The Devils Lake world and inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1915-1920, 1917-07-19

Metigoshe, Bottineau county, having
been chosen for the institution.
j. A. McGovern, chief grain expert
for the Equity Cooperative exchange
and the st. Paul Grain exchange, has
resigned to accept an appointment as
chief grain inspector for North Da-
kota.
Members of B company Of Fargo
and other state militiamen got their
extra pay voted by the state legisla-
ture for the guardsmen during their
service On the border. Each man
received $50, or $40 a month for
the term of service.
In a statement issued to the farm
ers in that vicinity the Minot Associa-
ton of Commerce announces the Gre
alton Of a labor bureau in the asso-
cations offices which is at the dis
posal of the farmers if they desire
assistance in removing their crops.
Not a case of rust has been report
ed to State Commissioner of Agricul-
tire and Labor Hagan this year, &C
cordfng to a statement issued from
that department last week. The dis
appearance of rust is believed to be
due to the campaign against the bar
berry bush.
Berthold and taken to Minot, charged
with violation of the "bone dry" law.
It is alleged that Pinkham brought a
trunkload of liquor from Minneapolis,
checking the trunk as baggage.
Pinkham will. be turned over to the
federal authorities.
Three charges, threatening to kill,
grand larceny and failure to register,
have been preferred against John
Fisher, twenty-seven years old, a
farmer living south of Havelock, this
state. 1t was in hearings on the two
former charges that the fact was
brought out that Fisher had failed to
register.
More than 300 telephone companies
out of the 1000 in the state will be
fined from $50 to $500 if they don't
file their assets for taxation to the
state board of equalization soon, &C.
cording to State Auditor Carl R. Ko.
sitsky. Kositsky estimated that $4,000
would be collected this year from de.
%linquent companies.
Records dating back to the time Of
the Louisiana purchase in 1903 were
packed up and mailed to Washington
last week by ]. H. Newton, clerk Of
the state supreme court, as a part of
the record in the. case. Of John D.
Faxon against Lally township. Benson
county, which has been appealed by
the plaintiff to the United States SILL
preme court.
Cleon Nash was found guilty at
Steele of first degree murder in con
Hicks last winter. In endeavoring to
escape from pursuers at the time Of
the murder Nash was forced to stay
out of doors in below zero weather
and froZe both feet SO that they had
to be amputated. 1t was Kidder coun-
tvs first murder trial ma quarter of
a century.
With the opening of the summer
term of the district court in Dawson
last week. kidder county witnessed
it's first murder trial since North Da-
kota became a state in 1889. Cleon
Nash, accused of the murder of CLAIR
ence Hicks, is being tried before a
jury, the first ~empaneiment of it's kind
in the county's history. Hicks was
found murdered at his home at Rob
inson, near Dawson, last December.
The state experiment 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
the pest. Blister beetles are reported
to be attacking potato fields, and, &C
cording to tie officials at the station,
they soon will tnoir ~ attack on the
alfalfa, clover. peas and beans.
District judge Leighton last weel,
at Minot issued a temporary i2iUnc-
ton restraining the Minot city com
missicnars from attempting to carry
into effect g bond issue cf eiS6, GOO,
authorised at q special election June
%. to build q new city hail. improve
the water system ana maze u,ner
improvements. The complaint, filed
by two taxpayers, sets up alleged If
regularitias in the conduct OF the
election and asserts that the oity's