Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1912-10-03
Brief NEWS ITEMS
Events Throughout the State
TerseIy Told

Ing experience OF his wolf hunting |
career six miles from Glen Ullin. His
four hounds chased up a wolf in some
brush and before he could reach them
it had torn all the dogs badly, two so
seriously that they may die. They
held it until he shot it and he found
it the largest and ~fiercest one he had
ever seen. It measured seven feet in
length and lad tusks so long that one
could readily understand the damage
it wrought upon the dogs. One has a
terrible cash in the side and the other
had his throat laid open. He has
hunted wolves with hounds for years,
but never before tackled so large and
fierce a brute.
Mrs. Hortense Fagen of st. Paul
fired two shots at a pair Of would be
holdups near Darlington while return.
ing to the home of her parents in the
city after attending a theater. Mrs.
Fagen was accompanied by her sister,
Miss Ruby Day, when %accosted by the
men, who insisted on %escorting them
home. Mrs. Fagen ordered the men
away, displaying a small revolver
which she carried in her handbag. A
second attempt by the men to force
their attentions was followed by two
shots from Mrs. Fagen's revolver and
the men fled in wild panic.
Quite a sensation was created at
Minot as a result of the resignation
of Dudley Nash from the office of
states attorney of Ward county, his
resignation being followed with the
resignation of Ben Bradford, who was
assistant. Attorney Nash gave as his
reason for resigning that during the
next three months he would be busy
with private legal practice and could
not afford to devote time to the Office
of states attorney.
Two persons were severely burned
in Forest River when a gas iron ex-
ploded. Miss Francis Wood, daughter
Of James S. Wood of that place, was
using the iron and when it failed to
work properly she attempted to ex-
tinguish the flame. Before she was
successful the iron exploded and the
young woman was burned about the
arms, face and breast. Her grand
father, sitting near, was also burned.
Fred Champagne, a young man from
the reservation near Dunseith, was
killed by lightning in a storm near
Bottineau. He was hauling grain to
the elevator and on the way back was
overtaken by the storm. He was
fNIn1 cittir q in thu roCf with two
holes in the top of his head, his right
side considerably burned and his
clothing badly torn off. He leaves a
wife and three young children.
Word has been received at Grand
Forks of the death of John Livingston
Grandin, one of the founders of the
famous Grandin farm in Trail coun-
ty-the first bonanza farm in North
Dakota. Mr.. Grandin was seventy-six
years old at the time of his death,
which occurred at Battle Creek, Mich,
after an operation for stomach trou-
BILE.
On account of Mrs. McClory's ill
health Mayor P. j. McClory of Devils
Lake announces that he has decided
to move to San Diego, CAL, where tne
family will make their future home.
The mayor expects to leave in about
a month for the West, leaving Devils
Lake, where he has spent the best
part of his life.
A tumor weighing twenty and one
half pounds, or more than three times
| %h@ ay0~a~@ ~r@s~1% ~ 1-,-
babe, was removed from the left kid
ney of Anna Ledderboge of Stark
weather, at the general hospital in
Devils Lake. The woman will recov-
er, the physicians say.
Robert Spooner of Havana, aged
three years, son of James Spooner,
received a broken neck in a fall of
only three feet from the hub of a
wagon. The little fellow vas trying
to climb into the wagon box when the
horses attached to the vehicle started
forward.
Twenty cars of wheat and one Of
barley were thrown into a ditch and
the contents distributed broadcast in
a freight wreck on the 500 line a mile
west of Mcleod. The cars were de-
molished and the rails were torn up
for a quarter of a mile.
~Incendiaries set fire to a barn on
the farm of Major c. w. Buttz Of
Buttzville. The barn was one Of the
largest in Ransom county, valued at
$4,000. Tenants had the place rented
and fourteen of their horses were
burned to death.
The Williston council has voted to
send Mayor Jackson and H. H. Stoors,
an electrical expert, to Washington to
represent the city in the matter of Sc
curing a contract for supplying Will
iiston with government electrical pow
er.
Charley Corville of Ray, young SON
of Silas Corville, m%iraculously escaped
death when his team ran away, plung-
ing into a wire fence and tipping a
load of lumber upon him.