The Devils Lake world and inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1915-1920, 1916-05-18

The $4,000 schoolhouse at Ed
munds was destroyed by IRE. 1t was
the second schoolhouse to burn there
In . year.
There will be no vote this year
On the question Of suspending the
state prohibition law. With the ex-
piration Of the time limit on May
6. within which petitions for such
election might be held, and with no
such petitions 1led. the first serious
attempt that has been made in sew.
eral years to abolish the states en-
barge on the liquor trafic has come
10 naught.
With eight announced candidates
for the state supreme court and with
but three vacancies to be filed North
Dakota has an interesting judicial
fight. Chief Justice Charles J. Fisk
and Associate Justices E. B. Goss and
d. T. Burke are members Of the court
whose terms expire at this time and
their SUCCESSORS. for six-year terms.
will be chosen at the general election
In November.
The second season Of the Red River
Valley Baseball league, comprising the
cities Of Grafton. Cavalier. Park River
and Mimic, will open on Memorial dAy,
the schedule just being announced. At
/ the leagues annual meeting at Graf
ton, DR.. J. E. sGalbsaith of Cavalier
was elected president and ]. Wal
strom Of Park River secretary and
treasurer. Park River won the league
championship last year.
Adoption by the North Dakota state
board Of equalization Of . tax sched-
ule similar to that employed in Min
nesota has aroused a bitter discussion
In North Dakota, the charge being
made generally that the schedule ID
aimed ct bringing farming property to
the tax rolls, discriminating against
the farming interests. The charges
havO been circulated industriously by
tie Farmers Nonpertisan league,
Famed by a gale fire destroyed
three business blocks. including TWEEN.
ty-four business buildings and sixty
residences At Eilendale. Scarcity Of
IRE fighting apparatus and an made
quAts water. supply hindered efforts
70 check the spread Of the flames
The IRE started in an old livery barn
The flames swept through the main
business and residence section and
then into the country where several
farm buildings were also destroyed
The loss is estimated between 5000,
900 and $35O,000, with about $4,000
insurance.
From all sections Of Northern North
Dakota come reports Of high winds
blowing out seed grain, wreckine
mail buildings and blowing down
trees and poles. Larimore reports
said it was the worst wind and dirt
storm of years. Farmers in that sec
ton, It 10 said, will find 1t necessary
70 reseed practically all their grain.
Reports from points on the Neche.
Walhalla and Hannah lines declared
that large acreage of the grain were
blown away. Drayton and Grafton
also report heavy wind storms with
great damage to the crop.
Fifty automobiles will join the Ma.
tional Park highway tour, running
from Bismarck to Medora, according
to word received by r. J. P. Hardy Of
Fargo. secretary Of the organization
that is handling preliminary plans for
the Twin Cities to Yellowstone Park
automobile run the latter part OF July.
The Bismarck Commercial club will
make the run from Bismarck to Me.
dora a part of its trade extension pro.
gram for this season. The Bismarck
party will go as far as the Medora
bridge and will participate in the fes.
tivities that will be conducted there In
connection with the dedication.
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