Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1899-03-16
NORTH DAKOTA

The MayVtle lire department held 81
masquerade ball last week.
The Grand Forks Gun club is advo-
eating the building Of club house.
The Mandan Hook and Ladder
company will buy $40 worth Of uni
forms.
The Hughes Electric company at
Fargo is having q 200 horse power en-
CINE and dynamo put in.
bishop Stanley has returned to Far
go from a trip to Europe, going only as
far as Havre.
Large shipments Of farm machinery
are being received at every station in
the state.
DIR. Salvage of Wheatland fell on an
icy sidewalk near his home and broke
four ribs.
A fire department is talked of pretty
strongly as the next Improvement for
Sheyenne.
Walter Burke of Leonard, Cass
county, committed suicide by taking
strychnine.
Carl Herman, a Stutsman county
farmer, was kicked into insensibility
by one of his horses recently.
Minnewaukan has been incorporated
as a village, and the new trustees held
their first meeting last week.
The reported shortage of Treasurer
White Of Ransom county is said to be
q clerical error.
Hoople Woodmen will begin the cree
ton Of a new hall as soon as the
weather permits.
Mandan proposes to have water
works system and electric light plant
before the year Is out.
The death of the city treasurer Of
Grand Forks has called six OF more
candidates into the field as his success
sor.
A Fessenden man has just sold SOO
bushels Of fax seed, which netted him
$1.O2 per bushel. Flax raising pays at
that rate.
in Devils Lake was fixed by the aD-
ance was $4,000.
A Fargo fireman found a $3.50 dia-
mond stud recently, which Dr. Man
ming Of that city had lost a week be-
fore.
A Fargo man undertook to settle his
rent account the other day by pound
ing the landlord in the face, and now
he wishes he hadn't
The Wahpeton city council has APP
propriated S. to help make the North
Dakota Firemen's tournament, which
meets there in June, a success
The organization of Tizri Temple,
Dramatic Order knights of Khoras-
san, was one of the events of the year
at Fargo.
The surgeon of the. North Dakota
regiment at Manila writes that the
lady nurse from North Dakota has az
rived there, and is Il lady of much :,hil-
ity and doing much good.
Pat Regan of Mandan declines, with
thanks, the offer of the Eastern Star
ladies to hold a ball to raise funds for
the purchase of an artificial leg for his
daughter.
AS result of visit of Bishop
Joyce of the NJ. E. church to Bismarck,
the debt on the church has been paid,
and $500 has been raised for the pur-
pose OF identifying the premises.
During the warm weather about ten
days ago there was scarcely an agri-
cultural county in the state in which
fields We're not narrowed to make
them ready for spring seeding.
The Northern Pacific will lay fifty
miles of heavy steel rails between
Mandan and Dickinson, which will fin
ish the gap, making the track all steel
from Mandan to Glendive.
A movement is on foot and a petit
ton will soon be in circulation to have
an express Office established at Ashley.
Express matter now goes to Eureka,
s. D.
1t is reported that the Northern Pa
eific will put sixteen train crews on
the Dakota division about the middle
of April. A large amount Of work will
be done on the roadbed.
Morton county gets member of the
penitentiary board, member of the
reform school board. a district yeter-
marian and an oil inspector-which is
not so worse. And Mandan keeps the
state fair, too.
Ed Norton of Fargo was an employee
OF the legislature. and his salary ag-
gregated enough to buy him pair of
artificial legs-which shows that good
ship.
Harry Hitler. son Of ex-senator
William Hitler of Walsh county, ac-
cidentally shot his small brother. with
a small rifle. intiicting a painful but
not dangerous flesh wound in the leg.
The bullet was readily extracted.
Not to be behind the vulgar outside
world, the young ladies of Glendale
have organized an Amazon militia
company. Their ambition is to be sent
to the Philippines to fight the female
Filipinos found in the ranks of the in
surgents.
Henry Wisely Of Jamestown is the
inventor of a portable engine truck
with separator attachment. Many
thleshing machine companies have al
reay made him big offers. and the in
vention promises him a handsome in
come
Tax. Commissioner Fernald of the
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