Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-09-13
News of the Week From All
Sections of the State.
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST
Events Are Briefly Covered in Order
to Make PerusaI Easier for
the Busy Reader.

tea caught fire at Rhame, a short dis
lance from Bowman. The a burned
so quickly that there was no chance
to save it.
Walter S. Page of Leeds and Ken.
Meth P. Bertrand of jamestown have
been appointed to the naval academy
at Annapolis by Representative G. M.
Young. They will take examinations
in February.
DR.. e. F. Ladd, president Of the
North Dakota Agricultural college at
Fargo, announced that he had been
appointed as state federal food ad.
ministrator by Herbert c. Hoover and
had accepted. st
The stockholders of the Northern
Packing company, at a meeting at
Grand Forks, increased the capitalize.
ton from $4,000 to $1,000, 900. Steps
also were taken to issue additional
common stock at increased prices.
Billy Ryan of St. Paul had all the
best of a ten-round boxing match at
Mandan with Bobby Krieger Of Mil.
waukee. The bell saved the Milwau.
kee boxer in the seventh and. tenth
rounds, according to newspaper men
at the ringside.
A fire of incendiary origin complete
ly destroyed the barn and thirty head
OF horses on the David Moug farm,
seven miles northwest of Page. Moug
said that he suspected some laborers,
alleged I. w. W., whom he discharged
early in the summer.
-Four Germans applying for Amer.
lean citizenship before District Judge
A. I. Cole at Fargo were denied the
right to become citizens Of the United
States and, according to Judge Cole,
hereafter all Germans will be denied
American citizenship.
A field of seventy acres Of the best
wheat in that section of the state.
owned by John C~Zapiewski, just north
OF Voss, caught fire in the shock and
was completely destroyed. The crop
was estimated for thirty bushels an
acre. The fire was started by a spark
from a passing railroad engine.
The state supreme court, on appli-
cation from the attorney general, is
sued an order, r%eturnable Sept. IA, di-
recting Emil Scow and j. A. Power to
show the reason they are holding the
office as members of the board of re-
gents when their terms expired in
July.
According to w. S. Wilson of Bow
man, assistant state veterinarian, the
cry weather has produced a poison
GUS acid in green flax that kills cattle
within an hour after they eat it. Five
herds in the vicinity of Bowman have
been affected and thirty head of cattle
have been lost.
Seventy acres of shocked wheat,
comprising some of the finest grain
which has been cut in that vicinity,
was consumed by a prairie fire which
broke out on the farm of John Gael
weski near Voss. Neighbors saved
the farm buildingsand adjoining build
ings by blowing wide firebreaks in the
path of the flames.
41tJO1 4S1Cl1dlu II. OLCculldu, tSIlIcu,
has been relieved from duty with the
North Dakota national guard and has
been detailed as military Inspector of
the North Dakota Agricultural college
at Fargo. designations of Captain
jenkins, First Lieutenant Shaw and
Second Lieutenant Whitney, B bat
terry, have been announced officially.
So serious is the ~grasshopper pest
In Bowman county that no winter
wheat and rye will be seeded until
late in the fall. Ordinarily this work
would be in progress now, but the
hoppers are so thick the farmers fear
they would eat the grain faster than
it could be planted. Everything in the
way of vegetation has disappeared in
the path of the pest.
Adolph Lehman, wealthy ranche1
and a retired farmer residing in st.
Paul, will be tried at Beach at the
January term of the Golden Valley
district court for the murder of Ma
thias Wetzstein on May 20, in accord
ance with a change of granted
by Judge w. G. Crawford at Dickin,
son. Lehman has been in Jail since
the day Of the murder.
After tying Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Grads
to a bedpost robbers who entered their
home near SELF ransacked the house.
prepared and ate a meal and left with
a team taken from Grads barn. Neigh.
bors who went to the house two hours
later discovered the plight of the
couple and released them. The team
was found fifteen miles from New
Rockford, but the bandits had de
parted.
Representative P. d. Norton, in q
recent visit to Fort Yates, announced
that work should begin this fall on
$4,000 worth of improvements on the
Indian school, for which he had OBJ
tanned an appropriation in the last
session. Mr.. Norton also will ask m
appropriation for an electric ligh,
plant to supply the agency buildings
and for such Driyate consumers as