Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1917-08-30

Wetzstein at Richardson last June,
will be tried probably in Morton OF
Burleigh county, September 4.
Minot.-Local law officers state
special officer is to begin duties in
the near future in the hopes of ar
resting autoists who have not COM
piled with the state law regarding
auto lights.
Bismarck.-The body Of Mrs. Pat
rick Brown, who died at Leeds at the
age Of 103, was brought here to be
inferred beside that of her husband.
Mr.. Brown died here five years ago
at the age of 105.
Manning.-Philip Nelson, the Fay
cite homesteader who ran amuck and
was rounded up by an armed posse
after the exchange of a number Of
rifle shots, pleaded guilty to arson in
the third degree before Judge Craw-
ford at Dickinson and now is serving
a four-year term at the state peniten-
tiary.
Marmarth.-"I am ready to go fight
right now" said Yoshimasa Inami, a
citizen Of Japan and resident of Mar
marth. after passing the physical ex-
animation before the county draft
board. He is not citizen of the
United States, probably never will be,
but he thinks so much of the country
he has adopted that he waived all
claims to exemption.
Cando-Elmer T. Judd, who was
the government Bird Man of North
Dakota from 1890 to 1896, has just
issued little volume on the birds
of the Lake Region, the Big Coulee
and the Turtle mountains. The book
contains list of $50 birds, the pres
ence of every one having been veri-
fed. This Bird Book is a deciding
contribution to the knowledge of
North Dakota.
Beach.-Attacked by a rattlesnake
in the highway near his home, the
22-months-old son of Mr.. and Mrs. Har-
ry Moran of Squaw Gap, died the fol-
lowing day at Sidney hospital, al
though everything possible was done
to save him. Mrs. Moran carried the
screaming child two miles in her arms
to the home of neighbor to procure
an antidote. and the babe was then
Immediately removed to the hospital,
but the poison by that time had spread
through its system to such an extent
that nothing could be done.
Fargo.-F'ive cases of infantile par
a1ysis are reported in the state &C.
cording to DIR. G. ]. McGurren, secre-
tary of the state board Of health. The
five cases are as follows: One in
Grand Forks county, one in Williams
county, two in Burleigh and one in
Mclean county.
Fargo.-The Fargo Rotary club at
its meeting took official action in car
rying out plans by appointing a COM
mittee to arrange for a monster hon
or parade for B company of the first
regiment.
Bismarck.-CharlesL eissman of the
adjutant generals Office is engaged in
assigning serial numbers for the draft
to regfstrants whose cards were re-
ceived after the last date assigned
for filing.
Dunn Center-The Dunn Center
Equity Elevator company has taken
over the Dunn Center municipal cleo.
trio plant and will operate this public
utility with surplus power from the
elevator plant.
Devils Understanding to notice re.
ceived by Superintendent Sauvian Of
the public schools in this city, and
other school heads in various towns,
children must be vaccinated before en-.
ter1ng school this year.
Underwood.-Rye threshing is on in
this vicinity and some of the fields
yielding eight bushels per acre, which
is much better than expected because
Of the drouth conditions when the
grain was in the milky stage.
New Rockford.-When his automo
bile tipped over, George Lott Of Nc.
Henry received a broken arm and
shoulder, while two girls who were
with him, Miss Jenny Green and Miss
Elsie Green, we're badly cut and
bruised.
Fargo.-One of the largest land
deals in Cass county was announced
yesterday in this city. Four hundred
and eighty-eight acres of land were
sold by Joseph B. Akesson of Grandin,
to Gustav Tetzlaff, a Minnesota farmer,
for $55,200.
Fargo.-The woman's club of Far.
go organized in the year 1884 and af-
filiated with the general federation OF
women's clubs in 1890, will open its
season of study with a club luncheon
September 81. The club will follow
its usual course through the winter.
Mandan.-Samuel w. Unkelholz, SO,
who recently refused the presidency
Of the National Grain Managers as
sociation at Milwaukee because of his
health, died here of heart trouble.
Worry over the draft of his son is
believed responsible for his death.
Langdon. - Langdon claims the
shortest international railway in
America In the line to be constructed
by the Cavalier Country Railway COM
pany. just Incorporated. The line is
just half mile long. extending from
the Canadian border to Langdon,
where 1t connects with the 500 line.
The company ia caDitalized at S25. 900.