The Devils Lake world and inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1915-1920, 1917-03-08

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Bowman has voted ! $4,000 bond;
issue for new well and additional
water mains. y
Governor Fr1xtsr hassigned tho Mol,
son tariff freight net, based Oh tic
cashnan law ~ Minnesota.
Joseph Pfsifsr, 1 tenant Oh the John
Mcintyre farm near Casselton, died
Of heart trouble while driving into his
yard.
F. o. Waydenan, n Of the wealth.
lest land owners Of the state, Ii. dead
at Anamoose from . complication 81
diseases.
The senate has voted to establish !
terminal elevator Of Paramount and
to establish q state grain grading de-,
partment. III III
Fire destroyed the Equity Union
elevator at FORREST, with large
amount of grain and coal. The loss
10 $4,000. ss
Charles Russell, tWenty-six years
old. a Northern Pacific brakeman, was
killed in the yards at jamestown when
he slipped beneath = moving box car.
Walhalla townspeople have forward.
ed $3.50 to the national fund for re-
lief Of Belgian children. Twenty dol
lars was contributed by school pupils.
"A baldheaded eagle measuring
feet, 651 inches from wing tip tostipi
was shot by Harry Spornitz near his
farm home in the vicinity Of. Park
Ridge. s
The state senate has passed the
sHeckle measure establishing a $4,000
pension fund for the North Dakota
guardsmen. who served on the Mexican
border.
William Fox, forty years old, an Ice
cutter employed by the Fargo-Detroit
Ice company, was drowned In the Red
river while clearing q channel with !
pike pole.
The body Of Oscar ]. Richegy, TWEEN.
ty.nine years old, was found lying In
his brothers. barn near Hazen, an
empty bottle and acid burns on his
mouth telling Of suicide. J
Indications point To. = doubling. Of
the entry list for the-third annual
tournament Of the North Dakota
Checker association. It is to be hold
1t Grand Forks March 6 and 2.
When George D. Wilson Of .Towner
failed to appear for petit jury duty Z
court bailin was sent to his home and
found him dead, supposedly Of heart
disease. MI. Wilson was seventy
years old.
Jens Anderson, living near Sheldon,
drove : number Of his pigs into the
house to protect them from a snow
storm. The dwelling was drifted in
during the night and four OF the swine
snothered to death.
Six high schools, possibly more, vii,
send teams to Mandan early In March
to compete In the Southwestern dis.
tr1ct basketball tournament. They are
Beach. Dickinson. Mott, Bismarck,
New Salem and Washburn.
Practically every student OF james
town college, has signed a petitionsfs-
Questing the! faculty to take immediate
action relative to securing q course
In military drill and tactics.
b The basketball tournament to de.
eide the championship Of the North
western district. OF the State High
School league will. be held In Minot
in the normal gymnasium March 2
and 8. The Minot state normal school
will manage the tournament. w. Cor
zine, q member Of the Minot school
faculty, will umpire.
Sixty voters in Bergen, . village Of
100, q German settlement, have signed
q petition urging the North Dakota
legislature to s Its influence on
the federal government to effect q
referehdum ION the question Of war
or peace" The paper is reported to
have been signed by every person to
whom 1t was presented excepting two.
sixty.six head Of shorthorn, Polled
Angus and Hereford cattle and forty.
two head. Of Percheron. French draft,
Clydesdale and Belgian mares and
stations were placed on exhibition In
Mandan at the first showing In West.
ern North Dakota by the North Da,
kota Live Stock association. The ami.
mails aTs valued at approximately
s76,0oo. 1.