Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1916-09-14

ty boy, who was raised in Forman,
and is a son OF Mrs. E. B. Hurry of
that place, was nominated by a ma
jority Of 1854 votes for the judge
ship of the Sixteenth district of Mon
tana.
His nose lacerated and with two
deep gashes in one cheek, Archie
Reynolds, u police officer, is in a Man
dan hospital following a fight in the
city fire hall. The battle was the
climax Of q social gathering of fire
men and their friends.
Pierced by the handle of a pitch
fork when he fell off a load Of hay,
lver Kjelby, seventeen years old,
climbed back on his wagon, drove to
Hastings and then walked a half
mile before getting medical aid. He
will recover, surgeons say.
Major James Fanley, commanding
the Third battalion of North Dakota's
regiment OF national guard, now on
the Texas border, has resigned. ne
is expected to return soon to open
the regular term OF court in Oliver
county, where he is district Judge.
Alleging the growth of his son Will
lam, twelve years old, was stunted as
the result OF Il collision between q
buggy in which the boy was riding
and a Great Northern engine at Bert
hold, last November. Harry S. Arm
old has brought suit against the rcaA
for $25, 200.
The Fort Ransom board of educG-
ton will not build q schoolhouse this
year, court proceedings before Judge
Allen determining the issue. Patrons
insisted they were entitled to a new
building and brought suit to establish
their point. The court declared funds
are lacking.
William H. White, Red River val
ley pioneer, is dead at his home in
Fargo. Mr.. White arrived at Fargo
in 1872 and had lived there ever
since, He was for several years
president of the Red River Valley
university of Wahpeton, later remoV
ed to Grand Forks.
How he shot his father in self de-
tense, while on return home from
Iowa to appear in divorce proceed
ings instituted by his mother, was
the story of Ray Bauch, in Jail at
CogsWell awaiting preliminary hear
ing for the murder of William Bauch,
a Forman veterinarian.
School authorities of Barnes county
as we'll as of Kidder county will make
a thorough campaign of the county to
spread information with respect to
measures for combating infantile par
alysis. The fact that there is consid-
cradle of the paralysis in the North
west caused the movement.
The board of education at Des Laos
wondered if the school house furnace
was in good working order for the
opening of the fall term. It was
tested and found to be operating
beautifully-so we'll, in fact, that the
$4,000 building was burned to the
ground in the testing process.
Facing a loss estimated at 100000,
couraged because fire wiped out a
portion of the business district. The
Bovey-Shute Lumber company, with a
100000 loss; Gus Sather, $4,000, and
the Rossum, Hagen & Nelson store,
$4,000, were the heaviest losers.
Bismarck will be the recruiting
headquarters for the state. Captain
G. I. Solum will open offices there
soon and with him will be Sergeant
e. c.. Baumez, Corporal r. NJ. Dine
hart and Private V. R. Hill. Branch
headquarters will be opened at Minot
with Lieutenant Ernest Hill in charge.
Petitions asking the division Of
Morton county, providing for the crea-
ton Of II Grant county, are On file
with tho county commissioners at
Mandan. Grant would be made up OF
forty-three townships in the southern
proposal, leaving forty-seven town
ships in Morton county.
Frightened by an automobile that
was being driven in a funeral process
sion at Grand Forks a team being
held by James Evansad o. Reynolds,
llduC q udSii. hllOtINlllS IilC wy ~ LlS
ground and tramping over him and
crashed through the line Of teams and
automobiles, hurting the occupants to
the right and left and severely iniur-
ing many.
The Olympian passenger train No.
Is on the st. Paul road went into the
ditch three miles west Of Bowman.
The engine, two mail cars and & bag
gage car were derailed. j. B. Mar
shall, engineer, was scalded severely
and was taken to the railroad hos
pital at Mobridge, S. d., and Fireman
Joe James was burned, but not Sc
riously. None of the passengers was
hurt.
Twenty-three hundred volts Of cleo
tricity passed through the body of r..
G. Horn, a lineman, when he grabbed
a live wire while working at the top
of a pole in Dickinson, but he escaped
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