Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1917-08-09
News Of the Week From Many
Sections Of the State.
MANY ITEMS OF INTEREST
Events Are Briefly Written In ordss
70 Make Perusal Easier for
Busy Readers.

William Behrmont OF New Salem,
former officer Of q national bank there,
has been indicted by the federal grand
jury on charges OF embezzlement.
The rye in the Hankinson district
will yield fairly we'll. according to re.
ports taken to Hankinson by farmers
who have already harvested their
grain.
Father Martin Kenel, head OF the
Indian school at Kenel from 1884 to
'ao6 and for the last seven years chap.
lain at st. Alexius hospital at Bis.
.aick. Is dead there.
Charles Haller. a farmland en-
ployed near Minot. crawled a halt
mile to call doctor after the team he
YVES driving ran away and broke his
arm in two places and fractured his
leg.
The Great Northern railroad has no.
tilted the Minot Association Of Com.
merce that It will allow reduced rates
on hay from Northern Minnesota to
points in this state and half rates on
hay baling outfits.
Indications are that the crops in
Richland. Sargent and Ransom coun.
ties are about as good as those Of any
section in the state. The district was
we'll fortified with moisture because
Of last years food.
Paul Leslie Whitman. North Dako.
ta's first war orphan. has found q
home with MIR. and Mrs. B. Bartholo.
new Of Wilton. The boy is a son of
Roy Whitman. killed several months
ago somewhere in France"
Albert Gray. thirty-two years old. q
teamster. charged with attempting to
kill Miss Sarah Cation. seventeen
years old. because she refused to
marry him. was sentenced at Fargo to
two years in the state penitentiary.
The North Dakota supreme court
has affirmed the decision Of the Ran
som county court in the case of Haig
against County Treasurer Haugue. up
holding the ccnstitutionality of the
teachers retirement and pension
funds.
A spark from locomotive kindlet
blaze which destroyed the Western
/. Lumber and Grain company and the
Bowman Equity Exchange elevators
with all their contents, at Griffin. !,
f, is probable that both will be immedi
| ately rebuilt.
The right Of railway companies tt
limit liability for value of baggage
checked on & passenger ticket to $1Oi
! was denied by the North Dakota su
I preme court when it affirmed de
cision of the district court Of Crane
Forks county.
Uncle Sam lost soldier when r. E
Fish OF MiirOy, cunning for a 'weazel
dropped his weapon and received ,
charge of birdshot which made ampu
tation of his foot necessary. Fish hel,
serial No. $50, which was draw
among the first.
Opening of the schools in the rura
districts OF Cass county will be dc
layed a month this fall in order t
permit the farm boys and the girls t
remain on the farms when their ser1
ices are needed the most, according t
]. w. Riley, superintendent Of school
of Cass county.
Captains Cook and Huddelstone hav
completed their inspection OF the Ses
ond regiment at Bismarck and wire
recommendations concerning fedora
recognition to Brigadier Genera
Mann. chief Of the militia bureau. a
Washington, and General Barry, con
mander Of the Central department
Chicago.
North and South Dakota will lea
the Union in percentage membershi
for the Red Cross. in the opinion {
} former State Senator Edwin ]. Curt
of Michigan, field secretary Of the Gel
. trail division of the American Nation,
. Red Cross. who was at Fargo recehtl
to consult with officers Of the Mort
Dakota organization.
Mrs. X. r. O'Hare, the Social.
! lecturer indicted by the federal gran
Jury and arrested. pleaded not guilt
At Fargo to . charge Of seditious u
terances, said to have been made in
; speech ct Bowman recently, and VI
bound over 10 the next session Of Il