The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1911-08-19
Secular News Of the Week.

secular news OF the week.
Fully twenty-five thousand persons
are expected at the opening of the
Berthold Indian reservation August
IA at the four registration points in
North Dakota-Minot, Bismarck, Ry-
der and Plaza-and all these places
are making elaborate preparations to
handle the crowds.
To make the reservation opening
still more attractive the Minot Com
mercial club has made arrangements
for several flights to be made at the
fair grounds by Lucky Bob" st.
Henry in his Curtiss biplane. Secre-
tary Sherman has made an automo-
bile tour of the western part of the
state, covering more than thousand
miles, soliciting the support of the
cities and villages in this section for
the opening, and the reports which
he has brought back indicate that the
largest crowd in the history of Minot
will be here August IA and Is.
At a good roads meeting of the
Blackjack Commercial club the defin-
lite route OF link in the International
Falls to the Twin City highway was
decided upon, and petition for the
roadway forwarded to the State High
way commission at st. Paul The
road chosen from three proposed
routes is to parallel the Minnesota
and International railroad from Far
ley to Tenstrike, then east around
Erickson lake and again north paral-
telling the railroad through, Hines to
within a short distance of Blackjack
thence due north to Blackjack lake,
circling the lake on the south and
west sides to Blackjack, thence
north on the range line to a point
west of Kelliher and there to connect
with the already established road and
on through Kelliher north twelve
miles to the Tamarack river.
supervision in the construction of
silos is being extended to the farmers
of Northwestern North Dakota in ac-
cordance with general plan recently
adopted by the department of agricul-
ture, and the benefits of which are
now being reaped by the Dakota
tillers of the soil, anxious to diversity
their interests. A. K. Riser of
Colorado Springs, federal expert,
has reached Grand Forks and is en-
gagged in the supervision of the con-
struction work on several farms.
Concrete silos have been given an
extensive tryout in this section, and
that fact has resulted in special in
terest from the dairy commissioner
Office. E. H. Pierce, assistant dairy
commissioner already has arrived in
the city, and Commissioner r. F.
Flint will arrive in a few days to
witness the carrying on of this COM
paratively new work
| For the first time in the history of
Spokane, WASH. women will serve on
the jury at Spokane, when Mrs. Ark
wright Hatton and Mrs. A. P. Fassett,
prominent women suffragists of that
city, will do duty on a panel in the
police court. The court in which they
! have been called to serve will try
an ordinary petty larceny case.
/ August % is the date fixed for the
final hearing in the South Dakota
railroad rate cases, the preliminary
hearing for which was held in Aber-
deem last spring. Forty-six exceptions
have been filed by the Northwestern
road to the report of the special mas
ter in chancery at the hearing, and
the South Dakota railroad commits
sioners have filed fifteen exceptions.
1t is probable the final hearing will
be conducted in Minneapolis by Judge
willard
The features of the reciprocity
campaign last week in Canada has
been the large number of farmers
nominated by government conven.
lions to support Laurier and the trade
agreement. The naming of one editor
in Lethbridge and one doctor in
q Pincher Greek, both Alberta seats
and both candidates former members
of the Alberta Legislature, are ex
ceptions But in each case the con.
ventions were largely composed OF
farmers and were in districts largely
settled by former residents of the
United States.