Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1911-04-06
BRIEF NEWS ITEMS
Happenings Throughout the
State TerseIy Told.

The movement in Rfchland county
to build a 100000 courthouse al
Wahpeton, to take the place of the old
building which has been found unsafe,
is meeting with opposition. Since the
agitation vas started by the commits.
sioners the matter Of removing the
county seat to a more central town
has been brought up for discussion,
Mass meetings have been held at
Mooreton and Wyndmere, at which un.
favorable ACTION was taken against the
building OF a new courthouse, the
question of removing the county seat
to n of these towns being the main
question discussed. While it is true
that these towns are more centrally
located, yet the railroad facilities are
against them, Wahpeton having lines
running in from all parts of the
county, while Mooreton and Wynd.
mere are only on branch lines.
The body of Thomas Shadkowski,
son of Peter Shadkowski, a farmer
living west of Grand Forks, was found
floating in the river amid cakes of
ice and debris, near the old power
house on the west side of the river in
that city by Andrew Mosher. Thomas
Shadkowski had been missing from
home for more than a year and it
was thought that he had left for the
WToct In woo fhirfv ynorc old orI
was working on the Byron dam when
last seen. A small sum of money and
a ring were found on the body. Death
is believed to have been accidental.
In Bismarck April II bids will be re-
ceived for the construction of a new
hospital at Dickinson. This hospital
is to be constructed by the Bismarck
diocese of the Catholic church, the
bids for it being received by Bishop
Wehrle. The present estimated cost
of the structure, exclusive of furnish
ings, is about $50 $1,000. The building
is complete in every detail and will
give Dickinson n Of the finest hos
pitfalls on the Missouri slope. Plans
and specifications for the hospital are
on file at the Minneapolis and st.
Paul building trades exchanges.
An attempt was made recently to
blow up the parsonage of the First
Congregational church at Dickin.
son. A stick of dynamite was set
off between the storm windows of the
lower floor sleeping room, causing a
terrific explosion, blowing the castings
through the room and an open door
and through the dining room adjoin-
ing, breaking out a window on the op.
posite side of the house in the next
yard.
North Dakota has, in the opinion of
prominent men from different sec
lions of the state, sufficient moisture
for all present needs, although there
is a general sentiment that the spring
season, to insure the complete success
of the years work should be rainy.
The fact that within the last week
practically every section of the state
has been visited either by rain or
has increased optimism.
Chiefs Red Bear and Enemy Heart,
accompanied by Alfred Bear, an inter
prefer from the Fort Berthold reser.
walton, have left for Washington. Red
Bear and Enemy Heart we're govern
ment scouts at Fort Abraham Lincoln
under Custer and were employed as
scouts on the memorable expedition
up the Yellowstone and Little Big
Horn in 1876. They want tc obtain a
pension.
While standing on the steps of his
engine, which was one of a double
header" on a e%astbound passenger
train, Peter Sorenson of jamestown
was hit by a standpipe at Windsor,
twenty miles west of Jamestown, and
seriously injured. At first it was
thought that several bones were brok-
en-, but later examinations showed his
condition less serious.
The use of fax screenings in feeding
cattle proved disastrous to a number
of n residing north of Williston.
There were a large number of deaths
from the use of this feed and for a
time the farmers, unaware of the prop-
critics of fa& screenings when used in
that manned were startled at condi-
lions and fearful that a plague had
broken out.
A quarter of section of land in Stan.
ley township, ten miles south of Far
go, has been sold for $55 per acre.
This is believed to be the highest
price paid for strictly farm land not
close to any incorporated city. The
land is a choice quarter, but no more
productive than many other farms in
the county and is entirely without
buildings.
B. J. Ness, a prominent druggist of
Devils Lake, is held for violation of
an order of injunction from the dis
trict court, with a hearing set for
April II. A restraining order against
the sale of intoXicants by the defend