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America. which will convene there
about June 21s# Sf@##
August Johnson 81 Washburn, q
banker, will recover%from injuries rel
Gently suffered when he was run
down by a motorist at Washburn.
Governor Hanna has appointed
George Hoguea ofs Steele as secretary
Of the state game commission, vice
Joseph Purcell % Fargo, resigned.
Thieves entered the yard q. g. "a.
Lunde at Manson stole 200 bushels
Of oats and Sbutchered and carried
away one OF the owners prize porkers.
Judge 81. I. Burke, retiring Judge of
the North Dakota supreme court, will
open offices tor Ia general law prac-
tice in Bismarck. He is a graduate
of the University Of Minnesota.
J.s r. waters, farm loan dealer and
live stock breeder will be appoint.
ed the next state examiner of North
Dakota according to an announcement
by Governor Elect Lynn j. Frazier.
Nelss Lewis, f1fty-two years old, man.
agers of the Dawson creamery and.
hotel owner at Tappen, was struck.
and killed instantly by a Northern
Pacific train four miles east of Tap,
pen. #s
a threatened tieqp of Ignite coal
miners in the Noonan district has
been averted by the owners through
aNwage concession by which the min
ers will receive an increase of a5 a
month. ~ g
AZ H. Runge, formerly chief Of the
Minneapolis fire department and now
state fire marshal Of North Dakota,
failed to obtain the endorsement Of
the North Dakota Firemen's associa-
ton for reappointment.
Taken prisoner while fighting at
the battle of Osten, Herman Hor-
timan, German cavalryman, succeeded
in escaping en- route to a prison camp
In England and has arrived in Sen
tinel Butte to work in the coal mines.
John c.. Lowe, court reporter for
District Judge K. E. Leighton of Mi
not, is slated for appointment as
clerk of the new supreme court of
North Dakota, in a statement made
by Justice Elect James E. Robinson.
Fire originating from an explosion
OF chemicals in the laboratory Quilted
the Fargo high school building and
ltseriously damaged an adjoining grade
school section at an estimated loss Of
500, 900. .Fifty-six members of night
school classes narrowly escaped in
juries.
Owners of pure bred cattle of Will
Jams and Mckenzie counties, at a
joint meeting at Williston. organized
an association, electing F. j. Wilkin-
son, president; T. J. Randolph and Al
bert Nelson, vice presidents; Usher
L. Burdick, secretary, and K. A.
Stenchjem, director.
One of the biggest cattle deals in
that section of the state has been
made in the purchase by N. r. Ras-
mussen' of Marmarth of 1853 head of
three and f~our:year.old steers from
L. T. Sanford of Montana. The ami
mails will be moved to Beaver Creek
ranch for the winter. 4
Horses numbering 5000 were pur.
chased for the United States govern
ment by Gerald West, formerly of the
secret service department, during the
eight months he spent in the district
around Dickinson. The animals are to
be used in military service. Mr.. West
has returned to- Minneapolis.
Twenty farm loan associations have.
been organized in North Dakota and
five others are being formed, accord
ing to a statement by pr. ]. 3. Boyle
of the State Agricultural college at.
Fargo, who has been in charge of the
work. The associations formed thus
far represent a membership of nearly
400 farmers.
Mrs. John SCHNEIDER, probably the
largest woman in the state. who tip
ped. the scales at 600 pounds, and
mother OF three children each weigh
ling more than 200spounds, is dead at
1Tappen. The casket which holds her
body Is six feet, three inches long;
tWenty-eight inches deep and thirty.
four inches wide.
The state supreme court has de-
MED the petition Of appellants for q
Arehearing Iii the case Of Grant s..
Younn1anis. former Minot banker,
against Governor Hanna and other
msn1teIs of3the state banking board.
Attic Notwithstanding the court up
held the decision of the Ward county
lddllsatriet court, which found In fayorso {
thedefendant. n