The Devils Lake world and inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1915-1920, 1916-08-03

The WasAburn Milling eonpany's-
Mill a& Washburn has been destroyed
b Ars, with . loss Of $4,000. Light
aing 10 believed to have been respon-
sible.
Edward Jacobson, thirteenth mem.
Der Of . swimming party, was drown
ed in the Heart river near Sims. ia
cobson was alone when he was seized
with cramps.
Mosquitoes. high water and high
grass have combined to prevent the
Fargo Rifle club from continuing its
series of shoots this summer. 1t Is
expected, however, that the regular
events will BIT resumed shortly.
Ten horses, including William Rose.
we'll known racing stallion, were kill
&c by lightning which struck the L.
v. Kurkel stables neal F%essenden. The
barn and farm machinery were de-
stroyed in the fire that followed.
A honeymoon in far Northern
Alaska, where the bridegroom will dc
missionary work among the Eskimo
tribes, is the plan of Rev. and Mrs.
William Schattschneider, who have
left Tower City for the Arctic one.
Word has been received at Fargo
Of the drowning in Alaska of Elmer
Vetter, former Fargo high school foot
ball player and University of Mime
sofa graduate. With three compan-
ions he was shooting a rapids in a
crudely built flatboat. The boat over
turned, vetter and a companion los
ing their lives.
The Great Northern, 500 and North
ern Pacific roads refused to reduce
freight rates within this state as re-
quested by Fargo shippers and formal
complaint was filed Immediately by
local interests. The railroads got un-
til Sept. 1 to answer and the state
railroad commission will hold a hear
ing in Fargo Oct. 5 to consider 1t.
Pigs on alfalfa pasture will return
more profit per pig if fed a grain ra-
ton equal to 8 per cent of their
weight, according to data received
from an experienced farmer near
! Grand Forks. The pig is a pork pro-
ducing machine and, like other ma
chinery. is most profitable when u
at full capacity. A pigs stomach is so
small that it will not digest enough
alfalfa alone to make a profitable
growth.
Within the last few years market
days have become more. and more
popular in the smaller towns in the
| state. Many announcements of such
have been received by the North Da-
kota Development league press bureau
at Grand Forks and the GATHERINGS
are in almost every case a success
rain being the only thing that has
prevented them. These market DAYS
are held to get the farmers and the
with each other.
Facing an audience of hundreds of
cowboys and cowgirls on horseback
and a crowd of several thousand in
automobiles, in wagons and afoot Gov.
ernor l.. B. Hanna of North Dakota
dedicated the new Red Trail bridge
over the Little Missouri river at Ne.
dora. The governor declared that the
completion of the bridge marked the
arrival of the era of the automobile
in Western North Dakota and the
passing of the days Of wagon traffic
through the Bad Lands.
Revocation by the widow of q
will made by the parents of Andrew
Torgerson, provisions of which were
! compiled with for fifteen years, is not
recognized by the state supreme court
Andrew Torgerson had agreed with
his parents to operate their farm
the property to go to him at theil
death. When he died his mother
changed the will, dividing the proper
ty equally among five children. Heir!
of Andrew Torgerson contested ant
the supreme court accepts their posi-
ton.
The fact that the rush season fo'
farm work has been late this yea
has put a crimp in the farm boys
hikes. To Offset this several organiza
lions in the vicinity of Grand Fork
have used automobiles tot carry tn
boys on these trips SO as to take then
over the same ground in less time
These trips are highly educational t,
the young men and they are all cage
to learn. Good farms on the route o
the tours are picked out to be visite'
and the boys are taken to them, wher,
a study of the grain and stock raisin:
is made.
+. It was a clod of dirt-not bullets
2 that struck the automobile in whicI
| Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Nomolke of Mino
we're riding and caused the arrest O
| John Stocking and David McGillicud
dy, detectives, on charges of shootin
! at the couple. Justice Burke of Mino'
presiding at the preliminary hearing G
the accused men, who were acting a
special agents of the Great Norther
railroad, so decided in ordering tn
dismissal of the defendants. The NJ
!; molkes asserted the detectives ordere
them to halt, but thinking them rol
bers the couple had speeded up.