Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1916-08-24
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.

tllS year S crops.
Attacked by a swarm of bees Mrs.
b. Hoffman of Cooperstown was near.
ly killed before help ame
H. F. E%ldridge of Taylor was prob,
ably fatally injured when a gasoline
torch he was using exploded.
c. l.. Matthews Of Campbell, Mimi.
drowned in the Mouse river at Mino;
while bathing. Matthews and several
companions were on an automobile
tour.
Asa Gardner Of New England, a
very prominent business man and
we'll known in Western North Dako.
ia, was killed in an automobile acct
dent in Wyoming.
Neville is a busy place these laws
in the building line, work having com
hence on the new Community hos.
pital, the Farmers elevator and sew.
eral fine residences.
S. c. Craig and r. N. Clark ap.
tured the doubles in the tennis tour.
nament of the Turtle Mountain Tennis
club at Belcourt. Rolla, Perth and
Dunselth were represented.
Alexander Heralta, stealing a ride
on a train on the Farmers line north
OF Devils Lake, was thrown under the
wheels and lost both legs, both being
cut Off just below the knee.
John Soaring, who was EMPLOYED
thirty-six years by the Fargo Forum
and held the local record for continu-
u employment with one firm, is dead.
He was seventy-seven years old.
A determined campaign to land one
OF the new land banks, provided for
under the federal rural credits act, is
being waged by a committee Of Grand
Forks business men and bankers.
Two new towns will be opened soon
on the Fairview-Snowden extension
OF the Great Northern railway, accord
ing to an announcement by railway
officials. Pendroy and Richey are the
new towns.
A large army of grasshoppers is
coming north through the Slope coun-
try from South Dakota and what is
left of the very late grain after the
black rust is being severely damaged
by the hoppers.
William w. Gotten, a well known
Fargo sportsman and business man.
dropped dead while trying to get his
automobile out of a mudhole on the
highway several miles from that city.
His wife was with him.
Headquarters for the Prohibition
party for North Dakota have been
opened in Fargo by o. E. McCracken
Of Fargo, national committeeman, and
E. b. Saunders of Mapleton, who pur-
pose conducting an active campaign.
Pleading diversity Of citizenship r..
F. Laid, president of the North Dako-
ia Agricultural college at Fargo, will
ask removal to the federal court of
the 100000 suit filed against him in
Chicago By the Calumet Baking Pow
der company. The case grew out Of a
fight on Calumet products in North Da-
kota.
With a conference of the federal
farm land board set for Sept. l the
Fargo Commercial CLUB has opened a
campaign for the establishment of one
of the proposed banks in that city.
Fargo,s claim as a shipping center
will be the plea about which the
city will build its case for the location
of a bank there.
Communicating the office OF the
Occident Elevator company at Valley
City a lahoring man, probably seeking
protection from the band of timer
ants that hvae been headquartering
there, b%arsicaded the doors and win
dows of the office and, armed with a
Ratchet and rifle, maintained a lonely
vigil throughout the night.
Harry Johnson, a young man living
out the Daglum way, near Dickinson,
appeared before Justice Folsom and
pleaded guilty to the charge of SLAM
derlng a female. 1t appears that John
son had a quarrel with two young
ladies and afterward expressed him
self quite forcibly in the matter. He
was ordered to pay a fine of S. and
costs, amounting in all to $21.
The Missouri river will be spanned
by a pontoon bridge, uniting for the
first time the counties of Williams
and Mckenzie, before Sept. 1, accord
ing to S. M. Calderwood, president of
the Missouri River Bridge company
of Williston. The bridge will be To-
Gated directly opposite the city of
Williston, spanning the main channel
from the north shore to the island.
Discovery of methods by Indians
in coloring, to determine whether
they are adaptable to commercial use,
is the object that has sent George e.
Haupt of st. Paul and DR.. Gilbert
Wilson of the American Museum of
Natural History to Fort Berthold
reservation, north of Bismarck. If the
Indian processes are found adaptable
to commercial use the discovery may
prove of tremendous value because of
the Drasant dyn cbortouo IN tho JIpi$-