Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-02-15

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largest number of mail order house
catalogues.
Senator J.. l.. Cahill presented a
communication in the North Dakota
senate from former Senator Ferdinand
Lentz, in which Mr.. Lentz declares
the question Of whether the United
States should go to war with Ger
many should be submitted to a vote
of the entire nation. The senate took
no action on the communication.
Organization of a regiment of vol
unteer troops in North Dakota will be
begun Immediately in the event of a
declaration of war, the work to be
promoted by John Gammons, chief
deputy United States marshal at Far
go, according to an announcement by
that official. He expects to be asst
ed in the work by Colonel M. A. Ill
dreth, United States district attorney
of Fargo.
North Dakota's board in charge Of
public school lands has refused to pay
the so called interest and income
school fund to Charles Brewer, secre-
tary of the board of regents, on the
grounds Brewer is acting for an ellie
gally constituted" board. This MAY
form the basis for determining the
legality of the membership of tho
board, brought into question by CAV
ernor Frazier's custer order.
Out of the state p~enitentiary en-
about three weeks Joe SederholHl CT
Fargo, fifty years old, accidentally
shot himself, probably mortally, Will
attempting to kill the woman with
whom he had lived for many years
prior to his incarceration and who
had married another man while Seder-
holm was in prison. He was sent to
prison eighteen months ago for at
tempting to xii: the same
More than $780, 900 has been sub
scribed by farmers between andan
and St. Anthony, an inland town sew
enteen miles from a railroad, for a
stock corporation to build an electric
line. F. G. Massingham OF Mandan.
president of the Missouri Slope Fair
association, is promoting the scheme
aid III a charter will be
sought from the state as soon as the
subscription list reaches $780, 00.
Fred f. McClelland, son of Chief of
Police James McClelland of Grafton,
was killed Jan. 10 while fighting for
the allies i'll France. The first news
reached Grafton when Mr.. McClelland
received a telephone message from his
son-in-law. J. G. Bryan OF Winnipeg,
stating that the name of Fred had ap-
peared among the list Of killed. Later
Nh. McClelland received official notice
from the government authorities s+
Winnipeg.
Reelection OF M. p. Johnson Of Toll
ley president, passage OF resolutions
recommending the state take owe the
farmers elevators and packing plants
as soon as permitted to do so by con-
stitutional amendment and condemna-
ton Of senators and representatives
who voted against the Nonpartisan
leagues proposed constitution, mark
ed the closing session of the tenth
annual convention at Bismarck of the
North Dakota Society of Equity.
Fifty-seven new bills were intro
duced in the North Dakota house on
Feb. 8. That body also passed the
bill providing for state supervision OF
fire insurance rates; repealed the i'm
migration board act creating a park
commission to establish a park in the
killdeer mountains; received favor
able reports on the state highway and
minimum wage for women bills and
defeated the measure providing for
q%uadrennial meetings of the legisla-
ture.
Captain C. j. Atkins is dead at Can
do at the age of eighty years. He
was born in Waterbury, VT, and came
to the West to seek his fortune when
a lad of eighteen. From 1861 to 1865
he was a pilot on the Missouri liver
between St. Louis and Fort Benton,
Mont. He moved to Louisiana, Mo-,
in 1871 and resided there until 1884,
when he came to North Dakota. He
was twice married and is survived by
six sons and live daughters. He was
a thirty-second degree Mason and a
Shriner and the commandery at Cando
was named in his honor. He was a
past grand commander of the COM
m%anderies rf Missouri and North Da-
kota.
Minot stands an excellent chance OF
getting the 1918 meeting of the North
Dakota Dairymen's association, &C.
cording to members of the board of
directors named at the close of the
twentieth annual convention at Man
dan. The directors will choose the
convention city. Officers elected are:
President, Peter Miller of Minot; vice
president. U. J. Downey of New Sa-
lem; treasurer, w. F. Siege of Me-
dina; secretary, R. S. Osterhaus of
Bismarck. Peter Olafson. nineteen
years old, of Edinburg, won the pure
bred heifer, worth 500. offered as a