Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-09-06
News of the Week FROM All
Sections Of the State.
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST
Events Are Briefly Covered in Order
to Make PerusaI Easier for
the Busy Reader.

SlpdA VI Iilc ucW NdI1lSOl ulSu SCuOOl
which will open for the fall term on
Sept. 10.
Governor l.. J.. Frazier, on reviewing
the complaint filed by Superintendent
F. l.. Watkins of the State Enforce.
ment league, ordered removal proceed.
ings commenced at once against Mayor
w. S. Shaw of Minot.
Seven horses on the Herman Lin.
dar farm near Underwood have been
poisoned. The animals died shortly
after each other. 1t is believed that
the poison was given to them while
they were in the pasture.
Major f. S. Person, war veteran and
president of the Union National bank
of Minot, has resigned Is director of
the Association Of Commerce and left
for Fort Smelling, where he entered
the second officers training camp.
After remaining buried in North Da-
kota soil for fifteen years a watch
plowed up on the William Harms farm
near Wimbledon, after being properly
wound, licked away as though it never
had enjoyed a ripping Van Wrinkle
rest.
M. Lapenski, sixty years old, COM
mitted suicide at Dickinson by hang
ing himself to a beam in the base.
ment of a new dwelling house that
was being erected by his son-inlaw,
Julian Kubistha. The reason for the
act is unknown.
Many thousands of dollars worth of
valuable hay, two teams of horses,
wagons, hayloaders, stackers and a
lot of other equipment were consumed
in a prairie fire which swept over sew
eral miles of country extending from
Mclaughlin TO- selfridge.
Oscar H. Will, pioneer seed grower
and said to be n of the wealthiest
ne Of that section, is dead at Bis
marck after a long illness. 1t is cred
tied to Mr.. Will for the acclimating Of
practically every variety of corn now
grown in the Northwest.
The status of a handcar as a COM
mon carrier was established when
Frank Giannini, a Northern Pacific
section hand, known as Dago Frank,
was assessed a fine and costs at Beach
for transporting a case of beer from
Yates, the nearest wet spot across the
line in Montana, to Beach.
Twenty members of Company H,
stationed at Fort Lincoln, have been
given a furlough by Major Wright to
permit them to return home and assist
with the harvest. All are farmer boys
whose place at home could not be we'll
filled. They are ready to return to
the fort on a moments notice should
entrainment orders come.
Because farmer members Of the
North Dakota railway commission are
too busy getting in their 1917 crop or
helping neighbors to get in theirs to
consider other matters just now it is
probable that unimportant railway and
telephone hearings scheduled for the
| present week at Bismarck will be post
poned until the harvest rush is over.
Keen disappointment was expressed
by representatives of farmers at Far
go over the wheat fair price fixing
committee at Washington in decid-
ing upon 1920 a bushel at Chicago for
No. 1 Northern spring wheat. 1t was
declared that this grade of wheat is
worth So a bushel to the farmers as
feed, as compared with the price of
corn.
A hand grenade, which he perfected
and which the government believes
will be an important weapon in the
world war, has resulted in William
Wolosenka, a Fargo laborer, being
called to Washington. Wolosenka has
served with the Austrian army, but is
very anxious that the United States
should have the use of his newly per.
fected instrument.
A fire at Dickinson, the second one
of the kind, destroyed property valued
at $4,000. The fire was first discov
cred in the livery barn of L. ]. Plum,
mer, whence the flames spread to the
North Dakota hotel and several build
ings of the Dickinson Creamery com
pany. All the buildings were practic
ally destroyed. The livery barn was
one of. the largest in the state.
One man and thirty-three head o:
horses were burned to death and
George Gunderson of Bagley, MINI.
was seriously burned in a fire that lie
stroyed the barn on the Erich anG
Murphy farm, ten miles from Lakota
The victim rushed into the burning
building to o some of his per
sonal belongings, when 1T is supposed
he was overcome by the smoke.
With threshing in full blast in ever.
section of the state there is a decides
increase in the demand for farm la
Dor, S. s.. Mcdonald, federal labo
agent at Bismarck, reports. Mr.. Nc
Donald seem to anticipate no diff
Guilty in filing orders, believing tina
men who passed through North Dako
Ia into states farther west will b.
brought back by the higher wages an,
heavier demand for labor occasione'