Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1898-02-10
NORTH DAKOTA

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postotfice at Winona.
The wolf bounty tax will amount to
between $4,000 and $4,000.
Il. Il. Gorton of Bathgate died ut
that place Of appendicitis.
Two Grafton men expect to drive
about 100 dogs to the Klondikc region.
Cando's electric light plant is in op.
Grafton.
\ colony Of Iowa farmers will locate
III Towner county.
Grafton's militia company has Il
membership of forty.
The Methodist church Of Mimic is
free from Gebt, the last claim having
In Il Wells county case the defendant
Has given Judgment for % cents.
Henap Il. Hanson is appointed post
master ut Viking.
Five creamerics will operate in Sar-
gent county this season.
The school board ut Rolla will OK
pend $50 in addition to the school Ii
bary.
Twin City wholesalers report bust
ness with North DakOtanS unusually
brisk.
Fire ut Caledonia destroyed the store
Of Little & Co. Loss $1,000; insurance
$4,000.
l.arimore has organized law and
order league, with Senator Arnold as
president.
Marshal Haggart has appointed Fred
SCHNEIDER and Jim Ryan of Grand
Forks rs deputies.
Some thirty applications for land
loans are pending before the state land
board.
All desirable land within twenty
miles of Risbee has been filed upon
during the last year.
Judge Amidon has appointed Attor-
ncy James Murphy United States COM
missioner at Jamestown.
An egg case company has been or
stock Of $4,000.
The annual issue of the annuities to
the Indians of Standing Rock Agency
has been completed.
y Presbyterian church is to be built
at Backoo the coming season, the site
of which is donated by II. Tuson.
Ike IIulquist, a lumberman working
near Fosston, was instantly killed
crushed under load of logs.
Maj. J. S. Murphy is endorsed for
appointment as receiver OF the MinOt
National Bank.
Mclean county will negotiate $4,000
bonds for funding outstanding indebt-
edness.
Lieut.. Schenk, formerly stationed at
Fort Yates, is gold-mining in South
Africa.
Grand Forks has about $4,000 in the
city treasury after paying all floating
Indebtedness.
Nels j. Nelson and Anton Olson have
been sent to the insane asylum from
Barnes county.
Lewis Fosston of Fosston was among
those saved from the wrecked steamer
Colona Ell route to Japan.
The new postmaster at Lidgerwood
is putting in new office, new fixtures
and new assistant.
Rurleigh county has school popula-
ton of 1,431, Of which Bismarck is
credited with 793.
Samuel Lovnes, pioneer settler and
influential citizen of Cavalier county,
is dead, at the age of seventy-tWo.
Departmental civil service examina-
tons are to be held in Grand Forks
March %, and at Bismarck March 80.
Judge Glaspell tried twenty cases at
the recent term of court in Wells coun-
ty.
The Scandinavians of Fargo have or
ganiZed a literary society, to hold
weekly meetings.
Fessended creamery men are plan
ming. to put in creamery at that
point.
The Notwithstanding mania is said to
have done up a Grafton man of high
family connections.
Land-seekers report an excellent
tract Of vacant land open to settlement
northwest of Park River.
Electric light patrons at Cassclton
pay ~ cents fiat per light. Arc lights
are furnished for $G4 per annum.
Mclean county will bond for $4,000,
to take up warrants issued and out
standing for payment up to June, 1893.
The creamery plant at Rutland is
now entirely paid for, and it's stock
will soon be drawing cash dividends.
w. ]. LAWN, for stealing wheat at
Rugby, will do one year and eight
months in the penitentiary.
Company G, N. D. N. G., at Valley
City, elected Charles Il. Mudgett cap
tain, to succeed Il. G. Clark, resigned.
| Walsh county stands second in the
state now in school population, and
Grand Forks third. Cass county
stands first.
Surveys are being made for straight
ening the Great Northern tracks near
Carman, to facilitate other improve
ments contemplated this season.
Banker Rosholt Of Mayville, is look
ing over the rice-producing district
near Jennings, La, with view Of in
vesting.
Stockmcn are looking up locations in
Stutsman county, and one st. Paul
man will locate near Medina with 500
head of cattle for starter.
Congressman Johnson has recon-
mended Wallace Galehouse for post
master at Darlington, and J. G. Pitts
at Winona.
The party Of gold-seekers which left
Grand Forks some time ago by the
| E,dlnOndton rOuta to the gold fields is