Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1901-10-03
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Russian thistles are reported to be
getting a hump on themselves.
The total valuation of Dickey county
property for assessment is S2,SS0,ll2
rse-stealing is becoming unpopu-
lar and unsafe in Stutsman county.
Some short-change artists are report
ed to be operating around Portland.
Tower City shooters are reported to
have killed more ducks than was legal
John Orner reports winter radlshes
two feet long on his Cass county farm.
Miss Kate Robinson was thrown from
i. buggy at Casselton and badly shaken
up.
Osnabrock has new hotel manage
ment j. r, Ward now being the land
lord.
The total valuation of all Stutsman
co,,ntv property, foc taxation, is ST.
SOB, 1888.
The postofice at Lewis, eighteen
miles from Kenmare, was robbed ana
set on fire.
Adiutant General and Mrs. Miller
have returned from visit to the Fan
American.
A large amount of hay is reported to
have been put up in the hills OF Suits
man county.
Stock in the stutsman county hills is
said to be in finer condition than ever
known before.
On account of the big crop and the
slow threshing there will be less fall
blowing than usual.
Will Smiths runaway team created
more excitement at Casse,ton than th7
asst divorce scandal.
A five-year-old Cakes girl had mn
ger bitten by a horse, and the MEMBER
had to be amputated.
A Stutsman county herder is said 10
| ha in trouble because he worked anotn,
er mans team of mules.
| A Fessenden boy bit hole in Ills
tongue while playing, and can no" talh
in three or four languages.
There was scarcely a town in the
state which did not hold some form OF
memorial service for the president.
Rev. Wheeler, who has been at Will
rton rrtil recently, preached his nrst
sermon to his new charge OF Mlnot.
Hanson. who was operating a
threshing rig near Litchfield, suffered
h,o1,an arm by getting caught in a
wheel.
IF is said that one of the best ao-
dresses on the martyred president was
nv Walter Muir, the we'll known fopu'
list of Hunter.
Cavalier county reports one field OF
oats that averaged 123 bushels per acre.
| Rut there was only two acres IN tllaI
| particular field.
The Fort Totten Indians are said TO
stand a good chance of getting q 10. u
hack paw from the government on t1iae
suit recently brought.
A Ransom county farmer has sued a
oeirhbor for $1,000 damages inflicted by
nox;cus weeds blowing on his farm
from the neighbours land.
States Attorney Burke has turneu
over 81, 900 to the treasurer OF Feii'o.n<1
county for moneys secured from .h7
osecution of blind riggers.
George Cook of Page reports po!a-
"a Yield of 100 bushels per acre, winch
could he sold for at least 500, three
Zines the value Of the land.
man rode from Hamilton, Pemo'na
county, to Carberry, Canada, distance
of I 671 miles in sixteen ana one-hal1
davs or more than 100 miles daily.
The railroads are expediting the I'M
loading of cars in the smaller towns ny
charging demurrage, just as they nave
heen doing in the larger ones for IL"
wears.
pe,nle in the western part OF the
state are eating their own watermeiohs'
which are said to be superior 10 III,
,,,,rtations from Iowa. They snoulo
shin some to the Red River valley.
sinca LaMoure county is having
+rouble over collecting the bills aue
f,om farmers for seed. under the spe-
cial law. many other counties are con-
s,.at,I.ting themselves for turning
down the plan.
With a shortage in the wheat crop
North Dakota farmers cannot unoer-
stand why the price is lower than
wear ago, and many of them are piaii-
nin. to raise something else next year
ona NOT be dependent on the one-crop
scheme.
Visitors from the East wonder why
North Dakota doesn't have county
fairs. This is a point on. WElch the
Fl;rlSertails are weak. The main rea-
con for this is the fact that at times
when there is much to show the farm
ers are too busy to attend events vi
that nature.