The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-07-29
News of North k
THREE
MONTHS AFTER BE-
ING PUT IN GROUND

Devils Lake. n. D.. July 29.-Three
months from the completion OF the
seeding to the starting Of harvesting
is the record of a cro of barley own
ed by Silver Serumgard on his farm
which adjoins Devils Lake. The seed
ing was finished April Fl. and this
week h field was In the shock and
ready for the threshing machine which
will be started inside of a week.
Never in the history Of the lake
region have the crops developed so
successfully as the past thirty days.
In every direction fields of waving
grain, such as have not been seer in
years, greet the traveller. Only the
early barley and winter rye has been
cut. the harvesting starting this week.
The average farmer of this section
of n state oes not are much for
the word bumper" More than once
it has. in their opinion. started the
market down the toboggan. The agri-
c%ulturists are not using the word this
year. but is prospects ever warranted
it the word would he spelled with
capital letters.
Ideal weather conditions have pre-
vailed. The July rains just finished
the growth of the fields. There has
been sufficient wind to keep the grain
in motion with warm weather during
the past week which could not have
been moro opportune. 1t came just
after a spell of fine cool growing
weather. when the roots of the grain
We're taking u great hold down deep
in the soil.
Occasional fields of flax have failed
to keep pace with the other grains,
due. it is said, TO the weather condi-
tions. There are many fields that
have held their own with the wheat,
the stand of flax straw being waist
high. ON the Clark Kelly farm east
of Devils Lake, on the lake shore, flax
Is now in blossom and many declare it
is The finest field aver raised in North
Dakota. The farm is recognized as the
most modern in the northwest. farm
ing being done on q strictly scientific
basis.
STATE DETAILS OF to
Dickinson, n. D.. July 29.-Erwin ].
Motsift. Northern Pacific brakeman,
former resident OF Dickinson where he
was born was killed a few miles west
of Mandan. by being swept from the
steps on the side of a box Car while
pouring water on a hot box. His body
came in contact with the side of a
steel bridge. known as number seven,
which struck him on the back and
Knocked him under the wheels.
MotsiffS body was badly mutilated;
n leg was cut off at the ankle. one
arm at the shoulder, his skull crushed
and the body broker in two at the alb
domen.
The accident occurred while the
train was running about thirty-ive
miles an hour. Motsiff went from the
engine to about ave ears in the rear
for the purpose of pouring water on
n hot box and while in the act, and
leaning out from the side of the car,
the bridge struck him, sweeping him
from the ladder, throwing his body
under the wheels as stated.
Engineer Murphy saw Motsiff when
he was struck M at once applied the
air brakes stopping the train with the
caboose opposite the remains. Conduc-
tor Robinson and Brakeman Howe
picked up the remains and took them
to Mandan. where they We're turned
over to the oroner
Young Motsiff was born in Dickin-
son and was % years of age: his
mother died when he was an infant
and he lived here With his father. +.
FL. Motsitf. a former well-known rail-
road mar with headquarters in this
city. now a prosperous farmer near
Mandan. until nine years ago when the
family moved to Mandan.
The young man began his railroad
career as call boy at Mandan, after
which he served as passenger brake
man for about five years. He had been
a freight brakeman only three or four
months prior to his tragic death.