Courier Democrat., 1904-10-27
Gossip and Notes.

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Election day one week from next
Tuesday. November 8th.
Readers of the DEMOCRAT will find q
list of school and state institution lands
in Cavalier county, to be sold Dec. Goth
on another page.
Judge kneeshaw will be at Langdon
on Tuesday, Nov. LIST for the purpose of
issuing citizenship papers. This will be
the only opportunity to get them before
election.
Now Foster says we are in for a
couple of weeks good campaign weather
and the office seeking candidate will get
chance to hit the high spets on the
wind-up.
Fosters weather predictions for the
last week of October and opening days
of November promise the beginning of a
period of Indian summer which is ex-
pected to extend over election day.
One week from next Tuesday, the
spell binder now in full blast will be out
ofthe field. The voter will have named
the winners and the defeated candidate
will board the swearing train for the
biennial excursion up the Salt creek.
A social and intellectual entertain
ment full of wit and humor, given at
the court house Monday evening. The
entertainment will be interspersed with
music and practical illustrations from
Delsarte. Don't mss it. Thirty-tive
cents admission.
With Halloween occurring next Mon
day night there may be considerable
disorder looked for, but it will not be-
gin to compare with the casualty list
that will be an attractive feature on the
political card at the close of the fall
campaign week later.
This week the DEMOCRAT publishes
County Auditor Works officially certi-
fled nominations of candidates on the
various party tickets for the offices,
state judiciary, legislative and county.
Look the list over and become familiar
with the names of the candidates.
State Supt. Stockwell is generally
conceded as being some pumpkins as
North Dakota educator, but since his
debut as a spell binder at the court
house last night we are constrained to
remark, regardless of politics, that his
speech merely gained for him an ever
lasting reputation as an artful political
dodger !,
A gang of safe blowers is at large in
the state. A week ago Friday they
burglarized the Peoples State Bank at
Lakota, but failed to get anything of
value. A few days later they cracked
safe at Larimore and secured 5000,
and Wednesday morning they did
Job at Clifford getting away with $4,000
OF the banks funds. They are evi-
IDENTIFY experts at the business and hard
to catch at it.
State Land Commissioner Laxdal
nolds sale of state lands in Cavalier
county, Tuesday, December Goth. These
lands are school state, and institute
lands. The lowest price at which lands
can be sold is $1,000 per acre but in the
majority of cases the lands will bring
nearer sl5 per acre and some of them
more. In the purchase of these lands
One-flfth must be paid down and the
balance in four equal payments falling
aae IN five, ten, fifteen and twenty years
with interest at the rate of 6 per cent.
We publish the list on another page.
Ihe list of names on the voters list in
ne First Ward when the registry board
completed its task Tuesday showed 155
male voters and l42 women. Several
'adltions are looked for when revision
the registration list is made next
Iuesday. The Second Ward closed it's
egistration list Tuesday evening with
enrolment Of 112 male votes and So
somen. The footings furnished in the
Ihlrd Ward showed 40 male votes and
women. The total vote Of the city as
nown by Tuesdays registration aggre-
ates D7 male voters and 264 women.
ms, however, is subject to revisions
the meeting Of the boards in the
arlous precincts next Tuesday, when
ne entire vote Of the city may be ex-
ected to be largely increased.
A good threshing outfit for sale
cry cheap on time. Inquire oil
'. ]. Mooney.