Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1899-03-02
NORTH DAKOTA


of the senate after his arrival at Bis.
marck.
In destitute family at Hannah are
ten children, fiye'es whom are deaf
lnutes.
Arrangements are being made ut
I4angdon to celebrate st. Patrick's day
in royal style.
A mad dog bit five cattle near
Church's Ferry. all of which died. The
dog is still at large.
Valley City people are considering
the proposition of organizing a local
building and loan association.
North Dakota has seventy -four mills
and more to be built the coming
summer.
Thomas Anderson an,! Jacob John
son. accused OF stealing wheat in Ran
som county, We're discharged.
The offices in the Richland county
court house are to be equipped with
steel vaults.
Over 300 sheep were frozen to death
during the cold snap while being ship
| bed East from Montana.
Bishop Edsall has very generously
offered to contribute $1,000 toward the
erection of new Episcopal church at
Fargo.
| Thomas Anderson and John John
son, two farmers living near Plymouth
in Ransom county, have been arrested.
charged with stealing wheat
| The city artesian we'll at Jamestown
has gone dry, and the city is now
without good water for drinking pur-
poses.
Matt Peterka, an inmate of the
jamestown insane fasylum. jumped
from a thil~l-story window last week
and died twelve hours later.
The Mcintyre farm residence. ten
miles west of Grand Forks, and one OF
the finest farm houses in the state, was
destroyed by fire.
| A Grand Forks man recently sold a
4OO-acre farm for $4,000. and ii is
noted in this connection that this is
one of the largest sums of money ever
paid for farm property in the state.
Tom Hall, an Glendale man. has
been arrested, charged with stealing
wheat from a neighbour and there ap-
pears to be plenty of evidence against
him.
The retail hardware dealers had a
meeting in Grand Forks recently.
There are something like 100 hard
ware dealers in the state, Of which 40
belong to the association
Arthur Mea1s. a. Milton man, came
near being kicked to death by a vicious
| horse last week. His arm and ankle
were broken and he received a bad
scalp wound.
Twenty cases of CHAMBERS are being
treated by State Veterinarian Lang
don at Elliott, n d. Prof. Langdon is
experimenting With a new form OF
treatment, and expects to effect a cure.
Ole J. Brake, a Minnesota, man.
who started to the North Dakota
wheat fields last fall for his home
with a large sum of money, is missing,
and foul play is suspected. When last
heard from he was in Grand Forks.
Prof. NJ. A. Brannon. Of the state
university faculty, is interested in a
brick yard at Dickinson, and lately
contracted with the Lehigh Coal com
pany for 1000 tons of coal to be used
at the yard next summer.
An effort is being made to secure the
teaching of steam engineering in the
state agricultural college. The idea is
to issue graduates in this line diplo
ma which can be used by the holder in
the way of a license.
| John KHAN Of Spokane, former
Grand Forks man. is an extensive
stockhclder in valuable onyx mine in
Washington which is one of the best.
paying properties in the state. it hav.
ing already netted him Il handsome
fortune.
\ man was fined 50 in Fargo the
other day for riding his bicycle on the
sidewalk. If he lived in New York he
would have been obliged to do moro
than So worth of slloveling before he
could find sidewalk to ride on.
Sheriff Wilson. seine time ago, pre-
sented bill to the Cass county com.
missioners for $4,000 for making the
i delinquent tax sale Now comes Sher
if Briggs of Barnes county. with a bill
/ of $4,000 for like service in Barnes
county.
The Northern Pacific passenger
train was derailed at Grafton one day
last week, just as the train was slow.
ing up for the stop at the depot. Had
it been moving at it's usual high rate
of speed a bad wreck would have oc
Cured.
Comrade ]. w. Daley Of Hunter is
the department inspector of the G. \
r. in North Dakota. and he claims tc
have been the youngest regularly EN-
listed soldier in the war Of the Rebel
| lion, he being only fifteen years. two
months and twenty-four days old al
the time.
Communications from the governors
of several states have been received a,
Bismarck reporting the action of the
various legislatures favoring and pro.
yiding for the election of United
States senators by popular vote. Ne
vada. Massachusetts,, Michigan and
other states are taking up the matter.
Mr.. and Mrs. 0. w. Appleton OF
Rugby writes the Rugby school board
offering to open a college in Rugby, the
promoters to put in $1,000 and the citi-
i oc,,oJ or,o,,nt tl,n cnl1nrn IN