Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-01-18
News Of the Week From Many
Sections Of The State.
MANY ITEMS OF INTEREST
Events Are Briefly Written In Order
to Make Perusai Easier for
Busy Readers.

the Thorson farm, southeast of Ray.
A. Hauck, agent for the Chicago,
Milwaukee and st. Paul road at Have
lock, die. last week from injuries suf'
fered in a coasting accident.
The North Dakota German Mercan-
tile company's store III Dickinson was
destroyed by fire early last week.
The loss is $4,000. Cause of the fire
is UNI. nown.
A Lii calculated to keep Memorial
sports as baseball and horse racing
vas introduced in the house by Repre-
sentative ]. L. 7. OConnor OF Grand
Forks.
Sergeant H. r. Hayes. a nephew of
Colonel M. A. Hildreth, United States
district attorney at Fargo, was killed
in action Nov. 1t the battle of Yer
dun. He was d member of the Ca
madam forces.
ID. w. Galeshouse is the new state
leader OF boys and girls club work for
this state, the position formerly be-
ing held by Miss Helen j. Sullivan,
now assistant superintendent of pub
lie instruction
Attorney General William LANCER
declares the decision of the United
tutional the Webb-Kenyon law will
help materially in the enforcement OF
prohibition in this state.
Because he needed the order OF AS
sociate Justice j. E. Robinson Of the
state supreme court and opened his
pool hall in Bismarck, N. G. Nelson
was arrested for violation OF the Sun
day blue law. Attorney General Will
lam LANCER had issued orders to en-
force the Sunday laws.
An inquiry to ascertain the legal
requirements for an investigation by
the legislature into the food problem
of the Red River valley district has
been started by Representative La
throp. He advocates the appointment
of a commission to begin an imme-
date study of the problem.
j. G. Critics of st. Paul presented
plans to the state state affairs com
mittee last week providing for the es-
Enlistment Of a North Dakota-owned
terminal elevator in st. Paul to be
conducted in conjunction with the
Equity Cooperative Exchange eleva-
tor there. A constitutional amend
ment is necessary.
Mania for setting fire to bedclothes
and other clothing has resulted In the
commitment to the state hospital for
insane at jamestown of Mrs. Agatha
Grakanski, wife of a Turtle River
county farmer. Neighbors and mem
bers of the family had feared for
their lives Of late because of the pyro-
maniac's activities.
To overcome the gradual decrease
in the size OF its families the state
may adopt a bonus system" for the
rearing of children. This was one Of
the startling proposals made at "a
meeting of the state board of health
in Bismarck last week, which body
is considering legislation pertaining
to health conditions.
Two cna suffrage measures-one
granting full privileges Of franchise
and the other limited priyileges-were
passed in the senate and now go to
the house for action. The bill for full
suffrage was approved by a vote Of
80 to 9 and the limited measure,
drawn on the lines of the Illinois stat
ue, was passed, 81 to II.
Two important prohibition measures
will be before the state legislature
this winter with the support Of the
North Dakota Enforcement league
and other liquor fighting organiza-
lions. One bill provides for the estab-
lishment OF a system of state super
vision OF law enforcement, while the
other carries stringent provisions for
the regulation of the delivery, pos
session and receipt OF intoxicating
liquors.
Establishment of the national head
quarters of the Farmers Ncnpartisan
Political league In St. Paul will mean
the spread Of the leagues ideas and
organization soon to Wisconsin and
Michigan, as well as Iowa and Nebras-
ka, and eventually to the South and
the Pacific coast, according to Presi-
dent Townley, in Bismarck last week.
He declared the league already has
become national in it's scope and that
the problems of the farmers Of this
state are those of all the agricultural
states.
Application has been made at the
department OF justice in Washington,
d. c., for a pardon for William f. Kit
tel, recently sentenced to five years
Imprisonment in connection with the
failure OF the First National bank at
C%asselton. During the Taft admins.
tration a ruling was made that a fed.
eral prisoner must serve a year or
more of his term before executive
clemency would be considered. and
this policy has been followed by the
Democratic attorney general. Young