Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-02-01
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.

Alfred, was found frozen to death.
Farmers in the vicinity Of Mime
waukan will meet in joint session with
the West Bay Farmers club at Min
newaukan on Feb. 3 to form a county
farm loan association.
Il providing for the meeting of the
legislature every four years and the
other u short ballot system. have been
passed by the state senate.
Adjustment of the present board Of
control and its re-establishment made
up Of the attorney general, secretary
OF state and one appointed member is
proposed in a bill introduced in the
house at Bismarck by Representative
Weber.
Because Of the recent passage Of wo-
mar suffrage bills in the state legis-
laturc more than usual interest at
taches to the annual board business
meeting of the North Dakota State
Federation OF Women's Clubs at Far
go, Feb. 6 and Z.
Exhibitors from more than ninety
communities in North Dakota and
n]eighboring states offered 500 fowl in
a show which was held at Valley City
in connection with the annual onven
ton of the North Dakota Poultry
Breeders association.
The statutory suffrage bill giving
the women limited voting privi-
leges after July 1 has been signed by
Governor Frazier. The law, which is
framed on the lines of the Illinois act,
gives the women the vote on all ex-
cept constitutional Offices.
Sportsmen from Western and Cen
trail North Dakota are opposed, it is
said, to the proposed closing of the
game season. A bill introduced in the
legislature proposing protection Of
birds until 1920 has met with little
favor outside of the Red River valley.
A small son of John e. ~Swanberg,
a farmer near Stone, suffered a frozen
foot when the family was made home
less by a fire which also destroyed
most of their clothing. SWanberg also
lost his barn and farm machinery last
summe through a fire caused by light
ming.
Governor Frazier has served notice
on various institutions directed by the
board of regents that no act since Jan.
II last Of the board, headed by F. l..
Crawford, will be held valid by him.
He informed the institutions he has
appointed a new board, which has not
yet organized.
Friends of 80. G.. r." the man of
mystery" are preparing to make an
appeal to the state supreme court
from the decision of Judge Nuessle OF
Bismarck, who held recently that 81.
c. r." was an impostor in asserting
he is the son Of James II. Caldwell,
a wealthy Taylor rancher.
At a meeting of Grand Forks base
ball fans a decision was finally ar
rived at to have that city represented
in the Northern league circuit, to-
gether with Fargo-Moorhead, Minot
and Winnipeg. Andy Gill, North Da-
kota university coach, is being sup
ported for player-manager.
The University of North Dakota
basketball team defeated the James
town college quint at Grand Forks, 60
to Z. Not until three substitutes re-
placed the regulars in the last fifteen
minutes of play did. Jamestown score.
Murphy, the varsity center, scored
seventeen baskets and was the star of
the game.
Unless the Sunday cid" law in
North Dakota is lifted there is little
prospect of a baseball team at Dick
inson for the coming season. Those
who have managed Dickinson teams
in the past say there will be little
chance of a paying team should the
stringent Sunday laws be enforced
during the summer
A. F. Blum, on whose farm seven,
teen miles west of Minot traces of
petroleum have been found, has or.
ganized an oil company with a capital
stock of $275,0 Tests of the pump.
ings from the we'll have been made
by the University of North Dakota
college Of chemistry and a percentage
Of gasoline and kerosene found
Twin City farm machinery dealers
formed about one-fourth of the thirty,
seven exhibitors who arranged dis.
plays in the convention hall of the
North Dakota Implement Dealers as.
ISOLATION at Fargo. which held forth
there three days. Other Minnesota
firms and dealers from Iowa, Illinois
and North Dakota were represented
The legislature passed an emer
gency appropriation of $4,000 and
delegated a commission to leave Bis
marck at once for Fort Smelling
Mimi, to meet the North Dakota sol
diers returning from the Mexican Dor
der. Senator Ployhar introduced the
measure in the senate. 1t met with
unanimous approval and went at once
to the house, where it was accepted
without discussion. The $4,000 will