Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1900-02-08

One case of scarlet fever has beef
Pembina.
Two fire alarms We're turned in at
Devils Lake last week. but both blaZes
were slight.
President Hill. of the Great North
ern gives $1,000 to the bridge projec:
at Devils Lake.
There is considerable sickness in the
''green winter"
Restauranter Nelson of Williston
suddenly disappeared. and his credit
ors are mourning.
A meeting was held at Wyndmere to
consider the ACCESSIBILITY of establish
ing cheese factory.
Tom Miller of Devils Lake jumped
from an oyerturning load of hay ana
broke both ankles.
John F. Magher has had the Walhal-
la clay tested. and finds that it will
make excellent brick.
Ebert Clause has been appointed
postmaster at DaZig, Mcintosh county,
vice ". J. P. Gledt, resigned.
The Great Northern is being congrat-
ulated by the state press for going Out
Of the c. o. D. liquor business.
Supt. William T. Garfield, of the Fl.
Totten Indian school. is in Washington
On business before the Indian Office.
Carl Madsen of Hunter, who fought
in the Philippines, wants to go to
South Africa and fight for the Beers.
Mild weather has greatly hindered
the harvesting Of the ice crop on the
Missouri. and the ice is of poor quail
ity.
Seven hundred dollars was raised in
one night at the Baptist church il
Grand Forks for new church build
ing
Capt. Welliman of F>raZee has invent
ed flax puller which. it is claimed,
will pull flax so as to preserve the
fiber for linen.
William Snyder's jewelry store at
Williston was burglarized. Eugene
over On the charge.
Mrs. Florence Hail. Who conducts
the West hotel at Paramount secured a
divorce last week from her husband
who was Il railroad conductor.
Two carlods of yearling steers
were shipped to Towner stockman
from Manitoba. The price paid per
head. delivered at Towner was $23.
The few warm days melted all the
snow in Pembina county. and, owing
to the subsequent freezing, the roads
al.
BILE
A separator has been attached to the
machinery at the fiber mill in Fargo.
to catch all the stray grains of flax
left in the straw. The result of the
/ first days operations was twenty bush
els of flax
Mrs. s. j. Joyce of Walhalla had a
'felon on her finger. The finger was
amputated in order to save the hand.
The wound refuses to heal. and she
may lose her hand.
Thomas Lee, near Bottineau, found
a stone in the mountains recently pos
sessing the hardness of diamond and
| cuts glass. He will send it East to be
examined by experts.
Joseph Biza and Wenzel Pohonka.
two Richland county men, have been
taken to the penitentiary to serve
three months each for the larceny OF
115 bushels of wheat.
Tho seating capacity of the Oberon
schools is taxed to it's utmost. Many
| new seats have been ordered. and it
/ may be necessary to build a larger
school building next year.
Escaping coal gas almost caused the
death Of two Wahpeton men one night
last week. One of them managed to
get to the door and let in supply of
fresh air, and both recovered.
! There is a short criminal calendar for
the Grafton term of district court, and
there are fewer blind pig cases than
usual. Those penitentiary sentences
have had something to do with it.
| Probably the oldest horse in the
state, mare thirty-two years old,
died at Lisbon the other day She was
the property Of Fred Kelly, and he has
4 valuable colt raised by her last year.
1t is said that the Washburn inter
ests have gone over to the Northern
Pacific. The road will be built from
Bisr arck north, but managed in the
interests OF the Northern Pacific, and
| the 500 will not be built into Bismarck.
Sam Olson. the largest man in the
| North Dakota volunteers at Manila, at
one time during their campaigns
weighed only 100 pounds, and was dis
charged and sent home. He now tips
the beam at 263 pounds and looks the
picture of health.
In the United States district court in
Fargo, the petition of Norman Marku-
son of Valley City for a writ of habeas
corpus was taken up, and the mandate
Of the United States supreme court dis
missing the proceeding on the part OF
he plaintiff, thus confirming the judg-
nent of Judge Amidon, was ordered
recorded. The prisoner then gave up
ais bond, and delivered himself to the
custody OF Warden Boucher, as he
was at liberty pending the decision Of
J The court. Markuson viii now serve
lis term.