Courier Democrat., 1900-03-29
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Mandan is to have a new opera
louse.
Grand Forks defeated Mayville at
whist.
Bike thieves are reported at Grand
Forks.
f. f. Griffin is new machinery deal.
n at Crazy.
'Towner is just over a diphteheria
quarantine.
Esten Halvorsen. IL we'll known Traill
county farmer, is dead
There is some talk of fixing up the
I'D artesian we'll at OakeS.
Another story is to be addad to the
Nisbecker hotel at Grandin.
Mayor Goodman is erecting a hand
some residence at Hillsboro.
The soldier bays are looking forward
20 a great enc;.!npment this summer.
G. n. Stor!l of Griggs county has re-
fused $1,000 iur a pair of twin calves.
The Imperial Elevator company will
erect a large elevator at Perth about
Nay 1.
A flock of geese We're seen flying in
northerly direction at Mandan a few
lays ago.
Postottice service has ben established
Ut RoseIill. II. d. Emert has been al-
pointed postmaster.
The new Methodist church at North
wood is said to be a handsome shnlct-
Ire and a credit to the city.
Nineteen families of Iowa Immigrants
lave reached Jamestown, en- route to
Sykeston, Wells county.
The residence of Hon. Carl Brown.
lear Obercn. burned last week. LOSS,
S2,500; insurance. $1,000.
Senator Twitchell sold bunch of
steers for $1,000. and immediately be-
gan to run for sheriff of CaSs county.
Emmons county people are still dis
:llssing the case of Martil Van Soest,
Who is accused of setting nineteen fires.
w. II. Brown of Michigan City has
received an increase from S6 to SIS in
ais pension: Mary j. Angel. Oakrs,
So.
Larsen & Hagen of Hillsboro have
purchased Il stock of goods at Roitill-
eau. and will go into the general iner-
:handse business there.
County Superintendent Molyncai:X of
McHenry county announces that three
school houses will be erected in the vi
.inty of Granville this summer.
Andrew Larson, an employe in Il liv-
cry stable at Hillsboro. made All as
sault on his employer. and. in default
Of fine. is Il guest of Sheriff Serum
The officers of Belmont township,
rraill county. are congratulting them
selves on the complete liquidation OF all
1ebts, and still have surplus in bank.
The suit against the bondsmen of the
ate city treasurer. NJ. l.. Gordon of
Grand Forks. has just been compro-
missed for 5000 A shortage of 81, 200
was claimed.
The drifting of the snow up in Bot
tineau county last week made hard go
,ng for the stages ,and in consequence
they We're not running on schedule
lime.
The business men and the stockmen
at Coggswell have raised Il 5000 purse
COR the horse races in June. Besides
:he races stock exhibit will be a lead
ing feature.
A thief stole a horse and rig belong
'ng to Edward jacobson at Valley City,
and started out of town with the horse
at full speed. The horse returned later
with the remnant of the rig.
The new bridge across the James riy-
er. near Oakes, is completed, and the
county commissioners are now inspect
.ng the work before making final set
t1arOnnt with tho cOOt1.)ctO
Fred Bentley, representative of Wy
man & Ball, Fargo, has been at La
Moure looking after the firms interests
N that section, with a view of placing
some fine farms on the market.
Mrs. Isabel Dysart, an old settler,
aged seyenty-fve years, died suddenly
at Minnewaukan, while sitting in
chair reading. Death was due to heart
failure succeeding an attack Of la
grippe.
A McHenry county man who had
been absent from his claim for more
than six months, on account OF sick
ness, reached his place last week to
ind that a contest had been filed the
day before.
An unaccountable explosion of
sOOh SlOfC tOOh pAdSC III '4IC iAoiAiS VI ~
A. Zeller, at Wimbledon. Pieces Of the
stove were thrown with great force,
but. fortunately, none of the family
were struck.
The man who was starting a fire in
the Gcrmania State Bank at AnamoOse
thought he was using kerosene, but it
was something else, and the bank
building and adjoining millinery store
will have TO be rebuilt.
Pat Phalen. a former resident of Os
nabrock, Cavalier county, was killed i'll
battle in the Philippines. He was a
member of Troop I, Third cavalry. and
was shot and killed by the side of Fred
Gull, another Osnabrock boy, with
whom he enlisted.
The best fax story is now reported
from Western Walsh county, where a
farmer raised $500 bushels of fax from
100 acres of $3.50 farm, and is still
selling it at home for $1.75 per bushel,
for seed A $4,375 crop off $3.50 farm
is pretty swift farming.
Attorneys for Barney Murphy. who
was sent up for twenty-five years at