The Devils Lake world and inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1915-1920, 1917-08-09
Senator Martin Thoreson Of the
Thirty-eighth North Dakota state leg.
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Thirty-eighth North Dakota state leg.
islative district was found dead near
by the members Of the
Death was caused from the
infiction of q bullet fired from a o.
caliber rifle. Coroner Holberg issued
a certificate that death was accidental
C. A. Klaus of jamestown, president
of the North Dakota Hotel Mems as.
ISOLATION, has notified Fargo hotel
men that the organization has been
enlisted" by the nation to procure
3,S4O cooks for the United States
army. Fargo men have answered the
communication that they will do all
in their power to assist in securing
the men for the army.
Louis Backes, a Grafton lineman, re.
ceived the full force of 1890 volts OF
electricity and lives to tell of 1t.
Backes was working on a pole when
the wire he was handling crossed with
q high voltage line. He was held fast
to the wire, but managed to break tho
circuit by kicking the grounded wire
with his foot. One hand was badly
burned and his leg was SCARED.
M. Marks, who said he was an
agent living in st. Paul, when he in.
suited the color sergeant of Company
M as the boys marched past the
Beach theater at Beach, was escorted
to Camp Reeve by a detail of guards.
men, compelled to bare his head, fall
upon his knees and kiss the flag, and
then was taken to a Northern Pacific
train and seen safely from the city.
Farmers throughout the Red River
valley RI being urged this year to
conserve their straw supply, instead
of burning it at the end of the thresh.
ing season, as has been their custom.
Baled straw, it is pointed out, will be
very valuable this fall and winter. The
Grand Forks Commercial club and a
number Of farm organizations through.
out the district have started the cam
paign.
Eleven young Indians, enlisted with
D company, Second North Dakota in
fantry, have been dismissed from the
service because they are afflicted with
tnachoma, the dread eye disease that
is rampant among the reds of the
Northwest. Only three of the four.
teen Indians on the Fort Totten reser.
walton who volunteered for service
were accepted by the federal military
examiners.
Henry Handtmann, nineteen years
old, o of John Handtmann of Man
dan, who recently was relieved of his
position as deputy sheriff because OF
an alleged un-American article he
wrote for the Nord Dakota Herold, a
German newspaper at Dickinson, is
showing his father the way to be patri
otto. Young Handtmann applied fol
examination and entrance to l com
} pany of the Second regiment Of North
Dakota.
E. c. Merris, a hail insurance ad
juster, who said uncomplimentary
things of Uncle Sam and his flag, wht
declared he would not serve if draft
), ed, but would rather blow the dome of
: the Capitol at Washington and get tn,
d. fools under it," was taken il
hand by the people of Rhame, torcet
to mount a dry goods box in the pres
3 ence of the crowd, apologize for hi
remarks and kiss the flag which h
had slandered.
!, The terrible spitball now is adde'
to the dangers menacing the kaiser
Alexander "Rube" Schauer, the great
est pitcher Garrison has ever pre-
y duced. for two years with the Ne1
D York Giants and now with the Phils
delphia Athletics, drew No. 655 in tn
u recent draft and is prepared to TAX
u up arms. Schauer was born in Odes
sa, Russia, but is an American citizen
Last fall he became a benedict, bu
claims no exemption.
The constitutionality of the Mort
Dakota statute eliminating the fello,
servant doctrine of defense for con
mon carriers, involved in the case Q
Q James Peterson against the Fargo
Moorhead Street Railway company
e has been appealed to the Unite
States supreme court from the Mort
q Dakota supreme court, which reverse
the decision of the county court in fl
vor of the defendant and remande
the case for retrial. The county cou1
+ had ruled that the elimination of tn
fellow servant doctrine in case of con
mon carriers alone was class legisl:
q ton.
= Attorneys for Gamble Robinson an
Nash. Bros. wholesale fruit houses
with branches in all parts of tn
!, Northwest, entered pleas of not guilt
before Federal Judge c. F. Amidon t
h indictments returned by the feeders
grand jury, charging violations Of tn
It Sherman antitrust law and will pro-
d ably be brought to trial at the ia
y term Of the federal court at Fargo, a
L cording to District Attorney NJ.
. IIildreth. The Indictment which wa
IS returned by the grand jury is the fir:
70 antitrust suit in North Dakota. III
y. wholesale houses have branches