The Devils Lake world and inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1915-1920, 1917-08-09
IN NORTH DAKOTA.
News Of the Week From Many
Sections Of the State,
MANY ITEMS Of INTEREST
Events Are Briefly Written In Order
to Make Perusal Easier for
Busy Readers.

William Behrmout of New Salem,
former officer of a national bank there,
has been indicted by the federal grand
jury on charges of embezzlement.
The rye in the Hankinson district
will yield fairly we'll, according to re.
ports taken to Hankinson by farmers
who have already harvested their
grain.
Father Martin Kenel, head of the
Indian school at Kenel from 1884 to
1906 and for the last seven years chap.
lain at st. Alexius hospital at Bis.
marck, is dead there.
Charles Haller, a farmland EN-.
eployed near Minot, crawled a half
mile to call a doctor after the team he
was driving ran away and broke his
arm in two places and fractured his
leg.
The Great Northern railroad has no.
titled the Minot Association of Com.
merce that it will allow reduced rates
on hay from Northern Minnesota to
points in this state and half rates on
hay baling outfits.
Indications are that the crops in
Richland, Sargent and Ransom oun
ties are about as good as those of any
section in the state. The district was
we'll fortified with moisture because
of last years flood.
Paul Leslie Whitman, North Dako'
ta's first war orphan, has found a
home with Mr.. and Mrs. B. Bartholo-
new of Wilton. The boy is a o Of
Roy Whitman, killed several months
ago somewhere in France"
Albert Gray, thirty-two years old, a
teamster, charged with attempting to
kill Miss Sarah Cation, seventeen
years old, because she refused to
marry him, was sentenced at Fargo to
two years in the state ~penitentiary.
The North DaR6ta supreme court
has affirmed the decision of the Ran.
som county court in the case Of Haig
against County Treasurer Haugue, up.
holding the constitutionality of the
teachers retirement and pension
funds.
A spark from a locomotive kindled
q blaze which destroyed the Western
Lumber and Grain company and the
Bowman Equity Exchange elevators
with all their contents, at Griffin. II
is probable that both will be immedi
ately rebuilt.
The right of railway companies tt
limit liability for value of baggage
checked on a passenger ticket to 500
was denied by the North Dakota su
preme court when it affirmed a de
cision of the district court of Crane
Forks county.
Uncle Sam lost a soldier when R. E
Fish of Milroy, cunning for a weazel
dropped his weapon and received
charge of birdshot which made ampu
tation of his foot necessary. Fish hell
serial No. $50, which was draw
among the first.
Opening of the schools in the rura
districts of Cass county will be de
layed a month this fall in order tt
permit the farm boys and the girls t.
remain on the farms when their serv
ices are needed the most, according t,
]. w. Riley, superintendent Of schools
of Cass county.
Captains Cook and Huddelstone hav'
completed their inspection of the Sec
ond regiment at Bismarck and wire'
recommendations concerning fedora
recognition to Brigadier Genera
Mann, chief Of the militia bureau, a
Washington, and General Barry, com
mander of the Central department
Chicago.
North and South Dakota will lea
the Union in percentage membership
for the Red Cross, in the opinion Q
former State Senator Edwin ]. Curt
of Michigan, field secretary Of the Ger
trail division Of the American Nationa
Red Cross, who vas at Fargo recent
to consult with. officers Of the Mort
Dakota organization.
Mrs. K. R. O'Hare, the Socialis
lecturer indicted by the federal gran
jury and arrested, pleaded not guilt
at Fargo to a charge of seditious Vi
terances, said to have been made in
speech at Bowman recently, and wa
bound over to the next session Of tn
federal court at Bismarck for tria
Pending this she win be at liberty 0
81, 900 bail.
Rev. Father Ddgnam, Guy HunteA
H. G. Berry, M. E. Hall and Villa,
Kostelecky have been named a Dicl
inson committee to prepare for tn
state golf tournament which will b
held at the Town and Country club
Dickinson beginning Aug. 20. Farg'
Bismarck, Grand Forks and Minot a
ready have entered teams for til
state team match.
J. H. McIrerny, as lessee Of th
East Grand Forks Brewing compan,
has served notice on District Attorne
Hildreth of North Dakota demandfn
return to him of records seized in til