Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-03-01

action relative to securing a course
in military drill and tactics.
The basketball tournament to de-
eide the championship of the North
western district Of the State High
School league will be held in Minot
in the normal gymnasium March 2
and 8. The Minot state normal school
| will manage the tournament. w. Cor
zine, a member of the Minot school
faculty, will umpire.
Sixty voters in Bergen, a village OF
100, a German settlement, have signed
a petition urging the North Dakota
legislature to use its influence on
! the federal government to effect a
| referendum ION the question of war
or peace" The paper is reported to
! have been signed by every person to
whom it was presented excepting two.
Sixty-six head of Shorthorn, +, He'd
Angus and Hereford cattle and fo.ty-
two head of Percheron, French draft,
! Clydesdale and Belgian mares and
| stations were placed on exhibition in
| Mandan at the first showing in West
ern North Dakota by the North Da-
kota Live Stock association. The ami
mails are valued at approximately
$75, 900.
Attorney General William Langer
of North Dakota declares that for
the months of December and January
2,S46,554 packages containing liquor
we're shipped into North Dakota. He
estimates the value of the shipments
at approximately $4,000, 900, or al av-
erage of 1000, 900 a month. Bone
dry" laws are advocated by Mr.. Lan-
| ger as a remedy.
Neutrality-suspicious., one hundred
years old, the oldest woman of the
Sioux Indian tribe on Standing Rock
reservation, is dead. According to
Francis B.. Zahn, n of the clerks at
the United States agency, she was
born in 1916. For years she lived
with her son, Adam Hona, who is
listed on the records as being eighty
three years old.
Dickinson, which for years has sup
ported a baseball team, may go with
out one this season. Baseball games
on other than Sunday are financially
impossible, say local promoters, and
business men have come out with the
ultimatum that they will not support
a baseball team with donations unless
Sunday baseball is legalized by the
state legislature.
Joseph Sairn. a peddler. has con-
fessed to the Cavalier authorities that
on Christmas day he accidentally shot
his cousin, Alik Sairn, through the
head, killing him instantly. Fearing
arrest he placed the body in a ped
dler's trunk and concealed it in O.
clump Of trees ear Hallson, he said.
His conscience, he said, compelled
him to reveal the secret. The body
was found. Sairn is being held.
In a one sided game of basketball
at Grand Forks the University of
North Dakota quint took South Da-
kota State into camp by a "A to IL
score. The Coyote athletes negotiated
but three baskets. In their effort to
break up the team work of the var
sity they repeatedly held their men,
resulting in a slow contest. No in
%dividual stars marked the university
play, while Swift worked the best for
the Coyotes.
Three services marked the dedica-
ton at Fargo Of the Pontoppidan Nor
wegian Lutheran church, a 100000 edi-
Go, ,ooo-+l,, o~~,,1o+1l A fao+,r> of
the ceremonies was the presentation
of a large box of flowers sent by Min
neapolis friends of the church. Row.
G. Oftedal and Rev. o. H. Sletten OF
Minneapolis were among visiting pas
tors who took part. President E.. e.
Ganild Of Willmar, Mimi. head of the
Norwegian Lutheran Free Church OF
America, delivered the dedication SER
mon.
Petitions are being signed by many
members of the North Dakota Farm
ers' Nonpartisan league asking that
the officers call a delegate convention
for the purpose of establishing a new
system of organization. Adoption by
the league of a constitution and by
laws and formal election of officers is
asked. The league, as now organized,
has no constitution, bylaws or reg
ularly elected officers. Members have
no voice as to who their officers shall
be. Nonpartisan legislators who are
dissatisfied with the present form of
organization are responsible for this
step.
After serving twelve years of a
life sentence for murder in the first
degree Carl Olson, inventor of the
safety rail and model inmate of the
state penitentiary, has been given his
liberty. He obtained his pardon after
appearing before the pardon board for
the seventh time. Olson was SEN up
from McHenry county, following his
conviction June 2, 1905, on a charge
of killing a farmer. Evidence that
convicted him was held to be purely
circumstantial. 1t was largely through
WV