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

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national convention of dnirymen III SEES
sion this week ut Topeka, Kas.
1t is reported that CoOperstown Is To
have a $4,000 Masonic building, the
lower part for stores, the upper fof
society halls and n club room.
Dinnie Bros Of Grand Forks have
been awarded contract for building
the new Goose river bank building at
Mayvillc. Their bid was $1,000.
Work will be commenced ut once
John McTavisl Of Emmons county
has been given Il verdict of 81 600 dam
ages for injuries sustained in prairie
fire. Defendant appeals to the SUI
preme court.
The Great Northern has settled
claims in Williams county for losses
from prairie fires, under II decision or
the supreme court, to the amount or
$1,000.
LaAloure county is paying all war
rants on presentation and doing bust
ness on Il cash basis, another indlca-
ton of the better times that have come
to the state.
Wahpeton has too many school chill
dren for it's present facilities, ana Will
let contract for the erection OF $lo,-
600 school building, with all the latest
improvements.
Mrs. II. U. Thomas, wife Of the conf
missioner of agriculture, is ill with
diphtheria, but is recovering. Five OF
the commissioner family have SUI
fercd from the same disease.
\ way has been found to erect a Jail
in Ransom county, Notwithstanding the
defeat Of the bonding proposition at an
election held last fall. The new struc-
turt is to be Of stone.
| If boarding accommodations for stu
dents can be otherwise secured it is
possible the dormitory of the agricult-
aral college will be closed and the
building used for class rooms and Ia
UratCries.
Firemen are forwarding to Secretary
Henry Reade, of the state association,
at Bismarck, their protests against the
proposed national law that would de-
prive them Of their per cent tax.
| Henry Warnock, former James
town musician, is at Skauguay, ana
| finds plenty to do in the musical line.
| being engaged to play every night and
getting IS per night for his services.
Land Commissioner Watts loss in
the fire at Bathgate is placed at $25,-
600, with about half that amount of
insurance. The blaze started in some
waste paper in Watts store.
Holton & Pugh, Larimore, continue
the business of the collection depart
ment of the First National Bank Of
Larimore, of which Mr.. Holton had the
management previous to the suspen-
sion.
Boys, matches and cigarettes was
the combination that started the fire
that destroyed the Presbyterian par
sorage in Wheatland. The fire was
communicated to the building from the
outside, however.
Peterson, the man who murdered DR..
Young at Buffalo, q couple of years
ago, has been discharged from the asy-
lum as cured. Young was murStred
with an Indian club, his head being
crushed out of all recognition.
There is lively trade movement of
live stock in the western part OF the
state, and the Reynolds Cattle coInpa-
ny, one of the largest Of the bonanza
cattle outfits, has sold it's holdings to
the Converse company OF Boston.
Doctors at Devils Lake performed an
operation upon little child who had
been accidentally shot, in such man
her that parts of the brain protruded
from the head. The operation WAS
sLilfuliy performed, and it is believed
The child will recover.
John NIcTavish Of Emmons county,
who was badly burned in prairie hre
in the northern part of the state, has
been awarded a verdict of 81 900 dam
ages against the railroad company
which set the fire, and the case will be
appealed to the supreme court.
pembina county sent one patient to
the hospital last week, and another Is
being held there for want Of room. LII
addition, two patients now at the hos
pital are incurable, yet harmless, and
ptmbina county is asked to care Tor
them until there are some discharges
and more room.
United States Circuit Judge Amidon
has extended the time for railway COM
panies to take testimony in the rate
case brought by the North Dakota rail
road commission. The members of the
commission expect that the fight will
be long, and will end only in the court
of last resort.
An entire load Of wheat was stolen
on Main street in Lisbon, a few days
ago. A farmer brought it into town.
and while he was making purchases in
a store, sneak thieves drove the load
away and transferred it to a wagon of
their own, and turned the farmers
horses loose with the empty wagon.
Charles Hull, a blindpigger of Edge
ley, assaulted Nels lutte, who, he al
legged, exposed him to the officers. and
nearly killed him, using a pitchfork
handle as weapon. He crossed the
state line and went to Aberdeen, and,
mt last accounts, had succeeded in elud-
ing arrest
A Winner.
An 1rishman, becoming interested in
the local excitement over cock-fighting,
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