The Devils Lake world and inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1915-1920, 1916-04-27
IN NORTH ||||'1|' DAKOTA IO|I'T|A
News Of the Week From Many.
Sections Of the State.
MANY 4. ITEMS Of INTEREST
Events Are Briefly Written in Order
TO Make Perusal Easier for
Busy Readers.

Busy Readers.
Glendale is to be in the baseball
game this year with q good team and
ample; financial backing. This was de-
cided at q meeting of the Booster club.
Fargo elected a ticket of five candi.
dates who are pledged to support the
school boards program of building
and general administration, as against
= ticket that opposed the plan.
The st, Paul railroad reservoir dam
near Hettinger gave. way, releasing a
vast amount of water, which overran
creek banks, carrying out bridges and
doing considerable damage along the
shores.
Arising from his desk and starting
across the room James T. Capron, a
banker, fell dead in the Farmers Trust
company at Fessenden. He had been
in the banking business at Fessenden
many years.
A. P. Braseth, se%venty-six years old
and for thirty-four years a resident of
Grand Forks, did not leave that city
for twenty years until last week, when
he went to Fargo to visit his daugh-
ter, Mrs. M. J. Ohlin.
I. A. Berg, former adjutant general
of the North Dakota national guard,
is the new vice consul of Norway for
North Dakota. He was appointed by
Consul E. H. Hobe Of st. Paul. He
succeeds the late Haitian Bendeke.
Edward Landmark Of Aitkin, Mimi,
Is dead and John Sand of Eau Claire,
Wis, is seriously injured, while
George Myers is being held at Coo
perstown charged with a double stab
bling. The affair took place at Sutton.
Henry E~manuelson, a farmer resid-
ing near Rubin, Mimi, and Arthur
Gilmore, aged thirty, a farmland en-
ployed by him, were drowned when
the boat in which they were crossing
the river from Drayton to Rubin cap
sized. &-}
M1not police are holding George
Hamingen, charged with assaulting
Miss Alma Nelson of brady. The girl
suffered severe scalp wounds, a broken
arm and injuries to the left side. 1t
will be- weeks before she RECEIVERS,
physicians say.
While in the midst of a sermon DIR.
j. M. Walters, pastor of the First
Methodist church at Fargo, received a
telegram telling of the death Of his
sister at Phippen, Sask. The pastor
continued his ,sermon and at the close
read the message to his congregation.
Joseph Mongoven Of Grand Forks
jumped from the Great Northern rail
way bridge into the icy waters of the
Red river and swan several yards to
an abutment and crawled back up to
the tracks: The dive was made to
win a wager with friends who had
dared him to attempt the feat.
The third victim Of the floods in
that section was J. M. McLucas, a pio-
neer Mckenzie county rancher, who
was drowned while crossing Cherry
creek with a team and wagon. A rope
was thrown out by the hired man, but
McLucas was disabled in attempting
to free the team from the wagon.
Frank Allen, white. of Mandan, trav-
cling salesman, was stabbed by Frank
Allen, negro, and is in a serious con-
dition. It is said the travelling man
had opened a package addressed to
Crank Allen" but which belonged to
the negro. The package contained a
pack of marked playing cards, it is
said.
Secretary of State Thomas Hall an
nounced he would not submit the so
called -bootlegger law to a vote of the
people, as asked In referendum petit
tons filed some" time ago. Hall bases
his action ON: an opinion by Attorney
General Ltnde, who holds the petitions
are Illegal. ForgeriesGaTesscharged In
connection with the petitions.
Alfred Benson met death at Grand
Forks while driving a gas tractor on,
q platform. The tractor failed to re-
spond to Benson's attempt to stop It:
The front wheels. ran of the platform
md the tractor turned over. Benson
was hurled into the. afr. 3 HIS head
struck on the overturned engine when
he fell, his skull being fractured,
In the annual school board election.
at Grand Forks the board Of seduca.,
ton, which has been endeavoring to
erect q new building on the site Of
the present high school, scored a
sweeping victory over the opposition,
which. by virtue Of an injunction, so
far has prevented the taking of any
action by the directors. More than q
year ago, when the question Of erect
ing q new building was submitted, the
board also was victorious.
North Dakota is gaining in popula.
ton at the expense OF the older
states. Especially is this true this
year. Farmers from many parts Of
the Central West are buying North
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