Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1898-11-24
NORTH DAKOTA

| Inc IeOplc Ol lbcuSOu County wv
,ided not to bond the county for Il
10000 court house.
Judge Sautcr issued naturalizatlon
papers to siXty-iive persons in Grafton
asst week.
4 glass water gauge on Il thrcshinS
engine near Cakes exploded, and by
'tander lost IN eye.
Mcssrs. Young and Frazier Of Tower
City have purchased an interest in
he roller mill of that place.
! Lidgerwood has a new fire company
and Il supply OF 1irctight!n% >appara-
| tus.
The constitutional amendment pro-
vitling for an educational test for
voters has apparently adopted, but
the vote is very light.
Enlmons county voted 434 to 1G7 to
remove the county seat from Will
Transport to Il point twenty miles
south.
Governor Devic has now issued his
Thanksgiving proclamation, setting
npart Thursday, Nov. "a, us Il day OF
general Thanksgiving.
| Down ut OakcS children played with
matches. Result. Il burned barn and
a little exercise for the fire depart
ment.
Anton Juclson, IL thrcsher who lives
near Catalonia. was relieved of
watch and $156 in money while driv-
ing from Cummins to HillsborO.
President Carhart, Of the Mayville
normal school, will entertain the lit
erary society of that city with read
ings from Shakespeare during the
coming winter.
The Hughes electric light plant in
Fargo was started up on Saturday.
The plant has a capacity Of 5000
lights and will also furnish power for
a number of business places.
Arnold Torgerson, Mayvillc boy,
was run over last week by Il wagon
loaded with fifty bushels of wheat.
tie was badly bruised, but was not
seriously injured.
John Cook of Grafton has invented
machine for drying wheat which is
| capable OF putting in marketable con-
dition 1000 bushels of grain per day.
1t fills Al long felt want.
Bisnmrck's fire happened three
months ago, and the burned district
is now practically rebuilt, and is Il
much better and handsomer town
than ever before.
William Stevenson. prominent
young Rolla farmer, was found dead
in Il stable. The coroner's jury
thought that death was due to acn-
holism.
II. l.. Holmes, the popular Nechc
citizen. leaves that city to locate in
Bathgate, and a,lmiring friends at
Nethe gavehe and wife farewell
banquet.
The Agricultural at Fargo has issued
neat folder descriptive of it's work.
The course of study is very complete.
and comprises a wide range Of sub
jccts Of great practical value.
Two cows wrecked an N. p train
near Adrian last week The damage
wHS comparatively slight except to
he cows, which were rendered Use
less.
Fargo had Il burglary the other
night, the first for IL long time. The
apartments of Mrs. McAllen were en-
tered and the lady was chloroformed
The burglars. however. were not sue
ccsSful in finding anything of value
The fellows who slugged and robbed
the Chinaman at Devils Lake are like
~ to get into very serious trouble as
result, as the Acknowledged Celestial
is going after them with the law, allie
samee Mclean man.
Tho stamp collection mania has
taken possession of almost every small
boy in Valley City, and their pennies
are now sent east for old stamps in
stead Of being spent for candy, as for
merly.
Personal property taxes become due
November LIST and delinquent March
LIST, when a penalty Of S per cent is
added. Real estate taxes become due
November LIST and delinquent Janu-
airy LIST following, 3 per cent then be-
ing added.
Judge Lochren will hold federal
court in Fargo this week in the abb
sence of Judge Aimdon in Arkansas
Devils Lake has fallen nine feet in
eight years, and some attribute it to
the artesian wells in the Red and
James River valleys
An explosion of coal gas in one Of
the furnaces at the Darlington school
house last Tuesday afternoon blew
the chimney pipes down and scattered
SCOT all over the rooms, causing quite
little trouble, but doing no particu-
lar damage.
An antelope weighing considerably
over 100 pounds, was shot by the
young son of Robert Laybourne Il few
miles west and south Of Langdon a
few days ago. Several persons were
firing ut the animal and forced it into
an arm of Rush Lake, when the boy
Wadcd in and killed it with q shotrnn
Diphtheria is again prevalent among
the Russian children in the northwest
part Of Dickey county. One man lost
three children within the past week.
one death occurring on Wednesday
and two on Friday. School has been
dismissed in that neighborhood, and
efforts are being made to stop the fur
Their spread Of the disease.
c. Volkman, Windsor, Stutsman
county, got nineteen bushels of wheat
to the acre this year, but the best crop
on the farm was IL bunch of steers,