Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1898-01-27
NORTH DAKOTA

NAGAiSAl AolCS.
The western part of the state is still
furnishing many pilgrims to Klondikc
Milton merchants will close bust
ness ut 8 p. N. until Aug. /.
Eugene Savory of Cavalier has been
taken to the insane asylum.
Gov. and Mrs. Briggs are wintering
at San Gabriel, Cal.
Joel Il. Means, OF Bismarck has been
granted an original pension.
Alonzo Dictz of N0rthwood has been
granted n pension Of Sc per month.
Cando's new electric light plant will
be in operation this week.
Young men of Wahpeton are organ
izirg a reading room club.
Tie 500 road is making Il half rate
on shipments Of seed grain of Ill kinds.
Valley City schools enroll $50 pupils,
in a school population Of 715.
Cass county has q school population
7,370-an increase 26S over last
year.
w. i. Kneeshaw will be appointed
receiver Of the Pembina National
bank.
$50, Il gain of II per cent over the
last year.
Indian Agent Getchell held public
reception at Fort Totten Il few even
ings since.
The scarlet fever scare reported from
Or!ska is said to have been without
foundation.
The German Lutheran Synod of
North and South Dakota will hold it
meeting this year at Casselton.
Wood and timber thieves are reported
operating on school lands in Cavalier
county.
Funds have been secured for bridg-
ing the Red River at Halstad and work
is to commence at once.
The state will pay wolf bounty
certificates in the order in which they
are registered.
The Grand Forks degree team Of the
Rcbekahs instituted q court Of that
order i'll Emerado.
Lidgcrwood will vote on the ques-
ton Of bonding for a new school house
on the Doth inst.
The reported crevasse in the earth
down in Sargent county proves to have
been a fake.
A movement is on foot to erect 4
farmers Touring mill at Mandan by Il
joint stock company.
Final proofs last year added nearly
$4,000 to the taxable real estate OF
Stutsman county.
Hon. u. G.. Tufts will enter upon his
duties as receiver of the Fargo land
office within thirty days.
Fire destroyed a large barn on one
of the kingnlan farms near HILLSIDE
10. Loss estimated at about $4,000.
The state university at Grand Forks
will have q military instructor de-
tailed by the general government.
There is an epidemic of scarlet fever
at Kuhn, and seven deaths are re-
ported in one week from the disease.
Surveyors are locating a proposed
drainage ditch to enter Sand Hill river
one mile east of Climax, MINI.
A jamestown blind pigger who broke
Jail at jamestown has been rearrested
at Valley City and returned for trial.
Anton I<lenskey is under 5000 bonds
at jamestown for disturbing saliva
ton Army meeting.
Consignment of forty-seyen dogs
passed through Fargo recently Ell route
to the Klondike.
Anton Arneson, Peter Swanson and
Gust Mauthely Of Richland county
will answer at the next term CT court
the charge Of notwithstanding.
Churches and societies at Kuhn are
closed mt the request Of the board OF
health during the prevalence OF scarlet
fever.
Trail county has a balance in it's
treasury of 500, 900 and expects to gain
teh other $4,000 before the end OF the
month.
Jeanne Rcnnefoy Lozano was granted
q divorce from Carlos A. LoZana 1T
Wahpeton Seward French represented
the plaintiff.
Cant Ingram of jamestown is enter
tanning the idea Of erecting Il modern
fifty-room hotel at Grafton to cost $780,,
900.
Surveyor General Blewett is likely
to locate in Dickinson, where he has
business interests, at the expiration
of his term Of office.
In the trial of the case against DR..
Cuffe at Pelnbina where he was ac-
cused CT making away with Il new born
infant. the jury disagreed.
Salaries of all officials in the Citi-
zens' National Bank of Wahpcton
have been raised by the board Of di-
rectOrs.
I.angdon schools are crowded. The
same conditions are reported every
where, nccesSitating much larger
school buildings.
John pcrcival and Il. A. Maglone Of
Devils Lake and n. jacobson, have
organized Il state bank at Leeds, with
$1,000 capital
Parties at Steele who sustained losses
by prairie fire started by Il hunting
Darty from Chicago, have recovered da
IMAGES in the sum of 900.
Prcprctors of the Mcbride drug
store at Rugby have waived cxamin-
ton and given bonds for trial on the
charge OF illegal sale of liquor.
T. A. Johnson of Williamsport. met
with Il painful accident in the eXplo-
sion Of a gun. filling his face with
powder and injuring his eycsight.
nnwly-electeu commissioner in