Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1916-05-11

Students Of the University Of North
Dakota Will observe the tercentenary
OF Shakespeare with a pageant on the
campus the week beginning June IL.
Indians from the Turtle Mountain
reservation will take part.
l.. Z. Birdzell, professor in the law
department Of the University of North
Dakota and former member of the
state tax commission, has announced
himself as a candidate for supreme
court justice. Professor Birdzell was
endorsed for this position by the
Farmers Nonpartisan league. but an
nounces he will run independently.
Travelling men of Minnesota and
North Dakota will attend the annual
meeting of their grand council, United
Commercial Travellers, at Minot June
s, . and 10. The program is one OF
the strongest offered in recent years.
Governor j. A. A. Burnquist OF Min
nesota and Governor l.. b. Hanna OF
North Dakota have accepted invita-.
tons.
Investigation into the death Of Miss
Mabel Dahl, twenty-five years old,
h died at Grafton from drinking
ether. leads official to believe that the
originally accepted theory of suicide
is incorrect, The girl, after taking
the poison, told her roommate that
she had been told either would do her
good She was employed as a teacher
at Conway.
That Conductor Charles O. Sylves,
ter of the Northern Pacific. who died
at the railroad hospital at Glendive.
Mont, recently, succumbed because of
grief, is the statement OF fellow EN-.
ployes. About a year ago he faced
trial at Dickinson on the charge OF
shooting and killing his wife. He was
acquitted, the defense pleading acct
dental shooting.
Mrs. Charles Patton was shot and
seriously wounded at Rolla while
hunting gophers. Gladys Anderson.
fourteen Years old, had picked up the
rifle from the ground after Mrs. Pat
ton had shot at a gopher. While eX.
amlnln% it the weapon was discharged
accidentally, the bullet entering Mrs.
= w = DtiNh, just DtlOW llle SllOuluGT
blade, She is expected to ove
Grand Forks was selected by the
North Dakota Academy of Science for
the next meeting place at the closing
session Of the annual convention at
Fargo. The following officers were
elected: President, A. H. Taylor OF
Grand Forks: vice president, r. C.
DoneGhue Of Fargo; secretary-treas.
urer, G. a. Abbott of Grand Forks; ex-
ecutiNe committee members, G.. P.
Wolf and j.. e. Schweitzer.
While Arnold Strung, a new eleya-
tor boy, was showing his chum, George
Foster, how to operate the car, he
plunged six floors in the First Ma.
tlonal bank at Grand Forks, but es,
capped without serious injury. The
lads sent the a into the roof of the
elevator shaft with such force that
the main cable supporting the Gags
gave way. The cage shot back down
the shaft with the boys %clinging to the
cable.
Western North Dakota, once the
home OF the Indian, buffalo and buck
ing %broncho, has lost it's prestige as a
Wild and woolly country. Here's the
last straw. Dickinson 1Glks have an.
nounced a shipment of wild steers
from the Mexican ranges will be i'm
ported for the pageant in connection
with the B. p. O.. e. state convention
there June 16 and II. Cow punchers
will compete for prizes. Home steers
are not wild enough.
The federal government will contrib.
ute $4,000 to agricultural extension
work this year. Thomas Cooper.
dlfector OF the North Dakota expert
mehta! station. has gone to Washing.
ton to confer with department OF ag-
rlcultnre officials on the method OF
expenditure. OF the funds e16NON is
derived under the provisions of the
SInlth-LeVer law. 1t is also expected
that a department OF home economies
1or rural women of one OF TWO coun.
ties IN the state Will be featured.
More than $4,000 persons in Fargo
ana Mcofhead saw the opening tea-
lure OF the Shakespcarean %tercenten-
airy celebration at Fargo. A pageant
procession and reception to "Oueen
EllzabeTh" and her court was staged.
Inc pageant procession, two miles
long, passed through the streets Of
the two cities. Games and dances of
the EllZabethan period We're conduct-
ed at island park, With thousands at
The features pence an
e1sht-day civic celebration by Fargo
and Moorhead.
Calvin II. Crouch. chairman of the
board or directors for North Dakota
OF the organization for industrial pre-
paredness, has received blanks to be
used III connection with the taking of
inventory OF manufacturing con-
Germs OF the state and has sent them
TO the other members of the board
who Will start the work at once, The
purpose of the inventory is clearly set
forth in President Wilson'S ~ "a