The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1917-07-26
News Of the State
Condensed for Busy Folks

much confusion.
A number of men arrested for be-
ing drunk at Minot have been found
to have denatured alcohol on their
person.
September 10, 10 and 20 have been
set by the Missouri Slope Agricultural
association as the dates for it's annual
fair in Mandan.
Mayor John Bruegger welcomed hun.
dreds of Knights of Pythias from all
parts Of the state to this city at their
twenty-eighth annual convention.
William Blake of jamestown, state
humane officer for years, and we'll
known throughout the state, was in.
stantly killed when his automobile
stopped on a railroad track at Grace
City.
Ernest l.. Peterson of Dickinson, N.
D., editor of the Dickinson Free Press,
was elected a member of the executive
committe of the National Press asso.
citation at the annual convention at
Minneapolis.
Alexander Leo F%aribault, 67 years
old, son of the noted French trapper
for whom the city of Faribault, Mimi,
was named, died at the Fort Yates
Indian agency hospital. He vas the
last surviving son of the trapper. His
body has been taken to Faribault.
The state auditors Office is paying
on claims az ost the state under the
CHAMBERS horse >ct. State Auditor Carl
K. kositzky takes the attitude that the
farmers can use the money better at
this time than any other, and every
day is sending out dozens of checks
to cover claims.
District Judge A. T. Coles, at a con.
ference Of the labor and industrial
committee, at Fargo, advocated the
employment of from 5000 to 5000
women, who were born and raised
on North Dakota farms and are now
working in the cities, on the farms
for the purpose of operating farm ma
chinery as a means of relieving the
labor situation in this state.
With a view of obtaining the senti-
ment of representative farmers of
North Dakota on the minimum price
OF No. l northern wheat at Duluth
and Minneapolis terminals, Thomas
Cooper of the state agricultural ex-
tension department, has sent out 300
letters. The replies range from $1.5O
to So as the minimum. Great nun.
bers of farmers favor So wheat, and
the average estimate on all letters is
$2.19.
A seven-year heat record was brok-
en- here recently when the thermom-
eter climbed to 1904.
President Edmund Pennington, and
j. c. Belanger, local agent of the 500
line, face charges preferred against
them by Assistant Attorney General
D. D. Brennan, charging the railroad
Illegally transported liquor.
James w. Foley, of Medora, father
of J. w. Foley, North Dakota poet
and writer, is dead. The elder Foley
was the confidential agent and warm
friend of Marquis DeMores and a per.
sonal friend Of Theodore Roosevelt.
R. ]. Leith, farm specialist working
in cooperation with the state efficiency
commission, has advised the war de.
partment that North Dakota is just en-
tering upon a period of maximum la
Dor requirements, and that the draft
Of experienced farmhands before Oc-
tober will seriously interfere with the
harvest.
I. w. WIS made their first inva-
sion of this city for the year 1917,
riding into jamestown aboard a "side
door pullman" about 20 in number.
They scrambled off but stayed just
long enough to pay their respects.
Chief Obermiller met them with a
frown and ordered them to decamp i'm
mediately. They left on foot.
The state of North Dakota will not
produce more than half a crop Of
wheat this season, according to the
opinion of a leading commercial
agency here, based upon reports re-
ceived from all parts of the state.
The Fargo board of education sur
passed last years budget by $4S, 900
when it authorized a budget for this
year of $180,000. A new high school
to replace the n destroyed by fire a
few months ago necessitated the in
crease.
Chief Red Tomahawk, captain of po-
lice at Fort Yates, conferred with the
head recruiting officer for this section,
and was told that he was too old to
enter the service of the United States
against the kaiser.
Preliminary organization for the en-.
"couragement of immigration under the
direction of G. c. Connolly has been
begun in Griffs, Steel, Barnes, Rabson
and Sargent counties. Definite plans
for the work will be perfected at a
meeting at Valley City.
Another weekly newspaper has been
established by the Nonpartisan league
at Forman. Similar weekly newspa-
pers are being established in many
other counties to spread the league
propaganda. Farmers are officers OF
the Sargent County Farmers Publish
ing company.
Plans of c. C. Connolly,
Of the Lakes Region Immigration as.
ISOLATION, to "Wisconsinize" and min.
nesotaize' North Dakota by bringing
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