Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1916-12-28

weather, charged with the murder OF
William Osterman, May 16, 1916, re.
ported a disagreement at Mandan last
Friday after eight hours elaboration.
Denton Burdick, formerly of Fargo,
was seriously injured recently when
| his automobile crashed over a 1S0-
foot precipice near Bend, Ore. His
companion, Neil Southwick, was kill
ed and another man seriously hurt.
Bank in this state grew
nearly $7,000,0 900 between the past two
calls for statements, according to the
showing on state banks alone. The
state banks have total resources Of
$106. 967,766 under the most recent
call.
Leon Nash, who surrendered last
week to Steele authorities who were
seeking him for the murder of Clar.
ence Hicks, was taken to a Bismarck
hospital, suffering with frozen feet.
amputation of which may be neces.
sary.
AS a result of the recent meeting of
the Grand Forks County Better Farm.
ing association, that organization will
hereafter work in closer cooperation
with the state experiment station in
the conduct of its better farming cam
paign.
Miss Bernice Baker was nearly
drowned in a small pond at Ligdcr.
wood last week when the motorcar in
which she was riding broke througll,
the ice. She was rescued, uncoH-
scious, from our feet of water by he.
companion.
Claus Lundquist pleaded guilty at
Williston last week to the charge IF
shooting Sigrud Celestial with intent
to kill and vas sentenced to the pen.
itentiary. The shooting was the re.
suit of domestic trouble in the Lund.
quist family.
Winter sports have seized Grand
Forks with a firm grip this year. Two
municipal ice Kinks, two municipal
toboggan slides and a ski slide, the
second highest in the northwest, af-
ford followers OF the winter games
big attractions.
Fire starting from an explosion of
gasoline used i'll a coffee urn in a
restaurant destroyed the Flatiron
building at Minot with a loss estimat.
ed at 100000. The office of the Mi
not Daily News, in the building, was
among those destroyed.
To the Farmers Elevator company
OF COlgan goes the honor of sending
the first load of wheat into the Equity
Cooperative exchange $200, 900 eleva-
tor at st. Paul. The wheat was
bought by the st. Paul Milling COM
pany for the Equity Cooperative ex-
change.
Emil f. Wiese, a farmer living heal
Eldridge, was instantly killed last
week while attempting to thaw out
the cap on a metal gasoline barrel
with a blow torch. The intense heat
exploded the cap, and Wiese's head
was blown off. His body was found
eighteen feet from the tank.
Secretary of the Interior Lane has
ruled that public lands lying in the
eastern sections of North and South
Dakota and Kansas cannot be consid-
cred nonirrigable within the meaning
W AN 1 SAAAo Y
act under which so-called double en-
tries of 320-acre tracts of non-irrigable
lands may be made by homesteaders.
Foreign diplomats as we'll as others
living in Washington will have 10
forego the use of wines at their table,
if an amendment to the Sheppard bill
for making the District of Columbia
1ry ir o,1rrfn 1v +l,~ Co.,o4o Co..
tor Gronra is the author of the
amendment and he has procured an
agreement with the Texas senator
that it will be acceptable to him.
Judge X. E. Leighton of the district
court at Alinot tempered justice with
mercy when he sentenced D. NJ.
Schreck to two years Imprisonment
for stealing grain, but suspended the
sentence providing Schreck can ob-
tain some II to sign a $1,000 bond
for him. The Judge was convinced
that Schreck stole the grain because
of the desperate need of his family.
Six men, said TO be members of. an
illegal liquor selling gang, were or
dered arrested by Attorney General
II. j. Linde at Bismarck last Thursday
night as a result of his efforts to trace
the sources OF the alleged b~ootlegging
i'll Bismarck. According to the attor-
ney general the men are members Of
an alleged Bookkeeping machine"
, composed OF forty-seven members.
Settlement OF differences between
the North Dakota union Of the So
: ciety Of Equity and the North Dakota
Farmers N~onpartisan league over the
Equity movement for the establish
| ment OF a cooperative packing plant
in Fargo, has been followed by the
t renewal of. active stock selling, di-
: rected by the Equity interests. 1t is
declared the packing plant will be in
f operation within the coming year.
} Termination Of the controversy in
; congress over the claim of DR.. Fred
erick A. Cook to the discovery of the
D ! North Pole is indicated nv the state-