Courier Democrat., 1916-05-18
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IN NORTH DAKOTA
E-"s EI,s Of The Week From Many
y;>eeccttIIQGS Of the State.
M.n.a,Y I'IT--.....S CT ..::..II"-.ST
Events Are orjsf'y Written In Order
to Make Perusal Easier for
Busy Readers.

elsie More, seven years old, Was
burned to death in 'i:o which de-
stroYed the 1l More h@nlH near Va
Nana. The child was Trapped in the
| Basement
Run over by field disc when his
team became unm9'' ageable John
Zwinger walked to s;v'l~Ston, received
medical attention and walked home,
where he died
Governor Louis b. Hanna has filed
| petitions as candidate iar United
States senator His was the first peti.
ton filed With Secretary CT state
Thomas Hall at Bismarck.
0. j, Sorlie of Buxton announced
| himself a candidate for the Repub-
lcan nomination for lieutenant gov
crnor against A. r. Kraabel, the only
| other candidate in the field.
James NJ. Plat, siXty-nine years old,
was found dead in bed at his home at
Edgeley. Heart disease was the cause.
| He was alone in the house, his wife
| having gone to the town of Alfred to
visit.
engineer George Kingsley was in.
'nr"' when Northern Pacific train No
| IL "An into a tWO-foot sand bank on
'"ossing near Alice and the engine
torpls' over. The engineer was blind
ed by a sand storm
Raymond Ledger, twenty-one years
old, was killed at Mnot when his mo-
! torcycle dashed into a culvert, throw
ing him high into the air He landed
on his head Ledger swerved from his
| course to avoid hitting a box car.
| Surrounded by posse of deputy
sheriffs and citizens Anfeld Shifet
tWenty-four years old, suspected of
killing his father, Joe Shiflet, farmer
east of Darlington, and burning the
body in straw pile committed sui
eide at Selz, Pierce county
| Hal S. Davies, former Twin City
newspaper man, is now postmaster of
| Devils Lake. His appointment has
been confirmed by the senate ending
a long standing fight of Senator A. j.
Gronna against John Bloom and Mrs.
John Bloom, former incumbents.
NoloIlel ALEX ScaFletl, SeVenty-tWO
years old, veteran Of the Civil war and
of the Fenian raids and Reil rebel
lions in Canada, serving in the Cana
dian army. is dead at Minot Colonel
Scarlet was one of the most pictur-
esque OF the pioneers of that district
Allena Busette, sixteen years old, a
Juvenile court charge in the Florence
| Crlttenton home at Fargo, committed
suicide by taking carbolic acid salve
mixed with match heads Several
weeks ago she attempted to escape by
climbing down a rope made of sheets
School children of Oakes, within an
hour, took the census Of Cakes. The
| children were furnished with printed
blanks and each was assigned to a
| block. The result showed total of
1,4I9 persons, or within twenty of the
number returned by the federal census
OF 1910.
Antield Shifiet, who killed himself
near Darlington when confronted by
arrest for the murder of his father,
was made the beneficiary in $4,000
insurance policy issued several
months ago and police officials be-
lieve this supplies motive for the
crime.
After over a week of search citizens
OF Flasher and friends have given I'D
the task of finding J. 7. kroeger, who
mysteriously disappeared April 29.
kroeger was candidate for state SEN
ator last election and was appointee
for the Flasher postmastership, effec-
tive May /.
June ID, is and 16 are the dates Sc
lected for the North Dakota state
trap tournament, to be held in Lisbon.
program that fills the three days
has been mapped out and. Judging
from the number of inquiries on hand
for entry blanks, indications are that
there will be many entries
Suit to test the validity Of petitions
for the removal OF the state capital
from Bismarck to New Rockford was
started in district court at Bismarck
by A. G.. Hinckley, a Bismarck busi-
ness man. The action is in the form
of an Injunction against Secretary of
State Thomas Hall. 1t is pleaded
that the petitions are insufficient
The filing Of a deed at Amidon for
the right Of way of the Western Da-
kota Railway company to the North,
ern Pacific railroad may be the fore,
runner of rail construction operations
in that section. The right of way en-,
ters Slope county at De Sart, passing
through Pierce, Mineral Springs, Chen.
oweth and Bessie and terminates near
Mound.
1t was announced by Thomas Hail.
secretary of state, that 29,091 names
are attached to petitions filed by the
city of New Rockford for a vote on
the removal of the state capital from
Bismarck to New Rockford Unless
Bismarck successfully attacks these
petitions in the court North Dakota
will vote on the removal at the gen.
era! election.