Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-08-23
in NORTH DAKOTA
News Of the Week From All
Sections Of the State.
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST
Events Are Briefly Covered in Order
to Make Perusal Easier for
the Busy Reader.

Knocked out Ed WeltZ in the fourth
round of a scheduled ten-round bout at
CackIe.
Alvin p. Clifford, forty-five years of
age, q prominent business man of
Grand Forks and we'll known in the
Twin Cities, died at Grand Forks of
heart disease.
A home guard of over 100 mel was
organized at Mayville recently for the
purpose of protecting crops and prop
erty of all kinds and to see that no
disturbance occurs.
his a over the perambulator in
which his two-year-old son was sleep.
ing in the shade of the machine, kill.
ing the boy instantly.
A company, Second North Dakota in.
fantry, has annexed the baseball hon
ors Of Minot army units, winning, 4
to 8, the final game of a series Of three
for the title from D company Of the
First infantry.
Farmers Of North Dakota who dur
ing the month of July applied for
loans aggregating $1,252,75O, through
the Federal Farm Loan bank at St.
Paul, were granted total loans amount
ing to $455,00O, according to e. G..
Quamme, president of the bank.
Returns as high as 80 1-3 per cent
on production cost are being made by
some Of the corporations of the state
on their investments, according to pre-
liminary statements Of engineers in a
survey of North Dakota utilities under
the direction of the tax commission.
The large stock barn on the Henry
Lahrcn farm near Mandan was struck
by lightning and burned to the ground.
A feed mill, three tons of new hay,
five sets of double harness and a six
year-old Percheron stallion were lost
in the fire. The loss is placed at about
1000.
A coroner's jury found that the
death of Martin Mittlider was due in
directly to the blow on the head in
flicted by his brother-in-law, Peter
Schlect, without felonious intent. No
criminal proceedings will follow. Mitt-
lider died after a quarrel with Schlect.
He lived near Sawyer.
Howard Shipley, former Jamestown
boy, in a letter to relatives tells Of
being severely wounded in the battle
of Vimy Ridge, on the West fighting
front in Europe, April 10, and is still
on furlough while recovering from his
wounds. shipley was hit in the right
arm and leg by a piece of shrapnel.
Much of the $4,000 tons of coal
which the Great Northern railroad
stored at Minot to help secure an ade-
quate supply for the coming winter
was destroyed in the fire that started
through spontaneous combustion and
burned for weeks. The road is now
moving the remaining coal to other
locations.
Robert Johnson, a farmer, form erly
of Minneapolis, was killed at Bis
marck when an auto in which he was
riding was struck by a freight train.
A companion escaped with slight
bruises. Johnson is survived by a
widow and two children at Bismarck
and parents, brothers and sisters in
Minneapolis.
p. G. Covell, a farmer living near
Granville, was gored to death by a
mad bull, which caught him as he was
endeavoring to escape from the field
in which the enraged animal was
penned. The animal had been a fam.
lily pet, a playmate of the little chill
dren, and there is no accounting for
it's sudden mania.
The fourteenth annual convention of
the Bar association of North Dakota
concluded it's sessions at Dickinson by
electing F. T. Cuthbert of Devils Lake
president; Tobias D. Casey Of Dickin.
son, vice president, and Oscar Sellers
Of jamestown, secretary treasurer.
The association chose Bismarck for
the next meeting.
The 500 Line is increasing it's stock
yards at Bismarck to four times their
capacity to take care of consignments
of horses shipped there for military
inspection. It is believed this indi
Gates that Bismarck will be the ship
ping point for government animals
concentrated from North Dakota ant
possibly Montana.
Jonas Holland, a young farmer resid
ing near Mott, will not be much use
to Uncle Sam in the new nationa'
army. The day Holland was sum
moned to appear before the Hettingel
county exemption board he lost hi;
trigger finger while repairing a binder
that baked. Holland was in the thirt
lot of fifty candidates drawn in tina
county.
Benedict is rejoicing over the fac
that it is to have a place in the SUI
in the survey of the st. Louis, West
ern and Canadian railway lines, 70,
which lines are now being run soutl
from Minot to Benedict, with a view
to opening UP the big coal deposits II
that vicinity. The proposed line ex
tends from st. Louis to Leola, s.. d,