Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-07-19
The North Dakota game board ,

Inc NOrCn DakOCa game BOARD or
control will establish another fish
hatchery, a site on the outlet of Lake
Metigoshe, Bottineau county. having
been chosen for the institution.
J. A. McGovern, chief grain expert
for the Equity Cooperative exchange
and the st. Paul Grain exchange, has
resigned to accept an appointment as
chief grain Inspector for North Da-
kota.
Members of B company of Fargo
and other state militiamen got their
extra pay voted by the state legisla-
ture for the %guardsmen during their
service on the border. Each man
received $50, or $40 a month for
the term of service.
In a statement issued to the farm
ers in that vicinity the Minot Associa-
ton of Commerce announces the Gre
alton Of a labor bureau in the asso-
cations offices which is at the dis
posal of the farmers if they desire
assistance in removing their crops.
Not a case of rust has been report
ed to State Commissioner of Agricul-
tcre and Labor Hagan this year, &C.
cording to a statement issued from
that department last week. The dis
appearance of rust is believed to be
due to the campaign against the bar.
berry bush.
Ray H. Pinkham was arrested at
Do~{l~IJ o1l +,lr-, ~ NT:-oA .,-,-zl
| with violation of the "bone dry" law.
1t is alleged that Pinkham brought a
trunkload of liquor from Minneapolis,
checking the trunk as baggage.
Pinkham will be turned over to the
federal authorities.
Three charges, threatening to kill,
grand larceny and failure to register,
have been preferred against JOHN
Fisher, twenty-seven years old, a
farmer living south Of Havelock, this
state. 1t was in hearings on the two
former charges that the fact was
brought out that Fisher had failed to
register.
More than 800 telephone companies
out of the 1000 in the state will be
fined from $50 to $500 if they don't
file their assets for taxation to the
state board of equalization soon, ac.
cording to State Auditor Carl r. Ko'
sitsky. kositsky estimated that $4,000
would be collected this year from de,
%linquent companies.
Records dating back to the time OF
the Louisiana purchase in 1903 were
packed up and mailed to Washington
last week by J. II. Newton, clerk OF
the state supreme court, as q part OF
the record in the case of John d
Faxon against Lally township, Benson
county, which has been appealed by
the plaintiff to the United States ST,
preme court.
Cleon Nash was found guilty al
Steele Of first degree murder in con
nection with the killing of Clarence
Hicks last winter. In endeavoring tc
escape from pursuers at the time oil
the murder Nash was forced to stay
out Of doors in below zero weather
and froZe both feet SO that they hao
to be amputated. 1t was Kidder coun
tvs first murder trial in a quarter Of
a century.
With the opening Of the summe
term of the district court in Dawson
last week, Kidder county witnessed
it's first murder trial since North Da
kota became a state in 1889. Cleor
Nash, accused of the murder of Clar
ence Hicks, is being tried before {
jury, the first empanelment of its kline
in the %county's history. Hicks was
found murdered at his home at Rob
inson, near Dawson, last December.
The state experiment station is
sending out warning to farmers tina
the old enemies of the potato vines
the potato beetles or blister beetles
have invaded the southwestern par
Of the state, and that quick step:
must be taken to successfully comba.
the pest. Blister beetles are reported
to be attacking potato fields, and, &C
cording to the officials at the station
they soon will begin an attack on tn
alfalfa, clover, peas and beans.