Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1917-09-20
News Of the Week From All
Sections Of the State.
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST
Events Are Briefly Covered In Order
to Make PerusaI Easier for
the Busy Reader.

tailed when q freight car loaded with
tea caught fire at Rhame, short dis.
lance from Bowman. The car burned
so quickly that there was no chance
to save 1t.
Walter S. Page OF Leeds and Ken.
l.eth z. Bertrand of jamestown have
been appointed to the naval academy
at Annapolis by Representative G. NJ.
Young. They will take examinations
il February
DR.. E. +. Laid. president Of the
North Dakota Agricultural college at
Fargo. announced that he had been
appointed as state federal food ad
ministrator by Herbert c. Hoover and
had accepted.
The stockholders of the Northern
Packing company. at q meeting al
Grand Forks, increased the cap.taliZa
ton from 100000 to s1,0o0.00G Steps
also were taken to issue additional
common stock at increased prices
Billy Ryan of St Paul had all tn =
best of n ten-ound boxing match p.
Mandan with Bobby Kriege- of Mil.
waukee. The bell saved the Milwau.
Ecc boxer in the seventh and tenth
rounds. according to newspaper men
at the rinssile.
a FIRE of ncenlary orr in complete,
~ destroyed the barn AMI thirty heat.
OF horses on the David Moug farn
seven miles northwest of Page Moue
said that he suspected some labcrers.
alleged |. W. W.. whom he discharged
early in the summer.
Four Germans applying for Amer.
lean citizenship before District JuCgn
A. T. Cole at Fargo were denied the
right to become citizens of the United
States and. according to Judge Cole.
hereafter all Germans will be denied
American citizenship.
a field OF seventy acres of the best
wheat in that section OF the state
owned by John CZapiewski. just nortl!
OF Voss. caught fire in the shock and
was completely destroyed. The crop
was estimated for thirty bushels an
acre. The fire was started by spark
from passing railroad engine.
The state supreme court. on appli
cation from the attorney general is.
sued an order. returnable Sept. IA, di.
rccting Emil Scow and j. A. Power to
show the reason they are holding the
Office as members of the board of re.
gents when their terms expired in
| July
According to w. S. Wilson of Bow
man, assistant state veterinarian, the
Cry weather has produced a poison.
Gus acid in green fax that kills cattle
within an hour after they eat 1t. Five
herds in the vicinity Of Bowman have
been affected and thirty head OF cattle
, have been lost.
Seventy acres OF shocked wheat
comprising some OF the finest grain
which has been cut in that vicinity
broke out on the farm Of John Czae!
weski near Voss Neighbors save
the farm buildings and adjoining build
ings by blowing wide fire.reaks in the
path of the flares.
Major Richard r. Steedman. retired
has been relieved from duty with the
North Dakota national guard and has
been detailed as military inspector Of
the North Dakota Agricultural college
at Fargo. designations OF Captain
Second Lieutenant Whitne%. B bat
terry, have been announced officially.
So serious is the grasshopper pes
in Bowman county that no white:
wheat and rye will be seeded unit
late in the fall Ordinarily this wor,
would be in progress now. but IL.
! hoppers are so thick the farmers feal
they would eat the grain faster thar
it could be planted. Everything IN III.
way OF vegetation has disappeared IL
the path Of the pest.
Adolph Lehman, wealthy rancho
and a retired farmer residing in st
Paul. will be tried at Beach at thu
January term OF the Golden Vale,
district court for the murder of Ma
thias Wetzstein on May 90. in accord
ance with a change OF venue granite,
ny Judge ". c. Crawford at Dickin
son Lehman has been in Jail sine,
the day OF the murder
After tying Mr. and Mrs. Joe Grad
TO bedpost robbers who entered thei
home near SELF ransacked the house
prepared and ate a meal and left wit
a team taken from Grads barn Neigh
bors who went to the house two hour
, later discovered the plight of tn
, couple and released them The tear
was found fifteen miles from Ne,
q Rockford. but the bandits had d,
I parted.
E Representative p D. Norton, in
: recent visit to Fort Yates. announce
I that work should begin this fall O
: $50. geo worth OF Improvements On tn
. Indian school. for which he had Oh
= tanned an appropriation ia the Las
i session Mr.. Norton also will ask a,
! appropriation for an electric high
= plant to supply the agency building