The Oakes times., 1917-01-04

The Northern Pacific Railroad COM
pany was fined 800 on each of five
counts charging violation of the six
teen-hour employment law at Fargo
last week. The case was brought by
the interstate commerce commission.
Fire destroyed three business
structures at Forest River, thirty
miles north Of Grand Forks, causing
loss of approximately 100000. Borne
on forty-mile gale it threatened for
time to destroy the greater portion
Of the town.
Cleveland's piscatorial experts are
said to have "struck snag" in ef-
forts to identify an odd specimen of
water life scooped from slough
near there by a farmland. The "fish"
is about foot long and has sucker
like head, legs resembling those of a
lizard, long leaf shaped tail and Eng
lish chop whiskers.
Most of the arrests made by the
Fargo police the past year involved
persons between the ages Of sixteen
and twenty-five years, according to
the annual report of Chief Troyer.
The total arrests, numbering 508, in
clude 189 under twenty-five years old,
116 under forty, 1O9 under thirty, 81
under fifty and 81 over fifty years.
According to reports received from
Bismarck by the North Dakota Devel-
opment league at Grand Forks, North
Dakota is not so very far behind Ore
gon in population, the number Of in.
habitants now being only 100000 less.
The Flickertail state, according to
the census bureau, now has 752,260
people, while Oregon has S36,956 peo.
pie.
Opponents Of the Nonpartisan
league will seek to have the constitu.
tional convention question referred to
the people for confirmation in their Of
forts to block the legislative program
of the league, which, If enacted, will
require some changes in the constitu-
tion, It was announced In Bismarck
Sunday night. If the move is success
full 1t will mean a postponement of
the convention for two years.
The University of North Dakota at
Grand Forks has for years been ana
Lying samples of water submitted to
1t from various sections of the state
and making recommendations as to
the manner in which safe drinking wa
ter may be secured. Arrangements
are now in progress at the university
for the distribution of q bulletin on
this subject and such bulletin is ex.
pected to be of great value to the
state.
Bankers of Iowa, North and South
Dakota have issued a tentative call
for a meeting with representatives of
the Minneapolis and st. Paul clearing
house associations at Aberdeen soon.
according to an announcement made
at Fargo. The object is to protest to
officers of the associations against the
range Of charges made by their firms
for clearing checks from these states,
presented for payment in the Twin
Cities.
Nonpartisan league legislators and
their supporters have leased the en-.
tire 800 rooms of a new hotel at Bis.
marck for the two months session OF
the North Dakota legislature, 1t was
announced there. The league has 100
representatives in the legislature and
| It Is expected that the other 200 beds
at the hotel will be occupied by farm.
er members who will attend the ses.
sion. All non-members will be ex.
/ n1,,do6 fpoy,o Tho k,,{1A{~o
At meeting of the Grain Belt
circuit of county fairs held in Grand
Forks closer and stronger circuit
was permanently established. G. W.
Wilson of Bottineau was reelected
president. Six North Dakota towns
are represented in the circuit at the
present time. Rugby, Cando, Botti.
neau. Langdon, Hamilton and Fessen-
den, and fairs will be held in each
town during the month of July in or.
der named.
Two million newspapers will be sent
out of North Dakota the week of Jan.
81 to 27-"Appreciation week"-bear.
ing news of the states resources and
prosperity. One hundred thousand es.
says on North Dakota will be written
by school children of the state. Scores
of commercial and booster clubs will
hold Appreciation week dinners. Every
household in the state will observe
Baked Potato day, Jan. Is, by provid-
ing baked potatoes for the members
Of the family in connection with CAP
| probation week."
North Dakota's supreme court mud.
die became fraught with new possi-
bilities when Justice Elect ]. E. Rob.
inson, in an open letter to the press,
lntimated proceedings Of the provis-
ional supreme court, which decided
the present justices should stay in
Office until the first Monday in Jan.
uary, will be set aside when the new
court is installed. This action would
mean the complete elimination from
the court records of the case that At.
torney General Linde recently insti.