Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1916-06-01
IN NORTH DAKOTA
News Of the Week From Many
Sections Of the State,
MANY ITEMS OF INTEREST
Events Are Briefly Written in Order
to Make Perusal Easier for
Busy Readers.

Mrs. Barbara LORI. ffty-two years Of
eye, drowned herself in a we'll on her
farm nea Harvey.
Carl Braaton Of Tolna was kicked
behind the ear by his horse and in
stantly killed while trying to place a
harness on the animal.
Eddie Roethlein of Cathay was
killed in an auto accident. John Lett
ner, driving the auto. was backing up
when the boy was run down.
John Stockmeyer Of Bowbells was
kicl-ed fatally by his horse while adj
jae1iag a harness. He stopped owe
and was kicked on top of the head.
Nj: holay Japalsky. injured while
fighting a fire near Surrey, died in a
hospital at Minot. He was fighting a
prairie fire when his clothing ignited.
John Storey of Conway was killed
and Charles O'Gorman Of Grand Forks
was injured seriously when their road
olCl upset lOul lllllGS west VI Sldilu
Forks.
Two big Office building enterprises
for Fargo, one Of which contemplates
the construction of an eight-story
block and the other a five-story build
ing, have been announced.
Six persons we're hurt and property
do n9Sn pCfimatnd of C0nO nOD was
done in and around Wimbledon by a
tornado that struck the district and
an additional 100000 damage wa
done by the storm in other sections.
H. R. Hartman of Page sold two
loads of fat steers on the South st.
Paul live stock market for $685. per
hundred pounds. The price is said to
be a record breaker. Several other
stockmen sold sters at $S.75 to SO. per
hundred pounds.
Fifty-two students Of the North Da-
kota Agricultural college at Fargo will
receive degrees June 13. The com
mencement exercises will be the eli.
max OF a weeks events, the most
striking of which will be a pageant
depicting the early history of the col
lege.
More than 1000 school children,
each carrying an American flag,
marched in review before the Grand
Army veterans at Devils Lake. The
spectacle brought forth long and loud
applause from the visitors. The vet
Grams and relief corps selected Cassel-
ton as the next meeting place.
Stepping away from William Oster-
mann, from whom he had tried to col
lect $40, Fred Winters, would be bad
man, drew a revolver and shot him in
the breast. Ostermann died immedi-
ately. The shooting occurred at the
Jack Crowley ranch near Hebron. Win
tiers was arrested by two ranch hands.
For the first time in several years
sort for fishermen. Recently several
nice messes of fish have been caught
in the river and it's tributary creeks in
the coulees. The presence of the fish
is due to the high water, which en-
abled them to come up from the
Mouse river.
e. McKenna, a wealthy land owner
of Park Rapids, Mimi. was instantly
killed near the Great Northern station
at Rothsay, Mimi, by the Oriental
limited. McKenna was crossing the
track. His body was thrown into a
pile of railroad ties. He was about
seventy-five years of age and we'll
known in this state.
Newly elected officers of the grand
lodge Of Odd Fellows of North Dakota
will be installed at the grand lodge
meeting at Wahpeton June Z ana 8.
A. F. Field Of Williston was elected
grand master. Don Mcdonald of Grand
Forks was reelected grand secretary
for the twenty-second time. Ole Ser
umgard of Devils Lake was chosen
grand treasurer.
Patrick Nearey of Buffalo was run
dow nand killed by a local train.
Nearey, aged seventy-three, a Civil
war veteran, stepped upon the track
before discovering the approach of the
Drain. He stepped back, but not in
time to avoid being hit. Thrown upon
the cowcatcher, he was carried seven
ty-ive feet before his body was cast
to the side of the track. He was I'M
married.
What will probably result in a gen
eral shakeup Of affairs at the North
Dakota Agricultural college at Fargo
has come with the designations of Pro-
fessor A. B. Orr, head Of the college