Courier Democrat., 1916-08-03

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by fire, with loss of $4,000. Light
ming is believed to have been respon-
sible.
Edward Jacobson, thirteenth mem
Der OF a 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 it.,
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
ed by lightning which struck the l..
V. kurkel stables near Fessenden. The
barn and farm machinery were de-
stroyed in the fire that followed.
A honeymoon in far Northern
| Alaska, where the bridegroom will do
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 rapids in a
crudely built tlatboat. The boat over
turned, Vetter and 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. to answer and the state
| railroad commission will hold hear
| ing in Fargo Oct. 5 to consider it,
Pigs on alfalfa pasture will return
more profit per pig if fed grain ra-
| tion equal to 3 per cent of their
weight according to data received
from an experienced farmer near
| Grand Forks The pig is pork pro-
ducing machine and, like other ma
chinery, is most profitable when run
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 success,
| rain being the only thing that has
prevented them, These market days
| are held to get the farmers and the
people of the cities better acquainted
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 Me-
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
will made by the parents of Andrew
Torgerson, provisions of which were
complied 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 their
death. When he died his mother
changed the will, dividing the proper
ty equally among five children. Heirs
Of Andrew Torgerson contested and
the supreme court accepts their posi-
ton.
The fact that the rush season for
farm work has been late this year
has put a crimp in the farm boys
hikes. To offset this several organiza-
tions in the vicinity of Grand Forks
have used automobiles tot carry the
boys on these trips SO as to take them
over the same ground in less time.
| 1SSC Ilipo are llSLly CuuCdIlOudl w
the young men and they are all eager
TO learn. Good farms on the route of
the tours are picked out to be visited
and the boys are taken to them, where
a study Of the grain and stock raising
is made.
1t was a clod of dirt-not bullets
that struck the automobile in which
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Nomolke of Minot
were riding and caused the arrest of
John Stocking and David McGillicud-
dy, detectives on charges of shooting
at the couple. Justice Burke Of Minot,
presiding at the preliminary hearing of
the accused men, who were acting as
special agents of the Great Northern
railroad, so decided in ordering the
dismissal of the defendants The No
molkes asserted the detectives ordered
them to halt, but thinking them rob-
bers the couple had speeded up