Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1900-01-04
NORTH DAKOTA

Lakota Is elated over promised tele-
phone connections. Z---.---,-=z-=.--.-
The town of Bisbee will soon be In
corporated as village.
Hornerites are holding religious ser
vices in Pembina county.
Blackleg is still prevalent among cat
tie in the vicinity OF Wilton.
Knut Hagen has been sent to the
asylum from Steele county.
Ed Taylor of Rolla had a finger cut
off last week by a circular saw
Oscar Greenbaum has received his
commission as postmaster atsBinford.
Pat Cooney of Lisbon gets 5000 back
pension and $12 per month from now
on ~ -
A Lisbon child played with matches,
and the insurance companies will set
tie. phi
A broken needle was removed from
the leg OF a little girl baby at Rankin
son.
A new business block will be erected
at Mimic in the early spring by III.
Ring.
Mr. Christ Hagen has sold his inter-
est in the Hillsboro roller mills to T.
II. Dahl
August Anderson of Slaughter has
accepted a position as guard at the
penitentiary.
The Dickinson bank shows prosperi-
ty, with especial emphasis on the I'M
divided profits.
Fred Leithner of Barnes county. re-
Gently taken to the insane asylum. is
deaf. dumb and insane.
A young man named w. L. Bingham
fell from an elevator at HattOn and
was partially paralyzed.
William German. an old resident of
Portland. was found dead in his room.
having died from heart disease.
The bank at Wilton is said to be
certainty, and other enterprises will
follow in the course Of events.
ID. A. Swanlaw of Langdon has been
offered $4,000 cash for three quarter
sections of land near that place.
Jack" Mapes of Crazy was arrested
at Lakota on the charge OF selling
grain that did not belong to him.
A STEAK thief entered the apartment
recently, and stole SIG from her trunk.
w. A. Hughes Of Mimic has accepted
a position with Wyman Partridge 4
Co. Of Minneapolis as travelling sales
man.
r. II. Murphy of Portland had leg
broken while alighting from Il stree,
car in Chicago. while there on business
last week.
Hankinson people are tiGkled over
the action of the 500 in promising to
make $4,000 worth OF improvements
III that town.
1t is reported that Joseph Wood. a
son of Mrs. Wood Of Hoople, has re-
ceived the appointment Of federal
judge of Alaska
Roy Ballard, formerly chief of police
Of Casselton, recently released from
the asylum, has removed to Fargo and
Is driving a hack.
The publication Of the provisions of
the reservoir law has started ranch
men out west to hustling and investi-
eating the measure.
Suit is to be brought to compel the
signers of the bond of ex-Treasurer
Beaudry to pay the full amount of the
shortage covered by the bond
The Mimic flour mill is shut dGvH to
await the placing of new machinery
therein, which will put the mill on a
standard with anything in the coun-
try.
At Cooperstown committee has
peen appointed by the Congregational
church to recommend a successor to
the pulpit recently vacated by Rev. e.
8. Shaw.
Druggist ]. w. Bceing of Mimic is in
the push with the rest of the energetic
business men there. and is placing a
complete new set of store fixtures in
dis store.
J. B. Meacham of Wheatland has
oeen having hard run Of luck with
his horses this year, his latest misfor-
tune being horse killed by falling
into a WELL
The papers of the northern part of
the state show that a great multitude
, are taking advantage of railroad ex.
rursiOns and are visiting their old
comes in Canada.
Brother Mitchell of Mimic is now a
full-fedged presidential postmaster,
mis- office having recently been raised
grade, necessitating the confirmation
Of his appointment by the senate.
A sneak thief stole the outfit of
cailroad man at Dickinson. and pro-
; ceeded to adorn himself with the stol-
an clothes. which the other fellow rec
ognized. Now he's serving time -
| The members of the Pioneer Hose
team at Bismarck have established a
benefit arrangement, whereby an in
iured member receives q benefit, and,
/ In case of death, his family gets 500.
| A German boy at Dickinson was &C.
cidentally shot by his brother The
gun was loaded with buckshot, which
tore the side Of the young mans head
oadly. There is little chance of his re-
covery.
Andrews, the Casselton negro con-
victed of rape, gets eight years in the
penitentiary The fact that he wrote
ia poem addressed to his attorney
would have settled his case if the 9TH
er charge hadn't.
Architect Ross of Grand Forks has