The Devils Lake world and inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1915-1920, 1916-08-10

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Recruits Of the North Dakota ma
tional guard will be sent to Fort
Smelling, MIMI, instead of Fort Lin
coin, according to an announcement
at Fargo by Adjutant General Tharal-
son of North Dakota.
Mrs. T. w. Chambers, daughter of
Mrs. Laura Gibbons of Minneapolis,
welded only a short time, died sud-
denly at her home at the lake colony
south of Devils Lake. Mrs. Chambers
had been i'll only a few hours.
The victim of automobile thieves
twice within a year Frank Harris of
Bismarck is of the opinion that he is
q marked man." The first car was
stolen from his garage, while the sec.
ond machine was taken from q street.
Twin hail and wind storms worked
havoc in the farming districts near
Glenburn. Grain losses around Glen
burn are estimated at 100000, with
thousands Of acres almost entirely
cleaned out. Several farm buildings,
including two residences, were de-
stroyed. :.
liver Johnson, twenty-seven years
old, was drowned while attempting to
swim across Stump lake, south of La
kota, Immediately after he had eaten
q hearty meal. johnson had just
taken out a $4,000 life insurance pol
icy in favor of his aged mother, resid-
ing in Norway.
James Anderson. aged seven, was
run down and killed by a water tank
wagon used in supplying a tractor
near Deering. The lads father, driv-
ing the tractor, witnessed his sons
death. The boy was standing on the
tank when the team started forward,
throwing him to the ground, directly
in the path of the wheels.
A request that university students,
members Of the North Dakota nation
al guard on the Mexican border, be
released when school opens this fall,
has been forwarded to Secretary Ba-
ker Of the war department by Presi-
dent F. L. McVey of the University
Of North Dakota. The action follows
successes attained in Minnesota in
behalf Of soldier, students.
Heavy losses we're caused BY q hail
storm that swept the district in the
vicinity of Reeder from q point south.
east of Bowman to the vicinity Of
Hsttinger. Alstffp about twenty mites
long was hit. The storm also extend
ed,ts Fsuyills, s. p. Very tew!Sf the
tanners carried insurance. The crops
vene, in! hne condition bstese tho
bGtoSnn. Losses range from 20 to 80
psFs cent. @@lA
| 6 The SUIT, begun two years ago At
HaFseo BY Edward Engerud, represent
m aid line elevator interests, to have
lthe. Equity Ceopentys. exchange Do
clarsd inpollvent And to eenjoinr the on
Gers and 4disectess isom se34ine~stock
In the corporation, has been dismissed
By Judge Pollock at Fargo. The suit
was dismissed on stipulation by At
torney General Francis J.. Linde Of
North Dakota for lack Of evidence.
1 Grand Forks was selected by the
North Dakota Pharmaceutical asso-
citation as the place for the next an
nual meeting and the following off,
GERS were elected as the concluding
feature of the business sessions at
Fargo: President, A. A. Bradley,
Williston; vice president, Peter Mer-
gins, Faifmount; second vice presi-
dent, John Miller, Rugby; secretary
and treasurer, w. s. Parker, Lisbon.
Bowman councilmen have a way of
their own when it comes to turning
adrift officers whose services they no
longer require. In Diminishing Homer
s.. Ballard, police officer, the council
placed his salary at 81 a year and d.
reefs that che refrain from all work
on the village streets and other work
at the expense of the village and that
the board, is ready and willing to &C.
cept his resignation" Indications are
that Ballard will quit.
Victor Brausch, aged thirty, is near
death in the city Jail at Steele and his
wife, J. G. L. Stuffacher and Mrs.
Stuffacher have bullet wounds after
a shooting ARRAY. 1t is charged that
Brausch shot his wife in the forehead,
then opened fire on Stuffacher, who
was te%lephoning for the sheriff;
wounded Mrs. Stuffacher and then
sent two bullets into his own head.
Brausch and his wife. a bride of a
month, had not been living together
and it is said that he threatened to
kill her unless she returned to him.