Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1916-08-31

Michael Knoll, chief of police OF
Mandan, who was arrested on COM.
LANCER on charges Of operating a
blind pig, has quit his position.
Many farmers are burning their
grain in the fields in order to prepare
for fall blowing. William Alexander,
city auditor of Grand Forks, return.
ing from Bismarck, says that more of
the grain in many districts will be
burned than threshed.
President McVey of the University
of North Dakota expressed a belief the :
forty-eight members of the North Da.
kota First infantry, at Mercedes, Tex,
will be permitted to return for the
opening Of the various higher educa.
tional institutions of the state in
which they are students.
Faculty changes at the North Da.
kota School of Science at Wahpeton
include the appointment Of Profes.
sor e. T. Riley of Mount Pleasant,
Mich, to have charge of the mechan.
ical engineering department., while
Professor Theodore Wanner of Fargo
will take charge Of the department OF
mathematics ard physics.
Harry Cliff, said by the police to be
widely known as a pickpocket, want.
ed in Pittsburg on a charge of rob.
berry, failed to appear in court at Far.
go when his case was called and for.
feited his bail. Cliff was arrested at
Fargo with several other men whom
the police say were working the
crowd when Charles e. Hughes spoke
there. Pittsburg officials were on
their way to Fargo to get Cliff.
Resolutions favoring active work by
the Prohibition forces of North Da-
kota looking to national suffrage were
adopted at the annual meeting of the
district w. c. T. U. at Minnewaukon.
The following officers were elected:
President, Mrs. M. A. Garry of Leeds;
vice president, Mrs. Jennie Allison OF
Esmond; corresponding secretary,
Mrs. l.. M. Delammter of Know: re-
cording secretary, Mrs. G. Burdich OF
Oberon; treasurer, Miss Nellie Whit
comb Of Oberon.
Thomas p. Cooper, director OF the
state agricultural experiment station
at Fargo, said in Minneapolis recent.
ly: North Dakota is no longer a
one-croD state and there is no such
thing as q complete crop failure any
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a serious matter, but it does not mean
to the state what it did even in 1910.
I farm products this year will
largely make up for the shortage in
wheat and fax and the shortage will
stimulate the diversified farming
movement still more"
ordered not to cut corners in a
traffic controlled zone Hugh e. Field
er, a timer, drew a revolver and fred
at Traffic Policeman Walter Wyman
OF Grand Forks. The bullet went
wild. Fielder said after his arrest he
had taken offense when the officer, an
hour previously, had compelled him to
go around the corner, when he started
to cut it, and said he had armed lin.
self for a second trip across the traf-
lc restricted zone, because, he said,
che was tired Of having cops order
him about" Fielder was bound over
to the district court charged with
malicious shooting. He says Milwau.
kee is his home.
Professor r. F. Chandler, head of
the department of civil engineering at
the University of North Dakota at
Grand Forks, has returned there from
the region of Devils Lake, where he
has completed a survey 1 n the inter-
est of the biological department of the
university. Professor Chandler has
discovered some interesting phenom-
ena in regard to the lake region dur.
ing his examination. Perhaps the
most startling made is that the
eastern bay of the lake, which some
years ago was cut off from the main
body OF water, is at present one foot
and ten inches below the main BODY
OF the lake. The reason for this diff.
ference is believed to be due to the
fact that the small lake is fed by less
springs and tributaries than is the
main lake.