Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-07-14
State News and Comment

In Stutsman county there was less
damage to rye from frost than was
at first thought.
Fully 500 people attended the Old
and New Settlers picnic at Amidon,
and yet many We're detained by bad
roads.
The Griggs county fair was a huge
success in every respect. even old }.
Pluv. being OF his good behavior dur
ing the event.
r. w. Campbell of Devils Lake, who
was injured three weeks G in an
auto accident at the Chautauqua
grounds, died Friday. He was II
years old.
Several thousand trout minnows
have been released in Clear Creek,
Mckenzie county, by the state fish
hatchery. The creek is splendidly
adapted for a trout stream.
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There are prospects that Courtenay
will get a new hotel. The matter was
brought before the commercial club
by citizens of the town and a COM
mittee was appointed to investigate
the proposition.
A swapping turtle so large it re-
CURED the largest wash tub available
to keep it in, was caught by two
Longdon men in the Pembina river.
It has been placed in the reservoir
west of Langdon and the small boys
have lost their desire to swim there.
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A hailstorm struck Millarton. in
Stutsman county, and destroyed 200
acres'o growing gain. equivalent to
about 10000 bushels in an average
year. The hail was found to be from
8 to 10 inches in drifts and about 8
to 4 inches OF the level ground. This
is the second hailstorm in this vicin-
ity this season.
At North Lake, in McIIenry coun-
~, Elva, a little daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Habeck, was seriously injured,
while she was halding a horse that
was grazing around the yard. Flies
worried the animal and it started to
run, entansling the little girl in the
rope and dragging her some distance.
There is little hope Of her recovery.
A demonstration of the killing of
quackgrass will be given near James
town on July q Ivy T. E. eastman
OF Owatonna, MINI. He m at the
invitation of the jamestown CONNER
cial club, which has undertaken to
aid farmers in this locality to destroy
a certain amount Of quackgrass, which
has appeared in a few places ear the
city. ,M
At a sale here of noncompetent In.
dan lands, 1905 acres were disposed
Of at an average price of $3.50 an
acre az Fort Yates. The receipts
totaled s54.79o. Superintendent c. G.
Coyey OF the Standing Rock Indian
agency was in command of the sale,
and 42 bids were received on the diff
ferent tracts, though only 81 tracts
were disposed of. :
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The annual Pembina county agricul-
tural fair, one of the Oldest in the
state, will be opened in Hamilton on
Wednesday, continuing three days.
There will be a series of horse races.
Premiums offered in several depart
ments bid fair to attract a large num-
Der of exhibits. Governor L. B. Hanna
will address the fair gathering on
one of the three days of the session.
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-Four Grand Forks men narrowly
escaped death in the waters of Lake
Melissa, Minnesota. when their motor
bcata was swamped. The men, F. F.
Burchard, secretary of the board of
education; Harry f. Butler, superin-
tendent of the Washir gton grade
school: Arthur Daubenburg and j.
Halland, university students, were able
to swim, and succeeded in getting
ashore, although heavy waves were
running. Two of them were exhaust
ed for some time.
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Adams county is assured Of a bum.
per crop. The rye has long heads and
is filling fine. Wheat is just heading
out; straw is tall. Recent rains and
warm weather have caused rapid
growth. Careful tests show the soil
to have sufficient moisture to mature
the crop. Corn is backward. Farm
ers probably will have difficulty this
fall in f%attening the large number of
hogs seen on every hand feeding on
the alfalfa pastures. The alfalfa pas
lures this season have had no diff
Guilty in keeping far ahead of even
the greatly increased number of hogs
turned into them.