Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1916-09-21
News Of the Week From Many
Sections of The State
MANY ITEMS OF INTEREST
Events Are Briefly Written In Order
to Make PerusaI Easier for
Busy Readers.

NAlloloL , leCelllly COllplcIcu pun
toon bridge across the Missouri river
is proving successful in bringing new
trade to the city.
During the second year of its *
istence the city of Kildeer has con
Quoted building operations aggregat-
ing about $150,000.
Fire destroyed the I.eith Mercan-
tile company store at I.eith with a
loss of $4,000. For a time the en-
tire business section was threatened.
Grand Forks has called a special
election for Oct. 2 to ballot on the
proposed issuance Of bonds for the
Improvement OF the city's filtration
plant.
Denny Newman. eighteen years old,
Was the second victim of the North
Dakota hunting season. He was kill
ed at the Maher farm neal Devils
Lake.
The first definitely established
case Of infantile paralysis in North
Dakota resulted in the death of 4
twelve-year-old victim five miles from
Wheatland.
Discovery of gas on the Peter
Hendrickson farm, three miles from
Nilliston, will be followed by exten'
sive boring operations. A company
has been formed to back the search
for deposits.
Hugh Duffy, seventy-tWo years old,
a hackdriver in Grand Forks and
East Grand Forks for forty years,
died of heart disease while seated at
a table in a restaurant.
Fire originating in an Oil explosion
destroyed the roundhouse, machine
shop and coal yards of the Midland
Continental railroad at jamestown,
entailing an estimated loss of $50, 900.
Albert Mamega, an Eldridge farm,
err, is awaiting trial on a charge of
first degree murder as a result of the
death of Andrew Sonek, a neighbor,
following a fight over the ownership
of a wagon.
Knocked down by an Infatuated
cow, Paul Wicka. residing near
Beach, was saved from death by the
prompt action of an a%utoist, who,
when a half mile away, heard Wicka's
cries for help.
John Lee, a negro convict. escaped
from the penitentiary at Bismarck
and was caught at a farm near the
prison. Lees escape marked the
twenty-third man who has escaped
from the institution this summer.
Christion Doe, member of Company
u, North Dakota national guard, whose
death occurred at the Mexican border,
was a victim of stomach ulcers. Doe
was the first member of the state
guard to die while in the federal serv-
ice.
Failing into the fly wheel of a gas
tractor engine, William Kuhlman of
Wimbledon wa whirled to death.
Kuhlman suffered many fractured
ribs and internal injuries and lived
only a few minutes after being re-
leased.
O.. Rasmussen of Cavalier has re-
turned to his home after a trip to
Denmark and reports that butter and
meat are so cents a pound in Copen-
hagen and other commodities range
in the same proportion. while wages
paid laborers are small.
Under arrest on a minor charge,
M. Snyder was identified by the Minot
police as the man they have sought
since last December on charges of
grand larceny. Snyder is accused of
stealing jewelry and a $3.50 certificate
of deposit from a laborer.
North Dakota will be a half million
dollars short as a result of the state
equalization boards action in reduc-
ing real estate and railroad assess
ments 10 per cent. Such is the esti-
mate of George Wallace. member of
the state tax commission.
Bismarck has closed a contract
with the Barber Asphalt company for
what is said to be the largest single
paving project in the history Of NUM-
cipal improvements in America. The
deal involves $446,440 and 193,O24
square yards Of pavement.
Leaving her seven-months-old baby
in a buggy while she aided her hus-
band in a grain field near Hansboro,
Mrs. F. Knutilt returned to the child
to find it smothered to death. The
infant had turned over and became
helpless with its face in the blankets.
There is a general feeling among
the North Dakota troops at the Mex
lean border that they will be ordered
home soon. A letter from the camp
notes the fact that several officers
have returned and Colonel j.. H.
Frame is on a ten-day leave of alb
sence.
Attended by 1000 Indians of North
and South Dakota, Montana and Ne
braska, the annual Indian conference
of the Congregational and Presbyteri-
an churches has been brought to a
close at Cannon Ball. 1t was the
largest gathering In the history Of the
missions.