Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1916-04-27
Assessors Of North Dakota have

started their work With the new
schedules which contain no items. For
the first time farm fences, fall plow-
ing, property of secret societies, house
fold pets and scores of other items
will be assessed this year. No longer
will property owners be able to give
a lump sum" to the assessor. Every
item has to be listed at 25 per cent of
a fair market value. except moneys
and credits, which go in at S per cent.
John Roland of Stanley will be COM
PEELED to face the charge of first de-
gree murder as the result of the death
of Harry Wolcott. His wife also is
accused as being an accessory to the
crime. The charge of murder was
placed against Roland after the board
OF insanity commissioners had investi-
gated Roland's mental condition and
declared him sane. AT the preliminary
examination before 0. M. Kline both
Roland and his wife were bound over
for trial. Bail VS. refused.
Mrs. Irene Puarie OF Slim Buttes
was accidentally shot and killed by
a young homesteader for whom she
had been caring during an illness. The
patient and another young man had
quarreled during the day and in the
evening. when the homesteader was
aroused from sleep by a noise just
outside the door of his home, he de-
manded TO know who was there. Re
ceiving no answer, and thinking it was
the man with whom he had quarreled,
he shot through the door and killed
Hrs. Puarie. The c]oroner's jury eX.
onerated him.
The payment of $4,000 by the Con-
solidated Elevator company of Duluth
to w. ii. Stutsman, chairman of the
North Dakota railway commission.
saved the holders of S25, 900 worth Of
storage tickets, issued at Davey and
Walum, by the North Dakota Grain
company, from losses, it was an
nounced. The payment was made un-
der the provisions of the law that the
purchaser of stored grain must make
good to storage ticket holders. The
North Dakota commission traced the
grain sold by the North Dakota Grain
company to the Consolidated Grain
company and the latter institution
paid up.
Thursday, Friday and Saturday. May
IS, 10 and 20, have been selected for
the annual North Dakota high school
conference, athletic meet and debat-
ing and d~ecla1natory contest to be held
ot fho Sfofo nniun,>oity w C,,o,3 E1ooI,
The first day will be given over to the
high school conference proper. Friday
forenoon Inspector r. r. Edwards will
conduct a round table on topics relat-
ing to smaller high schools. The ath-
let!c field tryouts will be held Friday
and the finals on Saturday. The de-
bat!ng contest will take place Friday
evening, when the state championship
will be settled. On Friday evening
the state defamation contest will be
held.
Twenty thousand coyotes have been
slaughtered in the past year, ac-
cording to the bounty statistics given
out by Carl @. Jorgenson, state audi
tor. The audito: has just completed
payment OF $4,000 IN bounties to the
slayers of the coyotes. There was
some irregularitv in the bounty fund,
brought about by a legislative trans
fer Of a portion of the non previous
~ levied for wolf bounty purposes,
and that fact was responsible for the
inability of the state to make pay
ment for the past year, until the pres
ent time, the funds now being avail
able through the collection OF new
taxes. The state pays a bounty Of
$3.50 for each wolf killed.
The crack squad of the cadet bat
talon of the North Dakota Agricul.
tural college will again go on the
vaudeville stage this coming summer,
making a tour of approximately 1900
miles, and this time going through the
East. The squad. which scored such
a hit at all theaters where it showed
last summer through the West, will
leave Fargo Immediately after the col
lege closes in June. The tour will
open in New York, where the eauad
will show for three consecutive
weeks. The our will her take it to
Providence, Boston, Philadelphia, Bal
timore. Washington and other impor-
tant centers in the East. The tour
will take thirteen weeks, all told.
Judge G. A. Pollock at Fargo has
ordered the dismissal of the &C
ton launched by the receiver of the
Medina State bank against Governor
l.. B. Hanna, +. j. Weiser of Fargo
and the First National bank of Fargo.
Judge Pollock's dismissal on a demur-
rer to the complaint was on the find
ing that the plaintiff failed to state
any cause for action. Its demand for
$4,000 for paper which it asserted
was removed from the bank just be-
fore it was closed was held unjusti-
fled. The court holds that on his own
pleadings the bank receiver has no
cause for action. Certain contracts
mentioned in the complaint were re-
ferred to as wholly void, because it