Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1900-04-12
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Settlers are here and more are COM
ing.
Two feet of snow at Dickinson last
week.
Valley City people still want an op-
era house.
discovered oil.
Two car loads of settlers have ar
rived at Barlow.
Slatterly Bros Of Botineau are build
ing stone store.
Grafton's Business Mems club has
been incorporated.
Cavalier county reports $50 farms
proved up this spring.
Wells county is receiving a large
number Of new settlers.
S. Il. Corwin has been appointed city
assessor at jamestown.
Emmons county is getting a large
number Of new settlers.
Poultry fanciers over the state are
adding to their fine birds.
Mrs. Sloan of Bismarck has started
on her return trip to Alaska.
A considerable number of cattle are
being shipped into the state.
Wheatland's new town board is at
work on the we'll proposition.
Hope wants a telephone exchange,
and is sure of thirty subscribers.
Bowbells received 1875 tons of mer-
chandise in three days last week.
Lieut.. Gov Devine has been ill IN
Minneapolis, but is recovering.
The depot at Forman was destroyed
by fire, caused by defective fiue.
There is to be a telephone from Bot
tineau to a point on the Mouse river.
Lieut.. Gov. Devine will deliver the
Decoration Day address at jamestown.
Sheriff Wilson of Cass county is re-
covering from an operation for hernia.
The Red river valley university at
Wahpeton has closed a successful
term.
Some 1900 Dunkards passed through
Chicago en- route to the Devils Lake
region.
Charles Ekebcrg. a prominent resi-
dent of Hoople, Walsh county, died IN
Arizona.
Several large stock farms have been
started in the past year in Ransom
county.
All the best land within a radius of
thirty miles Of Bottineau has been
taken up.
The twelve-year-old son of Railroad
Commissioner John Simons died at
Valley City.
Game Warden Goliey and another
Dawson man shot forty eight geese
one day last week.
Presiding Elder Illingcl of Pembina
will be transferred.
Frank Ray Of Bottineau was arrest
ed on the charge Of monkeying with
goods under bond.
J. r. Sherwood of Knox lost his
home by fire While he was attending q
wedding mile away.
President Brown of the Chattsworth,
ILL.,, bank. has purchased two or three
sections of land near Page.
Farmers institutes throughout the
state are bringing out the merits of
bronze grass as fodder plant.
The Wahpeton colony in Southern
California is expected to return to this
state about the middle of April.
John Rockford, deaf man living at
Devils Lake, stopped in front OF an
engine and was instantly killed.
j. L Callahan Of Casselton, it is
said. will have charge Of the Devils
Lake summer school this season.
The city of Grand Forks will sue the
county for delinquent tax interest and
penalties, aggregating some $4,000.
The Northern Pacific road estimates
that it carried 500 car loads of immi-
grant movables to the state in March.
The fax fiber mill at Fargo made
shipment of twentyseven cars of PROD
uct to it's Eastern establishment last
week.
The new list from the Devils Lake
land office shows that 100 parties have
recently proved up on land in Towner
county.
Joseph Kouta, Bohemian farmer
living near Pishek, Walsh county, was
thrown from his wagon and his neck
broken.
Judge Sauter gave Thomas Coleman
Of Cavalier five years in the peniten-
tiary for false affidavits in proving up
on q claim.
Several car loads of telegraph poles
and piling for the Washburn road have
arrived in Bismarck and are being TAX
en- north.
Iowa and Nebraska farmers are buy
ing land in Stutsman county. One man
from Nebraska bought d half-section
Tor $1,000.
About $50 farms have been proved
up on in Cavalier county, and will be-
come subject to taxation for the first
time this year
Charles and Roy Barringer, two
young men from FOrgy, Ohio. have ar
rived at Willow City and will take UP
claims there.
The bank building at McHenry is
nearing completion and Cashier Torgu-
son expects to open the institution Tor
business soon.
The new artesian well at Forman is
completed and an Enclosure has been
built over it to keep the refuse matter
from the water.