Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-07-26

900, partly covered by insurance.
William Blake of jamestown was
instantly killed at Grace CITY wher
his automobile engine stalled on a rail
road track in front of a Great North
ern express train.
While crushing grain at St. Vincent
Percy Stacy became entangled in the
betting of the engine and was crushed
He died while being removed to the
office of a physician.
Albert and r. l.. Moneysmith. two
brothers, pleaded guilty at Minot tc
stealing stoves valued at $3.50. Albert
was given n year in prison and his
younger brother sent to reform school
A %seven-year heat record was broker
at Bismarck on July 81 when the
thermometer climbed to 1904. This is
a record for July since the heat wave
of 1910, when the bulb registered 1O7
on July 10.
The body of Alexis Kooryk, a Rus
sian, twenty-four years old, was found
lying on the prairie near Kildeer. II
is presumed he was overcome by the
heat. Some time ago he was injured
in a runaway. He was last seer alive
July 8.
James ". Foley of Medora, father
Of j. w. Foley, poet, died suddenly.
He was seventy-two years old. MI.
Foley was an intimate friend of The.
odore Roosevelt and for years had
been manager of the Marquis de Mores
properties.
Two boys, Bert Wells and Roy Sy.
rus, were sentenced at Minot to one
year in the p%enitentiary and three
years in the reformatory, respectively,
for the theft of three automobiles. All
of the cars had been stolen at Minot
within a week.
A. ]. MCDANIEL of Minot has been
commissioned a captain in the med
ical corps, according to orders from
the war department at Washington.
He is instructed to proceed to San
Francisco, ready to sail for an un-
known destination, Aug. S.
The third fire in twenty-four hours
at Bismarck completely destroyed the
Ford automobile distributing plant and
the contents of fifty freight cars. The
loss was placed at $4,000. Fire Com
missioner Christopher Bertsch was Sc
verely burned while fighting the blaze.
Albert Grass, grandson of Chief JUS
tice John Grass Of the Sioux, has ap-
piled for admission to the new state
guard company at Bismarck. Red
Tomahawk, captain of the Indian po-
lice, the man who is said to have killed
Sitting Bull, wanted to enlist, bat was
found to he too old.
Reports that the poisonous Burma
bean has been planted in several CEN
trail North Dakota fields as the navy
bean have been received by R. c. Boil
singer and r. Q. Baird, pure food dep
uties. They say the only result will
be the loss of the crop, as the Burma
bean will not mature in this climate.
A number of men arrested at Minot
for being drunk have been found to
have denatured alcohol on their per-
son. The police have decided that the
men have reached the conclusion that
life is not worth while without drink.
The chances Of living after drinking
denatured alcohol are said to be about
forty to one in favor of the ghost.
North Dakota is to furnish 5000
men in the draft lottery for national
service. The gross figures for the
state, according to a population of
1868 is 1877. Credits through en-
listment in the state are 2,11S. Rich
land, with 1877, has the largest number
of credits of any county in the state,
according to the completed figures in
the adjutant generals Office at Bis
marck.
Governor Lynn J.. Frazier has an
nounced the appointment of the fol-
lowing commissioned officers in the
new Second regiment: A company,
Minot-Millard Lawson, captain: Will
lam OLeary, first lieutenant; Josiah
Blaisdell, second lieutenant. B COM
pduy, NEW wheeler,
captain; John Cameron, first lieuten-
ant. Darlington company-Edward II.
Kelleran, captain; Gordon Turner,
first lieutenant; John Konen, second
lieutenant. Glendale company-Harry
E. Thomas, captain. Beach company
Charles T.. Cook, captain. Dickinson
Machine Gun company-Fred J. Fleu-
rift, first lieutenant; Welland Orchard.
second lieutenant.
While there is nc appropriation for
the carrying out of the work of the
depositors' guaranty fund commission,
as created at the last session of the
legislature, the commission, in session
for the first time at Bismarck, decided
that the law shall not become a fail
ure. Members will see that the law is
enforced at their own expense, de-
pending upon the next legislature to
reimburse them. The depositors' guar
anty fund commission act, which was
one of the Nonpartisan leagues pet
measures, will tend to encourage out
side money to come into the state, be-
sides 1oWprjno tho rato of ;p+oract RI