Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1916-10-26

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ty. He is the oldest inmate of an
insane asylum in the state and is the
father of nineteen children, the
youngest of whom is twenty-nine
years old.
The Northern Pacific live stock
| special sent through the western sec
| tion of the state, manned by experts
from the state experiment station, has
returned to Fargo after delivering the
message of stock raising to thousands
of farmers. twenty-five towns and
cities on the Linton, Mott and Kildeer
branches of the Northern Pacific were
visited.
Sheriff Fitzgerald at Jamestown ar
rested F.. Chance, engine man at Tap
pen, who eloped with Mary Riddle,
siXteen-year-old daughter Of l'rel
Riddle, a farmer neal Tappen. che
couple stole an automobile and w~re
arrested at Medina. They escape Oh
a freight train to Cleveland and went
on to Jamestown. The prisoner re-
fuses to disclose the whereabouts of
the girl.
There is a heavy demand, extend
ing even to foreign countries, for
seeds produced in this state under
the field inspection service, operated
in connection with the agricultural
college by DR.. II. L.. Bolley, stat
hotanist and seed commissioner. a.
large number of growers are actin;
under the departments instructions
in treating alfalfa, clover and other
legumes.
Taking of testimony in the trial of
the government mail fraud suits
against E. A. Wilson and w. II. Farm.
er, former officers of the North Da-
kota Improvement company, has be-
gun in federal court at Fargo. An
unsuccessful attempt was made to OBJ
tain dismissal on the plea that mem
bers of the grand jury were relatives
of the contract holders who lost
money in the company.
That P. B. Wilkinson, a farmer
lei Flasher, shot and killed his
daughter Gladys, set fire to the family
home and shot himself, was the con.
clusion reached by authorities with
the finding of the two bodies in the
ruins of the house. A shotgun was
the weapon used. Neighbors claim
domestic difficulties prompted Mrs.
Wilkinson and another child to quit
the home two hours before the fire
Was discovered.
Only twenty men have been en-
listed for the North Dakota national
guard by the recruiting detail that re-
turned to the state from the Mexican
border several weeks ago. Four hun
dred men are required to bring the
state regiment, now at Mercedes,
Tex, up to war strength. Captain
Solum, in charge of recruiting at Bis,
marck, avs that present high wages
and the uncertainties of service oper-
ate against recruiting.
Burleigh and Morton county repre-
%sentatives in the legislature will be
asked by the Bismarck and Mandan
commercial clubs to introduce a reso-
luton at the winter session calling
for an appropriation of $500 to $1,000
with which to defraY the expense of
making a preliminary survey of the
Missouri river bridge site at that point
and the cost of plans, specifications
and estimates on which bids for the
construction of the bridge may be 50.
licited.
Rev. G. l.. Hall, for forty years a
missionary on the Fort Berthold In
dian reservation, speaking recently
before the American Missionary asso-
citation at Minneapolis, declared that
the Indian race, although its birth
rate is rising and its death rate fall
ing, will disappear in the United
States during the next fifty years.
DR.. Hall said intermarriage will in
time completely merge the Indian and
white races, and the former will dis
appear as far as externals are con
cerned.
President Frank l.. McVey of the
state university, in an address before
the League of Minnesota Municipali-
ties at Red Wing, Mimi, declared the
passing OF fruits around to those in
power in our city governments to the
detriment Of public welfare can be
eliminated largely by the institution
of a budget system Of finances in our
municipalities. President McVey also
declared no organizations are more
potent to raise the standards of a
city than the women's clubs and the
school board.
A flood convention to be held at
Fargo Oct. 80 has been called by II.
A. Hard, North Dakota member OF
the tri-state commission appointed re-
Gently at Crookston to conduct plans
for a convention at which the ques-
ton of controlling flood waters of the
Red river will be studied. Flood wa
tiers dumped into the river by the
tremendous network of drains that is
being built from year to year in Min
nesota, South Dakota and this state.
have created a problem of great i'm.
p%ortance to people along the Red