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Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1915-09-09
Smoke "Council'' cigars.

Smoke "Council' cigars.
Miss Pearl Scott of Lawton, N. D.,
is spending the week visiting with
Langdon friends.
For a stylish hat at a reasonable
price call at Mrs. Quick's millinery
p%arlors.
Mrs. H. E. Fay went north to the
home of her parents at Hannah on
Mondays passenger for a visit of a
couple of days.
Mayor Mcintyre returned Friday
from a trip to Grand Forks where he
looked after legal matters during a
stay of a couple of days.
J.. E. Dixon, of the Dixon laundry
and shirt factory, at Fargo spent part
of yesterday in the city interviewing
Langdon customers regarding fall
orders.
Mrs. Thos. Devaney is leaving to-
day for Grand Forks, accompanied by
her son, Edwin. They visit there for
possibly a week or ten days with
friends.
Mrs. j. j. Robson left Tuesday for
the Twin Cities, where in company
with her sister, Mrs. M%allough, she
takes in the sights at the Minnesota
state fair this week.
Miss Violet Stewart returned to her
home at Milton on Saturdays after
loon train after being in the Langdon
hospital nearly a month under treat
ment of Drs.~ Mcqueen and Stromberg.
John Morrison is taking a tenn
porary lay off as clerk in the c. A.
Spellman drug store and limping
around on crutches as the result of an
operation in which a toe was ampu-
tated.
Mr.. Callander, ST., who has been
visiting for two weeks at the Mahon
home, left Tuesday for Fargo, where
he will stay for some little time with
his son, DR.. Callander, before return
ing to his home in Ohio.
Robert Schoenbechler, eldest son of
Blacksmith and Mrs. L. S~choenbech-
Ter, left on Saturdays train for Col
%legeville, Mimi, where he takes up
his second year of school work after a
pleasant visit home during the vaca-
ton.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1915-09-09
j. l.. Chard, the Hannah druggist,

j.. L.. Chard, the Hannah druggist,
was here yesterday for a short time
transacting business.
Joseph Nowatzki of Mt. Carmel
was a Grand Forks visitor a couple of
days last week on business connected
with the starting up Of his threshing
outfit.
Richard Power, who has spent most
of his summer vacation at the home
of his uncle, Archie Power, at Hum
bolt, Sask., returned Tuesday in
readiness for the opening of school
next week.
O. Gullickson and wife, accompani-
ed by their daughter, Miss Ida, were
returning passengers the first of the
week to their home at Park River
after a few days stay at the Nv. "A.
Monroe home.
B. Heating had one of the finest
stands of barley in the vicinity of
Langdon on his farm north of town
this eason and when the field was
threshed about a week ago it showed
an average yield of forty bushels to
the acre.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1915-09-09

Howard McNiven is holding down
the front seat of Art Barker's deli
very wagon this week while the latter
is away for a few days hunt with a
party of Langdon campers along the
northern boundary line near Mowbiay.
Chas. Jackson, who has been spend
ing a couple Of weeks here looking
after the crop on his farm south of
town, left yesterday returning to his
home at Kingsville, Ont, where the
family have resided since leaving
Langdon several years ago.
Arthur Foster left Friday on a trip
through southern Minnesota and por-
tions of Iowa, and on his return will
be accompanied by a party contem-
plating the purchase of farm lands
who will be interested in viewing the
harvesting and threshing operations
now in progress here.
Stanley Walker and Walter Hunter
had their autoes out several days OF
last week engaged by Banker Hedge
son of Osnabrock who had a party OF
eastern land buyers touring the
county. The agency which Mr..
Helgeson represents is stated as hav.
ing disposed of eight quarter sections
to these parties during their stay here.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1915-09-09

