Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1917-07-19
North Dakota
News Siftings


flag Is now floating from a point
known as the highest in McHenry
county.
Kildeer.-Art Ford, who confessed
an attempt to blow up the Kildeer Jail
with dynamite. was sentenced to three
years Imprisonment by Judge Craw-
ford at Bowman.
Mott.-Three charges threatening to
kill, grand larceny and failure to regis
ter-have been preferred against John
Fisher, q years old, farmer, living
south of Havelock.
Devils Lake.-Mother's pensions
proved to be the most interesting topic
discussed by the judges of North Da-
kota, who assembled here for their
annual convention.
Dickinson.-A team of horses be-
longing to Anton Karski, q farmer
near here, was stolen from livery
barn here. Authorities were notified,
but no clue of the thief has been OBJ
tanned.
Fargo.-More than 400 delegates to
the fifteenth annual convention of the
North Dakota Bankers association
were registered when President ]. E.
Phelan announced the appointment Of
committees.
Rugby.-John Taverstad, a farmer
living ten miles south of this town,
jumped from his machine in time to
prevent himself from being injured
when the steering gear broke, causing
the machine to turn turtle in a ditch
New Rockford.-New Rockford is
assured berth in the new Northern
league, to be composed of teams rep
resenting Brinsmeade, Minot, Willis.
ton and New Rockford. A schedule
for the remainder of the season will
soon be drafted.
Deering.-Fire, which started in the
apartment of L. L. Haskins, above his
store, caused damage estimated at
100000 when it destroyed block of
store buildings before brought under
control. Haskins was slightly burned
In escaping from his room.
Fargo-The North Dakota Expert
ment station is sending out warning
to farmers that the old enemies of
the potato vines, the potato beetles
or blister beetles. have invaded the
southwestern part of the state, and
that quick steps must be taken to sue.
cessfully combat the pest.
Bismarck.-A distinctly new war
development, the woman press agent,
is abroad in the land. Miss Emma
c. Miller, head Of Barnes animal
circus" is an experienced, but not an
old, Los Angeles newspaper woman.
She states she likes the work, and her
press notices indicate that she is max
ing good.
Mandan.-John Dawson, president;
T. G. c. Kennedy, vice president; ].
B. Rack, treasurer, and J. A. Biggs,
secretary are newly elected officers of
the Missouri Slope Agriculture & Fair
association, the oldest organization of
the kind in the Missouri valley, which
is planning an unusually elaborate ex-
position this year.
Wilton-Miss Esther Olson, Will
toms efficient recruiting officer, has
returned from visit with her parents
in Little Falls, Mimi, to resume her
duties. Chiefly through the efforts of
Miss Olson, Wilton has a record
among towns of its size in this sec.
ton of the state for enlistments in
the navy and the regular army.
Minot.-Ray H. Pinkham, arrested
at Berthold, was brought to Minot to.
day. charged with violation of the
-'bone-dry" law. It is alleged that
Pinkham brought trunk load of
liquor from Minneapolis, checking the
trunk as baggage. Pinkham will be
turned over to the Federal authorities
after facing charges in the local
courts.
Rolla.-Wandering out into the
storm and spending right and day
in the drenching rain. an eighteen.
months-old son Of Mr.. and Mrs. An
tome Bercier, four miles northwest
OF Rolla, was located in a slough IN
miles from home, "a hours after his
disappearance. The little fellow was
hungry and was located through his
cries of hunger and fright.
Minot.-D. c. Coats of the Farmers
Non-partisan league announced that
100 of the 200 farmers at the meeting
of the league and the American agri
cultural workers. voted for the &C
ceptance Of an agreement between the
workers and the farmers of the state
which is understood to call for q ten
hour day pay at the rate Of 40 cents
an hour, time and half overtime and
double time for Sunday labor. In re
turn for these concessions, the work
ers agree to perform farm labor with
out resorting to strikes and disorders
Jamestown.-L. E. Goodwin, secre
tary of the local Y. M. C. A., has beer
selected by the national army Y. M
C. A. committee to organize and take
charge of the army branch ut Fort Lin
coin, N. D.
Bismarck. - North Dakota's potato
crop, estimated at 8.2S0.000 bushel,
will be by far the largest in it's his
tory, and present prices are $2.48 a,
compared with $1.02 year ago. whel
the state harvested 6.9z5. 900 bushels.