Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-01-25

department OF agriculture to procure
ten brace OF pennated grouse for
breeding purposes.
A. l.. Patterson, a farmer, was found
dead in his shack near Black Butte.
Failure to observe him about his prop
erty during the customary hours re-
suited in an investigation.
The application of the First State
bank of Van Hook to become the First
| National bank has been approved. The
capital Of the new organization will
be $4,000 and the surplus $G,250.
Amputation Of the right foot and
part of the left was found necessary
in the case of Anton Lauringer, four
teen years old. who was found in a
haystack ear Devils Lake after TWEEN
ty-two hours exposure to the cold
when he became lost in q storm.
The Security Cattle company, %
italized at 100000 and which will y
crate extensively in the western !
of the state, has been established at
Mandan. The purpose Of the associa-
ton is to lend money to farmers in
| terested in buying pure bred stock to
improve their farming assets.
James p. Holze, living two miles
east of Amidon. is believed to have
established q record in farming for
that section when, after buying 100
acres the past season, he raised crolfs
enough on $50 acres of the tract IL
finance the entire purchase, or 81 ,0G''.
Flax yields were responsible for tie
| record.
Halliday fremen gave a demonstra-
, ton for the benefit Of the taxpayer;
on the arrival Of new chemicals. CHEZ
Partridge and TWO of his men were
seriously injured at the exhibition. In
attempting to make a flying coupling
between the hook and ladder wagon
and a drayman's outfit the men
missed their footing and were III
Over.
The home OF j. e. Swanberg, twelve
miles southwest of Mandan, was de-
stroyed by fire n night recently.
The mother. CARRIED in a night dress,
carried her baby a mile. Twelve other
members of the family walked
through the snow in 80 below zero
weather to the nearest farmhouse.
The thirteen-year-old boy froze his
feet, amputation of toes being neces-
sary.
Significant Developments material
lied in the North Dakota board of re-
gents controversy when Governor Fra
Zier issued an order declaring vacant
all memberships of the state board Of
regents. The governors action was
based on an opinion from Attorney
General LANCER holding the appoint
ments were made Illegally two years
ago. Governor Frazier played his
trump card after the senate had re-
fused to confirm his five nominations
to the board.
Two thousand stockholders of the
Equity COOPERATIVE exchange at Far
so voted unanimously to more Ii
double the capacity Of the terminal
elevator at St. Paul. The capacity will
be increased from 500, 900 to 100000
bushels. Work will start on the i'm
~provements in the spring. The cost
will be 100000. The stockholders
voted to raise the capital stock Of the
exchange from 100000 to $1,000, 900.
The live stock sales department in
South st. Paul will be continued.
Believing their ten-day-old baby had
died Mr.. and Mrs. Oscar Meyers, farm
ers, living fourteen miles southwest
Of Forbes, placed the infant in a cas-
ket and in the face of a now storm
started for Leola, their former home.
Becoming lost in the storm they
stopped at the home of Fred Fe1ck-
ert. After warming themselves they
were about to resume their journey.
A cry from the casket caused Mr..
Meyers to investigate and il was dis
covered the child was alive. The baby
died nine hours later, however.
A pure bred Jersey heifer, valued
at 500, a granddaughter of the Great
Noble OF Oaklands, sold at auction
for 5000, is offered to the writer Of
the best essay On the dairy COW as a
feature OF the North Dakota Dairy
mems association meeting at Mandan,
Feb. 7 and s. The contest will be
open to boys and girls between the
. ages of sixteen and twenty years, liv-
ing on farms in this state. Judges will
be picked by the president of the as
: ISOLATION. The prize is offered by
Samuel F. Crabbe, state architect.
+, Woman's suffrage and national pro
. hibition were endorsed by 5000 farm
ers attending the closing session of
the Tri-State Grain and Live Stock
4 Growers convention at Fargo. The
i North Dakota legislature was asked to
i appropriate $4,000 to be spent in OBJ
{ tanning laborers for harvesting
threshing and other farm work. Some
u of the other resolutions adopted are:
Z Asking the North Dakota Legislature
t to construct adequate buildings at the
. state agricultural college; endorsing
the Equity packing plant; ENDORSING
e the system of grain grading proposed