The Devils Lake world and inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1915-1920, 1917-08-30

Linton suffered a loss conservative.
.ly estimated at $4,000 when fire de-.
stroyed three large buildings in the
business district :,
Samuel w. Unkenholz, fifty-three
years old, who recently refused the
presidency of the National Grain Man.
ayers association at Milwaukee be-
cause of in health, died at Mandan of
heart trouble. Worry over the draft
Of his sons is believed to have hast
ened death. Mr.. Unkenholz was a
pioneer farmer of North Dakota.
Mrs. Patrick Norton, mother of
Representative P. D. Norton of the
Third North Dakota congressional
district, is dead at her home at Dew
Ills Lake after a lingering illness. Mrs.
Norton came to Devils Lake with her
husband from Ishpeming, Mich, in
the early eighties and the family was
among the earliest pioneers of Ram
sey county.
A needle which he swallowed ten
years ago travelled peacefully through
Frank Kubar, eighteen years old, sou
Of Anton Kubar of Lawton, with no
more than an occasional prick until re-
Gently, when a pain in the feshy part
Of the leg became so sharp that the
boy was nc longer able to endure it.
An X-ray examination revealed the
needle, which was removed without
difficulty.
Mike Chumac, slayer of James H
Caldwell and wife at their ranch
home near Gladstone last spring, be
came a raving maniac and fought with
his keepers in. the. Stark county court
house, though strapped to a cot, while
a jury summoned to try him for the
murder of the Caldwells decided him
insane and not amenable to penal laws
of the state. He was taken to the
asylum at jamestown.
Twenty-eight counties of North Da
kota have applied for federal. aid in
the construction of postroads, accord
ing to State Engineer Jay w. Bliss
Mr.. Bliss reports that twelve stats
road projects for which the govern
ment aid will be obtained are unde,
way and that six more are to be taken
up shortly. 1t is expected that every
thing will be in shape for the letting
of the contracts in North Dakota this
fall.
The United States must remain II
the war against Germany until world
peace is assured, Senator Porter ]
McCumber Of North Dakota declared
discussing the war bill be
fore the senate. Five billion men anC
$40, OO0, 900, 900 will be needed to wage
! the war unless there is a sudden and
unexpected end, Senator McCumbel
declared, in urging that since this gen
Grafton must give its blood the next
ought to pay a major portion of the
monetary expense.
Three children persisted in a fire
which destroyed. the home of r. H
Boehlke, two miles south of Dickinson
| Boehlke and his wife aros early anG
| after building a fire in the kitchen
| stove went to the barnyard to do the
morning chores. A few moments
later they found the house in flames
! William, nine years old: Peter, seven
and Robert, five, were burned to deatf
in their beds. Boehlke is suffering
from burns and injuries received il
attempting to rescue the children.
"If I a get a half dozen represen
| tatives to Join me ! intend to get into
this war myself" said Representative
P. D. Norton of the Third North Da
kota, district, while in Bismarck er
! route to his hcne ct Hatt'n-o-. "It':
| the greatest conflict of all time" safe
the representative. and it will be EN-
barrassing in years to come for tht
young man now in his thirties who
| stays out. He will find it difficult t
answer the question: And what par,
| did you take?'" Congress, Represen
tative Norton stated, is preparing fol
three years of war.