Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1900-06-21
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Cando will have an old-fashione,l
Fourth of July celebration this year.
Another party of twenty Iowa land
seekers has been in Mcintosh county.
Western range men are complaining
of poor pasturage and light hay crop.
a Bottineau man captured a live tur:
| tie in the street and the next day it
rained.
A Darlington man recently captured
six wolf pups and got the bounty
thereon.
Maj. Ralph Hall of Darlington has
four cousins with the British army in
South Africa.
| Rugby wants better fire protection
and may purchase a compound chemi-
cal engine.
A rural telephone line runs ton miles
north from Valley City and has nine
subscribers.
In Pembina county there are some
/; complaints of the flax being destroyed
by worm.
Commissioner Laxdahl is preparing
list of lands to be offered for'sale in
the near future.
Some OF the boards of county COM
missioners are using sewer pipe for
| rulverts with good results.
Railroad Commissioner Erickson at
tended the national meeting of railroad
commissioners at Milwaukee,.
Farmers in the vicinity of Walhalla
are rescding barley and flax land
where the grain has been blown cut.
Flax seeding goes Oh apace in many
cases wheat fields which have been
plowed up being sown to the later
crop.
| Towner county has purchased a car
load of thing to be used for culverts
instead of planks along the country
roads.
| 1t is claimed that in Il new town in
the northwestern part of the state the
f, first building was erected for blind
pgger.
! There is Il runor that the Mandan
liquor cases are about to break out in
Il new place and charges of conspiracy
may be made.
| a sturgeon weighing 1m pounds and
containing twenty pounds of eggs was
caught last week 1T toilette, Pemhina
county. the other day.
! Booze is said to he hard To secure at
+ harrington since the row there in !,
house of i'll fame. in which Il pair of
visitors were carved.
The 500 road will ballast 10: of
track and will put steam shovel i'll
the Rordulac gravel pit. Two trains
will be run all summer.
llillShoro is to have q water works
system and the water will ha taken
from wells along the ridge west of
town instead of the river
The laying OF rails on the Washlur.
road has been completed as far az
Arnold. the first station on the line out
of Bismarck. ten miles north.
A siNty-foot extension is to be added
i TO the Great Northern depot at Lang
don. and the Republican kicks because
IT isn't an entirely new depot.
Peter Kupka of Jamestown was i'll
the hospital i'll. His little son WAS
kicked in the head by a horse and his
little girl broke her leg by a fall.
4 Hillsboro man tainted and fell
through "A glass door. his head and
neck banging OH the Jagged glass. His
l.nts We're numerous but not serious.
Light frosts are reported in a few
localities. The damage appears to have
been confined to a scOrehing Of the
edges of leaves Of tender vegetables.
Sheriff McKechnie of Darlington did
not secure the man Tolan who had
been held in Montana. The fellow es-
capped before the arrival Of the officer.
Alb Murray of South Heart was the
victim of rattlesnake While getting
out cedar posts in the Bad Lands,
having received a bad bite on the shin.
From all over the state come reports
of the havoc wrought among shade
trees by measuring WORMS. In mar
places the trees are left entirely bare.
Andrew Higgins of Devils Lake has
had chi!Is ever since he was born, and
has finally wound up in the James
town asylum He came from Arkall-
SAW.
little boy in Fargo touched Il
match to load of hay and hay ana
wagon went up in smoke, while one
Of the farmers horses was badly
burned.
Darlington is rapidly putting on met
ropolit;,n airs. 1t has a tenderloin dis
lTlci Huu IL udilS paper. siAN a SdiN iAs,
ARRAY in the former is duly reported
in the latter.
| Hereafter in Cavalier county persons
who are q,mrantined will be expected
to pay to the county the amount eN-
pended for their support while de-
tanned If they are financially able to
do so.
| Migratory sheepmen in the western
par: of this state and the eastern part
of Montana will cause some of the
cattlemen to seek new range for their
cattle. The sheep are unloaded and
feed the grass down so cl0sely that
there is little left for stock.
The 500 line has built a twenty-four-
foot addition to its depot In Cakes. II
will be used for Il freight room. The
work was completed in n few days
after 1t was begun--befOrc most ppo.
pie In Cakes knew they were building.
This will be n great accommodation TO
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