Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1916-03-23
Brief news ITEMS
Events Throughout North Dakota
C0ncise|y Related.

Slipping on ice Mrs. II. S. Paulson
of Grand Forks sustained conclusion
of the brain, a fractured rib and other
serious injuries.
Lewis G. Johnson of Fargo, attorney
and brother OF the late United States
Senator Martin N. Johnson Of North
Dakota, died of cancer. He was q
graduate of Upper Iowa university and
Iowa State university.
E. E.. Morris, for some time an en-
ploye of the public examiners office
at Bismarck. has been appointed chief
deputy Of the department by Governor
Hanna. VIM Mitchell OF Park River
has been appointed chief clerk.
Fire believed to have originated
from a stove on the second floor de-
stroyed the j. Nj. Cubison building at
Minnewaukon with q loss of $35, 1000.
The Olson drug store and the post
office were on the main floor and the
opera house on the second floor.
Curly Mowold OF Fosston, Mimi,
was elected captain of the North Da-
kota Agricultural college basketball
team for next season at a banquet
given the players by students of the
college at Fargo. Peter Homme OF
Granite Falls was elected captain of
the baseball team for 1916.
r. c.. kittel and f. w. Kittel, for
mer officers of the First National
bank of Casselton, who are charged
with the misappropriation of funds
and classifying the bank records, will
likely be placed on trial at a term Of
the federal court which will be con-
vened in Fargo the first week in May.
The body of p. p. S%poonheim, a
farmer twenty miles southwest OF
Grand Forks. was found in a haystack
in the rear of the barn on his farm.
His throat was slashed and a bottle
of poison lay near. Investigation by
a physician showed %Spoonheim had
taken poison and then cut his throat.
Frank G. Black, secretary of the Cap
itol Removal association, say the
campaign to be put up by New Rock
ford for the removal Of the state CAPT
tai from Bismarck will be made from
August on, until the general election
in the fall, when 1t is expected that
the removal proposition will be put to
a vote of the people.
Through her attorneys, Mrs. Ethel
M. Luturmy of Fargo has brought suit
for $4,000 against G. |. Gross of Far
go and Dwight M. Baldwin, Jr., OF
Minneapolis for damages for w. H.
Luturmy, who was killed Nov. 10 by
an automobile owned by Baldwin and
driven by Gross. Luturmy was riding
a bicycle when killed.
Approximately 100000 will be
spent by the Great Northern railway
this year on its Observation-Disclosures
town cutoff across North Dakota and
Montana. This is the biggest link in q
second transcontinental line for the
Great Northern and it is possible, il
conditions remain good, the improve.
ment program may be extended fur
ther.
Formal announcement by Leslie
Simpson of his entrance into the race
for congress from the Third district
is anticipated in the next few days.
This will be the third time Simpson
has opposed Congressman p. D. Nor
ton for the Republican nomination for
congress in that district, being defeat
ed the first time through the Second
choice vote, which has been el;mi-
mated since.
Mrs. Lily Smith had the affection
of her husband placed too high, &C
cording to q jury in the Ramsey u
ty district court at Devils Lake. The
verdict awarded Mrs. Smith $500 in
her suit for $4,000 against Miss Lulu
Smith, sister of the man in question,
who was charged with alienation OF
affections. The defendant made no
appearance in court, but the case pro-
ceeded just the same, the jury hearing
the testimony of the plaintiff and fix
ing the damage suffered.
Winners in the various field con.
tests conducted by the North Dakota
Pure Seed association for the year
1915 have been announced by II. l..
Bolley, state pure seed officer. Emil
Christianson OF Washburn won the
new land flax" contest, with an av-
erage of fourteen bushels an acre:
! the old land flax" contest was won
by the .Amenia-Sharon Land company,
with an average of 1876 bushels an
acre; the oat field contest was won by
Fl. Lamgstraat of Gilby, with an aver
6 Of eighty-three bushels an acre,
and the durum wheat field contest
was won by S. Mcdowell of New Rock
ford, with al average Of forty-six
, bushels an acre on a 100-acre tract.