The Devils Lake world and inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1915-1920, 1916-05-11

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
8, 9 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-.
lions.
Investigation into the death of Miss
Mabel Dahl, twenty-five years old,
who 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 "ether would do her
good" She was employed as a teacher
at Conway.
That Conductor Charles O.. S.ylves,
ter of the Northern Pacific, who died
at the railroad hospital at. Glendive
Mont, recently, succumbed because Of
grief, is the statement" of fellow ell.
ployes. About a year ago lie faoc5
trial at Dickinson on the charge 81
shooting and killing his wife. lie w.
acquitted, the defense pleading al
dental shooting.
Mrs. Charles Patton was shot ara
seriously wounded at Rolla will
hunting gophers. Gladys Andc~a-:.
fourteen years old, had picke3 10 tx
rifle from the ground after Mre r..
ton had shot at a gopher. While e
aiming it the weapon was dischare {
accidentally, the bullet entering Mrs.
Patton's back, just below the shoulder
blade. She is expected to Gov
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-
ecutive committee members, G. p.
Wolf and J.. E. Schweitzer.
While Arnold Strung, a new eleva-
tor boy, was showing his chum, George
Foster, how to operate the car, he
plunged six floors in the First Ma
tional bank at Grand Forks, but es-
capped without serious injury. The
lads SEM the car into the roof of the
elevator shaft with such force that
the main cable supporting the cage
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 its prestige as a
wild and woolly country. Here's the
last straw. Dickinson Elks have an.
nounced q shipment of wild steers
from. the Mexican. ranges will. be inn
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,
director of the North Dakota expert
mental station, has gone to Washing
tton.to; confer with: department of az
rfculture officials on the method Of
expenditure. OF the funds 10000 is
derived under the provisions. of the
Smith.Lever law. 1t is also expected
that a department of home economics
for rural women of one or TWO coun.
ties in the state will be featured.
More than $4,000 persons in Fargo
and Moorhead saw the opening fea-
ture of the Shakespearean tercenten-
airy celebration at Fargo. A pageant
procession and reception to Queen
Elizabeth" and her court was staged.
The pageant procession, two miles
long, passed through the streets of
the two cities. Games and dances of
the Elizabethan period were conduct
ed at Island park. with thousands at.
tending. The features opened an
eight-day civic celebration by Fargo
and Moorhead.
Calvin H. Crouch, chairman of the
board of directors for North Dakota
Of the organization for industrial pre-
p%aredness, has received blanks to be
used in connection with the taking of
an 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 open let.
ter to the business men of America, in
which he says: The confidential in
dustrial inventory you are asked to
supply is intended for the exclusive
benefit of the war and navy depart
ments and will be used in organizing
resources for the public service in ma
tional defense"
That school districts have violated
the law passed by the last legislature.
limiting them to a S per cen increase
in their taxes this year. is the claim