The Devils Lake world and inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1915-1920, 1916-06-08
IN NORTH DAKOTA.
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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.

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Construction of a $4,000 addition
st. Luke's hospital at Fargo has
been approved by the board of direc-
tors.
Sheriff Price of Steele was called to.
and arrested a number Of per-
sons. connected with a street carnival
selling a quantity of gaming
devices.
A two-year-old child OF Dallas Gun;
der, a farmer near New Salem. was
burned to death when the home W.
destroyed by fire. Mrs. Gunder woS
seriously burned trying to. rescue thu
baby.
Max Rabiliovich of Grand Forks 10
received notice of his appointment y
aide-de-camp Of the North Dasota
tional guard. He succeeds the Z
Colonel Alex Scarlet of A!inot CT tbs
governors staff.
Ed Manley, residing near PettiSoTae.
struck by lightning and XII :
His team Of horses, which he We
driving. also was killed. A kov y !!
ing with Marley was stunned. Ia
quickly recovered.
Professor George ST. John Pen"
member of the University Of NJ, \
Dakota faculty for twenty-five ycH"r
died at Grand Forks. He was boz in
England fifty-nine years ago and was
Oxford student.
Elfred Teare, five years old. whcse
parents reside neal Fairmount. was
killed by a manure spreader. The la'l
was hanging to the rea of the ma.
chine, when the horses backed up. He
fell under the wheels.
In a roundup of alleged violaters OF
the prohibition law officials of Grand
Forks county jailed seven men, three
of them negroes. Detectives provided
the authorities with information on
which to base the raids.
Articles of incorporation for Bow.
mans third bank, the Bowman County
State bank, have been filed with the
county auditor. The controlling stock
holders are George T. Nelson, ]. G.
Nelson and J. l.. Barrett, all of Wat.
ford.
James Holes. resident of Fargo
since 1871, and who is given credit for
being the first man to prove that farm
ing can be conducted profitably in
North Dakota, is dead. Holes owned
the Pioneer farm, located adjacent to
Fargo.
Charles W. Hardin's balloon Fergus
Falls was destroyed by fire at Hazen
while being inflated for an ascension.
Hardin was exhibiting at the third an
nual baseball tournament. William
Selewert, his assistant, was burned,
probably fatally.
To make a study OF the Hollis-Glass
rural credits act, as it will affect
North Dakota farm owners. a commit.
tee of thirty leading members of the
North Dakota Bankers association
has been formed. The committee will
report to the general convention.
Rev. Guy F. B~urleson. formerly a
pastor at T4angdon and Lakota, was
drowned at Oweska Lake, N. Y. His
brother. Rev. J.. K. Burleson of Grand
Forks, received the notification. 1t is
the first break in a family of five
brothers, all Episcopalian ministers.
Patrick Brennan, who had been a
brakeman on the Northern Pacific out
of Fargo for the last forty-three years.
is dead. He was the oldest employe
in point of service on the Fargo divi-
sion and one of the oldest trainmen
in point Of service on the entire sys-
tenn.
George T. Slade, vice president OF
the Northern Pacific railway, will
take his herd of Jerseys to the North
Dakota state fair at Fargo July II 10
%. The Slade herd will add greatly
to the live stock show, which gives
promise this year of being exception.
ally strong.
Nels Caldwell, colored. employed at
the iewelry store of Max Rabinovich
at Grand Forks, pleaded guilty to steal.
ing from his employer and. was sen.
fenced to pay a fine of $50 or serve
twenty-five days in the county Jail on
a charge of petit larceny. Caldwell
decided to spend the next month in
the county jail. ~ (
The postofice at Kuhn was entered
by yesgs, who dynamited the safe, hui
the job yielded only $25 in cash and
stamps for the operators. The bulk
of cash in the safe, aggregating sew
eral hundred dollars, had been placed
in a small bag in a pigeon hole out
side the cash drawer of the safe ant
was overlooked.
William Smith, aged seven years, {
son of l.. G. Smith. was killed Will,
herding cattle on his fathers place
about a mile and a half southwest o
Griffin. The little fellow was ridinf
q gentle horse and there was ne
thought of anything happening to hin
as he was sent out to watch the cattle
Something must have frightened the
animal, however, for the boy wa:
thrown as the horse ran across tn.
prairie and his foot caught in til,
(stirrup. He was dragged in this fash
ion for some distance and when fount