Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-12-20
North Dakota.
Events Of the Week

The county commissioners of Wells
county at their last regular meeting
appropriated $50 toward a preliminary
survey of the Sheyenre river valley.
| The dates of July 10 ard II have
been set by the executive council of
the North Dakota Bankers association
in Mandan.
J. j. Myers, deputy grand master
workman of the A. o. u, w, has spent
several weeks in Park River in the
interest of the order and has met with
splendid success.
Thrift stamps and war savings GER
tificates, known in Fargo as little
baby bonds" are being sold at the
rate of 5000 worth a day, according to
Postmaster George w. Wilkinson.
The term of the district court at
Mandan, that ordinarily would have
been convened on Dec. 3, WIFI probably
not be held until some time after the
first Of the year,, according to Clerk of
Court Carter.
James Sam1nan, alias James Shan
non, committed for 3k years from
E0A oOS WoAhOu ouL VI LAC oJdLSH RCl11s
tentiary upon the completion Of 20
months time into the arms of Chief
Martinson of Kansas City, on a charge
of arson, the alleged crime having
been committed four years ago.
Paul Cysewski, young farm hand
employed on a farm near Courtenay
during the summer months, pleaded
guilty to grand larceny in district
court and vas given an intermediate
sentence Of from one to three years
in the state p%enitentiary by Judge ].
A. Coffey. Cysewski is alleged to
have taken a load Of grain owned by
Caspar Wojick and disposed OF it to
the Courtenay Elevator company.
Alex Schnaible Is not afraid to fight
his relatives eyen though they are
massed with the German army.
Schnaible recently passed through
Fargo with a number of recruits from
Bismark enroute to the Jefferson bar
racks, from which point he will pro-
badly be transferred to the south. He
has So cousins in the German army
and is going to fight them from one
of Uncle Sans aeroplanes If given the
chance.
Fifty students at the jamestown
high school have organized a military
company and will drill five evenings
each week in the armory here.
Adjt.-Gen. Fraser has received
authority from Provost Marshal Cen
eral Crowder to send 200 North Dako-
ia drafted men to the coast artillery
corps Of the National army stationed
at Fort Stevens, Ore.
Brily Douglas, of near Carlyle, a
pioneer settler of Golden Valley, was
Immediately killed when his skull was
crushed in a collision between a Ford
car driven by his son, Fred, and a
wagon loaded with lumber.
Fargo high school will not offer mill
tary training to it's students for the
simple reason that there are no hous-
ing facilities in any of the school
buildings because of the large classes
and the need of space for classes.
The Great Northern Railway COM
pany has promised the Devils Lake
Lefty commission to install steel and
concrete viaducts over the Hill and
Minnewaukon avenue crossings in the
spring, to replace the wooden one.
Eight hundred feet Of track was
torn up when the southbound freight
on the James River Valley line jump.
ed the track about two miles moth Of
Grand Rapids. Six cars were depns.
| Iffad in thu Hitch o,>1 %r,@ oxl... -
rallied.
More than 80 Fessenden high school
students have asked to take the state
high school course in Bible study ana
for which a credit is given. The ex
aminations are given by the state the
same as in any other high school work
The work is not strictly taken up il
school, but the work must be lone out
side Of school hours.
The sum of $4,000 in cash figured
in the sale of the l.. Diekmann farm
six miles north of Tower City. ant
comprising $40 acres, to F.. G. Burns
of that city.
The state has filed an affidavit O
prejudice against Judge w. L. Nues
sic of the district court in the cas- o
Secretary Of State Hall, charged will
embezzlement. Judge Nuessle >sthel
announced he would call anothe
judge to try the case.
Smoke pouring from the e o
the stove of Henry J.. Ramsey of Kill
deer caused that gentleman to turf
in a fire alarm. When the firemel
arrived they discovered the troubl
to be a burnt-up roast which had BEEF
s neglected by the family.
n p Pitsch, Fargo photographer
charged with ~bootleggings was arrest
ed in st Paul on information fled b
his bondsmen, A. Nordale and Charlie
Narum, who furnished~bail$ in the sur
Of $3.50 for Pitsch's appearance "a
the Cass county district court an
are said to have become uneasy owe
the defendants long absence frol
Fargo
With a bullet lodged in the muscle
OF his neck after passing through til