Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1899-02-23
NORTH DAKOTA

i NORTH DAKOTA
Several cases of frost-bites are re-
ported from Fargo and vicinity.
At Milnor, $1,000 of stock has been
subscribed for a Touring nall.
The next G. A. r. encampment will
be held at Glendale.
jamestown needs a new school build
ing, and will build one in the spring.
Courtenay has no system Of fire pro-
lection. and wants something done
about it.
The Wahpeton city council has voted
$500 for the firemen's tournament to De
held there.
Cavalier county has as county
charges a poor family Cf ten children
agout one-half Of them deaf mutes.
| The lack of water pressure at the
Fargo fire has set tie citizens to talk
ing of steam IRE engine.
Senator Murphy OF Grand Forks is
slowly but gradually recovering from
diphtleria. He has been very i'll.
A state bank with $4,000 capital
will be started at Valley City by A. l..
Plummer and Jonn Grady of HILLSIDE
70.
| T. NJ. Manus and B. f. Meinecke will
represent the agricultural college at
the intercollegiate contest i'll Wahpe-
ton, March 1.
Hope is to have an electric light
plant. A company is being organized
by citizens and shares have been
placed at $40 each.
Postoffice Inspector Thiele is confer
ring with the Crookston city council
with reference to the Inauguration OF
n free-delivery system.
Margaret Diets, a young lady living
near Mandan, took a dose OF paris
green and water by mistke, and died
in a short time.
Ingwald Peterson of Hiiisboro had
his head crushed by a falling tree a
few days ago, and is considered scarce
ly out of danger yet.
The Medora horse-meat plant prom
Uses to be Il go. the head Of the compa-
ny, Henry Bosse, being q Brooklyn
man, backed by plenty of capital
| A broken raj! Oh the Cooperstown
branch of the Northern Pacific caused
q passenger coach to turn summer
sault. No one was seriously injured.
Two Fessenden men We're arrested
and fined $50 for conducting ganlb-
ling house, and have been advised to
move to Fargo and start bucket shop.
Mr.. and Mrs. III. F. Beckett of Dick
inson, who had a rich claim i'll the
Klondike have gone to Spokane to
make arrangements to return to that
country.
The Glendale roller mill shipped
eleven car loads of flour last week,
four to. England, four to Scotland and
the balance to points in the United
States.
1t is reported that w. G. Tubbs, a
we'll known travelling salesman, is to
have charge of the post traders store
at Standing Rock Agency, under Col.
Robinson.
There were six convictions for the H.
legal selling of liquor in the district
court at Grafton last week. Five pig
gers pleaded guilty and three jumped
their bail.
Two prisoners in the Fessenden Jail
got into an alteration. and when the
jailer attempted to separate them he
was knocked down and badly beaten
Tor his pains.
A petition has just been sent in to
the postoffice department to have a
miles southwest of Langdon, to be
snown as Storlie.
w. ]. Higgins. formerly with Col.
Lounsberry on the Record. has been
arrested on complaint Of the colonel,
charged with utterlng forged notes to
the aggregate of $1,000.
Stephen Barlow was coupling cars
in the Carman yards the other day,
when his mitten froze to the link. He
could not free his hand in time, and
now has badly-smss finger.
Zeiglers clothing store at Mayville
burned recently. The less will be
about $1,000. with insurance Of $1,S0O.
Miss c. Adams, who lived over the
store, barely escaped with her life.
The Jamestown parsons held meet
ing one night last week and passed
set Of resolutions against the seating
in the national congress of Congress
man Roberts, the Utah man of many
wives.
The boalS of education at James.
town has adopted resolutions express
ing regret at the death of Miss Fanny
McHarg, who was for many years one
Of the most efficient teachers in the
public schools of that city.
A syndicate of Eastern capitalists is
making active preparations to work
the clay beds in Cavalier county the
coming summer. They prove an eX-
cellent article of potter's clay, and may
prove to be valuable property.
Frank Andre. who carries the chill
dren from the West side to the James
town city schools, says they weigh
more than they did a year ago, and he
is compelled to keep his horses sharp
ehod continually to haul them.
Nearly all the freights on the West
Dakota division Of the Northern Pa
eitic are double-headers this winter.
Business is very light, and the COM
pany adopts this method to save crews
and get the freight over the road quick
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