The Devils Lake world and inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1915-1920, 1917-09-06
IN NORTH DAKOTA
News Of the Week From All
Sections Of the State.
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST
Events Are Briefly Covered in Order
to Make Perusal Easier for
the Busy Reader.

Professor F. H. Neff of Minneapolis
will succeed Professor Allen as prin.
cipal of the new Garrison high school,
which will open for the fall term on
Sept. 10.
Governor L. j. Frazier, on reviewing
the complaint filed by Superintendent
F. L. Watkins Of the State Enforce
ment league, ordered removal proceed.
ings commenced at once against Mayor
w. S. Shaw of Minot.
Seven horses on the Herman Lin
dar farm lei Underwood have been
poisoned. The animals died shortly
after each other. It is believed that
the poison was given to them while
they were in the pasture.
Major E. S. Person, war veteran and
president of the Union National bank
of Minot, has resigned as director of
the Association Of Commerce and left
for Fort Smelling, where he entered
the second officers training camp.
After remaining buried in North Da-
kota soil for fifteen years a watch
plowed up on the William Harms farm
near Wimbledon, after being properly
wound, licked away as though it never
had enjoyed a ripping Van Wrinkle
rest.
NJ. Lapenski, sixty years old, com
mitted suicide at Dickinson by hang.
ing himself to a beam in the base
ment of a new dwelling house that
was being erected by his son-in-law,
Julian Kubistha. The reason for the
act is unknown.
Many thousands of dollars worth of
valuable hay, two teams of horses,
wagons, hayloaders, stackers and a
lot of other equipment were consumed
in a prairie fire which swept over sew
eral miles of country extending from
Mclaughlin to s%elfridge.
Oscar H. Will, pioneer seed grower
and said to be one of the wealthiest
men of that section, is dead at Bis
marck after a long illness. 1t is cred
tied to Mr.. Will for the acclimating of
practically every variety of corn now
grown in the Northwest.
The status of a handcar as a COM
mon carrier was established when
Frank Giannini, a Northern Pacific
section hand, known as Dago Frank,
was assessed a fine and costs at Beach
for transporting a case of beer from
Yates, the nearest wet. spot across the
line in Montana, to Beach.
Twenty members of Company H,
stationed at Fort Lincoln, have been
. given a furlough by Major Wright to
permit them to return home and assist
with the harvest. All are farmer boys
!. whose place at home could not be we'll
filled. They are ready to return to
the fort on a moments notice should
~entrainment orders come.
Because farmer members of the
North Dakota railway commission are
too busy getting in their 1917 crop or
helping neighbors to get in theirs to
!, consider other matters just now it is
probable that unimportant railway and
telephone hearings scheduled for the
present week at Bismarck will be post
poned until the harvest rush is over.
Keen disappointment was expressed
by representatives of farmers at Far
go over the wheat fair price fixing
committee at Washington in decid-
ing upon 1920 a bushel at Chicago for
No. 1 Northern spring wheat. 1t was
declared that this grade of wheat is
worth SO a bushel to the farmers as
feed, as compared with the price of
corn.
) A hand grenade, which he perfected
and which the government believes
will be an important weapon in the
world war, has resulted in William
Wolosenka, a Fargo laborer, being
, called to Washington. Wolosenka has
served with the Austrian army, but is
very anxious that the United States
should have the use of his newly per-
fected instrument.
A fire at Dickinson, the. second one
of the kind, destroyed property valued
at $4,000. The fire was first discov
cred in the livery barn of L.. ]. Plum
) mer, whence the flames spread to the
North Dakota hotel and several build.
!, ings of the Dickinson Creamery com
pany. All the buildings were practic.
. ally destroyed. The livery barn was
one of the largest in the state.
, One man and thirty-three head OF
horses were burned to death and
George Gunderson of Bagley, Mimi,
| was seriously burned in a fire that lie.
stroyed the barn on the Erich and
Murphy farm, ten miles from Lakota.
The victim rushed into the burning
building to recover some of his per.
sonal belongings, when it is supposed
he was overcome by the smoke.
With threshing in full blast in every
section of the state there is a decided
increase in the demand for farm la,
, Dor, S. S. Mcdonald, federal labor
agent at Bismarck, reports. Mr.. Nc.
Donald seems to anticipate no diff
Guilty in filling orders, believing that
l men who passed through North Dako.