The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1916-06-08
N. D. News
Important Dolnos
~ Of Past Few Days ~
Throughout the
State. Edited and
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line plans for June primaries at a meet
ing to be held in Fargo Friday, April
81.
Bismarck.-E!aborate rural road sys.
TENS will be constructed in Adams and
Burleigh counties during the coming
season, according to present plans IN
those two counties.
Milnor.-Stock growers of this dis.
trict will hereafter handle their own
product to market. This decision was
made at a meeting in this city, when
they organized the Minor Shipping as.
ISOLATION.
Ellendale.-Ross Hutsinpilar, deputy
auditor of Dickey county, has resigned
to become a Methodist Episcopal min.
lister. He will occupy the pulpit at
Caledonia, Mimi, until the conference
meets in September.
Grand Forks.-Supporters of the
proposed damming of the Red River
of the North at Grand Forks expect
that Congressman H. T. Helgesen will
introduce a bill in congress asking that
the stream be declared n~on-navigable.
Fargo.-Fourteen meetings were
held in Fargo last Sunday by the
North Dakota Enforcement league
which were to mark the climax Of the
winters campaign conducted in the
state by F. l.. Watkins and c. w. Fin.
wall.
Grand Forks.--More serious flood
conditions are threatening here as q
result of the huge ice jam forming at
the northern limits of the city. This
jam already Is many feet high and
there seems no hope for immediate re-
lief.
Fargo.-Determined to prevent if
possible success of the movement on
the part Of the personal liberty league
to gain a vote on the prohibition
amendment, temperance forces have
been called to meet in Fargo to plan
their campaign.
Stanley.-Harry Walcott, who was
shot recently by John Roland, died
in this city. Roland now faces a muir
der charge. Roland declares he was
first attacked by Walcott before he
shot. An old grudge is said to have
existed between the men.
Conway.-The elevator owned here
by the Atlantic Elevator Company has
been destroyed by fire. Fifteen thou.
sand bushels of grain were in the ele.
vator. The salvage will be slight. The
fire cause is not definitely known. The
loss is about $25, 1000.
Drayton.-John Rule, q farmer liv.
ing on tile Red river south of Dray.
ton, believes that the present high wa.
ter is a forerunner of a flood equal to
that described in Genesis, and has &C.
cOrdingly built an ark in which he *.
poets to save himself and his family.
Disqualification of officers of the
Fargo Automobile club, reduction of
the membership fee to S. a year, con
currence on the adoption of giving rad
iator emblems to members and a scath.
ing criticism of the untidy side
streets Of Fargo were the outstanding
features of the business meeting Of the
Fargo Automobile club held here.
Fargo.-After breaking from a dep
atty sheriff and escaping unscathed
from a fusillade of shots and barricad.
ing himself in a granary near Will.
ston, where he threatened to kill any.
one who approached. James Leonard
Betchler, alias James Onid, 20, a fugi-
tive from Canada, is a prisoner of the
federal government in the Cass coun.
ty Jail here.
Devils Lake.-Somewhere between
Devils Lake and Los Angeles, tele.
grams passed announcing the deaths
10 Mrs. Anna Walter Pennington here,
and her son, Thomas Pennington, in
Los Angeles. Three hours after the
son died his mother succMmbed. She
was 81 years old. Five children, TWEEN.
ty-eight grandchildren and twelve
great grandchildren survive Mrs. Pen.
nington.
Williston.-Refused permission ia
traverse a field to reach a safe cross
Ing over Charbonneaux creek, Mrs
Charles Sakally and her 8-year.old son
lost their lives when they attempted
to cross the swollen stream at the reg
liar highway crossing. The bodies
which were carried away under the
nv Ao'S NV OCCA l0COtcISu. MTS
Sakally was a school teacher in Nc
Kenzie county.
Minot.-Judge Kneeshaw has direct
ed a verdict in favor of the defendants
in the $255,O0 damage suit brough,
by Grant S. Youmans against Governo,
Hanna, other state officials and locaI
bankers who were charged with conspil
acy in connection with the closing OF
the Savings Deposit bank in October
1918. Judge Kneeshaw stated there
was no evidence Of duress, coercion, MOI
conspiracy on the part of the defend
ants.
Fort Yates.-Indians in this vicinity
are enthusiastic ove the proposed plan
to organic, Indian cavalry. The idea
originated among some of the young
or Sioux on the South Dakota section
of the Standing Rock reservation. Peti
ton to Congress for permission ia be-
ing considered.
Minot.-Governor Burnquist of Min.
aesota and Governor Hanna of NORTH