Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1898-06-30
IN NORTH DAkOTA

THE northern tier of counties are i'm
need of rain.
twenty-five new posto ces in North.
Dakota since Jan. 1.
Finley voters are tangled up over a.
proposition to bond for school house..
Wrk on the 500 extension has.
reached nineteen miles beyond Kun.
The BurleigE county Republican con-
vention will occur on July IA.
Grasshoppers are doing considerable
damage in Wells and Eddy counties.
Rev. Waddle has resigned, as pastor
of the Presbyterian church at Lisbon.
President Mellen is on tour of in
spection Of the Northern Pacific.
Ernest Billing is the new chief of the
Lisbon fire department.
Ransom county is enjoying a sub
stantial growth.
Mai. Murphy is theorator Of the day
ut Langdon, July 4th.
Wimbledon's corporate limits will be
three-quarters Of a mile square.
Georsa X. Cook has been appointed
postmaster ut Gardner Cass county.
Samuel A. Fa.coner has been aD-
pointed postmaster at Falconer, Nc
Lean county.
Johanna =. 4Albrecht Of Wahpeton
has been granted widows pension Of
IS per month.
Gen. and E. il. Hughes of Bismarck
have been granted a twenty-year cleo
trio light franchise at Fargo.
DR.. Hobart, who went from Grand
Forks to Cakes some time ago, again
moves, and will locate at Fessenden.
The three-year-old son of John Moon
was drowned by falling into well
near Coburn.
The wool clip of North DWakota is
averaging about a pound and half
more this year than last.
The Barnes County Farmers Mutual
Fire Insurance company carried net
total of $112,OSO insurance last year.
Hon. Alex. Duncan of Bathgate likes
to raise corn himself, and has 100 acres
planted to that cereal this year.
The Jimtown flour mills have re-
shutdown.
The bicycle swiper is no respecter of
persons-he took Sheriff Severn's wheel
at Jimtown the other day.
Elias Nelson, Cavalier county farm
err, killed or captured seven wolves in
one day last week.
| A delegation Of Iowa farmers Is
looking for locations in Ransom coun-
ty.
The present term Of court at Pembi-
na started in with twenty -four criminal
and siXty-three criminal cases.
Fourth Of July celebrations promise
to be more general over the state this
year than ever before.
Billings county will issue $4,000 Of
bonds to cover outstanding Indebted
ness.
Carl Anderson of Viking lost his
horses, harness, barn and hired mans
clothing by lightning.
The United States fish commission
will send it's car to the state shortly
with fish for the lakes.
Langdon's city dads have gotten
their fighting clothes on, and propose
to have more license money or less
dogs.
Cando A. o. U. w. ladies have or
ganized a Degree of Honor Lodge,
which was instituted with thirty char
ter members-and more coming.
Richard Burmeister, pupil of List,
and one of the foremost musical COM
posers of the country, is at Mandan for
a time.
G. o. Romanson of Willow City, who
was tried in district court at Bottineau
for committing an abortion on Minnie
Holtz. was acquitted.
Prof. Lugger, the celebrated grass
hopper expert, is investigating the
grasshop?er scare in the upper Jim
River valley.
Mclean county has Wolf that is
worse than the ordinary kind. He not
only kills. but sells the hide, and is
now in the jug.
Among the prizes to be awarded at
the Lisbon celebration on the Fourth
are three handsome flags. No more ap-
propriate prizes could have been Sc
lected.
Ed McGraw, a colored musician, was
tackled by two hold-up artists on the
bridge between Fargo and Moorhead,
and had his eye kicked out. Another
argument in favor of capital removal.
A great Northern train wen: off the
track at Park River, and the conductor
was fatally injured, his leg being brok-
en- in three places, the bones protrud-
ing at each place.
The deferred Baumstead case where
Baumstead was arrested for an as
sault on Herbert Root at alley City, re-
suited in the jury bringing in verdict
of assault and battery.
A man working for Frank Whitaker
near Paramount skipped out with his
side partners roll of SAL, and his en-
ployer's coat and vest, and has not
been seen since.
Miss Belle McFagden contracted tor
teach q four-months' term of school at
Darcy, but, after two months service,
was discharged by the board. She.
sued for four months pay. and was
i awarded verdict.
William Cahill, former employe Of
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