Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1899-08-10

Forks will visit during the summer III
New York.
The leasing of the school lands for
! Sept. 10Th.
At Page, a discharged patient from
,, the asylum named Hill cut his throat.
He will die. d..
The Darlington & Casey farm, in Eos
ter county, lost 800 hundred acres OF
wheat by hail
Ransom county has had a big prai-
rie fire already. No serious damage.
| PlOW fire break.
jamestown has granted a twenty
| year franchise to the jamestown Elec-
| trio light company.
The Cakes cheese factory seems to
get in more milk than any other estab-
lishment in the state.
The Leech brothers at Fargo will in
stall complete electric light plant on
their farm in Cass county
Bids for the furnishing of the hos
pital at the soldiers home at Lisbon
were rejected. Too high.
The foundation of Harvey's new NJ.
b. church is completed, and the frame
work will be pushed rapidly.
The Northern Pacific lands sold in La
Moure county We're bid in at $500 per
section, subject to contract.
Forty-two enlistments for the regu-
lar service have been made at the Far
go recruiting office since July 1.
Out Of twelve applicants examined
by the state dental examiners at Grand
Forks. five passed the examination.
Lieut.. Farnsworth, formerly of the
Grand Forks university, is now located
1000 miles up the Yukon, in Alaska.
The building and fixtures of the de-
funct Lloyds' Bank at jamestown have
been bought for the postoffice there.
The Alliance Hail association of
jamestown, has had 10000 in losses
this season and $56, 900 in premiums.
The Williston Gun club has made
very laudable resolution to prevent
hunting out Of season in that locality.
Fishing at Spiritwood lake is getting
slack, and a good fish warden is needed
to prevent the exhaustion of the sup
ply.
Work on the big Masonic temple,
at Fargo, which had been shut down
for want Of material, has been re-
sumed.
w. w. Bell. one of the railroad car
through the coal dock elevator and seri-
ously injured.
Thomas Black. Wells county blind
pigger. in Jail at Fessenden. has disap-
peared. the accommodations not PROV
ing to his liking.
The little town of Arthur, Cass coun-
ty, has a full-sized sensation in the
discovery of the body of small-sized
infant in vault.
The nineteen-months-ol child of Mr.:
and Mrs. w. J. Davis of Twist. Wells
county. found some morphine pills and
ate them, with fatal results.
Charley Booth of Sanborn has taken
advantage of the new bankrupt law.
and Judge Amidon has made an order
OF final discharge in his case.
The Grand Forks city council has
limited the rate Of speed of bicycles to
eight miles per hour on the streets and
i've miles per hour on sidewalks,
Grand Forks has already started a.
Hovement towards building a monu-
ment in memory of North Dakota's sol.
diers who have died in the Philippines.
It is supposed the Northern Pacific
Will build branch from Wheatland to
Eureka, S. D., through Cass Barnes
LaMoure, Dickey and Mcintosh com,
Dies e'u
The auditor of Dickey county has
peen instructed to sell at private sale
al! lands to which the county has Oh
tanned title by virtue of the tax sale of
1896. sane VI
w. ~. White, the Fargo lumber deal.
CT, VIII organize 100000 corporation
ana purchase the entire business Of tho
Gull River lumber company in North
Dakota. - 1>oitn
Just to show how the wool hus;noss
is increasing in the state. over oon noS
pounds of wool was pressed at nio,s;,'
son this year, against q total of % 900
pounds in 1892. - -V'VoV
Mcleod Bros, casselton rrocers
a anse suea walter L. Main for tn,
ciroua t,a ol a grocery bill ordered for
Voc, os uas thefe. when the exhibition
IN recent hail storm in Eddy conn
a ~, nail urlfted to depth of four feet
nnu, several days after the storm s;y
nna1e OF nail stones were found he
neath some debris in low place 'e
SWIM. WINE helping to unload a niano o.
a S..eie' me other day, N. P. Agent Hon.
Wy had the hard luck to fall with tho
p,ano on top of him. He smashed his
s ,l:,s and choked his face all IN hm.
It is said that for the past two woo,,s
mock of pelicans, NUMBERING 7 "eeh KS
more more, nave visited the upper a nvJ or or
splritwood lake, in stutsman c emu OF
every every evening, where they alight ii IN 10y,
swallow water to feed on the mr IN tae
of small fish. ''ie lAFrlads
W. +; selby, past grand mastor =. ~
Masonic order, constituted ''T n, o. he
Lodge No. 5, at Mayville th,s Da ',.a,
There We're present at the c ..rs Week.
about forty brothers from I H,,,aSs
Hope and Portland. The ,na at,lsDoro,
ceremonies We're public. Afts S.a IVA
ercises banquet was servsa , "a. ex-
Hotel Cady. ''e" ut the