The Devils Lake world and inter-ocean., 1916-08-24
IN NORTH DAKOTA
News Of the Week From Many
Sections Of the State.
MANY ITEMS OF INTEREST
Events Are Briefly Written In Order
to Make Perusal Easier for
Busy Readers.


| Busy Readers.
Farmers at Lemer have organized
and will build an elevator to handle
this years crops.
Attacked by swarm of bees Mrs.
B. Hoffman of Cooperstown was near.
ly killed before help came.
H. F. Eldridge of Taylor was prob
ably fatally injured when a gasoline
| torch he was using exploded.
! c. L. Matthews of Campbell, Minn.,
+, drowned in the Mouse river at Minot
while bathing. Matthews and several
companions were on an automobile
tour
Asa Gardner of New England, a
very prominent business man and
we'll known in Western North Dako-
ia, was killed in an automobile acci-
dent in Wyoming.
Neville is a busy place these days
in the building line. work having com.
menced on the new Community hos
pital, the Farmers elevator and sew
'eral fine residences.
S. c. Craig and R. N. Clark cap.
tured the doubles in the tennis tour.
nament of the Turtle Mountain Tennis
club at Belcourt. Rolla, Perth and
Dunseith were represented.
Alexander Heralta, stealing a ride
on train on the Farmers line north
of Devils Lake, was thrown under the
wheels and lost both legs, both being
cut of just below the knee.
John Soaring, who was employed
thirty-six years by the Fargo Forum
and held the local record for continu.
GUS employment with one firm, is dead.
He was seventy-seven years old
A determined campaign to land one
Of the new land banks, provided for
under the federal rural credits act, is
being waged by a committee of Grand
Forks business men and bankers.
Two new towns will be opened soon
on the Fairview-Snowden extension
of the Great Northern railway, accord
ing to an announcement by railway
officials. Pendroy and Richey are the
new towns.
A large army of grasshoppers is
coming north through the Slope coun-
try from South Dakota and what is
left of the very late grain after the
black rust is being severely damaged
by the hoppers.
William w. Coffen, a we'll known
Fargo sportsman and business man,
dropped dead while trying to get his
automobile out of mudhole on the
highway several miles from that city.
His wife was with him.
Headquarters for the Prohibition
party for North Dakota have been
opened in Fargo by o. E. McCracken
Of Fargo, national committeeman, and
E. E. Saunders of Mapleton, who pur-
pose conducting an active campaign.
Pleading diversity of citizenship E.
F. Ladd, president of the North Dako-
ta Agricultural college at Fargo, will
ask removal to the federal court of
the 100000 suit filed against him in
Chicago by the Calumet Baking Pow
der company. The case grew out Of
fight on Calumet products in North Da-
kota.
| With a conference of the federal
farm land board set for Sept. 1 the
Fargo Commercial CLUB has opened q
campaign for the establishment of one
Of the prorosed banks in that city.
Fargo's claim as shipping center
will be the plea about which the
city will build it's case for the location
of bank there.
Communicating the office of the
Occident Elevator company at Valley
City laboring man, probably seeking
protection from the band of timer
ants that hvae been headquartering
there, barricaded the doors and win
dows Of the Office and, armed with a
hatchet and rifle, maintained lonely
vigil throughout the night
Harry Johnson, a young man living
out the Daglum way. near Dickinson,
appeared before Justice Folsom and
pleaded guilty to the charge of Sian.
dering female. 1t appears that John.
con had quarrel with two young
ladies and afterward EXPRESSED him.
5 self quite forcibly in the matter. He
{ was ordered to pay "a fine of IS and
t costs, ,samounting in all to $21.
i The Missouri river will be spanned
< by pontoon bridge, uniting for the
\ first time the counties of Williams
and Mckenzie, before Sept. /, accord
! ing to s. M. Calderwood, president o,
the Missouri River Bridge company
. of Williston. The bridge will be 10
Gated directly opposite the city o
Williston, spanning the main channe
from the north shore to the island.
Discovery of methods by Indian.
IN coloring, to determine whethe
they are adaptable to commercial use
is the object that has sent George E
= Haupt of st. Paul and Dr. Gilber
Wilson of the American Museum O
- Natural History to Fort Berthol,
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