Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-08-02

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Merle O'Brien, twelve years old, swan
out and rescued her.
Sixty-four speed fiends contributed
$576 to the city Golfers Of Bismarck
following wholesale arrests for exceed.
ing the speed limit. The police net in.
Guided several bicycle riders, guilty of
travelling too fast.
Charges preferred by army officers
against C. f. Winters, a wealthy resi-.
dent of Mandan, show that a cask Of
beer which he is alleged to have sold
six soldiers at Fort Lincoln cost the
boys $22. The price for a cask before
the drouth was SO.
Another view of the North Dakota
wheat possibilities is expressed by r.
H. Thistlethwaite, statistician of agri.
culture and labor, who says that the
1917 wheat crop will exceed in quality
and equal in quantity the 60,00O,000.
bushel harvest of 1916. He is known
as a conservative estimator.
DR.. Frank o. Brigham of Stanley,
who recently enlisted in the United
States medical reserve corps, has been
ordered by wire to report for duty at
San Francisco on Aug. 5. DR.. Brig.
ham, who has been county physician
and o for a number of years,
takes a rank of first lieutenant and
expects to see service in Russia.
Russia, instead of France, may be
the ultimate destination Of North Da.
kota troops, it was indicated by a wire
received from the war department at
Washington by Colonel Frank White
at Bismarck, commander of the Sec.
ond regiment, directing him to report
by wire to the c~ommandant of the
Western division at Palo Alto, Cal, as
soon as the inspection and muster of
the regiment is completed.
President Edmund Pennington Of
the 500 Line, who returned to St. Paul
recently from a North Dakota crop in.
spection trip, said that in the northern
and western parts of this state crop
prospects have been lowered material.
ly in the past few weeks. Mr.. Pen.
nington found conditions in Ward, Nc.
Kenzie, Mountrail and other counties
that do not warrant expectation Of
more than five bushels Of wheat to
the acre, he said.
A guaranteed price Of $2.75 a bushel
for wheat at terminals, the establish.
ment by the government of a maxi
mum price on flour and other products
of grain and a limit of 25 cents a
bushel for grading wheat was recon.
mended at a meeting of the Interstate
Cooperative association at Fargo.
The government was also asked to es.
tablish elevators at seaboard and
other terminal points to take charge
of grain exchanges and prohibit food
speculation.
The steamer Washburn, the first
boat since 1888 to depart from Upper
Missouri points for a. continuous jour.
ney to the mouth of that stream, is
now on it's way to St. Louis, 1900
miles distant, under command of Cap.
tain Joseph Leach. The Washburn
carried a cargo of scrap iron from the
Washburn and Bismarck docks. Upon
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will be turned over to it's new owners,
who intend to use the boat in Missis.
sippi river commerce.
Lin Arneson, who is raising flax near
Mclaughlin, with his brother, James
Arneson, and Charles Lang of Harvey,
estimates that his 3,150-acre patch will
average twenty bushels to the acre
and that the sc, 000-bushel crop at $3.50
the bushel will bring the three Dart.
ners $129,150. To market the crop
l,05O wagon loads of sixty bushels
each must be hauled to the railway.
Arneson has eight binders ready to put
in the field behind four tractorsAand
expects to begin harvesting soon.
Governor Lynn j. Frazier of North
Dakota came to the defense Of Mrs.
Lillian Totten, postmistrcss at Bow.
man, declaring that an attack upon
her loyalty was purely politics." Gov
ernor Frazier said he believed the at
tack was based on a political feud of
long standing between e. p. Totten,
the postmistress' husband, and other
political interests. Mr.. Totten, in a
message to a Fargo newspaper, fatty
denied charges Of %disloyalty made
against himself and wife in the Unit
ed States senate by Senator Porter ].
McCumber.
To provide the North Dakota coun.
Gil of defense with funds to meet it's
running expenses of $3.50 a month
during the coming eighteen months
President V. H. Stickney and Secre-
tary F. o. Hellstrom, in conference
with Governor Lynn ]. Frazier at Bis
marck, agreed that members of the
board be asked to execute a note for
$4,000, with the understanding that
the governor will go before the next
legislative assembly and ask for an
appropriation which will take up the
note and relieve the endorsers. The
state has little money left in it's emer-
gency fund and there seems to be no
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