The Devils Lake world and inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1915-1920, 1916-06-22
IN NORTH DAKOTA
isVs Of the Week From Many
Sections Of the State
AAAY ITEMS OF INTEREST
Events Are Briefly Written In Order
70 Make Perusal Easier for
Busy Readers.

Aug. Il is the date set for the open
Ing of the annual tournament of the
North Dakota Tennis association at
Fargo.
r. 7. Mckee, residing near Sher.
wood, was instantly killed by the kick
u q horse which he was Harvesting.
ia received the blow above the heart.
Thomas Collins, twenty-one years
I'D, of Mckenzie, was instantly killed
-andar the wheels of a truck in Bis
s1iasck. Collins was mounting the
huck when he missed his footing.
The reelection of A. L. Bishop as
president and the selection of Fargo
rs the place for the 1917 meeting
marked the close OF the State Sunday
School convention at Devils Lake.
Richard C. Kittel Of C~asselton, for
uer banker, entered a plea of not
Buity in federal court at Fargo to
ambezzlement charges. Mr.. Kittel ap-
zDeared in person. His brother, through
N attorney, entered a like plea.
Fighting with its mother to escape
N administration of medicine a
gnung son of D. C. Burke of Beacl,
Kicked an oil lamp from Mrs. Burke's
hands. Bed clothes were saturated
and caught fire. The home was de-
iItruyed at a loss Of about $4,000.
Melvin Hildreth, Jr., of Fargo likely
viii have charge of organizing Wilson
t3ubs among the young men of the
United States. Mr.. Hildreth, who is
Inst concluding his work at Columbia
university, has been offered the post
BY Henry Morgenthau, a former am.
atassador to Turkey.
Death from starvation was the yer
Met Of the %coroner's jury that inves.
ctgafed the ase of Henry Anderson,
rho was picked up near the Great
Eorthern right of way six miles north
1t Grand Forks. The man was taken
- Minto, but succumbed a few min
Aes after his arrival there. He had
s.aten nothing for days.
J. ". Bliss, state engineer, is send.
kE a copy of Governor Hanna's good
sSads week proclamation to the coun'
y commissioners, secretaries of com
nercial clubs and heads of good roads
associations in the state. He has &C
eompanied this with a letter offering
he assistance of the department in
making surveys or in other ways aid
ing the cause of better roads.
Bismarck was selected as the mex
annual meeting place of the North Da
Tbta German-American alliance, in
e~envention at Dickinson, and the fol
llbwing officers were elected: Jacot
Rothschiller, president; Paul Messer
inst vice president; William Hamme
0econd vice president; Arthur Stein
ecker of ICELAND, secretary; Ernest
Nickel, financial secretary, and John
'1egen, treasurer. e
Indications are that that part OF
northwestern North Dakota which
ms become known as the famous
%1kusby country" on account of the
sRops it has raised, is to have another
rear Of crop prosperity. The acreage
= almost equal to the 1915 acreage
md the grain is far ahead of what !
11s last year at the corresponding
tine. Prosperity in all liles=ef bust
1nss is noticeable.
Nearly half of the proposed hal
2ilion dollar endowment fund TO
Fargo college has been raised, report
hid before the board of trustees q
heir annual meeting showing tina
S945.00 either is already paid in o
1ecdged. r. NJ. Pollock was re-electe'
Hesident of the trustees. The boar
snmed Professor Herman G. Bey
University of Chicago, as ~sociologica
0d economics instructor, succeedin
Professor M. c. Elmer.
The North Dakota Sunday Schoo
convention at Devils Lake was stan
1eded when DR.. Wilbur F. Crafts {
Washington launched a movement fc
Judge c. A. Pollock of Fargo, a n.
a5onal figure in the anti-liquor battle
Ar the place on the supreme benc
made vacant by the resignation {
Justice Charles E. Hughes. In a me-
0se to President Wilson, Pollock
referred to as a man Of high idea.
and national reputation.
Miss Esther Jack of Williston hol(
he distinction Of being the first W
nan to graduate from the college
engineering of the North Dakota ur
varsity at Grand Forks. She receive
Ter sheepskin as a full fedged civ
0gineer at the commencement exc
atsee last week. Prolonged applau.
Ureeted Miss Jack as she received IL
s46ploma at the hands of President
4. McVey. She is the daughter of
S1hck. who is a civil engineer.
A mysterious telephone message
Btate's Attorney Owens at Willistt
1as brought to light murder in co
section with the death of Samu
Smith, colored, a wealthy Civil W
veteran. Cocaine was used in kill,
Smith, MI. Owens said. While Smith
1kneral was in progress a month al
owens received a message from
unknown source suggesting an inqui
hto the negro's death. The burr
Vas not stopped, but the BODY W