j. W. Pomeroy was a visitor
Thursday for a short time with Lang
don friends, leaving on the afternoon
train for his home at Minneapolis. At
Milton he was Joined by his son,
Walter, who has spent the most of
the m holiday in a visit at the
home Of his grand parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Henry Sehrt.
Peter H. Peters brought his nine
year old little son over from north of
Alsen to the Langdon hospital late
Monday night, the boy suffering in
tense pain from an attack of appendi-
citis, which had reached an acute
stage. An immediate operation was
found imperative to save the life of
the patient and the rupture of the ap-
pendix was disclosed when the opera
ton was performed. Although the
critical stage is not passed the steady
improvement of the case indicates a
chance of the patients ultimate
recovery.
The Boyd department. store got
in another carload shipment of fruit
on Saturdays freight, and the early
part of the week it was being sold on
track, and going like hot cakes.
Langdon dealers have disposed of not
less than four carloads of fruit, ship
ped here direct from the growers for
buyers of Langdon and vicinity. That
doesn't look much as though around
here the bill of fare for sauce this
winter will be confined to stewed
prunes and dried apples. Those days
are passed for the North Dakota farm
err, who now n days is living on the
best that the markets Of the country
afford.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1915-09-09
\ Local Happenings
Today's wheat-$ rs.

Today's wheat-$ rs.
The hunting season of 1915 opened
Tuesday with a total of 451 hunters
licenses issued from the office of
County Auditor Ole ]. Eide.
The information comes from the
experiment station of the state agri-
cultural college at Fargo that the
crop of winter rye for the season of
next year should be sown with a drill
early in September.
Commencing Sunday of this week
the Presbyterian church resumes the
regular evening service which has
been withdrawn during part of the
summer. Until further notice the
hour will continue to be eight o'clock.
Thursday of last week, September
End, goes on record with the highest
temperature recorded any day during
the summer season of 1915. The
maximum temperature at the local
weather bureau last Thursday is re-
ported as being "a degrees in the
shade.
In the last issue of the Journal at
Dunn Center, N. D., it is noted that
the additions to the commercial club
of that thriving town in the past
month includes the name of DR.. S. G.
Gibson, who during the summer re-
moved from Osnabrock and establish
ed a practice at Dunn Center.
Two Langdon young ladies are en-
tries at the start-off in the popular
voting contest which the Courier
News at Fargo has inaugurated this
fall for increasing the papers circula-
ton. The Langdon contestants are
Miss Helen Sanford and Miss Jennie
Robertson. Here's hoping that n
of them wins the first prize, a $1,000
automobile.
Up to the heavy rain which quite
generally passed over this county
Tuesday evening, the threshers enjoy
ed a steady run of nearly two weeks
and some of the machines around
Langdon had started on the third week
of their seasons run. The general
opinion is that grain will be in better
condition to thresh since the rainfall
of Tuesday evening.
Those of Langdon who were out
with dog and gun Tuesday for a
chicken shoot the opening day Of the
season report the crop of prairie
chickens as being scarce this fall.
Ducks promise to be quite plentiful.
By some the unusual scarcity of the
chickens is accounted for by many
being killed through eating poisoned
grain set out during the summer for
the purpose of killing gophers.
One of the Lakota papers tells of
the return to their home at that place
of Rev. and Mrs. w. E. Dudley from
an overland auto trip from Winnipeg,
being accompanied on their return by
His aunt, a Mrs. Curtis. They made
the run from Winnipeg to their home
at Lakota, a distance of upwards ITS
miles, in a day, making an early
morning start and arriving before the
setting in of dusk the same evening.
The Democrats Dresden readers,
and others of the vicinity, will doubt
less take an interest in giving more
than a casual glance to the annual
report of the school treasurer of the
South Dresden district. In addition
to the school of the town. of Dresden
itself the district of South Dresden is
one of the best equipped with good
schools of any of the rural districts
over the county and in the statement
Of the expenditure of the funds it will
be noted that the officials of the dis
trict are giving those whom they
serve a faithful and efficient service.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1915-09-09

