The Oakes times., 1917-01-04
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.

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Busy Readers.
Fire has destroyed the Farmers
State bank in Belfield.
Twelve horses owned by farmers
south Of Regent were condemned and
shot because of glanders.
Bowman is considering the advisa.
bility of purchasing the electric light
plant from w. r. Mckenzie.
John A. Fortin, manager of the
North Dakota branch of Crane & Ord.
way Of st. Paul, is dead at his home
at Fargo.
Valley City will entertain the annual
convention Of the Stavangerlaget OF
America, which will convene there
about June 81.
August johnson of Washburn. a
banker, will recover from injuries re-
Gently suffered when he was run
down by q motorist at Washburn.
Governor Hanna has appointed
George Hogue of Steele as secretary
Of the state game commission, vice
Joseph Purcell of Fargo, resigned.
Thieves entered the yard Of G. A.
Lunde at Manson, stole 200 bushels
of oats and butchered and carried
away one of the owners prize porkers.
Judge E. T. Burke, retiring Judge Of
the North Dakota supreme court, will
open Offices for a general law prac'
tice in Bismarck. He is graduate
Of the University of Minnesota.
]. r. Waters, farm loan dealer and
live stock breeder, will be appoint
ed the next state examiner Of North
Dakota, according to an announcement
by Governor Elect Lynn ]. Frazier.
Ne1s Lewis, ffty-two years old, man.
ager of the" Dawson creamery and
hotel owner at Tappen, was struck
and killed instantly by Northern
Pacific train four miles east of Tap
pen.
A threatened tieup Of Ignite coal
miners in the Noonan district has
been averted by the owners through
q wage concession by which the min.
ers will receive an increase Of IS q
month.
A. H. Runge. formerly chief of the
Minneapolis fire department and now
state fire marshal Of North Dakota,
failed to obtain the endorsement of
the North Dakota Firemen's associa.
tion for reappointment.
Taken prisoner while fighting at
the battle of Osten, Herman Hor.
man. German cavalryman, succeeded
in escaping en- route to prison camp
in England and has arrived in Sen.
tinel Butte to work in the coal mines.
John G. Lowe. court reporter for
District Judge X. E. Leighton of Mi.
not, is slated for appointment as
clerk Of the new supreme court of
North Dakota. in a statement made
by Justice Elect James E. Robinson.
Fire originating from an explosion
of chemicals in the laboratory gutted
the Fargo high school building and
seriously damaged an adjoining grade
school section at an estimated loss of
100000. Fifty.six members Of night
school classes narrowly escaped in.
juries.
Owners of pure bred cattle Of Will.
fans and Mckenzie counties, at a
joint meeting at Williston, organized
an association, electing F. ]. Wilkin-
son, president; T. ]. Randolph and AL.
bert Nelson, vice presidents; Usher
L. Burdick, secretary, and X. A.
Stenchjem, director.
One of the biggest cattle deals in
that section of the state has been
made in the purchase by N. r. Ras.
mussen of Marmarth of 369 head OF
three and four-year-old steers from
L. T. Sanford of Montana. The ami.
mails will be moved to Beaver Creek
ranch for the winter.
Horses numbering $500 were pur.
chased for the United States govern.
ment by Gerald West, formerly of the
secret service department, during the
eight months he spent in the district
around Dickinson. The animals are to
be used in military service. Mr.. West
has returned to Minneapolis.
Twenty farm loan associations have
been organized in North Dakota and
five others are being formed, accord
ing to a statement by DR.. ]. E. Boyle
of the State Agricultural college al
Fargo, who has been in charge of the
work, The associations formed thus
far represent membership of nearly
400 farmers.
Mrs. John SCHNEIDER, probably the
largest woman in the state. who tip.
ped the scales at 600 pounds, and
mother of three children each weigh.
ing more than 200 pounds, is dead at
Tappen. The casket which holds her
body is six feet, three inches long;
twentv.eight inches deep and thirty.