Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1898-09-29
NORTH DAKOTA

The Leeds State Bank has commo-
dious new tire-p:oof vault.
Mcintosh claims 900 votes ought to
| be cast this fall in that county.
Risbeeites are happy. The Great
Northern depot is ut last reality.
Jamestown ladies object to the pas
! turing Of geese in the city park.
IL. l.. Kelly has been appointed post
master ut Kuhn, l.aAloure county.
The Mandan Odd Fellows lodge pur-
chased one of the 500 war revenue
| bonds.
Miss Sadie i! Wehhcr is a candidate
| for superintendent of schools in Ward
county.
The Northwestern Telephone compA-
| ny has Il very stable law suit on It
! Grafton.
The enterpris:ng town of Sheldon has
a grand opCEilg"-an $4,000 school
building.
Peter \. Schumacher Of Reynolds
has been granted Il patent on Il new
harvester.
Considerable building and other i'm
provementS are reported by the James
town papers.
Judge Sauter has dissolved the tenn
! porary injunctions against druggists
| at Langdon.
Prof. \. l.. Woods conducted a teach
crs' institute for Pierce and Henry
counties, held ut Rugby.
Twenty one trains, aggregating near
ly GOO cars. arrived and departed from
jamestown last Sunday.
Five miles of track was laid west Of
Kuhn on the Soo's Bismarck extern
sion, in two days last week.
Charles Gillespie threshcd 800 bush
els of wheat from e.:nt acres of fertil-
| tied land i'll Cavalier county. .
Premium lists of the Grand Forks
street fair have been issued, and are
being mailed in large numbers.
Judge Glaspcll made short work of
| the term Of court at Fessenden, there
beng no cases on the calendar.
Col. Hankinson's apple crop down at
Hanllinson. is fine success this year,
ST worth being sold from one tree.
\ number of Knights Templar of the
state are preparing to go to the big
conclave at Pittsburg in October.
Stewart Heron of Lisbon has the
contract for building the new Ransom
| county court house. The contract price
is $3.50.
\ party Of Dunkards from Guthrie
county, Iowa, landed in Darlington the
latter part of the week, and will take
| up farms.
| l.lngdOn elevator men claim farmers
| are threshing their grain too soon after
| being cut, thereby lowering the grade
| more or less.
| Karrl Ohlgren. while stealing Il
ride on 4 500 freight. fell and was de-
capitated. The, accident occurred at
| Paramount.
The railroad authorities have smoked
out a blindpigger, who had taken up
quarters under a treStle OF the road
Lear ArlOch.
The woman's department in connec-
ton with the Mandan fair will have Il
curio display that promises to be some
thing very fine indeed.
Lawrence Brekke, Il Stutsman co,ln
ty boy. writes to his father in Buchan-
an that he is running Il lodging house
at Dawson City, Alaska.
a. l.. Carey, at one time Insurance
commissioner, now a Great Northern
conductor, had charge of the first
wheat over the Fosston-Duluth line.
The government force, which has
been dredging the Red river in the vi
entity of the Forks for several years,
is idle this summer. No appropriation.
w. o. Beard, q real estate dealer of
| 1l.f1 &,0I fvy.n nj ,1,nf
at hobOes who attempted to hold him
up, and protected himself from rob-
berry.
A Fargo burglar made a pretty good
haul the other night-$31O, cash-flom
a grocery store. Got a fellow hauled
up for it, but probably the wrong
man.
John Patterson. at Portland. got be-
tween a moving traction engine and Il
stationary separator, and had very
tight squeeze indeed, but not with seri-
Gus results.
The reports of the government show
that the business done ut the Devils
Lake land Office makes it the second in
the United States, with indications
that the report for the year 1898 will
show it the largest.
Hobocs at Paramount robbed Il man
Of $3.50, and then nailed him up in a
box car; but his yclls were heard tn"
next day. before he was shipped out OF
the country.
\ farm barn belonging TO |. r
Smith, near Lidgerwood, with its con-
tents Of hay and grain. was burned re-
Gently. The fire originated from the
sparks of an engine.
Lieut.. Way, Of the North Dakota
Rough Riders, has returned to his
home at Devils Lake. and the other
officers have been in Washington and
are expected home ut any time.
Charles Shurock, formerly of Fargo,
has purchased the interest Of Mrs.
Wilson in the lumber yards at James
town. He has been managing for
some time, and is now in full control.
Ed Brockman, a Cass county pa
ticnt ut the asylum. who was taken
there a short time ago. with com
plant similar to hydrophobia, is re-
ported as rapidly improving.
The last quarters receipts came with