Mrs. W. A. Laidlaw, last Saturday
brought to a close her Langdon visit
of two weeks at the home Of her sis
ter, Mrs. j. D. Milne.
John McGruer and sister, Miss
Juanita McGruer, were visitors eel
the week end with friends in Grand
Forks, returning home on Mondays
passenger.
Mrs. Ray Fabel went north to
Dresden yesterday after a visit during
the fore part of the week at the home
of her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. A.
Schulke.
Miss Bernedatta Schneider, a
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Peter
Schneider of Mt. Carmel, was brought
to town from her home Saturday and
placed in the Langdon hospital, where
the patient underwent an operation
for appendicitis the afternoon of the
same day.
Mrs. Edward Gull, of St. Thomas,
was a visitor for a few days of last
week at the home of her brother, DR..
W. W.. Mcqueen From Langdon Mrs.
Gull went west to Tolley and Sher-
wood, at which places she will spend
some time visiting at the home of a
son and a daughter before returning
to her home in the Valley.
Gordon Kaercher, the little son of
MIR. and Mrs. Ben Kaercher, north of
Osnabrock numbers among the
patients at the Langdon hospital. In
addition to an attack of appendicitis
for which he has already undergone
an operation, it has been found that
the little fellow is also suffering from
a tumor.
j. j. Robson returned the end of
the week from his farm in the western
part of the county near Clyde where
the result of threshing operations
showed his crop of barley to fall
under Is bushels to the acre. Mr..
Robson's farm is located in the strip
through the western part of the
county which suffered from drouth
during the July period of the crops
growth, and is known as the dry belt.
Doctor Tom Smith, of the Langdon
dental firm of Smith & Hughes, in a
card from San Francisco under date of
the 31st ult., goes into estacies over
a meal that himself and wife had at
the Heidelberg Inn, at the exposition.
He says it is some.place for good Ger
man dishes. Since the arrival of
DR.. and Mrs. Smith on the coast he
says the weather has been all that
could be desired and they are having
a fine time. The dental congress-, to
which Mr.. Smith is a delegate from
this state, is being given an attend.
ance from members Of the profession
from all parts of the Old World as
we'll as the United States.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1915-09-09
DR.. Judd II. kirkhd1n
PHYSICIAN and SURGEON
House Phone No. IO9 Office No. 1872

The A. O.. Void family are this
week moving from the small house
north of the Presbyterian church to
their home at the north end of Third
street, recently vacated by G. D..
Wentworth and which has been under
going a line of interior improvements
the past week.
John j. Boyd and wife accompanied
by their little son, Joe, were passen-
gers Tuesday to the Twin Cities.
After a short stay at the fair Mrs.
Boyd and Joe will journey on to her
old home in Wisconsin for a visit dur
ing a part Of the fall season. Mr..
Boyd expects to return to the city
about the end of the week.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1915-09-09
DrS. Smith ( Hughes
DENTISTS
OFFICE HOURS: Every Day Except
Sunday: From 9 to 12-1 to 6
Donovan Block

Miss Loretta Lee, who has been
making a few weeks visit at the home
of her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. John
Lee, who removed from Langdon to
Sharon, N. D., a year ago, returned
to the city last week to resume her
position in the dry goods department
at the j. B. Boyd store.
The Farmers Elevator Co. has been
taking in a large share Of the grain
marketed in Langdon since threshing
started and though cars have been
loaded daily the elevator, which has a
larger capacity than any other at this
point, is nearly filled up with grain at
the close of each day.
Richard Hayward has been in the
city from Grand Forks since the early
part of the week looking after the
threshing of crops on the Hayward
farms, which he finds to be better
than in several years. He expects to
extend his stay among old Langdon
friends until the end of the week.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1915-09-09

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CHARGES EXPERT Work
GUARANTEED
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Drop a Postal and l Will Call
LANGDON NORTH DAKOTA
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-10-26
storn of nIseovery of Nome

