bathgate.
III. II. Waugh has secured control of
the stage line from Walhalla to Neche.
Young IS new postoffice in Walsh
counts. :ohn MattJoek is postmaster.
Henry Erickson of Towner county is
q 7cands:s,e fo- railroad commissioner.
Peter .-..genson Ct Latoka has been
successfully treated in Fargo for deaf
ness.
Jens Olson Of Kindred, died from in
juries received by falling off a load of
hay.
Mars is new postoffice in Rolette
county. August Demers is postmas-
ter.
A patent wood burner is in use on
the Dakota division of the Northern
Pacific.
A new town is tobe established by
the 500 in Mcintosh county, 1t will
be called Wishek
States Attorney Voss of Morton
|county is in the East undergoing med
ical treatment.
A North Dakota excursion to the Vel
lowstone park is being planned for
about Sept. 1.
-Four houses at Buxton were struck
by lightning in one storm last week,
and nobody hurt.
A. B. Hoag Of Cakes died suddenly
last Wednesday of heart trouble. He
was fifty years old.
Frank Butler of Conway was killed
In the recent storm in the northern
part of the state.
There is quite a quantity Of bogus
silver dollars and half-dollars in circu-
Ilation at Devils Lake.
jamestown women have sent $500 to
Company H, as a company fund, to be
used in case CT sickness.
A company of volunteers has been or
ganiZed at Cooperstown, with David
Bartlett as captain.
The opera house at Jamestown has
been permanently closed, because Of
lack of patronage.
Northwood has had baby cyclone.
No serious damage was done, aside
from wrecking few sheds.
The corner stone of the new Meth
odist church at Bottineau got laid all
Fright when the rain let up.
Charles Tronsen Of Devils Lake is
said to have been drowned while en-
route to the Alaska gold fields.
A little girl at Harvey was shocked
by lightning and the bottoms of her
feet blistered. She will live
Ex-Sheriff Pitts of McHenry county is
under arrest. charged with putting his
brand on another fellows horses.
Mrs. John Amundson of Barnes
county died recently from the effects
of a fright caused by a prairie fire.
w. w. King of Tower City has been
appointed member of the Cass county
Republican committee, vice George X.
Clark.
The storm in the northern part Of
the state a week ago caused more
deaths than all the billiards of the
winter of '97.
At Sverdup, Mclean county, a bolt of
lightning struck in the midst Of herd
of cattle and seven head of fine COWS
were killed.
Conductor Coon. injured on the
I4angdon line. is said to be slowly i'm
proving, but he will never see active
service again.
A house and barn and contents, be-
longing to Michel Toay. at Montpelier,
burned, Mrs. Toay nearly losing her
life in the flames.
Plans for the new Indian school ut
Fort Berthold have been received at
Bismarck from Washington. The build
ing will cost $4,000.
The new issue of postage stamps
have made their appearance. The two
cent stamps have a North Dakota farm
scene engraved OH the face.
Ex-Gov. Shorridge has been appoint
ed clerk in the Devils Lake land Of
fee, under the civil service rules. He
gets salary of 5000 per year.
Sheriff Brynjulson Of Wells county
. pulled" the icehouse at Harvey. He
found Fourth Of July magazines in the
shape of several barrels Of beer.
A sister of the Caledonia bank rob-
Der, who was shot and killed two years
ago, will bring suit for damages, claim
ing her brother was not the robber.
The following is the assessed valua-
ton of real estate and personal proper
ty as assessed in Edgerley: Real es-
tate, 10000; personal property, $780,
AS.
Mai. Baldwin, the Cakes real estate
man sold four quarter sections of n.