The Dickinson press., 1916-02-05
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Robt. Lundy, living southeast of
Westhope, claims to have a cow that
recently gave birth to triplets. All
are living and in a healthy condition.
Two boys left their mops near the
stove after scrubbing the Napoleon
school building floors. The mops evil
IDENTIFY dried out and caught fire, be-
cause two holes were burned in the
floor.
Henry Anderson, a young farmer
living near Portland, recently came
into that town with Fl fox skins, all
Of which had been trapped or shot
along the Goose river. He sold them
at the top market price.
Adam Lesmeister of Harvery holds
the record in this state as champion
wolf hunter. Recently he brought
in 731 pelts, captured during the past
year, which Melted him the neat little
sum of $1,827.5O in bounty from the
state.
Grain valued at 100000 was de-
stroyed by fire that RACED the Farm
ers Independent elevator at Streeter
late last week. The total loss is about
$4,000. The fire started in the en-
CINE room of the elevator.
Floyd Askerooth, a young Shuman
farmer, saw a big prairie wolf at
tack a calf in the pasture, chased the
animal nearly four miles, on foot and
horseback, and finally killed him when
he attempted to escape down a bad
ger hole too small for his body.
While a storm was raging at Neko-
ma, one night last week, fire broke
/ out in Anderson & Sons blacksmith
! shop, which burned to the ground, to-
gether with a livery barn adjoining,
before it could be gotten under con-
troll. The loss is about $4,000, partly
covered by insurance.
Five men were hurt, none seriously,
in the derailment of a caboose and
! several box cars near Hurdsfeld one
! day last week. The injured are: J.
/ F. Kennedy of jamestown; C. F. Toll
lefson of Valley City; j. P. Sheehan,
of Fargo; G. Bellan of Turtle Lake,
and Walter Brand of Denhoff, N. D.
Mrs. N. C. Lou is being held at
Devils Lake by the insanity board,
pending an investigation as to her le-
! gal residence, which is thought to be
at Kellihur, MINI. Posing as a
vaudeville performer and former cir
Gus rider, she put on free shows in
the Devils Lake streets.
Slipping beneath the wheels of a
moving freight train at Ross one day
last week, Art Williams, a Great
Northern brakeman, had a portion of
one foot so badly crushed that It was
necessary to amputate. The young
man was brought to the hospital in
Minot and is being we'll cared for.
The methods now being employed
by the farmers along the 500 line
running from Sanish to Drake are in
Dictated by the shipment of twenty car
loads of hogs recently to South St.
Paul. The n crop plan has been
relegated in this section of the state,
in favor of cattle and hog raising,
as a twelve-month revenue producer.
! Clara Suverly, aged eight, daughter
Of a farmer near Fort Rice, can
speak for the first time in three years.
On complaint of States Attorney
VIM. LANCER, who alleged that the
parents did not give the proper care,
the child was taken to Mandan, N.
D., and diseased tonsils and adenoids
removed.
Senator Gronna is preparing to in
troduce a Senate resolution calling on
the President and Postmaster Gener-
al to send in the nomination of J. H.
Bloom to be postmaster of Devils
Lake. MI. Bloom is serving under a
recess appointment and the senator is
seeking an opportunity to have it re-
jected as he is much opposed to the
Bloom appointment.
Correspondence with officials of the
Washington state reformatory has es-
tablished beyond a doubt that Bruce
Parkinson, alias Guy Hall, slayer of
Mrs. A.. M. Hart and her two small
sons at their farm home near Willis
ton, was an escaped inmate Of that
institution, as he declared in notes
pinned in the mouth of the dead
woman's body. The correspondence
also establishes that the suicide
murderer's mother resides at Everett,