Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1901-06-27
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Horse buyers are paying 81 to SIS for
Indian ponies at the Standing Rock
agency.
]. w. Sifton, NJ. D., of Jamestown, is
head physician for Modern Woodmen
OF this state.
Eight students got degrees at the
commencement of the state agriculture
al college at Fargo.
The new court house at Bottinea will
be of pressed brick, 74x62 feet, three
stories with basement.
Dick Fallon of Dickey county has
been employed as head farmer on the
Fort Totten reservation.
A flax bug has made his appearance
in the vicinity of Cando, and is doing
much damage to the grain.
A Fairmount man reports the cap
ture of black eagle which measured
seven feet and five inches.
When jamestown gets the cement
walk down in the park there will be
considerable improvement.
The bids for coal rejected by the asy-
lum trustees were: Washburn coal,
$3.50; SIMS $2.SS; Lehigh, 50.
North Dakotans should get cheap in
surance rates, as the big companies are
making reductions on rates to abstain
ers.
William Allen of Bismarck was adj
judged bankrupt in the United States
court at Fargo, according to the Fo-
rum.
Oscar Carter of Cando drank some
poison his wife had prepared for go
piers, and had narrow escape from
death.
Mayor Won Patton Of Toilette has
caught three catfish weighing fifteen
pounds each, and is disguised with his
luck.
The celery industry is not booming
this year at Jamestown. Former cell
cry growers assert there is little profit
in the business.
At Valley City, relatives who had
lost track of each other for forty years
were accidentally reunited and held a
family reunion.
Professors waldron of the Agricult-
ural college and Osgorne of the Fargo
college will botanic for two days IN
the Rocky Mountains.
jamestown is building cement side
walks, at 81 per running foot, z IL feet
width, and 20 1-2 cents per square foot
for stone cross walks.
The recent supreme court decision
has relieved a good many of the West
ern people from paying taxes, and
there is great satisfaction thereat.
There has been a reorganization Of
the postal service along the Northern
Pacific road, and several clerks have
had to change their places of residence.
A hobo was arrested in Darlington
for breaking into car load of houses
hold goods and stealing several articles
afterwards found. He was given ten
days.
Edward Matta lad eight years OLD,
living twelve miles north of Fessen-
den, was accidentally shot by six
year-old lad named Schrader. He died
instantly.
Some of the Icelanders, who recently
removed from the northern part of the
state to Manitoba, were held up and
forced to square old bills before they
got across.
Earl Grant of Leeds and his three
dogs chased wolf into a slough. and
Earl waded in, up to his neck, to get
his wolfship, and almost drowned be-
fore he got out.
The jamestown city council is Offer
ing for sale $4,000 Of bonds for improv-
ing the water system. The council Will
also receive tenders for $4,000 of bonds
that may be sold for the same pur-
pose.
The trustees of the state agricultural
college have let the contract for the
new Science hall to Stewart Wilson fol
s19,491. James Kennedy will do the
sewerage work at s5,O47, and E. J. Har-
rington will put in the new heating
plant.
There is an epidemic of mishaps at
Darlington. Ed Cross was kicked in
the face by vicious cow, Judge Esta-
brook fell and broke his leg, and Coun-
ty Treasurer knights boy stumbled
backward and broke his arm.
The largest cattle sale in the North
west is the one made by Ray & Cress-
well Of Dickinson to the Franklin com,
pany. The call is for 10000 head. and
the price is $3.50 on final delivery.
This years calves are thrown In, but
last years calves are counted.
Andrew Olson, young man living
three miles west of Grafton, had an
arm broken on Tuesday of last week.
He was leading a team of horses into
the barn, when the animals crowded
him between them and squeezed him
so hard that his arm was broken.