Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1899-06-22
NORTH DAKOTA

NORTH DAKOTA
Northwood has now some street
lamps.
Langdon collected 500 dog tax last
month.
Business at Naples is reported pick
ing up.
Jimtown and Darlington have a hay
famine.
The parish library at Oberon now has
$50 volumes.
Minor is now enjoying a good,
healthy growth.
Samuel A. Raple of Buffalo has been
granted pension.
The Merchants hotel at Winona has
been destroyed by fire.
An effort will be made to reorganlze
the CooperstOwn band.
! Only forty-nine votes were cast at
| Umtown's school election.
Stone contracts for the new mill at
| Wimbledon have been let.
There is no better investment than
| farm lands in North Dakota.
Cakes papers report crop prospects
and all lines of business booming.
The town of Bowden, Wells county,
is plated and ready for the boom.
The Northern Pacific has patented its
last section Of land in Cass county.
A class of eleven was graduated
rom the publis schools at jamestown.
DR. Moore of jamestown reports two
mild cases Of small pox in Wells
| county.
The Eddy county Sunday School as
ISOLATION meets at New Rockford June
% and %.
The copious rains have injured the
| potato crop i'll some parts of the state,
| 1t is feared.
Alfred T.. Whipple of Lisbon has
been granted a patent for a variable
gear for bicycles.
\ committee has been named at
Dickinson to arrange plan for incor-
porating that burg.
There is to be G.. A. r. encamp-
ment at Spiritwood lake for fifteen
days, June 26 to July 10.
Mrs. Olivia Foerie Of Fessenden was
''rown from q carriage in a runaway
Il sustained a broken thigh.
A farmer near Walhalla shot pe1-
can that measured eight feet ten inch
as by three feet nine inches.
The teachers institute held at La
kota was the largest and most success
full ever convened in Nelson county.
Kasmer Sanders was digging under
huge stone near Fessenden, when 1t
fell upon him crushing him to death.
A mortgage for $4,000, held by Eng
lish capitalists, is being foreclosed on
the Pickert lands in Steele county.
The trustees Of the state school for
the deaf have bought twenty acres Of
land to use for farming purposes.
A gang of horse thieves is said to be
located near Harvey, and the other
people want something done about it.
The pressed brick plant at Dickinson
is running full blast. and is turning
out an excellent quality of building
brick.
George D. Winfrce pleaded guilty at
Glendale to stealing livery rig, and
was sentenced to two years in the peni-
Tertiary.
Forty-three persons have taken adj
vantage of the new bankruptcy law in
North Dakota, with total liabilities Of
So, OOO,O OO
Duncan Mcdonald, Valley City con-
tractor. gets the contract for building
the new $4,000 high school building at
Jamestown
Lightning killed seven head Of cat
tie belonging to U. f. Hunt. near Fes-
sender. The cattle were standing near
a wire fence.
A small cyclone is reported from the
northern part of Mclean county. No
buildings stood in it's path, but it sailed
off With a buggy.
Dr. Mckenzie of Darlington has been
appointed by the governor assistant
surgeon of the First regiment, with
the rank of captain.
A Homestead of American Yoemen
was organized at New Rockford last
week by w. J. Newlove. H. A. Stick
ney was elected foreman.
Arthur Baker Of Port Emma, Dickey
county, fell in front Of q grain drill he
was riding. dragged for seine distance
under the shoes and killed.
-Four men were convicted at Caring.
ton of violating the prohibition law.
They were sentenced to ninety days
in Jail and 5000 fine each.
Hon. David Bartlett has been ap-
pointed by Gov. Fancher North Dako-
ta's delegate to the antitrust conven-
| ton to be held at ST. Louis.
Ed Johnson, reworks man who
was assisting with the display III Far.
20, lost an eye from the premature ex-
| piosion of piece of fireworks.
Business has increased at the James
town postotfice until it has been made
q second-class office. and the salary
will be $1,000 annually after July l.
The first wool of the season was
brought into jamestown the other day
by William Kline. 1t was Of good
quality but rather dry. The price runs
between II and 10 cents.
Stutsman county seems to be on easy
street. The treasurer has $4,000 cash
on hand and no bonds to pay until
1903, and all outstanding warrants
called in and paid.
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