Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1898-10-20
NORTH DAKOTA

| Senator Roach is ut his l.arlmOrc
| farm.
Diphthcria is reported in Stutsman
county.
Rallies are monopolizing the pro
| grammeS now.
Wheat thieves are suspected in the
| vicinity of Onkes.
| 4 benefit dance at .Iimtown for Com
pany IL Melted SIS.
Six teachers are now employed in
the Mimic schools.
Bids for Jimtown's new artcsian
we'll will be opeLcd Nov. /.
| The new bank OF Church's Ferry
| opened up for business last Monday.
Edgelcy Odd Fellows are talking
of having a lodge instituted.
Thirteen carloads of stock were
shipped from Glendale Sunday.
The Devils Lake l:E.l office has re-
| corded $500 entries Since Jan. l, 9S.
Jimtown schools have :,:5S youngsters
enrolled. an increase of o.. owe" last
year.
Stu,Sman county ranches have
bought 5000 cabbages Tor feeding to
sheep.
E.N-MarShal Cronan has decided to
| accept the fusion nomination for SEN
ator in the Ninth district.
Glendale young ladies organized Il
conversation club last weck-to discuss
| the lates1-and other things.
The Grafton History club is among
the new organizations in tl.lt city,
with membership of twenty-five.
The new German Evangelical church
at Glendale has been completed and
will be dedicated about Christmas.
Supt. Andrew Sinclair of Gri=gs
county is 4 candidate for reelection
on the Dopulist ticket.
Alex KelZie's new block ut Bis
marck will he 1EuN9O. two story. brick.
and all right.
The 500 cXtcr>ian is drawing stock
shipments from the other roads here
tofore monopolizing the cattle trade.
Two boys aged eleven and five years
lost their lives in the burning of barn
one mile from Sanborn.
\ barn belonging to John Lcathcart.
near Paramount, was destroyed by fire,
seven horses perishing with it.
2. H. Throdahl of Devils Lake was
knocked out of his buggy. robbed Of
$50 and left lying in the rain, stunned.
The foot pads escaped.
Corporal Link Of Company Il is the
only North Dakota soldier claiming to
have killed Spaniard at Manila. He
is said to have killed two.
c. Schultz clothing store at Devils
Lake has been closed by the foreclo-
sure of a $1,000 mortgage. Assets are
estimated at about 5000.
The Valley City normal school has
opened the year under exceptionally
favorable circumstances. The attend.
ance has increased % per cent.
The Mayville normal school mas the
largest attendance in its history at
this season of the year. More room
is badly needed by the school.
Huford cannot be Il very tough place.
after all. One solitary desperate was
able TO hold up the entire town the
oth2" day.
Attorney General Cowan has gwen
an opinonhol,lin" that country
boards of commissioners are author
lied to establish new voting precincts.
jamestown will make up !; fund Of
5000 for Company II IN Manila. and
the Red Cross society will send Christ
mas boxes.
Attorney Baker of Detroit has put in
q bill for $1,000 to Emmnps county.
for his services in the Northern Pacific
tax cases.
An old gentleman from the country
called at jamestown the other day
and left $40 for the Red Cross society.
He modestly refused to give his name.
Walhalla will have a big time
Thanksgiving = Nov. % long time
ahead, but preparations are now being
made, and fifty local burnt-cork artists
will furnish most Of the fun.
Mary f. Cadieux has presented a
claim to the city of jamestown for
$1,000 damages for sprained ankle
sustained by stepping on decayed
plank in the walk.
Lieut. Conklin OF tie North Dakota
volunteers, is expected to reach San
Francisco soon on the hospital ship
Rio Janeiro. lie will be met there
by his mother.
John Knauf is chairman and e. ].
Gleason secretary Of the Stutsman
county Republican committee with
Alfred Steel chairman Of the eXccu-
tive committee.
The Methodist parsonage at New
Rockford burned and Rev. G. G.. Fair
banks furniture, library and other per-
sonal property was destroyed. Loss
about $1,000, partly insured.
Hon. f. B. Fancher opened the cam
paign in Barnes county in an address
given at the opera house to IL large
audience His talk was largely de-
voted to state issues
Fire destroyed livery barn owned
by r. w. Baker at Darlington with
all contents, including nine horses,
vehicles. harnesses, etc. Total loss,
about $1,000; insurance, 5000.
John Newberry was fined 5000 for
blind plugging in Dickey county and
upon his release from Jail was ar
rested for the same offcnse in La
MOure county.
Such n big mob of holocs got into a
free-for-all fight ut Hamilton depot