Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-08-27
MINNEAPOLIS MILLS
WORKING OVERTIME
Million Barrels Of Flour for
Early Delivery On Book.
Of Millery.

llO2 UaTTetS VI Hour, pT6Ctlc6lly al
for delivery. in ninety days. are on the
sales books Of Minneapolis .millers
and II, the mills entered no more bus
inesst at all they would have to grind
for 40 days to fill standing orders.
Their. windows all aglow at night, the
Minneapolis mills reflect wars influ-
ence. For weeks each days sales has
exceeded productive capacity for a
day until q quantity has been sold
ahead that Is SO per cent greater than
the advance business on the books q
year ago All the mills are operating
most Of them day and night. Nearly
all the sales are fol, domestic account.
Very Little for Export.
Erazil, Argentina, Chilli, Peru. Co
lombia, Honduras. Hayti and Costa
Rica would buy flour, and from these
unusual points Of inquiry as well az
from the stable importing countries
of Scandinavia and the United King
dom, opportunity for Minneapolis
mills to offer their product come to
hand. But the foreign exchange stu:
alton is such that it is difficult to op.
crate for foreign account and notwith.
standing the great effect OF war upon
the industry, very little additional
Minneapolis flour has to this time
found an export outlet in conse-
Quence.
Busy with Domestic Orders.
J.. s. Pillsbury of the Pillsbury
Flour Mills company said today that
II the matter OF credits In New York
banks for account OF South American
banks can be arranged it will be pos.
sible for Minneapolis flour to go that
way.
Oats Demanded Abroad.
minneapolis had scores of kilograms
today telling OF heavy foreign demand
for oats. u
minneapolis can do no export bust
ness in oats at this time," said H. P,
Mccarthy Of the Interior Elevator
company. Europe is buying heavily
but naturally the demand is felt first
in the east. Eventually. If the de-
mand keeps up, Minneapolis may fig
ure in the export trade In OATS"
CAR BACKED OVER GRADE.
Williston, N. d.. Aug. 26.-Pau
DeFrenn,. of Detroit, Michigan, on his
way from Havre, Montana, with his
wife and four-months- old baby, was
seriously injured in an auto accident
east Of this city on the Baqual road
DeFrenn was attempting to drive W
a very steep grade wien his a stall
ed on him. The car, which wa:
heavily loaded, started backing dow1
the hill and the brakes failed to hole
it. In backing down, the car went
over the edge of the grade, which wa,
about eight. feet high, and turned ovel
twice in going down.
Mrs. DeFrenn and the baby were
thrown out on the second turn. bu1
Mr.. DeFrenn was pinned beneath thu
car and had it aot been for the fac
that several men we're just behint
him in another car, he would have
been killed as he could not have stood
the weight of the car very long.
These men fastened to his assist
ance and got him from under the
auto. A physician was summoned
and found chat Mr.. DeFrenn's should
er had been dislocated and his LEFT
ear was almost entirely severed an(
hanging down on his cheek. DeFrenr
was brought to the city and thu
shoulder was set and the ear sewei
back in place and the doctor thinks
that he will save the ear. DeFreer
was bruised in several other places
but not seriously.