The Devils Lake world and inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1915-1920, 1917-08-09

When Margaret TescnneF. two year.
old child Of Otto Teschner Of Minot.
fell from . tree overhanging the river,
Merle O.Brien. twelve years old, swan
out and rescued her.
Sixty-four speed f1ends contributed
$576 to the city Golfers of Bismarck
following wholesale arrests for exceed.
ing the speed limit. The police net in.
cluded several bicycle riders, guilty of
travelling too fast.
Charges preferred by army officers
against c. F. Winters, a wealthy resi-.
dent of Mandan, show that q cask of
beer which he is alleged to have sold
six soldiers at Fort Lincoln cost the
boys $22. The price for a cask before
the drouth was 50.
Another view of the North Dakota
wheat possibilities is expressed by R.
H. Thistlethwaite, statistician Of agri.
culture and labor, who says that the
1917 wheat crop will exceed in quality
and. equal in quantity the 100000.
bushel harvest of 1916. He Is known
as q conservative estimator.
DR.. Frank O. Brigham of Stanley,
who recently enlisted in the United
States medical eserv corps, has been
ordered by wire to report for duty at
San Francisco on Aug. S. DR.. Brig.
ham, who has been county physician
and coroner for a number of years,
takes a rank of first lieutenant AMI
expects to see service in Russia.
Russia, instead of France, may be
the ultimate destination Of North Da.
kota troops, it was indicated by a wire
received fromsthe war department at
Washington by Colonel Frank White
at Bismarck, commander of the Sec.
ond regiment, directing him to report
by wire to the commandant of the
Western division at Palo Alto, Cal, as
soon as the inspection and muster of
the regiment is completed.
President Edmund Pennington Of
the 500 Line, who returned to st. Paul
recently from q North Dakota crop in.
spection trip. said that in the northern
and western parts Of this state crop
prospects have been lowered material.
ly in the past few weeks. Mr.. Pen.
nington found conditions iR Ward, Nc.
Kenzie, Mountrail and other counties
that do not warrant expectation of
more than five bushels of wheat to
the acre, he said.
A guaranteed price Of $2.75 a bushel
for wheat at terminals, the establish.
ment by the government of a maxi.
mum price on flour and other products
Of grain and a limit of Is cents q
bushel for grading wheat was recon.
mended at a meeting of the Interstate
Cooperative association at Fargo.
The government was also asked to es.
tablish elevators at seaboard and
other terminal points to take charge
of grain exchanges and prohibit food
speculation.
The steamer Washburn, the first
boat since 1883 to depart from Upper
Missouri points for a continuous jour.
ney to the mouth of that stream, is
now on its way to st. Louis, 1900
miles distant, under command Of Cap
tain Joseph Leach. The Washburn
carried q cargo of scrap iron from the
Washburn and Bismarck docks. Upon
its arrival in st. Louis the steamer
will be turned over to its new owners
who intend to use the boat in Missis
sippi river commerce.
Lin Arneson, who is raising fax neal
Mclaughlin, with his brother, James
Arneson, and Charles Lang of Harvey
estimates that his 3,15O.acre patch will
average twenty bushels to the acre
and that the 63,00O-bushel crop at $2.5t
the bushel will bring the three part
ners $129,150. To market the croI
1,050 wagon loads Of sixty bushels
each must be hauled to the railway
Arneson has eight binders ready to pu'
in the field behind four tractors ant
expects to begin harvesting soon.