Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1916-12-28
IN NORTH DAKOTA
News Of the Week From ManV
Sections Of the State.
MANY ITEMS OF INTEREST
Events Are Briefly Written In Order
Events Are Briefly Written In Order
to Make PerusaI Easier for
Busy Readers.

manager of the Douglas Herald, has
purchased the paper.
While engaged in shopping Charles
l.. Meme, a Civil war veteran, dropped
dead in a Grand Forks store last
week.
Albert e. Marquett was found not
guilty at Bismarck last week of kid
naping Annie Balger, fifteen years old,
and taking her to jamestown.
Tumbling from a load Of wood,
which had partly tipped over, Martin
Miller, tifty-three years old, was in
stantly killed at Beach last week.
This state leads all other states in
the Union in the proportion OF home
owners, which is so per cent, accord
ing to figures compiled at Bismarck.
Mrs. r. NJ. Tierney of Fargo, who
was painfully burned when her cloth,
ing was fired by flames shooting out
of q furnace door, died last Monday.
Judge w. L.. Nuessle Of Bismarck
will hear the evidence in the strange
case of the MAJ known only as
81. C. r. No jury will be impaneled.
The th%ree-year-old daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Sam Wee Edwards Of Suits
man county was burned to death
when their house was destroyed by
fire recently.
Fire destroyed the girls dorm1lory
of Sheyenne River academy last
week. The girls were routed in their
night attire and several had difficulty
in escaping.
Leon Deroche, who founded the
first drug and jewelry store in Grand
Forks, and a resident Of that city
since 1880. died at the Jamestown
asylum last week.
Fire in the Gethsemane cathedral
at Fargo failed to interrupt services
last week. Firemen extinguished q
blaze in the basement. Only slight
damage resulted.
A. Caminnetti, commissioner of in.
migration of the United States, will
speak in Fargo Jan. 10 on the labor
problem before the Tri-State Grain
ASSOCIATION.
Frank Roberts of White Rock town.
ship was instantly killed recently
when his automobile upset. His nine
year-old daughter was thrown clear
of the machine and was unhurt.
The Aggies basketball team from
Fargo will meet the University OF
Minnesota team Jan. 6 at Minneapolis
Other games may be arranged in the
Twin Cities about the same time.
Cass county leads all other coun
ties in the state in the number of au
tomobiles, with $500, but in density
Of machines Burke county stands first
with one motor car to every ten per
sons.
Anna Thompson Hovde Of Kathryn
celebrated her one hundredth birthday
last week. She was born at Tele
marken, Norway. There are eighty
children, grandchildren and great
grandchildren.
Governor-elect Frazier. has declared
in favor of a state highway comissioI
W 1CCSlfS III duIOLlOUllC llCOllSS 1SCs
and it is reported that such recon
mendation will be embodied in hi!
inaugural address.
E. "A. Bowman of Kuhn, member q
the Equity Cooperative exchange ant
a delegate to the Republican nation
al convention last June, was indorset
last week by the Nonpartisan league
for speaker of the house.
Frank Wilder, formerly editor O
the Mandan News, has been appointe,
assistant secretary of state Of Nortl
Dakota. He succeeds John Andrews
who resigned to become secretary tt
Congressman P. N. Norton.
North Dakota soldiers at the horde
claim the guardsmen's football cham
pionship as a result of their victor.
owe the Iowa artillery eleven, 20 to
Captain Nemzek of the North Dakot;
Aggies captained the guardsmen.
Requisition papers. were issued las
week by Governor Hanna for the rs
turn to California of Mrs. Lulu Da,
of jamestown to answer charges Q
, stealing diamonds and cut glass t
!. the value of $4,000 from Mrs. Jenni
Rogers Of San Diego.
| Edgewood farm, comprising 80
acres, four miles north of Fargo, ha
raised it's last crop of wheat, accordin
to Chesebro Smith, owner. Begi.
l ming next spring the acreage will b
devoted to alfalfa and corn to- be use
l in feeding and fattening stock.
!. The North Dakota supreme court, i
= a decision handed down last weel
held that Mary Rose, widow G
!. j. F.. Rose, cannot recover damage
for the death of her husband fro!
Harry J. Cooper, father of McLai
Cooper, who is said to have kille
Rose.
The federal government and til
D Great Northern railroad will co-ope
{ ate to hold the Missouri river With
( its present banks, at a point ju;
9 west of Williston, and rip-rapping O
erations for 5000 feet will be carrie
on next fall for that A,