Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1916-11-16
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 PerusaI Easier for
Busy Readers.

Wnlcn VIII cost approximately 9oOo,-
600.
A loss of 100000 was caused by a
fire which destroyed the N. j. Olson
elevator at Kathryn with one freight
car loaded with grain.
After seventeen years of service on
the district court bench at Fargo,
Judge C. A. Pollock was defeated BY
A. I. Cole, a Fargo attorney.
Henry Gilbertson, shot recently by
Roy Martin at Devils Lake, who de-
clared Gilbertson had insulted his
wife, a bride of ten days, is dead
Gilbertson, it is said, had been a suit
or for Mrs. Martin.
Ending a life of adventure, many
years of which were spent in COM
pany with William Cody, nationally
known as Buffalo Bill" Monaoh l..
Howell. seenty-four years old, died re-
Gently at his home near Sanger.
Fire which resulted from an over
heated stove destroyed the Sherwood
hotel at Mohall, entailing a loss es-
timated at 10000. A strong wind
famed the flames, which finally were
srhdued by an energetic bucket bri-
! ea@e.
Sivert Arentsen, a bachelor, living
south of Kindred, was found dead in
the field, a short distance from his
house. A dog owned by Arentsen
made a desperate fight to ward off
the finders of the body when they at
tempted to remove it.
Applications for farm land loans
~aggregating $4,000 have been filed
with the state board of school and in
stitution lands. The board loans the
common and institutional school fund,
with first mortgages On real estate as
one of the forms of security.
The badly shattered body of Oscar
Heitanen. a homesteader living ten
miles north of Fredonia. was found in
his shack. A coroner's jury found
that death was due to the exploding
of a stick Of dynamite in close prox-
unity to the body Of the deceased.
Recruiting operations for the North
Dakota naotional guard have been
abandoned, and the recruiting detail,
under direction Of Captain |. Solum,
has been ordered back to Mercedes,
Tex. In the recruiting period of forty
days only thirty men were enlisted.
The Pacific Coast Express train,
No. 107, left the tracks on a switch
near V~anderwalker, just north OF Mi,
not, early last Wednesday morning.
Several persons were injured but no
fatalities were reported. A defective
rail is given as the cause Of the acct
dent.
Election day in Grafton this year
saw the largest vote ever cast in
that city. In all there were 493 votes.
j. S. O'Brien, we'll known contrac'
tor, was suddenly taken with convul
sions last week while working neal
Portal, and died within thirty min
utes.
August Barlow, living north OF
Grand Forks, is credited with being
the oldest voter in the state. Mr.
Barlow is now 100 years old and this
year cast his ballot for president
Mr.. Barlow arrived in the Red River
valley in 1866 and has farmed eve
since.
l.. X. Alther of Seattle, Wash, has
been appointed as immigrant inspec
tor to be located permanently a
Portal. Increased immigration anC
travel through the Portal office made
necessary the appointment Of an ad
ditional officer to aid in handling the
business.
The Bangs building, which housed
five business places and offices of the
most prominent professional and bust
ness men of Devils Lake, was destroy
ed by fire last Saturday. The los!
[ is nearly $780, 00. The origin Of the
fire is unknown, but it is reported
) an explosion in the basement was tho
cause.
Carl Maier, shot from ambush, dice
in a Mandan hospital. Officials have
abandoned the theory that Maier wa!
shot by hunters, and now hold to thu
F, belief that he was Waylaid. One sus
: pect took to the brush along the Mis-
souri, river, when pressed by a posse
and no further trace has been fount
of him.
Miss Isabel Nelson of Hazelton. i
missing; her sweetheart, Robert Nit
!. chell, also is missing, and the girl
= father has an idea that they hav'
eloped. Wires to South Dakota point
were kept hot in the search for tn
. couple, as they were traced to Linton
this state, and then to Roscoe, S. L
Isabel Nelson is only fifteen year
r old.
2 Thousands OF bushels Of grain will
lie during the winter unthreshe,
while those who were f%ortunat
q enough to get threshing rigs hay
found themselves without storage ia
%cilities and have dumped the grain O
the ground to be hauled away som
time in the winter or spring, is tn
story of l. G. Crum at Jamestow,
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