The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1912-09-12
Flickertail Facts
North Dakota State News In Con-
densed Form.

tlOuS III NOrCn dakota. "A large nun.
Der of accidents have been reported.
Cando.-Near Cando, Ross Baker,
while working about a threshing en-
CINE, caught his clothing on a piston
rod, and he was bruised from head to
foot.
Lidgerwood.-Fred Corroll had five
ribs fractured and also suffered inter-
nal injuries when his clothing became
%entangled in the separator machinery.
He may recover
Velva.-Edward Gilbertson, manager
of Gilbertson Brothers elevator at
Velva, states that the crops in that
part of the state were excellent in
everything but flax.
Bismarck. Frank Sprague, of
Grafton, was elected the national com
mitteeman and James Foley secretary
of the Republican central committee
at the meeting of the committee held
here.
Fargo.-The Fargo Milling company
has purchased flour mills at Perham
and two at Fergus Falls, which will
give it, with it's local institution, 5000
barrels daily capacity and require U.s.
600 bushels of wheat daily.
Milnor.-James Anderson, working
near here, had a portion of his cloth
ing caught in a setscrew on a revolv-
ing pulley. He was thrown about in
such a name that his clothes were
torn from his body and he escaped
with bruises and several fractured
ribs.
Fargo.-Mrs. E. H. Walker, secr@
tary of the Fargo Votes for Women
league, has received word from Jane
Adams that she will be unable to &C.
cept an invitation to address the
league on the subject of Votes for
Women and Progressive Politics."
The invitation was extended at the
last meeting of the league.
Bismarck.-Edward Ross and Harry
Lewis, escaped penitentiary convicts,
are said to have been located neal
Linton, fifty miles from here. Ross is
known to have secured a horse and
rifle and it is expected he will put up
a hard fight against capture as he has
seven charges hanging over him which
will make the aggregate sentence
reach owe fifty years.
Fargo.-The open season for chick
en- and duck shooting in North Dakota
which began Saturday finds the chick
ems and ducks more numerous than in
years. Conditions appear to have been
ideal and the young birds now are as
large and strong as the old ones. The
wet weather has filled the lakes,
sloughs and holes all over the state,
and the duck crop is immense. Ten
prairie chickens and twenty-five ducks
constitute the new North Dakota law
for one days bag.
Observation-Disclosures entertained
the state bar association and over a
hundred members have gathered here,
the first session, commencing We'd
nesday. John l. Green of Minot, the
president, delivered his address in the
afternoon. Addresses were made on
Judge Carmody of Bismarck speaking
on the affirmative and Judge H. c..
Young of Fargo on the negative. The
debate was followed by a general dis.
cussion of the subject.
Observation-Disclosures in the North
Dakota ~penitentiary sat in the case
of G. R. Robinson and E. r. Erwin, the
convicts who escaped recently, only
to be recaptured and brought before a
court-martial. The prison is operated
under military rules, a court-martial
being organized for the purpose Of
furnishing %delinquents. For attempt.
ing to escape Robinson and Erwin will
be given twenty days of solitary con-
fnement. They will live on bread
and water and must wear stripes.
Grand Forks. = Despite unusually
heavy and extensive rains in this sec
ton in the harvesting months, no
damage has been done, according to
o. D. Center, supervisor of the Grand
Forks district for the North Dakota
Better Farming association. He has
just completed a survey of the terri
tory under his direction and has found
the situation entirely satisfactory. No
grain sprouting in the shocks was
found by Mr.. Center, although he per-
sonally inspected about 200 different
fields.
Fargo.-State Humane Officer Blake
arrived here with Helen ]. w. Reitan
and Violet Jackson. They were ar.
rested at Harvey in company with
William Johnson and A. G. Jackson
of Harvey. One of the girls is 16
years and the other is about 20 years.
According to afidavits made by the
younger girl she has been working as
a domestic at Fargo for two years. Her
mother is in an asylum at Fergus Falls
and her father, she says. is a wan.
derer. She said that last week she
met the men under arrest, accom-.
panied them to rooms in a Moorhead
saloon and took a glass of beer, after
} which she said she remembered moth.
, ing more until the next morning.
I Grand Forks.-Hot weather has pre-.
| vailed over this region Friday, the
temperature reaching 80 degrees, the
/ fourth hottest day of the year. Fol
lowing extremely heavy rains which
, have fallen over a wide area, the heat
| ia welcomed as it has dried the prai IN