Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1916-10-12

cever of public money for the United
State land office at Minot.
jamestown policemen have got to
quit leaning. Alderman Hilton odd
the council he always found a blue
coat leaning whenever he met one.
Mayor Flint suggested a speedmeter
be hitched onto every policeman.
In the largest land deal ever cor
summated in La Moure county, O. NJ.
Bernhagen of Bird Island, Mimi, has
purchased the Jencey Doracher farm
of 1000 acres, four miles west of
Edgeley. The consideration was ap-
proximately 100000.
Business men of Fargo united
against the proposed passage Of a
city ordinance that would limit s'"nc-
lures to six stories. Definite ste to
combat the measures will be ta'.en
prior to the time for final action on
the proposed ordinance.
A. B. Ewing of Walhalla, who has
been in France nearly a year with the
Canadian eXpeditionary forces, in a
letter to his parents writes: 81 am
the last Of three 'chums,' as we call
curselves-one killed, one seriously
wounded, myself still intact"
Rev. John O. Ferris of Mirno-
apolis has completed arrangements
for a tri-State convention Of workers
in the Sunday School Union of Amer
lea to be held at Bismarck Oct. 10 to
II. Delegates from Minnesota, North
Dakota and Montana will attend.
Public announcement has been
made at the university that negotia-
lions are in progress for a trip to
Spokane during the Easter vacation
for the Mems Glee club of the "U."
This will be the most extended tour
ever taken by the organization.
~Inadequacy of the filtration plant
at Minot to purify all the water re-
CURED for domestic and other pur-
poses caused DR.. j. R. Pence, city
helath officer, to issue a public no.
tice prohibiting use Of the water for
drinking purposes for the period of
one month at least.
August Shaffeur Of McClusky has
adopted a novel method Of locating q
missing daughter. He hos wired to
marriage clerks throughout the dis
trict to refuse a license to marry in
the event she is to be party to such
an event Lydia Shaffeur, the miss
ing girl, is but fifteen years old. The
parents believe she has eloped.
Manufacturing but 1900, 900 out of
the $1,000, 900 pounds of Irvine used
in the state. and selling at an aver
age price of 1 CEN cent under the
market, the state-owned Irvine plant
operated at the penitentiary showed a
profit of S33,075 for the fiscal year
just closed. One-third OF the prison
ers are employed in the twine plant.
North Dakota's 1915 coal produc-
ton exceeded a half million tons-the
greatest in the history of the state.
The report of State Engineer Bliss
shows that Of the 1877 producers re-
porting to his department lis were
underground mines, producing 5S6,11G
tons. The average selling price was
$1.57 per ton.
Driving his machine without lights,
Adam Zollner, a farmer living near
Glenfield, Foster county, crashed into
a horse and buggy near that village
with the result that the occupants Of
the rig, Mrs. Taylor Hutchinson and
two babies, were badly bruised. 1t
was necessary to shoot the horse.
Zollner paid $500 damages to the am
lily.
Several buildings in the business
section Of Berthold are in ruins, de-
stroyed by a fire which caused an
estimated loss OF $4,000, The blaze
started in the Great Northern hotel
and burned that building, the e. S.
S%alyerson store, Rogers lumberyards,
Dalmon's hardware store and the
hardware establishment Of Emil En-
anuel.
The Northern Pacific livestock
special, starting at Hazelton on
Oct. 8, will visit the following
towns in the order named: TEN
| vik, Linton. Fort Rice, Solen, Tim
mer, Flasher. Carson, l1lgin, New
Leipzig, Mott, Sanger, Fort Clark,
| Stanton, Hazen. Beulah, Golden Val
ley, Halliday, Werner, Dunn Center
| and Kildeer.
A ~two-year-old baby wandered five
five miles on the prairie all night and
was found by Mckenzie county home
steaders only after a general alarm
had been sounded and ~bloodhounds
from the state penitentiary had been
pressed into service. The child is the
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Jacob
Heifenstein Of Livona and apparently
suffered no ill effects despite her ex-
posure.
The closing act in the New Rock
ford capital removal campaign, for
the present, came when Secretary of
State Hall was formally enjoined in
the supreme court from publishing
the proposed constitutional amend