Courier Democrat., 1917-01-04

twenty-four hours exposure to the
wind and cold. Both feet and hands
were severely frozen.
The Northern Pacific Railroad CONS
pany was fined $1O0 on each of five
counts charging violation of the six
teen-hour employment law at Fargo
last week. The case was brought by
the interstate commerce commission.
Fire destroyed thEee business
structures at Forest River, thirty
miles north of Grand Forks, causing
loss of approximately $4,000. Borne
on forty-1nile gale it threatened for
time to destroy the greater portion
Of the town. 4@
Cleveland's piscatorial experts are
said to have 'struck a snag" in ef-
forts to identify an odd specimen of
water life scooped from a s.. agh
near there by a farmland The "ish"
is about foot long and has su '.er-
like head, legs resembling those OF
lizard, along leaf shaped tail and Eng
lish chop whiskers
Most of the arrests made by the
Fargo police the past year involved
persons between the ages of sixteen
and twenty-five years, according to
the annual report of Chief Troyer.
The total arrests, numbering sos, in
clude 1S9 under twenty-five years Old.
116 under forty, 109 under thirty, )
under fifty and 81 over fifty years
According to reports received from
Bismarck by the North Dakota Devel-
opment league at Grand Forks, North
Dakota is not SO very far behind Ore
gon in population, the number of in
habitants now being only 100000 less.
The Flickertail state, according to
the census bureau, now has 752,26G
people, while Oregon has S36,956 peo-
pie.
Opponents of the Nonpartisan
league will seek to have the constitu-
tonal convention question referred to
the people for confirmation in their cf-
forts to block the legislative program
OF the league, which, if enacted, will
require some changes in the constitu-
ton, 1t was announced in Bismarck
Sunday night II the move is success
ful 1t will mean a postponement of d
the convention for two years.
The University OF North Dakota at
Grand Forks has for years been ana
lying samples of water submitted to
it from various sections of the state
and making recommendations as to
the manner in which safe drinking wa
ter may be secured. Arrangements
are now in progress at the university
for the distribution of bulletin on
this subject and such bulletin is ex-
pected to be of great value to the
state
Bankers of Iowa, North and South
Dakota have issued tentative call
for meeting with representatives of
the Minneapolis and ST. Paul clearing
house associations at Aberdeen soon,
according to an announcement made
at Fargo. The object is to protest to
officers OF the associations against the
range of charges made by their firms
for clearing checks from these states,
presented for payment in the Twin
Cities
lSSlSldIOTS
their supporters have leased the en-
tire 800 rooms of new hotel at Bis
marck for the two months session of
the North Dakota legislature, it was
announced there. The league has 100
representatives in the legislature and
it is expected that the other 200 beds
at the hotel will be occupied by farm
or, 1>nr
sion. All non-members will be ex-
cluded from the building.
At meeting of the Grain Belt
circuit OF county fairs held in Grand
Forks a closer and stronger circuit
was permanently established G. w.
Wilson of Bottineau was reelected
president. Six North Dakota towns
are represented in the circuit at the
present time, Rugby, Cando, Botti-
neau, Langdon, Hamilton and Fessen-
den, and fairs will be held in each
town during the month of July in or
der named.
Two million newspapers will be sent
| out Of North Dakota the week of Jan.
81 to 27-"Appreciation week'-bear-
ing news OF the states resources and
prosperity. One hundred thousand es-
says on North Dakota will be written
by school children of the state. Scores
Of commercial and booster clubs will
hold Appreciation week dinners. Every
household in the state will observe
Baked Potato day, Jan. 25, by provid-
ing baked potatoes for the members
of the family in connection will, cap
probation week."
North Dakotas supreme court mud
die became fraught with new posi-
bilities when Justice Elect J. e. Rob-
inson, in an open letter to the press,
intimated proceedings of the provis-
onal supreme court, which decided
the present justices should stay in
office until the first Monday in Jan
uary. viii; be set aside when the new
, court is installed. This action would