The following is the story of the discovery of Nome as told in letter by Mir. Lindeberg himself:
 After prospecting ground in that district (CounciD for some time and stalking claims. we formed a prospect ing company and decided to prospect over a wider range of Territory. Ev- en at this early date the Council City district was over-run by stam- peders and staked to the mountain tops SO we proceeded to Goloiin bay and taking a large. open boat and an outfit of provisions on September 11, 1898. we started up the coast towards Point Clarence. stopping at ravious rivers to prospect on the way and found signs of gold but not in paying quantities. and finally arriving at what is now known as Nome From there We proceeded up Snake river which we named, and camped at the mouth of Glacier creek. prospecting all the way along.
 "The first encouraging signs of gold we found on the banks of Snake riv- CT was at about the place were Lanes pumping plant Is now located. After locating our camp as before mention ed we proceeded to prospect along the tributaries of Snake river which tri- butaries we named as follows: Anvil creei-taking the name from an an- vll-shaped rock on the east Of of the creel1-Snow gulch. Glacier creek. Rock creek and Dry creek, In all of which we found gold in paying Quan- titles and proceeded to locate claims. First on Anvil creek. because we found better prospects on chat creek than any of the others, and where we To- cated the discovery claim in the name of us three jointly. In addition to this each man staked a separate claim in his own name on the creek This was the universal custom in Alaska as it was conceded that the discov- erer was entitled to the discovery claim and one other After locating on Anvil creek, claims were staked on Snow gulch. Dry creek and Rock creek. after which we returned to Golovin bay and reported the discov- cry
 Mr. Lindeberg's partners were John Brynteson and Brick o Londblom
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-10-26
GOVERNMENT TEAMo aghpY FOR JUNEAU
 PUBLIC lF WANTED

One Of the big teams of horses used by the AlasiR board of road commits alonors on the roads of Southeastern Aiaska lhat the road commission ls willing should be used to work on Ju- neau roads for tho coming winter Is in the city and another will be here in a few days. The team >came from sitia. where it has been employed for sometime. The other will come from Prince of Wales Island
 Lieut.. ]. c. Mehaffey, the engineer officer of tho commission, who Is in Juneau confirmed the offer made last week by Superintendent J. c. Hayes, which was that the commission would donate the uso of two teams of hors. es. wagons, scrapers and other tools and equipment for the purpose of keeping the roads in repair in this vicinity if the people would provide drivers. helpers and food for the hors. es.
 It has been suggested that the auto mobile owners and others who use the roads could form Good Roads AS. sociation." or some like organization and assume the obligation Of raising the money that would be required for tho community to avail Itself of the offer of tho road commission.
 68 Automoblleo in Juneau
 The city tax records disclose the fact that there are 6S automobiles in Juneau, and more arc coming right along. The owner of these machines, as well as others who use the roads in tho Juneau neighborhood, are in- terested in keeping the roads in re- pair during tho winter
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-10-26

Story Of the Discovery Of Nelehina
 Frank J. Cotter. who has been there tells as follows, the story of the dis covery Of the Nelchiua diggings:
 Early last spring two prospectors left Knik intending to prospect lit- tie known belt of the country that lies at the head of the Matanuska river They followed the coal trail to the Chickaloon and then struck ov- CT the hills. following Hicks creek, over Caribou and up Aiigred creel, to the head. so far they had found noth- ing that would cause them to stop and dig deeper SO they crossed the range of hills that divide the Matanuska and Nelohina water sheds and dropped down what is now known as crooked creek. as far as the mouth of Albert creek
 Here the country looked good to the men and they set mp 9 permanent camp and began to prospect on the rim along the creeks. They found a place on Albert creek about a mile from the mouth. where years ago a couple of miners had started to run a cut. but had abandoned 1t an account of encountering a frozen seam in the sediment On account of the work that had been done these two pros pectors-Getchell and Olson begun work where their predecessors left off. They sank only a few inches when the struck gravel that banned course gold.
 By this time it was pretty late in the season but they started a cut that would take them to bedrock and began shoveling into three little boxes that they made out of whipsawed lum Der My the time the water had iroz. en up on them in the fall they had taken out 65 ounces of coarse gold from a space of ground that would not measure better than 40 feet square Getchell and Olson brought the gold out and new mining camp was born in the north
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-10-26
AALLER aEEKs nIvoRcE

/ Divorce proceedings were begun to. day by Edward p. Haller asking that the bonds of matrimony be dissolved between himself and Minnie Haller, to whom he was married November 8. 1911. The complaint charges that the defendant deserted Haller in Sep tember of 1912 at Fairbanks, and that although he has contributed to her support since then and has made re- peated requests that she return and 1.-Two with him. she has consistently refused to do so H. L. Faulkner rep resents the plaintiff
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-10-26
Discovery of Ruby

