The Devils Lake world and inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1915-1920, 1916-10-26
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F. Warner captured the city goli
championship of Fargo by defeating
Thomas Hull.
The Williston Commercial club has
formed Q marching organization and
will visit st. Paul's Outdoor Sports
carnival this winter.
Mrs. Ed. Bartle of Edgeley was in.
jured seriously when the automobile
in which she was riding collided with
another q near Beach.
! Lilah May Restemayer, two years
Did. was burned to death in the home
I 4 her parents ct Langdon while
playing with an elder sister.
An unidentified transient was crush.
ed to death under Z freight train at
Minot when he slipped while descend.
ing the iron rungs on the side of q
box car.
United States Senator A. ]. Gronna,
who has been engaged In campaign
work in Wisconsin, has entered the
state campaign to aid Senator Nc.
Cqmber.
D.. N. McGinnis Of Anamoose Is ii
q hospital suffering from two broken
ribs and several bad cuts in the back
Of his head. sustained in an, automo.
bile. accident.
j. Schon, who murdered his wife
July II during a quarrel at their
home near Glendale, has been found
guilty of manslaughter in the first de-
gree and given a sentence Of ten
years at hard labor.
Ernest Gum. four years old, was
dragged to death near Devils Lake
when his foot became caught in a
plow in a runaway. The boy was
dragged nearly a mile.
With the development of three new
cases of infantile paralysis at Luc-
ca, the public schools were closed. as
a preventive measure. All three vic.
tins are members Of one family.
Nels G. Anderberg and his nine
t~een-year-old son Gordon were hurt
severely when Anderberg's car tipped
over on a hill in Jamestown. Two
others in the car were uninjured.
Major James Howard Upper, a res
sident of Tower City fifteen years ago,
has been killed in action in France,
according to word received by his
sister, Mrs. Levi Rice of Tower City.
Mrs. H. E. Ross and three women
companions, pinned under Mrs. Ross
car when it turned turtle at Mandan,
escaped by removing the footboards
Of the car and crawling up through
the machine.
c. S. Cousins, manager of the T. H.
Cousins Elevator company. was seri-
ously burned in fighting a fire that de-.
stroyed the company's elevator at
Dover. The financial loss is esti-
mated at SIG, 900.
With only one case of infantile
paralysis in the city, and that close
ly quarantined, Jamestown officials
believe they have effectively pre-
vented what threatened to be a Sc
rious condition.
Plans for the establishment of a
packing plant in Mandan, as advanced
by the Mandan Commercial club, are
taking concrete form. The committee
in charge of the venture has been en-
larged materially.
Bert Warwick of Lark was instant
" killed and his brother, Stanley War
nick, was fatally injured in an auto
mobile accident one mile west Of
Flasher when their car overturned as
they were trying to steer out Of a rut.
The farmers bureau Of Rugby and
vicinity is backing a deal to take over
the business of the Western Tele-
phone association, which they plan
converting into a farmers co-opera-
tive line. A committee has been ap-
pointed to investigate the proposition.
Line" elevator companies are
leaving the state about as rapidly as
they can dispose of their property,
Judging from transfers listed with the
state railroad commission. In the
past few weeks fifty line elevators
have passed into the hands of CO.
operative associations or Independent
owners.
Three officers of North Dakota ma.
tional guard exchanged fire with Mex
leans across the Rio Grande, neal
Mercedes recently, but none was in.
jured. Lieutenant Fred Moore Of
Grafton, Sergeant Herbert Metzger,
Company M, and Captain Mclean Of
the hospital corps we're involved In
tho shooting, a report says.
Thousands of acres of land have
been added to the assessment rolls of
tho state during the past year. The
heaviest Increase is In the western
part Of the state. some Of the eastern
counties having made little or no