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

WlAiaDr01Aaxy o. Ntnoe has been
nominated b. President Wilson for
receiver q public moneys ct Ninot
Five Of, the eight convicts who e.
capsd from the North Dakota penitsn.
tiary ct Bismarck last Saturday are
still at large.
Building at Minot for the first SIX
months Of 1916 exceeded 100000.
greater than for any city Of Minot's
size in the Northwest.
Worried by stories he believed we're
being circulated by neighbors Gilbert
Hefta, twenty-five years old, shot and
killed himself at his home near Port
land.
J. NJ. Helm of New Salem won the
state premium butter contest at the
North Dakota state fair at Fargo with
a score Of "a. S. L. johnson of Har-
wood won the dairy butter contest,
his cor being 90.
Thirty-flve thousand dollars will be
expended for bridge building in Grand
Forks county during the coming year,
such expenditures being made neces'
sary by the damage done to many
structures by storms and floods this
year.
Millions Of fish are being distributed
BY the North Dakota ASh hatchery
this year in the general program for
the stocking of the states rivers and
lakes, Fish Commissioner Main report
ed to the state game and fish COM
mission meeting at Fargo.
Mrs. Stephen Frank, who only a
few weeks ago observed with her hus.
band the fiftieth anniversary of their
wedding, is dead at Mandan. The wo.
man, seventy-four years old, had been
ill for the past three months, dying OF
n and dropsy. Surviving children
include Stephen Frank, Jr., of Omaha,
Neb.
Winter rye was hard hit in the Des
Laos district by a hail storm which
swept over considerable territory,
losses, as revealed by claims filed,
running from 20 to 60 per cent. The
rye was almost matured when hit by
the storm. Some wheat also was bad.
ly injured, but barley and oats es-
capped.
Declaring he has always been fear.
full of the number "seven" w. H. Will.
Jams filed suit for divorce in district
court at Grand Forks. Williams de-
clares he married his wife with the
knowledge that she had been married
once before. Later, however, he
found he was husband number seven,
he says.
George E. Vincent, Minnesota uni
versity president, closed the North
Dakota Chautauqua at Devils Lake
with the principal address of the day.
Thousands attended, a special train
bringing many visitors from the north
ern section of the lake region. The
Chautauqua has been one Of the most
successful ever held there.
Fifteen thousand bushels of grain
was DESTROYED by fire that leveled the
Minnekosa elevator at Karlsruhe,
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elevator, owned by H. T. Manning,
was hit by lightning and burned to
the ground. 1t had a capacity Of
$4,000 bushels and there were $4,000
| bushels of grain in it at the tine.
The annual Western North Dakota
tennis tournament will be held at Mi.
! not the week of Aug. Z, according to a
decision reached by the Bismarck Ten.
mis- club. Features of the tournament
will be the Missouri Valley champion;
! ship matches in singles and doubles
and the Western North Dakota singles
and doubles, closed events.
Leaving a steep grade between
Reeder and Gascoyne, on the Yellow
stone trail, an automobile driven by
A. s. Vaughn of Worthwhile, Ia, and er
route to California, turned over, pin
ming Vaughn, his wife and n dahgh
ter beneath. Two younger daughters
brought a relief party, which rescued
the others. None was injured seri
ously.
A circuit of eight fairs in Western
North Dakota and in Montana will b.
opened in Williston on Aug. 20, wher
the annual Williams county fair vii
be held The Montana fair dates carr,
into the middle of October and BY
working together the fair association
officials anticipate being able to max.
all of the events exceptionally sue
cessful.
Arthur Perrin, run down by an auto
mobile driven by A. B. Carlson a
Omemee may die from his injuries
The lad, with a group of boys, wal
playing in the street, becoming con
fused when the autoist sounded hi
horn. The wheels passed over tn
body of the boy, breaking several rib,
and causing internal injuries which j
is feared may cause death.
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