The Devils Lake world and inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1915-1920, 1917-08-02
me DEVILS LAKE WORLDWIDE OCRAN

Wnen Margaret Teschner, two.year.
old child OF Otto STeschner Of Minot,
fell from q tree overhanging the river,
Merle O'Brien, twelve years old, swan
out and rescued her.
Sixty-four speed flends contributed !
1915 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 a 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 tho
1917 wheat crop will exceed in quality
and equal in quantity the 10000, 900.
bushel harvest of 1916. He is known
as . conservative estimator.
DR.. Frank o. Brigham Of Stanley,
! who recently enlisted in the United
States medical reserve corps, has been
ordered by wire to report for duty at
San Francisco on Aug. 5. DR.. Brig.
ham, who has been county physician
and coroner for q number of years,
takes a rank of first lieutenant and
expects to see service in Russia.
Russia. instead of France. may be
the ultimate destination of North Da.
kota troops, II, was indicated by a wire
received from the 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.
President4aEdmund Pennington Of
the 500 Line,swho 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 in 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 -four and other products
of grain and q limit of Is cents 8
bushel for grading wheat was recon
mended at a meeting of the Interstate
t Cooperative association at. Fargo
. The government was also asked to es
tablish elevators at seaboard ant
. other terminal points to take charg.
of grain exchanges and prohibit foot
speculation.
The steamer Washburn, the frs
boat since 1888 to depart from Uppe
Missouri points for a continuous jour
, ney to the mouth of that stream, i
now IN its way to st. Louis, 100
miles distant, under command of Cap
tain Joseph Leach. The Washbur,
+ carried a cargo Of scrap iron from tn
Washburn and Bismarck docks. ,Upol
its arrival in St. Louis the steame
will be turned v to its new owners
who intend to use the boat in Missis
sippi river commerce.
Lin Arneson, who is raising flax nea
Mclaughlin, with his brother, Jane
Arneson, and Charles Lang of Harvey
estimates that his 3,150-acre patch will
average twenty bushels to the acr
and that the &C., 900 bushel crop at $2.5
the bushel will bring the three part
4 ners $129,15 To market the GRO
q 1850 wagon loads of sixty bushels
q each must be hauled to the railway
y Arpeson has eight binders ready to pu
in the field behind four tractors an
expects to begin harvesting soon.
Governor Lynn J. Frazier of Nortl
Dakota came to the defense, Of Mrs
q Lillian Totten, postmistress at Bow
a man, declaring that an attack upo1
her loyalty was purely politics" Gov
! ernor Frazier said he believed the al
4 tack was based on a political feud O
4 long standing between E. p. Totten
the postmistress' husband, and othe
!. political interests. MI. Totten, in
message to a Fargo newspaper, flatl,
J. denied charges of disloyalty mad
! against himself and wife In the Unit
ed States senate by Senator Porter
fMcCumber.
To provide the North Dakota cour
r Gil Of defense with funds to meet it
running expenses of $3.50 a mont
: during the coming eighteen month
President v. H. Stickney and Secre
tary F. o. Hellstrom, in conferenc
y with Governor Lynn J. Frazier at Biz
marck, agreed that members of tn
= board be asked to execute a note 70
$500, with the understanding tina
the governor will go before the mex
. legislative assembly and ask for a
+, appropriation which will take up tn
note and relieve the endorsers. TIL