Courier Democrat., 1917-01-04
News Of the Week From Many
Sections Of The State,
MANY ITEMS OF INTEREST
Events Are Briefly Written In Order
to Make Perusal Easier for
Busy Readers.

Twelve horses owned by farmers
south of Regent were condemned and
shot because of glanders.
Bowman is considering the advisa-
bility Of purchasing the electric light
plant from w. r. Mckenzie.
John A. Forth, manager of the
North Dakota branch of Crane &, Ord
way of St. Paul, is dead at his home
at Fargo.
Valley City will entertain the annual
convention of the Stavangerlaget of
America which will convene there
about June 81.
August johnson of Washburn, a
banker, will recover from injuries re-
Gently suffered when he was run
down by motorist at Washburn.
Governor Hanna has appointed
George Hogue Of Steele as secretary
of the state game commission, vice
Joseph Purcell of Fargo, resigned
Thieves entered the yard of G. A.
Lunde at Manson. stole 200 bushels
OF oats and butchered and carried
away one of the owners prize porkers.
Judge e. T. Burke, retiring judge of
the North Dakota supreme court, will
open offices for a general law prac-
tic" in Bismarck. He is graduate
OF tE,e University of Minnesota.
j. r. Waters, farm loan dealer and
live stock breeder, will be appoint
ed the next state examiner of North
Dakota, according to an announcement
by Governor Elect Lynn j. Frazier.
Nels Lewis, fifty-two years old, man
ager of the Dawson creamery and
hotel owner at Tappen, was struck
and killed instantly by Northern
Pacific train four miles east of Tap
pen.
a threatened tieup Of Ignite coal
miners in the Noonan district las
been averted by the owners through
a wage concession by which the min
ers will receive an increase of S. a
month.
A. II. Runge, formerly chief Of the
Minneapolis fire department and now
state fire marshal OF North Dakota,
failed to obtain the endorsement Of
the North Dakota Firemen's associa-
ton for reappointment.
Taken prisoner while fighting at
the battle of Osten, Herman Hor-
man. German cavalryman, succeeded
in escaping ell route to a prison camp
in England and has arrived in Sen
tinel Butte to work in the coal mines
John G. Lowe. court reporter for
District Judge X. e. Leighton of Mi
not is slated for appointment as
clerk of the new supreme court of
North Dakota, in a statement made
by Justice Elect James e. Robinson
Fire originating from an explosion
of chemicals in the laboratory gutted
the Fargo high school building and
seriously damaged an adjoining grade
school section at an estimated loss of
100000 Fifty-six members of night
school classes narrowly escaped in
juries. ....
Owners of pure bred cattle of Will
Jams and Mckenzie counties, at a
joint meeting at Williston, organized
an association, electing f. j. Wilkin-
son. president; r. ]. Randolph and AL
bert Nelson vice presidents; Usher
L. Burdick, secretary, and X. A..
Stenchjem, director
One of the biggest cattle deals in
that section of the state has been
made in the purchase by N. R. Ras-
mussen of Marmarth of 369 head of
three and four-year-old steers from
J.. T. Sanford of Montana The ami
mails will be moved to Beaver Creek
ranch for the winter.
Horses numbering $500 were .pur-
chased for the United States govern
ment by Gerald West, formerly of the
secret service department, during the
eight months he spent in the district
around Dickinson. The animals@are to
be used in military service. Mr.. West
has returned to Minneapolis.
Twenty farm loan associations have
been organized in North Dakota and
five others are being formed, accord
ing to a statement by DR.. j. E. Boyle
of the State Agricultural college at
Fargo. who has been in charge of the
work. The associations formed thus
far represent membership of nearly
400 farmers.
Mrs. John SCHNEIDER, probably the
largest woman in the state, who tip
ped the scales at 600 pounds, and
mother of three children each weigh
ing more than 200 pounds, is dead at
Tappen. The casket which holds her
body is six feet, three inches long;
twenty-eight inches deep and thirty
four inches wide.
The state supreme court has de-
MED the petition of appellants for a
rehearing in the case of Grant S.
Youmans, former Minot banker,
against Governor Hanna and other
members Of the state banking board.
At the original hearing the court up
held the decision OF the Ward county