Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-01-11
IN NORTH DAKOTA.
News Of the Week From Many
Sections Of The State
MANY ITEMS OF INTEREST
Events Arc Briefly Written In Order
to Make Perusal Easier for
Busy Readers.

oul SldlS oLLClcu LuC AyLloN1"
clothing store in Mandan last week
and stole 5000 worth of merchandise.
Valley City's new $25,OO0 parochial
school vas dedicated last week with
Bishop James O'Reilly of the diocese
presiding.
A nine-year-old daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. A. L. Robinson of Bowbells was
burned to death when a a OF gaso-
line exploded.
Frank Stewart, q herder north vi
Newell, vas found frozen to death on
the range. He was last seen alive
more than a week ago.
Officers of the North Dakota Chiro-
practors' association were elected at
a meeting held last week in James
town Devils Lake "a selected as
the next meeting place
John Glow, forty-three years old,
was fatally injured at Bismarck when
a calf fell into a hole in which Glow
was working. CLOVIS neck was brok-
en- and he died in a short time.
Some mystery surrounds the death
of A. Kohler, a farmer Of the Marion
district, whose body was found near
a pasture fence. One theory is that
he VS. attacked by an enraged bull.
Henry c. Hotchkiss, an early settler
of jamestown, and father of William
HotchKiss, superintendent of the state
hospital for insane in jamestown, died
last wetk at San Diego, Cal. He was
eighty-seven years old.
Matters of Importance to taxpayers
will be discussed at the annual o n
vention Of the State Association Of
County Commissioners in Minot Jan.
II and 10. Governor Frazier is ok
pected to address the convention.
George Brandan suffered a broken
index finger on his right hand in his
wrestling match with B. North in Bis
march last week. The accident hap
pened in the first five minutes, but
Brandan continued until twice thrown
by North.
The mangled body Of Theodore
Danielson, sixty-fve years old, of Con-
wick, Mimi, was taken from the brake
beam of a baggage car on a Northern
Pacific train at C%asselton, after being
dragged from Lake Park, Mimi, where
he was hit.
A hired man of Thomas B%kerkeland
of near Minot choked on u piece Of
beef last week. Efforts to dislodge
~ fai1nI onH rolinf Drly wv, ph<ojrnI
when, en- route in a "~flivver' to Minot,
an especially severe bounce %dislodged
the obstructing meat.
Twelve hundred tons, or forty car
loads of Ignite are being shipped out
Of the mines at Wilton daily, illustra-
tive Of the growth of the industry in
the state. The city Of Bismarck will
use $4,000 tons of Ignite this year, or
about 10000 more ton than last year.
Daniel Connolly, seventy-two years
old, a veteran of the Civil war and a
member of the famous Hatch bat.
talon which chased the renegade
Sioux into Montana in the sixties,
died last week in Bismarck. Mr.. Con
molly was a pioneer settler in this
state.
st. Paul is in line for another big
grain elevator II the efforts of Society
of Equity leaders have any weight
with the legislators of this state.
One of the chief plans to which the
Nonpartisan league is pledged is the
creation Of a state-owned terminal
elevator and it is believed a bill Great
ing such all elevator will be passed.
Twelve horses afflicted with gland
ers were shot last week in the Regent
Havelock district. DR.. Fl. Anderson
Of Dickinson, assistant state veterin-
arian, ordered eight horses out of a
bunch Of thirteen killed on the Austin
farm, south OF Regent. -Four horses
owned by Art Bowlby, living near
Havelock, were condemned and killed.
When Justice Robinson Of the. state
supreme court found the "blue laws
enforced 30 stringently last Sunday
that he could not buy even a news
paper. 1t SO aroused the judge that he
issued a. written order directing the
oAhOAAA e4A0 AbAV VA tO1A\C ~ dllOW
all business places, drug stores, news
and cigar stands to remain open on
Sunday"
Victor Snyder, twenty years old,
charged with the murder Of William
Larsman near Kathryn in November,
was found not guilty by a jury in the
district court at Valley City last Sat.
urday after eight hours de%liberation.
So great was the crowd jaMming the
court room that persons secretly
bought and sold chances Oh seats, it
was said.
Porto Rican citizens must accommo.
date themselves to a dry" regime,
II the wishes of Senator Gronna are
complied with. Before the Porto ri.
cal bill. now pending in the senate
after passage in the house. can be.
come a law, Senator Gronna will seek
to attach q drastic prohibition amend.
ment. Proponents OF the Porto Rican
bill are opposed TO the Gronna amend.
msnt.