Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1916-09-28

ing lhe louDcly VI llte TlllSUuTy pOSl-
office. The yeggs blew the safe and
escaped with 5000. So quietly was
the work done that no one knew
anything of the robbery until the
postmaster arrived at the office.
William Fishaman, clothing store
proprietor of Grand Forks, sold a
shirt for 1925. When the patron left
via the back door after going to the
rear to change shirts, Fishaman dis
covered the cash drawers contents,
amounting to $125, had gone too.
While intoxicated, Walter Utzing-
err entered ,%unbidden, the home of
Mr.. n Mrs. Melborne of Fargo and
Selling the latter began dragging her
about when her husband interfered
and called the police. At the hearing
the assailant was bound over to the
district court for trial.
Through the establishment of a
tow mill in Dunn Center farmers of
the district will realize returns on
their flax straw which heretofore
have been denied them. The COM
pany will pay 50 a ton for the straw
and it is expected that 1000 tons
will be marketed this season.
When it comes to a question of
serving time in Jail or working, Jail is
preferable, thinks Walter Earn Of
Fargo, who was "sent up" for $50
days. Earn was found guilty of boot
Logging, but Judge Hanson suspended
sentence on condition the defendant
go to work. He didn't go to work.
AS a result of the benefit per-
Torrance given by the ladies' auxil-
larry to Company H, North Dakota
National Guard, at Jamestown, the
amount OF 5000 was cleared. The
benefit was given in the opera house
and other amusement places in the
city closed during the entertainment.
Police and members of the sheriff's
department at jamestown hold a war
ran charging J.. D. Hurn, travelling
representative for the Fergus Falls
Wooden mills with jumping a board
bill at the Hotel Brunswick mount
ing to s65. The warrant was sworn
to by ]. j. Fielder, proprietor of the
hotel.
Carelessnes in the operation of a
gasoline stove caused the death of
Mrs. T. Bjornson Of Hamilton. After
lighting, Mrs. Bjornson left without
regulating the flow of oil, and upon
returning the blaze was reaching the
ceiling. In attempting to put out the
fire her clothing became ignited and
she was burned to death.
In a running fight in which two
bandits opened fire on two officers
from the top of a box car, Special
Deer Robert Hewitt of Sykston was
shot in the thigh and his deputy, A.
Critics, had a bullet Craze his neck.
The bandits had attempted to hold
up several transients who were en-
gagged in a game Of poker in a box
car.
Charles E. Winchell Of North
Adams, Mass, member of a hunting
party headed by Governor Hanna at
the Sam Clark ranch, twenty miles
north of Dawson, is in a Fargo hos
pital recovering from an injury re-
ceived when he fired his first shot.
Winchell lost the thumb and fore
finger of his left hand in a prema-
ture explosion of the shell.
Attacked by an I. w. W., whom he
was assigning to a cell in the county
Jail at New Rockford, together with
five other members of the organiza-
ton, Sheriff George F. Fahrer shot
the prisoner in the foot. The man
swung on Fahrer with a chair and
threatened to repeat when the official
drew a gun. The sheriff's action pre-
vented a threatened Jail delivery.
Eighteen l. w. WIS were before
Police Justice Jones at kenmare for
a hearing on charges Of disorderly
conduct against a part of the crowd.
The trouble was an internal affair in
which n large number Of those who
congregated about kenmare got into
a mixup among themselves and the
officials were called to quell the dis
turbance.
Suit brought by d. Fl. Macarthur,
Democratic candidate for governor,
has been filed in the supreme court,
asking the removal of Fred Mclean,
chairman: ]. Nelson Kelly, treasur-
er, and Halvor Halvorson, secretary
of the Democratic state central COM
mittee, on tie grounds the officers
cannot hold their positions because
they are not members of the COM
mittee.
Just four days after he was re-
leased from the Minnesota state pen
itentiary, where he served a term of
three years. Joe Syer, was again
placed behind the bars, this time in
the Grand Forks county Jail, to serve
thirty days for assault and battery.
Mrs. George Prentice charged that
Syer entered her home unlimited and
in the fracas that followed choked
and beat her.
H. Stratton, Charles Hamilton,
Prank Oliver and Harry Smith, the