The Devils Lake world and inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1915-1920, 1916-05-04

ing approximately 100000, will Yhe
carried out a. q result of q decision
BY the state supreme court. The court
held thss 'btoseedin<sa 81 ne sbso5ardSvere
valid. ''
Attempts to eliminate Dr. L. s. Pla-
tou Of Valley City and. D. H. Near.
thur Of Fargo Gast candidates for the
Democratic nomination for governor
hayenfaileds Mr.. Platoul has formally
announced his candidacy and Mr.. Nc,
Arthur is expected to do likewise at
once. The deal was proposed in the
interest Of Halvor Halvorson of Minot
in the hope Of eliminating a factions!
contest.
Carrying eleven passengers in onr
Of the new English aeroplanes Clifford
B. Prodger, former Mandan schoclDov,
broke the worlds record for altitude
and is now the champion flyer OF the
world. j. H. Prodger, his father. -
ceived a cable to this effect from I.ni'-
don, where Clifford went at the cne V
ing Of the war to aid in Instructive.
pupils at the British government av;l-
ton school.
Because four inches of rain fell ut
Dickinson, within a nine-hour period.
the Northern Pacific railway must pa:
. group of Dickinson merchants be-
tween $4,000 and 100000 for damage
to their stocks of goods stored in base
ments. The state supreme court holds
that the railroad was negligent in fail
inx to provide q culvert of sufficient.
dimensions to carry away the great
flood of water.
Supporters. of John Bruegger of vii.
Niston3 are authority for the statement
that the, election of H. H. Perry Of
Ellendale, Democratic national com,
nttteeman! at the presidential pri.
mary, will be contested in the cnarta.s
II IN assorted that Grand Forksaceun.
u. which save Perry.a majority o1ifss:
votes. failed to keep. q separate poll
list for Republicans and Democrats Is
required BY Law. ~
"a motorcycle race meet Will DO held!
s. Grand Forks, probably the latter
part of sMay;tiwith, 1.-THE Orookstont Me-
torcycle. club iworkinglswith1 the Grand
Forks! 61uh fnanlakinE the event sisucs
oesa.5 TheG.GEanAn Forks Motorcycle
club will meet within. . few days to
lay plans for the event. The meet
win be. held 1T the North Dakota state
fair grounds in Grand Forks, where q
l1plendid half-mile, dirt track is 4v1il-
! able.
H. Fargo. citizens, .!.payingass:1o cents "a
quart for milk: are being&"milked" by,
q combination of local milk dealers, in
the. opinion Of United .States District
Attorney M "A. Hildreth of North tDa.
k(ta,' who has announced his decision
ta make q thorough Investigation. Hill.
dleth cites retail prices In other. cities
and, with, Minneapolis paying z cents,
Chicago cents and Boston 8 centsia
quart. he feels there is something rad.
ically wrong.
.Williston has turned the 5000 pop
| ulation post, with sparks flying from
every wheel. George P. Keller, who
has been in charge Of the work of com
piling a directory of the city and COM
munity, says that the figures arrived
at by the directory company as the
present population of the city are
1901. A careful canvass of the city
shows many new residences either &C.
cupied or in course of construction
and very few vacant houses.
News of the tragic death of her
nephew, Max Stern, on his twenty-irst:
birthday has been received by Mrs. S.
Friedman of Grand Forks. The young
man was shot down while doing scout
duty for the German forces on the
| Western battle front. The lad, accord
ing to q letter from his mother, was
picked off by a French sniper. The
victim had a brother wounded in the
early part of the fighting, while the
father, Ludwig Stern, is preparing to
20 to the front in behalf of the Ger
man aus
In his annual address delivered be-
fore the directors Of the North Dakota
Development league press bureau at
Grand Forks recently the president Of
that organization called attention to
the fact that unprecedented growth
and development is now taking place
in this state. Building is going for
ward in every part of North Dakota
and he predicts an increase in popula-
tion of over 100 per cent when the
next federal census is taken. If his
predictions are realized North Dakota
will have considerably over a million
people in 1920.