The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1917-08-30
News Of the State
Condensed for Busy Folks

Lightning struck the Oscar M. Carl
son farm residence, near Minor, caus.
ing a damage to the amount of sey.
eral hundred dollars. No one was in.
jured.
A severe electrical storm which
swept over the Linton community
killed two horses on the Eugene Cab.
riel farm, a hog on the John Buesch.
Ter farm and a cow on the George
Bosch farm.
No clue which will lead to the ar.
rest Of the thief who stole the 1925
diamond breach from Mrs. E. E. Glen.
ems, has been found by the police of
Fargo. An investigation of the pawn
shops here has revealed nothing.
Ed. Olstad, a farm hand Of Chris.
tine, died in a Fargo hospital from in.
turies received the day before when
he slid off a load of grain upon a
pitchfork handle. Olstad was AZ years
old, and had been working on a farm
lear Christine.
Joe Johnson, a lad who has been
working near Portal for some time,
is accused of forging the name of
Lee Roughton to a check for $50 and
passing it on a Portal bank. The
lad has been missing since the forg.
cry was discovered.
A. R. Aslakson, deputy insurance
commissioner, has gone to Aberdeen,
S. D.. for the purpose of examining
the books of the Northwestern Life
Insurance company. This is required
by the North Dakota statute for all
companies doing business in the state.
Although in poor health, w. J..
Hall held his position in the railroad
depot at Hague because the company
could not find a man to take his place.
When selling tickets, he suddenly col.
lapsed and was hurried to a hospital
in Aberdeen, where he died within a
few hours.
Assistant States Attorney William
G. Green of Fargo is wondering If he
will make a good soldier for Uncle
Sam. While going through bayonet
drill maneuvers with members of the
home guard at the agricultural college
campus on Thursday night the attor.
ney rammed his right leg to the bone
with the bayonet.
Jesse Starkweather, who figured in
the Mercer county killing, tried in
Mandan several months back, and in
which the jury disagreed, but who
was discovered to be a convict who
had escaped from the state peniten.
tiary and was returned to prison to
complete his sentence, walked from a
dentists chair in a Bismarck estab.
nshment and made his second get.
away.
Both bones Of the right leg were
fractured above the ankle when A. E.
Gehrke was thrown to the mat in his
clash at Faxton with Ole Hostbjor.
Oscar E. Jerdon, I. w. w. organ.
izer, was arrested and is held at Mi.
not on a charge Of vagrancy pending
Federal investigation of his efforts as
an agitator.
Members of the machine gun com.
pany and Company M, First North Da.
kota infantry, of Grand Forks, will
not lack for musical entertainment
while in camp as they we're presented
with an Edison army and navy model
monograph.
Major E. S. Person. war veteran
and president of the Union National
bank at Minot, has resigned as direc.
tor of the Association of Commerce
and left yesterday for Fort Smelling,
where he will enter the second officers
training camp.
The Cavalier County Railway com.
pany, just chartered, plans to build
a road a half mile long beginning at
the Canadian line and running thence
a half mile south, presumably to con.
meet with the 500 line at Hannah. The
company is incorporated for $4,000.
According to Mayor Powers and
members of the city council of Lang.
don, several test wells which have
been sunk in the city, will give a
sufficient amount of water for a sys.
tenn in that city which will supply the
needs of the town for years to come.
Pierce county has established a rec.
ord that will live. With a net quota
of e%ighty-one, 1872 men we're summoned
for the first examination and 10 were
eligible, that is they filed no excmp.
ton and were accepted physically. OF
these ITO certified men only five filed
agricultural exemptions. 1t means that
this county will not have to issue a
second call for men.
Dickinson has had it's glimpse of
the flying Dutchman of the air who
has caused so much commotion in the
Slope for the last month. Mrs. Will.
liam David, a highly respected and
intelligent woman, residing a few
miles northeast Of Dickinson, saw the
night raider clearly defined in the
sky and executing all manner Of fancy
slides and glides and loops and spir.
ais.
Threshing has been progressing fav.
orably e La Moure. The 5000 acres
of rye on the Downing farm will yield
"a bushels to the acre.
John Whittmeyer Of Upham has lost
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