The Devils Lake world and inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1915-1920, 1916-11-16

With Mack MCGEE, colored, return
ed to the state %penitentiary at Bis
marck, from Chicago, where he was
arrested recently, all but one of the
gang of seven convicts who escaped
in a single delivery last summer, have
been returned to the prison. William
Neavels, %ringleader of the delivery, Is
the only missing convict.
Plans have practically been matured
for the launching Of q new co-opera-
tive farmers bank in Minot with a
capital stock of 100000 and a pro.
posed surplus Of $3.50, 900. The larg-
er portion of the capital stock is to
be owned by farmers. The new en-
terprise is an outgrowth of the Saw
ings. .Loansand Trnst company.
E. A. Wilson was found guilty Of
using the mails in. promoting a con-
spiracy to defraud, by the federal
court jury at Fargo last week. r. NJ.
Farmer was acquitted. Both were &C.
cused In connection with affairs OF
the North Dakota Improvement COM
pany. A stay of sentence was granted
| Wilson pending motion for q new
trial.
A plea to Governor Hanna to aid
in procuring release of two sons from
the national guard, in service on the
Mexican border, has been made by
John Derig, seventy-seven years old,
halt blind and crippled with .rheuma-
fism. The aged man pleaded he and
his wife, bed-ridden, are dependent on
the county for their livelihood be-
cause their two boys are in service
for the nation. Governor Hanna has:
promised to aid, If possible.
Despite the fact that flour mills in
this state produce approximately 1885,
1000 barrels Of flour a year. nearly
100000 barrels are imported annual.
ly. AS a result. about 800, 600 barrels
Of the -four manufactured in the state
is compelled to find. a market else
where. This rather striking state
ment with respect to- the milling sit
tuation has been cleaned in a thorough
canvass of the situation by q COM
petent expert, whose findings recently
were announced at Fargo.
The state legislature will be under
the complete and absolute control of
the Non-Partisan. political league; by
virtue Of. that organizations success
intthe election Of nineteen of its twen-
ty.three candidates for the state sen
ate. Added to these are at least eight
%hold-over state senators who are gen.
orally known as being thoroughly in
sympathy with the leagues movement,
thus giving the Non-Partisans q work
ing majority iii the Upper branch Of
tie state assembly,
The state supreme court has upheld
the Mercer county district court in
ruling that q mortgage which is given
by an entryman on government lands.
while q single man, and pending a pro
ceeding to contest and cancel a prior
homestead entry, and after he has
planted a crop on said land, and after
the determination Of the contest in
his favor, in the local land Office. but
before the issuance of the final order
by the general land Office, and before
he has actually flied as an entryman
under his preference right, is a valid
lien both as against the entryman
and the family homestead rights, even
| though such entryn,an may have mar.
ried between the time of the execu.
ton of such mortgage and the final
order Of the general land Office and
his filing hereunder, final proof hav.
sng subsequently been made.