Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1916-10-12
News Of the Week From Many
Sections Of The State,
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Events Are Briefly Written in Order
to Make PerusaI Easier for
Busy Readers.

-nIee new SUD postal stations VIII
be established in Fargo Nov. /.
Nearly 1000 Indians took part In
the Missouri Slope exposition which
was held at Mandan last week.
AL Fallon and Avery Biffonette were
killed under an automobile when the
machine turned over on the road near
Alexander.
Victor Sorlie, twelve years old, was
drowned when he tried to swim from
a boat to the shore of a cOulee near
Churchs Ferry.
John C. Hunter, prominent whole
saler and a majority stockholder in
the Fargo Mercantile company, is
dead from palsy.
The meeting Of the state railroad
commissioners which was to have
been held at Grand Forks on October
/, was postponed indefinitely.
Thomas Waterhouse Of Hankinson
succumbed to injuries received when
kicked by a horse recently. Mr.. Wa
terhouse was eighty years old.
John Geisler of New Salem, S. D.,
and Arnold Lauerman of Alexandria,
Mimi, are dead as the result of a
dynamite explosion at Mandan.
Pntor Neva, a farmer living near
C%@"rtenay, nearly killed himself by
Cr;ing turpentine by mistake,
which was in a port wine bottle.
William Higgins, one of the federal
prisoners who escaped from a fed
eral prison train neal Sanborn re-
Gently, is under arrest at Valley City.
Henry Moe, employed on the G.
Walheim farm near Mott, received a
badly lacerated hand recently while
attempting to fix the engine of auto.
Melvin Billet, two years old, of
Crosby is dead from strychnine. kept
as a gopher poison. The child found
the "medicine" in a granary on his
fathers farm.
James Sheer was shot and killed
on a freight train between Valley
City and jamestown by two holdup
men. A companion riding with Sheer
escaped injury.
Allick Albert is being held by the
Cando authorities, charged with hav-
ing caused the death of David Hag-
gar, who died from the effects of
kicks received in a quarrel.
Charles Porter, residing near Haz-
elton, was dragged a half mile by run
away horses when his feet became en-
tangled in the reins. Porter was
found dead by one of his children.
At Lidgerwood the Commercial club
has taken over a livery barn, which
it will keep open for the benefit of
farmers, who want protection for
their horses when they go to town.
Johnnie Neva, a t~en-year-old boy
living near Kensal, has plowed 100
acres of land this season with his
fathers gas tractor, and will continue
to run the machine until the ground
freezes.
Johile Empey, charged by Miss An.
gelina Kary. fourteen years old, with
compelling her to elope with him un.
der threat, was bound over to the dis.
trict court at Mandan, charged with
kidnapping.
Martin Blur, sixteen years old, liv.
ing at Edgely, sustained a compound
fracture of one leg, and his sister
riding with him, was unhurt. when
he lost control of his machine, which
turned turtle.
Mrs. A. Nachtigall, fifty-two years
old, avoided relatives who had been
watching her closely for some time
and leaped from a bridge into q
small creek at her home near Shelder
and was drowned.
The postoftice at Fergus, Crane
Forks county, was robbed and $34e
in cash and stamps taken. No trace
of the yeggmen has been found. The
safe was blown and the robbers es
capped in an automobile.
The Fargo Commercial club has
turned over to the Equity packins
plant committee a site of 100 acre:
on the Cheyenne river for the pro
posed m~illion-dollar packing plant
Both sides have put up guarantees o
good faith.
Confessing a marriage at Virginia
Mimi, In 1910, and a subsequent mar
rage at Fargo three years later with
cut the formality of a divorce in 1h'
first instance. w. H. Nolan, alias w
H. Norton, was sentenced in distric
court at Fargo to five years impris
onment.
Bank clearings in Fargo in Septem
Der were Is per cent greater thar
those of the corresponding montl
last year, according to a report o
the Fargo Clearing House association
Total clearings for the month jus
ended were $7,010,737.79, as compares
with S., 982,016.67 in 1915.
While hunting chickens on the Johl
Sandberg farm near Langdon, tn
dogs used by Todd Shalmey range
through a pasture and wen into