Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1900-07-05
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hs TSwner county complains of grass.
ing ordef.
George Purvis. of Mimic basIloacated
in Virginia. 81
Most Of the papers are running. the
Chautauqua supplement-.
Israel .Hildebrand was fined at Napo-
leon forsettipg prairie fire:
Walhalra is considering the c.onstvuc-
ton OF water works system.
Lisbon promises to send a big dele
CATION to the &. \. X. encampmelt.
James McSaggen of Peary, was one
of the victims of the Edmonton trail
disaster.
The 500 is using patent weed
burner to burn the Russian thistles
along its line.
The total expenditures Of the Fargo
ire festival We're $5,4O0, and the treas
urcr has $124 left
Ihe improvements in the telephone
system at Grand Forks are expected to
cost over 100000.
The father of Anton Hefta of Mimic
died recently, aged 1O5. He has been
IN this country for twenty years.
President Hill of the Great Northern
is not enthused over the project to
bring the Beers to the Northwest.
Prof. c. NJ Hall of the North Da-
kota agricultural college will make a
geological survey of North Dakota.
At the picnic at Jessie there was con-
siderable bootlegging and three dozen
bottles of beer We're swiped from one
illicit vendor.
A COoperstown man received a box
by mail containing live snake. He
opened the box at the StamDery and
created a panic.
The Fertile Brick company has Sc
cured the contract for furnishing the
city OF Wahpeton with 100000 brick
for sewerage purposes.
A lealy gasoline tank in the resi-
dence of G. e. Lyman of jamestown
made work for the fire department.
The residence was saved.
Lightning recently set fire to the
grass near Charles Hoofs home east
of Napoleon, and lively work was
needed to save the house.
ldu MOOIe pronounced an
outbreak of what was supposed to be
black leg among cattle near Caring.
ton to be malignant catarrh.
The Grand Forks Lumber company
is shipping in logs from Bemidji ove;
the Great Northern, as the water in
the river is too low to float them.
Frank Martini. an Italian waiter boy
on the Northern Pacific road gang. was
killed recently. He was thrown from
a horse and caught in the bride rein
and Kicked.
Mushrooms We're found at Hannah
nlne inches in diameter. If the porter
house steaks are in proportionate size
Hannah will have visitors soon.
Farmers are worrying over what to
do with surplus stock on account Of
the prospective short hay crop. Some
Will sell down to a close margin.
The hay crop in the hills of western
Stutsman county. it is said, will be
sufficient for the needs of stoclSmen in
that vicinity. though much lighter than
usual.
The newspapers Of the state express
general regret at the misfortune which
has befallen Forestry Commissioner
Barrett aud hope it will only be tenn
porary.
Every one seems to think the water
i'll the river is lower than it has ever
been, but actual measurements indi-
cate that it was lower in September,
1890, than at present.
The parents of Peter Kohlbers of
Cannon Ball arrived recently from
Norway. His mother was i'll on the
way over and died two days after
reaching her sons home.
The trees planted along the Northern
Pacific this spring are doing well, at
least 80 per cent of them having lived.
For a dry year like this has been this
is an excellent record.
-Four men had narrow escape from
drowning i'll Maple lake the other day,
their boat capsizing and dumping them
into the water. 1t is said that there
has never yet been Il drowning acct
dent in Maple lake.
A farmers horse stripped the har-
ness from itself and backed up to one
of Strong's plate glass windows in
jamestown, just missing 500 wreck
The driver struck the horse because it
would not turn for him and the horse
nearly had the last laugh.
Garry Hodge participated in game
Of baseball between Thompson and
Merritie" and in ,dunning to first base
was struck either in the back of the
head OF neck with the ball and his
spine seriously injured. He became
deranged from the pain.
A pension of IS per mouth has been
granted Benjamin Stroebel of James
town. Stroebel received wound i'll
the neck in the big February, 1890,
battle in which so many. brave South
Dakotans We're wounded or killed. He
was a member of the South Dakota
regiment and served with tile regiment
in the Philippines.
The village of Kensal, Stutsman
county, is fenced in and commun1ca-
ton by railway and by wagon road is
alike cut off. The smallpox cases there
are light, and it is expected that
the strict quarantine established will
stamp the disease OUT. Among those