Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1900-08-23
Hankinson has two dray lines.-

A Baptist church has bsen organized
at Baffour.
J. r. Cruff lost eighty tons of nay at
Lucca by fire.
The dipt1therja quarantine at Man
dan has Ibeep raised. e
The News wants wholesale grocery
house established at Hankinson.
Potatoes and late corn is said to be
growing faster than anything else.
Every county official in Rolette is
said to be candidate for renomina-
ton. -
The team stolen from Keenan's livery
barn at Larimore was found at Wheat
land.
The Missouri river is changing it's
bed at Williston and cutting into the
bank.
Stockmen out West are having a
hard time to get sufficient water for
their herds.
The Minneapolis Cold Storage COM
pany will establish a branch house at
Hankinson.
The Stutsman county deputy game
warden offers reward of $40 for the
conviction of violaters.
Bowbells is newly organized tow!e
ship in Ward county. ]. H. Messenger
of Bowbells is the clerk.
"A. H. Mclaughlin and other Lisbon
men are preparing to establish ranch
in the hills west of Kenmare.
A Russian near Melville was arrested
for cruelty manning and killing cow
that had gone onto his range.
The jamestown Capital thinks the
estimate of 100000 bushels of wheat
for North Dakota is not too low.
barrel Of lime exploded on Frank
Skies at Anamoose. He dived into a
tank of water and saved his eyes.
The steam shovel at Steele took out
ninety cars of gravel daily for the
Northern Pacific for three months.
Over a million pounds of wool have
been marketed at Dickinson this year.
The amount is in excess of last year.
Attorney Burke Corbet writes back
to Grand Forks friends from California
that he is we'll pleased with his new
home.
The McHenry county commissioners
have established several new voting
precincts to accommodate the new set
tiers.
Commissioner of Forestry Barrett
has recovered from his recent mental
trouble and will soon be released from
his confinement.
All the forage was destroyed by the
Trail county hail Storm and there is
a large territory that will have very
little feed for the stock.
The Walcott Reporter evidently has
it in for home of it's subscribers, as it
reports the shooting season will open
Aug. Is, when 1t is Aug. 20.
The Cando Herald reports two men
overcome by gas while digging a we'll
at Bisbee and fears were entertained
that they would not recover.
Grafton is to have a game of base
ball between Republican and Demo-
cratic ofiiceseekers, with Pop umpire.
Decisions will be by referendum. 80,
Recent rains in some parts Of the
state are said to be making the grass
take second growth and some hay is
probable in many parts of the state.
At Jamestown it was decided that
the members of the city council were
not entitled to extra compensation
while sitting on a board of equaliza-
ton.
According to the Hillsboro Banner
farmers lost from 500 to $50 acres Of
grain in the recent hail storm in Trail
| county, which covered over an area Of
$50 square miles.
The Valley County Alliance is firmly
convinced that the citizens at Valley
| %~ L:
proportion than the rest of the resi-
dents of Barnes county.
John Sutherland of Williston had
just put up twenty-five tons Of hay
and was burning a fire-break around it
when the whole shooting match caught
fire and was destroyed 90
W. M. Dwyer ate Strawberries out Of
his garden at Medina this season from
plants secured from New York last
spring. The garden is irrigated from a
reservoir back of the store.
The county commissioners of Botti-
neau county are mixed up on the cleo
ton of commissioners. They have five
commissioners, and the terms of three
of them expire the same year. They
started wrong.
James Saunders, a farmer living
southeast of Cooperstown, was found
dead on the Myers farm Tuesday
morning with bullet hole in his fore
head. 1t is thought he committed sui
eide. He was twenty-six years old and
unmarried.
John Prunty, aged twenty-five years.
went suddenly blind while at work on
farm near GAINESVILLE, presumably
from sun stroke. Prunty was taken
to Fargo and is under treatment. There
is chance of the young man regain
ing his sight, but it will require con-
siderable time to bring about such a
result.
Among the recent arrivals at the
W'omens home at Fargo was a little
babe. the mother being young girl
living in one of the smaller towns Of
the county. The case is rather a
strange one. and mention was made Of
ft,o vonfH ra1