Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1916-04-27
E...,S Of the Week From Many
Sections Of The State.
MANY ITEMS OF INTEREST
Events Are Briefly Written in Order
to Make Perusal Easier for
Busy Readers.

game this year with a good team ana
ample financial backing. This was de.
cided at a meeting of the Booster club.
Fargo elected a ticket of five candi-
dates who are pledged to support the
school boards program OF build ns
and general administration, as against
a ticket that opposed the plan.
The St. Paul railroad reservoir daAl
near Hettinger gave way, releasing 81
vast amount Of water, which overlul
creek banks, carrying out bridges and
doing considerable damage along the
shores.
Arising from his desk and starting
across the room James 7. Capron, q
banker, fell dead in the Farmers Trust
company at Fessenden. He had beer
in the banking business at i'essenden
many ear
A. P. Braseth, sey%enty-six years old
and for thirty-four years a resident OF
Grand Forks, did not leave that city
for twenty years until last week, when
he went to Fargo to visit his daugh-
ter, Mrs. M. J. Ohlin.
l. A. Berg, former adjutant general
is the new vice consul Of Norway for
North Dakota. He was appointed by
Consul E. H. Hobe OF ST. Paul. He
succeeds the late Halfdan Ben'ele.
Edward Landmark OF Aitkin. Mimi,
is dead and John Sand of Eau Claire,
Wis, is seriously injured, while
George Myers is being held at Coo
perstown charged with a double stab
bling. The affair took place at Sutton.
Henry Emanuelson, a farmer resid-
ing near Rubin, Mimi, and Arthur
Gilmore, aged thirty, a farmland EN-
ployed by him. were drowned when
the river from Drayton to Rubin zap
sized.
Minot police are holding George
Hamingen. charged with assaulting
suffered severe scalp wounds, a broken
arm and injuries to the left side. 1t
will be weeks before she recovers,
physicians say.
While in the midst Of a sermon DR.,
J.. M. Walters, pastor of the First
Methodist church at Fargo, received a
telegram telling Of the death OF his
sister at Phippen. Sask. The pastor
continued his sermon and at the close
read the message to his congregation.
Joseph Mongoyen of Grand Forks
jumped from the Great Northern rail
way bridge into the icy waters of the
Red river and swan several yards to
an abutment and crawled back up to
the tracks. The dive was made to
win a wager with friends who had
dared him to attempt the feat.
The third victim of the floods in
that section was j. M. McLucas, a pio-
neer Mckenzie county rancher, who
was drowned while crossing Cherry
creek with a team and wagon. A rope
was thrown out by the hired man, but
McLucas was disabled in attempting
to free the team from the wagon.
Frank Allen, white, of Mandan. tray
cling salesman, was stabbed by Frank
Allen. negro, and is in a serious con-
dition. 1t is said the travelling man
had opened a package addressed to
Frank Allen" but which belonged to
the negro. The package contained a
pack of marked playing cards, it is
said.
Secretary of State Thomas Hall an
nounced he would not submit the so
called bootlegger law to a vote of the
people, as asked in referendum petit
tons filed some time ago. Hall bases
his action on an opinion by Attorney
General Linde, who holds the petitions
are illegal. Forgeries are charged in
connection with the petitions.
Alfred Benson met death at Grand
Forks while driving a gas tractor on
a platform. The tractor failed to re.
spond to Benson's attempt to stop it.
The front wheels ran off the platform
and the tractor tlAned over. Benson
was hurled into the air. His head
struck on the overturned engine when
he fell, his skull being fractured.
In the annual school board election
at Grand Forks the board of educa.
ton, which has been endeavoring to
erect a new building on the site Of
the present high school, secured a
sweeping victory v the opposition,
which, by virtue Of an injunction, so
far has prevented the taking OF any
action by the directors. More than a
year ago, when the question of erect
ing a new building was submitted, the
board also was victorious.
North Dakota is gaining in popula-
ton at the expense of the older
states. Especially is this true this
year. Farmers from many parts Of
the Central West are buying North
Dakota lands and it is sure that the
coming year will see a very substan-
tial increase IN her population, All
sections of the state are affected by
this increase. In Grand Forks County