Johnson and Fornander discovered pay in the early spring of 1911 on Long creek. Ruby, and found it on a place on which the camp of former prosplectors stood. Smiling Albert Lind had actually lived some years before on the ground which is now the discovery claim and he and oth- CTS had prospected an around. The onutput from Ruby for the past year exceeded half million dollars and the claim known as Two above on Long creek was sold by John Drake for s1OO0O MT. Drake and his part ner Shepard were the first to arrive on the scene after the discovery
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-10-26
Stories of Alaska Gold
 Camp Discoveries
Compiled from Various Sources and Printed by All-Aiaska Re- view Seward

Story or the Discovery of Che chisana
 Told by Mrs James, wife of che discoycrer to the Dawson News:
 "Mr. James and ] had just pros pccted in the upper White River coun- try three years. and Mr. Nelson also was in the district with us We had confined out attention Go quartz on the Beaver and vicinity above snag.
 Last April Mr. James, Mr. Nelson and packed our dogs and made the hard and tedious mush over the di- vide of Che Beaver to the Chisano watershed. The snow was not an off, and we had hard trip About the first of May we got down to @ point near the mouth of what is now known as Bonanza, and there we banned along the edge of the creek in the edge of the ice We got some colors and were much encouraged by the pannings along the Bonanza rim.
 "After we got the first gold on Bonanza Nelson said it looked to him as though we could take out wages if we had a Hume hose We had no money with which Co make purchases, but he felt sure he could get the hose if he came to Dawson. He went out about May 1S and came to Dawson and got the hose and then returned. We did not have much gold when he left us. ] believed we had banned something like S9 at first After Nel- son left Billie and went banning up the creek to other points to put in time We had a little tent and camped at various points. each night on a meagrc fare. In fact we almost starved before Nelson came back.
 "When we got to a strange creek running into Bonanza. we followed it up and looked for the run. At one place Billie spoke to me, saying, let me have the pan; here's a little bed rock cropping out He took the pan and to our surprise got five to ten dollars in the bright gold had a little frying pan in which we cooked eggs in those lucky days, when we could produce such luxuries In this pan got about 80 in gold We then prospected a little further up and dis covered gold and stakcd a discovery claim where we got the rich pans mentioned we staked as No. l and named the creek Little Eldorado That is the stream on which we did most of our work this summer While waiting for Nelson to return from Dawson we went over the hin and banned on Gold Run.
 Before Nels returned we had taken out something like $500 on Little El- dorado by banning and we had it in the pans to show him when he came up with the horses laden with grub Others were also present We were never SO glad to see anybody In our lives. and we gave a wild cheer. but can tell you ] had trouble in keep ing back the tears. For days we were on Little Eidorado eating the handful of rough food. with no sugar no salt no four
 "we had wild meat and as we were chewing on it we had great visions of other good things which gold could buy in some countries. Then before ms was plenty of gold but we could not eat it. In itself it was absolute iy useless.
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-10-26

pnhv wae discovered because fhe

Ruby was discovered because the two discoverers encountered a bliz- gard on top of the divide between Long creek and Spruce creek and they decided to descend to the bot tom of Long creek for shelter Be- fore that time. however they had un- dergone some strenuous experiences part of which was the cutting Of Q road through dense timber to get their supplies into the country. Their reward has been the acquisition of a good stake.
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-10-26
National forest Timber for Sale


 Sealed bids will be received by the Forest Supervisor, KetchilSan, Alaska, up to and including November 12. 1915 for an the timber extending 2000 feet back from the shore around the small bay immediately north of Point Hep burn, estimated to be 50,000 linear feet of Spruce and Hemlock piling. more or less. No bid of less than %c per linear foot for all piling up to and including 75 feet in length and 1c per linear foot for an piling over 70 feet in length will be considered. Deposit with bid S200.00 The right to reject any and all bids is reserved. Before bids are submitted full infor- nation concerning the timber condi. tions Of sale, and the submission of bids should be obtained from the For est Supervisor, Ketchikan, Alaska.
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