Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-03-01
I'M NORTH DAKOTA
News Of the Week From Many
Sections Of the State.
MANY ITEMS OF INTEREST
Events Are Briefly Written In Order
to Make PerusaI Easier for
Busy Readers.

Busy Reaoers.
Bowman has voted a $4,000 bond
issue for a new we'll and additional
water mains.
Governor Frazier has signed the Mel
son tariff freight act, based on the
eastman law in Minnesota.
Joseph Pfeifer, a tenant on the John
Mcintyre farm near Casselton. died
of heart trouble while driving into his
yard.
f. o. Waydeman, II Of the wealth
lest lend owners of the state, is dead
at Ar2moose from a complication OF
diseases.
The senate has voted to establish a
terminal elevator at Fairmount and
to establish a state grain grading de-
partment.
Fire destroyed the Equity Union
elevator at Forbest, With a large
amount of grain and coal. The loss
is $4,000.
Charles Russell, twenty-six years
old, a Northern Pacific brakeman, was
killed in the yards at Jamestown when
he slipped beneath a moving box car.
Walhalla townspeople have forward
ed SS3.10 to the national fund for re-
lief Of Belgian children. Twenty dol
lars was contributed by school pupils.
A. ho1IIrOJ, J ~o FL ,,o, ~ =
feet 6lA inches from wing tip to tip
was shot by Harry Spornitz near his
farm home in the vicinity OF Park
Ridge.
The state senate has passed the
Heckle measure establishing a $40, 900
pension fund for the North Dakota
guardsmen who served on the Mexican
border.
William Fox, forty years old, an ice
cutter employed by the Fargo-Detroit
Ice company, was drowned in the Red
river while clearing a channel with a
pike pole.
The body OF Oscar j. Richey, TWEEN
ty-nine years old, was found lying in
his brothers barn near Hazen, an
empty bottle and acid burns on his
mouth telling of suicide.
Indications point to a doubling of
the entry list for the third annual
tournament of rhe North Dakota
Checker association. 1t is to be held
at Grand Forks March 6 and z.
When George D. Wilson of Towner
failed to appear for petit jury duty a
court bailiff was sen to his home and
found him dead, supposedly Of heart
disease. Mr.. Wilson was seventy
years old.
Jens Anderson, living near Sheldon,
drove a number Of his pigs into the
house to protect them from a snow
storm. The dwelling was drifted in
during the night and four of the swine
smothered to death.
Six high schools, possibly more. will
send teams to Mandan early in March
to compete in the Southwestern dis.
trict basketball tournament. They are
Beach, Dickinson, Mott, Bismarck
New Salem and Washburn.
Following a two-day campaign to
raise funds to locate a Northern
league baseball club at Grand Forks
the promoters wired a refusal to Off.
Gals as the result of the failure to
arouse enough interest in the circuit
Gas tractors will be used for all the
breaking and seeding of nearly 5000
acres on the Standing Rock Indian
reservation to be farmed by Adam
Heupel, Dan Schaeffer, John Grosz, j
ky.
Carl Ecksteine, thirty-six years old
a farmer living at Grassy Butte, TWEEN
ty-six miles west of Kildeer, was
found dead, hanging from a rafter in
his barn. Remorse over an attempt
to kill a neighbor is given as the
cause.
The first half of February passed
without train service for Goodwin, due
to heavy snow storms. Other towns
on the Pingree-Wilton railway suffered
like isolation. Cuts about three miles
west of Vashti were filled to a depth
of twenty feet.
Shot through the stomach when the
revolver he was carrying was dis
charged accidentally Dan Hallquist
living west of Crosby, mounted hi:
horse and rode a mile and a half to
%neighbor, who summoned a physician
He may recover.
TRANSMISSION of blood sacrificed by
brother failed in the case of Edward
V. Johnson, twenty-four years old,
student Of the North Dakota Agricul
tural college at Fargo, who died from
developments following an attack o
typhoid last January.
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