The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1912-08-22
NorthDakota
News Notes

Fargo. Howard Benson and FL
mer Kertson, two young men who
held up John Mulin at Casselton,
plead guilty and were sentenced to
on year in the p%enitentiary.
Fargo. - Mack McGhee. a harvest
hand. who reached Fargo after earn
ing $12 in the harvest fields les Val
ley City was arrested for carrying con-
cealed weapons and given thirty days.
He told Judge Miller he bought the
gun to protect his remaining two
dollars"
Fargo. - With the express tickets
calling for nearly s2,375 in charges,
the biggest package ever taken out
of Minneapolis went forward when
the International Harvester company
delivered to the Great Northern Ex-
press company 100, 900 pounds of bind
ing Irvine for rush shipment to this
place.
Fargo. The dates for the
next Tri-State grain and stock grow
ers' convention for the corn poultry
and dog shows and numerous agricul-
tural association meetings. have been
fixed for the week of January Is. Pres
ident Worst has promised that some
leading agriculturalists of the country
will speak.
Devils Lake.-That the Great North
ern has arranged for a greater outlay
at Sweetwater lake than was at first
expected, became known when 1t was
learned that a complete filter system
has been contracted for. The water
Of Sweetwater lake will be filtered,
and pumped into Devils Lake to be
used in the shops for the engines
passing through.
Glendale. Intense pain caused by
an injury received in an accident FIVE
years ago, resulted in the suicide of
Miss Ruth Hukri, "a years old who
drank carbolic acid. The young wom-
an was thrown out Of a carriage in a
runaway and received injury about
the head and abdomen from which
she never recovered and occasionally
she was in pain, while suffering she
drank the poison.
new Le1pselg. Alma Friesse,
aged twelve years and three-year-
bid Anna Resner, were burned to death
the older girlgable hPmfiuR .Pdms:
by an explosion of gasolene with
which the older girl was attempting
to hurry the kitchen fire. Mrs. Resner
was away temporarily and the Friesse
girl was caring for the child and at
ram nfin0 f0 ho1o hroo1 Mo D>,-z-
was at work nea the house and was
seriously burned in attempting a res
cue.
Fargo. The executive committee
of the North Dakota Bull Moose party
has decided to hold a mass meeting
in Fargo August 20, and is consider
Ing the selection Of a third state tick
ct. A majority of the committee is
said to favor a third party ticket. H.
H. Aaker, who was one of the La Fol.
lette presidential electors and tend.
erred his resignation, is mentioned as
the most probable candidate for gov.
iernor. Aaker has announced his al.
legiance to the national third party
movement.
- ho - L.. w. OuCppalu, a
parachute jumper, was badly injured
here when an %aeroplane, driven by
Aviator Frank Bell, and in which
Sheppard was riding, fell so feet. Bell
ESCAPED with minor injuries, while
Sheppard has a badly smashed hip,
and injuries about II leg. Bell and
Sheppard were just starting on a
flight, the latter intending to make
a parachute jump from a height of
about 1900 feet. They got away we'll
and were rising rapidly. when the en-
CINE stopped.
F~essenden. - Henry Fogle was
brought back under arrest by J. N.
Kunkel, deputy sheriff from Stillwa,
ter, Mimi, upon a charge of embez-
element preferred by the H. S. Thomp-.
son Lumber Co. Upon hearing in the
county court Fogle waived preliminary
examination and was bound over to
the district court under $500 bonds
which had not yet been procured
When this was written. The specific
charge upon which Fogle was arrest
led is the alleged embezzlement of
accounts to the amount of about $1OO
although it is understood that he ID
supposed to have been short some
$500 of $1,000.
Langdon.-Dr. ]. F. Sylvester, Fred
Skinner and Will Heapy had an ex.
perience that they will not care to go
through again very soon, in fact one
accident of the kind is almost enough
for a lifetime. While going along
q high grade near the Hugh Mcdowell
farm in MI. Heapy's automobile, they
ran into a place in the road which
had been washed out by recent rains,
about six feet deep and an equal dis
lance across, into which the car
plunged before it was possible to
stop it. washout was along
one side of a large metal culvert and
a small crust of earth had remained
on top in both the wagon tracks.
which made it appear at a distance as
though 1t was only a small hole in the
center of the road, over which the
auto could easily pass.