Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1912-10-31
Events Throughout the State
Tersely Told.

10 return 10 Greece to tight the battles
OF their country. In several instances
the Greeks have left homesteads after
two or three years of residence and
when but little more time was re-
CURED to prove up inc secure abso-
lutte title. In each case they will lose
their land, valued at as high as $50
an acre. 1t is estimated at least 100
Greek .homesteaders have left the
state and have thus renowned all
rights to the land which they home
steaded. Although it has been sug-
gested that the law be suspended in
the case of such the authorities de-
clare such action is impossible.
-Four new banks have Just been
chartered by the secretary of state.
The new banks are the Millarton
State bank, Stutsman county, with S.
F. Corwin, II. T. Graves and A. B.
Denault as incorporators; the North
west State bank at Oakdale, Dunn
county, with M. S. Cuskelly, A. B. Cur
rey and Robert T.. Wilcox as incor-
porators; the Farms State bank, Scha-
fer, with Adam Hannah of Minneap-
oils, Rudolph Hoel of Ray and Mon
rad j. Olson of Charlson as incor-
porators; the First State bank of Buff
falo Springs, with J. E. Phelan, C. j.
Phelan and Dugald Stewart as incor-
porators. Each of the banks are cap.
italized at $4,000.
That North Dakota crops are prac.
tically out of danger is the opinion of
Secretary Thomas Cooper, who re-
turned to Fargo from a trip of inspec-
ton through the state. Three weeks
more of favorable weather will see the
state crop all threshed and housed
and nothing but the most abnormal
weather conditions can prevent" said
Mr.. Cooper. There is now no danger
OF large losses. The long delay will
mean a larger cost for the farmers
and there will not be as much fall
blowing as. there should be. The la
Dor situation is not critical now,
though more men could find employ
ment.'
One of the most disastrous prairie
fires experienced in many years swept
over a large area south of Braddock.
The fire started at the V. Sedick
farm, fourteen miles south of Brad
dock, and famed by a strong wind
it spread rapidly. Among the losses
were S. Nathan, a threshing machine;
]. Mutters, t%hirty-fve acres of flax;
Mrs. c. Lewis, barn and stock; Henry
Serum, hay and forty acres of flax;
E. r. Purinton, eight stacks of hay;
Thomas Martinson, barn and several
stacks of lay; Emil Neuman, barn
and contents and two stacks of hay.
More money for rural schools is
urged by the county superintendent
OF schools of the state, their recon-
m%endations being adopted by the state
association meeting at Grand Forks.
They contend that the states appro-
priation for rural schools should be
doubled or trebled that benefits
might be extended to all the schools
OF that class. Changes in several
other laws also are asked by the SUI
my OO1u5 pa LlCuldIly
in favor Of better laws for the rural
districts, that their aid might be &C
corded the children of the country.
J. Nelson Kelly, superintendent of
the Grand Forks public schools, was
elected president of the North Dakota
Educational association at Grand
Forks. The election was held under
the new primary plan. Miss Minnie
j.. Nelson, Valley City, was named for
the four-year term on the board of
directors; S. Henry Wolfe, Minot, for
three years, and H. S. Berg, Dickin-
son, for two years.
George Ventgear, son of a farmer
living twenty miles south of Bis
marck, had a narrow escape from
death at home when his team ran
away, throwing the boy to the ground.
Both jaws were broken, the frontal
bone of the skull fractured and con-
cussion Of the brain we're the results
Of the accident. He is not expected
to live.
Supposedly detected because her
sweetheart left her Florence Hopkins,
tWenty-four years old, drank a guam
tfty of laudanum. Physicians were
successful in restoring her to con-
seriousness after ten hours work. The
girl drank the poison in a booth of a
Minot restaurant where she had quar-
relied with her sweetheart.
Sheriff Barnes of Burleigh county
has been cited to appear before the
district cour at Bismarck on Wednes-
day, Nov. 6, to answer to the accusa-
ton filed against him by Constable
F. L.. Watkins in general custer pro-
ceedings.
The union depot at Davenport, used
jointly by the Northern Pacific and
Great Northern, was burglarized. The
robbers cut the telegraph wires and
secured about $25.
Roosevelt Sues Editor for Libel.
Marpl1otto Mich not OF S,,;4 e.,