Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1901-10-10

4U,UOU DuSnelS OIL wheat tnlS season.
Lieut.. Tharaldson gets the Grafton
postoffice, and long struggle is end
ed.
There is a complaint Of a shortage of
threshing machines and men along the
500.
A Bottineau young man was arrested
for the theft or S276, and confessed the
crime.
The contract for public school
building at Buffalo has been let. Price,
$3.50.
The rush for Ward county hand keeps
up. and the Minot land Office is a busy
place.
Few. O. Rlste of Milton raised some
sugar cane and made his own sor-
ghum.
A Sanborn man has quit the restau-
rant and gone into the harness busl-
ness.
Work has been begun on the new
hotel at Knox, and also on the new
depot.
Farmers in Grand Forks county
complain Of damage by rot to the po-
tato crop.
Complaints come from from Barnes
county that some of the wheat sprout-
ed in the shock.
| A Finley farmer raised ninety bush
| els of speltz per acre, and is selling 1t
| at dollar a bushel.
| Efforts will be made by North Dako-
! tans to secure some OF the new mail
contract to be let soon.
Farmers in. the Mouse River valley
are experimenting with sugar beets
with considerable success.
Mayor Register wants Spanish
| cannon to ornament the Northern Pa
cific grounds at Bismarck.
| A big batch Of incombustible side
walks have been ordered put down at
| Bismarck by the city council.
Work on the new buildings at Fort
Lincoln is progressing slowly, on ac~
count of the scarcity of laborers
Peter Nelson CT Braddock rejoiced
over the assassination of the president,
and narrowly escaped a lynching.
A thrcshing engine boiler exploded
near Valley City, and three men We're
badly scalded, although no one was
). %illed.
4Hanley Bros barn at Page was
burned and the bucket brigade had
hard work to save the adjoining resi-
| dence.
Three suspected horse thieves We're
seen at Glenullin recently, one OF
whom was seupposed to be an escaped
| convict.
The people of the state will be graft
fed at the awarding of several medals
tn the North Dakota exhibit at the
an-American.
A Young man AIMED Ernest Wmgeir
OF Foster county was shot in the thigh
by a gun which his brother dldne
know was loaded.
| Considerable interest is felt in the
selection of successor to Bishop Ed
sail. Thus far no names have Deeh
=, publicly suggested.
A number of threshers at Mimic nave
pulled in their machines for me VIII
ter. claiming there isn't much III inc
business, anyway.
White 1ahorers are succeeding the
colored on the Northern Pacific extern
sion work. The dusky brethren think
/ the weather too cold
G. M. Porter allowed the engine 10
get too near him while running q
threshing outfit near Carrlngton' anu
a thigh was fractured.
Joseph Lemieux of Maryville. Rolette
county, raised pumpkin that welshea
sixty pounds and was slxty-thlee
inches in circumference.
There was warm time at one of the
jamestown Joints" recently as re-
suit of one man being thrown on
stove by frail female.
Charles Fritz. While threshing. near
Claffee, stepped on top of the separat
or and dropped into the cylinder. ohe
soot had to be amputated.
The co,ored laborers imported from
the South for work on the Northeri'
Pacific branches are being returned aS
the weather becomes cooler.
On the Adams farm. in Richlant
| comfy there was 1,400 acres OF corn
raised this year, and next year TINS
will he increased to $500 acres.
Austin Logan shipped fifteen cars OF
cattle from Bismarck the other day
| This is one of the largest Snlplheh'S
made from Bismarck in years.
Another bank is to be orgalzed az
Ashlev by Teheodore Landmann, {. Z.
Hammond and Mrs. c. {. HAMMOND
The capital stock will be $4,000.
George Brown is putting up a cream"
ery at Edgley. the building costing
So 1000, and will try to interest the peo-
n1e of Sykeston in q similar project.
John DOYLE, who was sent up from
! Grand Forks on burglary charge. nal
served two years in the penttentlary
for entering Jul LaMoure's store al
Neche.
The tax rate Of Maryville Is CTS
mills, and that Of Hudson 700 mills.