Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1916-08-17
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.

w iCSlolCl Vi Itle ldIlu ounce at WINS
ton.
Seventeen children survive Frank
Fleming, a farmer near Kenmare, who
met death under his binder when the
four-horse team attached to the nipple.
ment ran away.
Isabella Holinshead. whose mar.
riage to Charles Holinshead took
place in Delayan, Wis, sixty-fve years
ago.. is dead at her home in Valley
City. Her husband survives.
William E.ckert, a farmer, was killed
Instantly and Fred J. Porritt, city en-.
gineer of Williston, was injured seri.
ously when an automobile in which
they were riding overturned.
John Zeigler, with a record of three
escapes from the Fergus Falls (Minn.)
hospital for the insane, is being
sought by North Dakota police, &C.
cused of stealing three horses from a
farm near Dilworth, MINI. Zeigler
is believed to have crossed the Red
river at a point north of Fargo, max.
ing his way into this state.
The shortage of labor to handle
North Dakota's crops was made more
plain with the announcement that
calls for 9,S11 men had been made on
the state and federal employment blu.
leau at Bismarck in n week. Will.
ianFs county, it was stated, needs L.
500 men. Mckenzie, Pembina and
Cavalier counties also are in urgent
need of laborers.
No more Northern league games
will be played at Superior this year
as the result of an announcement Of
the transfer of the Fargo-Superior
series from Superior to Fargo. By
reason of the transfer the Fargo-Moor-
head club, now leading the circuit,
will play all but seven OF the remain.
Ing games on the home grounds. The
other seven games will be at Winni.
peg.
More than 1000 persons heard C. E.
Hughes, Republican candidate for
president, denounce the Wilson ad,
ministration The audience applauded
Mr.. Hughes caustic comments on the
spolls system as he said it was prac.
ticed by the administration and his
declaration that the federal govern
ment is a business institution and
should be conducted upon business
principles.
Drastic steps taken in numerous
North Dakota towns apparently have
awed Industrial Workers of the World
n other unemployed itinerants. Re.
ports indicate marked falling off in
disorders attributed to the I. w. w.
In towns where vigilantes commit.
tees have been formed to cope with
the bands there has not been a sem
blance of disorder except that incident
to the expulsion of those refusing to
accept work in the harvest fields.
R. Petrick, a farmer, is in the
Rugby hospital suffering from a bull.
let wound that may prove fatal and
Nelson Forester, an Industrial Work.
er of the World, is held at Wolford
pending the outcome of Petrick's in.
juries. Forester is charged with hav.
ing shot Petrick in a quarrel over
wages. Feeling against the ''wob.
blers" is running high and the au-
thorities are prepared to transfer For.
roster to another town should Petrick
die.
Ripened grain in an area forty
miles long and varying in width from
five to twenty miles was almost en-.
tirely destroyed by a terrific hail
storm which swept the district be-
tween Steele and Cleveland, along the
min line Of the Northern Pacific.
Hail is also reported in the vicinity Of
Medina, where extensive damage was
done to crops. Heavy rain fell at
other points, accompanied by heavy
wind and severe electrical disturb.
ances.
North Dakota industries produced
$21,147, 900 worth of finished products
in 1914, according to the report of the
United States bureau of census, de
partment of commerce, made public at
Fargo. The production for the veal is
an increase of approximately $4,000
900 over 1909, the last previous census
JSoi, IN Ill lllSlC oo0 VI lllOlG Elldll
$11,0O0,0 900 as compared with the cen.
sus of ten years previous. The pay-
rolls of the concerns aggregated ST.
$4,000 in 1914; in 1909 the payrolls
were $1.787,0 900 and in 1904 they were
$1,O31,O00.
Frank Luchowski, alias Frank Lang,
an Industrial Worker of the World,
has confessed, according to the au-
thorities at Mott, that he killed
Louis H. Larson, a farmer whose body
was found concealed in a clump Of
weeds. Lang, who is being closely
guarded in the local Jail to prevent a
possible attempt by Industrial Work
ers to rescue him, declared that he
crushed Larson's head with a rock in
a quarrel. Farmers in the district
around Regent, hearing of Lang's al
legged confession, prepared to take the
prisoner from the Jail and lynch him,
but abandoned the plan after assur-
ances from Mott authorities.