Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1915-11-25
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kota High School Athletic league, will
be held in Minot, Valley City, Bis
marck and Grand Forks. The place
for the final tournament is o yet
fixed. The basketball tournament will
be held in the latter part of February
or the first part of March. The state
is divided into four sections. The
winners of each sectional tournament
will compete in the state event.
Voters of Fargo may be called on
to vote on the recall of two of the
city commissioners. Unless Joseph
Ames, commissioner of streets and
public property, and Robert B. Blake
more, commissioner of water works,
vote in favor of vacating the alley in
which the Rumely Products company
contemplates the erection of a $780,
600 plant, the Commercial club will
circulate petitions for a recall cleo
ton.
Esther Arnard, seven years old,
saved the life of her fifteeen-months-
old sister when the Arnard home, ear
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little girl and the baby were alone
when the fire broke out. The former,
who was in the garden when she dis
covered the flames, broke through a
window, crawled into the smoke filled
room and succeeded in removing the
baby, which was asleep on a bed.
M. A. Williams and George Davis,
alleged companions of Mack MCGEE
of st. Paul in the murder of Louis
Dumas at Norma, were convicted in
the district court at Mohall and Davis
was sentenced to twenty-four years
and Williams to ten years imprison-
ment MCGEE was convicted and sen
fenced to life Imprisonment. Dumas
was killed in a fight over a card game.
Hiding in a cave which he had dug
in the side of a hill at Long lake, the
entrance to which was cleverly ON
cealed, an insane man, who has sub
sisted on fruits for weeks, has been
captured by Griggs county authorities.
The man refuses to reveal his iden-
tity. In his wandering about the coun-
try the man carried two revolvers and
%terroriZed farmers.
The automobile top being up saved
Mr.. and Mrs. H. I. Ulvick Of Aneta
from death when the machine Skidded
and turned over. Both We're pinned
under the machine, but top stays pre-
vented them from being crushed. The
accident occurred near the railroad
track and members of a freight crew
who saw the wrecked car rescued the
couple.
David, four-year-old O of /. p.
Hardy, a farmer near Broncho, was
instantly killed in a horrible manner
Perched on top Of a load of grain he
was riding to market with his father
when he fell from his seat. One of
the hind wheels of the wagon passed
over his head, crushing his skull.
George A. Smith, the Plaza news
paper man, announced that he is a
candidate for governor. He says he
will run as a Republican on what he
calls a dollar platform, with a pro.
gram of economic reforms. Smith
has nine newspapers and a reform
magazine.
A survey of Ramsey county and the
lake region finds more fall blowing
completed this year than on the aver
age, despite the fact that the farm,
ers have had more threshing to do.
One big land me living north of
Devils Lake has plowed his entire
farm.
c. L. Hauser, a former manager OF
the Mandan Mercantile company yard
at Werner, pleaded guilty to the EN-.
bezzlement of owe $4,000. He was
sentenced to one year in the peniten-
tiary by Judge Crawford.
The North Dakota improved seed
growers contest will be held on dates
of Jan. IS to % at Fargo. Very lib.
eral prizes are offered on all seeds
grown in North Dakota.
About $4,000 bushels of wheat were
in the Ely-Salyards elevator in Hanna.
ford when it was destroyed by fire of
an unexplained origin. The loss is
dUOuC 9lU,OUU.
George Peterson of Langdon, eight
years old, accidentally shot his brother
Fred, fourteen years old, and the lat,
ter may die. The two were playing
with a gun.
While l.. w. Little of Manning was
chopping kindling a silver flew into
his right eye, piercing the eyeball.
He will lose the sight in the optic.
Jacob Rivinius, a farmer neal Elgin,
reports a yield of los bushels of bar
ley to the acre on a piece of summer
fallow land.
DR.. Alexander, a well known physi-
clan of Hope, was killed when his
automobile turned over.