The Devils Lake world and inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1915-1920, 1916-09-07

loss OF $4,000. The p~ostofice was
destroyed but the mail was saved.
An increase of 423,S72 acres in the
assessed acreage of North Dakota is
shown by reports to the state equali-
cation board. The increase comes
from the proving up of additional
homesteads.
st. Wendelins' Catholic church at
Belfield is about to be finished. The
church will be dedicated in October
and a dinner will be given on that
occasion by the ladies of the new
congregation.
]. Muir, aged Rugby resident, part
ly deaf and blind, was instantly killed
by an automobile driven by August
Mueller of Silva. Muir crossed be-
fore the car. but became confused
and STEPPED back into the machine.
August Johnson, street commission
er of Fargo for the past fourteen
years, died last week from internal
injuries suffered while working
around a concrete mixing machine.
Johnson was caught under a descend.
ing hopper.
Victor Nelson, thrown under his
binder at Parshall while attempting
TO repair it, was dragged several rods
and killed. His body was discovered
by members of the family several
hours later. He formerly lived at
Fertile, MINI.
Burglars blew open the safe of the
First State bank of Eckman during
the night and escaped with approx
mately $4,000 in cash. The bank is
housed temporarily in the Office of a
lumber company while a new bank
building is being erected.
Miss Helen Carleton, who recently
resigned as public librarian at Dick
inson, will accept a position with
headquarters at st. Paul. 1t is under.
stood Miss Cartoons new duties will
consist largely OF library organization
work throughout the state.
Buffalo lake, six miles south of Mil
nor, is out of its banks, and is flood
ing several acres of the surrounding
farm lands, the first time in the his
tory of the district. Ordinarily the
lake is only about 500 acres in r
but it now cover several thousand
acres. Continuous rains are D
sible.
Fargo is to be on the route of q
great north and south highway which
will run from Galveston, Tex, on
the Gulf of Mexico, to Winnipeg, Can,
final arrangements having been made
by a party of Kansas road boosters
who were in the city recently confer
ring with Secretary J. P. Hardy of
the Fargo Commercial club on the
deposition.
Thomas Price, a negro, is being
held for the shooting and killing of
William Waugh, another negro, at
Glendale.
Mrs. Carl Daese. one of the pioneer
residents of Stutsman county, is dead
following a p%aralytic stroke received
some weeks ago.
"a ~ GO1, 1tNluS l1cdl 0ul1UOA,
was killed under a binder on his
farm when a team of horses, becom-
Ing frightened. threw him in the path
of the machine.
Internal injuries received from the
saddle horn while riding a broncho
resulted in the death OF Edward Har-
ron, tifty-fcur years old, a farmer liv-
ing near Robinson.
While en- route from Tacoma to
New York three men wanted by the
United States department of immigra-
ton escaped from a Northern Pacific
train near S%anborn.
Joseph and George Couture, charg>
Al with cattle thefts or the Standing
Rock Indian reservation, at Mandah
were bound over to the federal court.
George Couture will be tried in South
Dakota and his brother in this state.
Although confronted with markedly
increased costs in foodstuffs the state
board of regents will seek to give
state university students board at the
same price as previously. Table
board IL provided in the various
schools at from 1928 to 1918 a week.
Sheriff Olsen of Devils Lake arrest
ed Andrew Overback, alias Andrew
Johnson, alias Overback, at the Kline
farm near Penn. The man is wanted
in Kossuth county, Ia, for crime and
was traced to the Kline farm, where
he was working in the harvest fields.
+ A proposition by which the North
ern Pacific railroad would be pei
mitted to block a certain street dur