Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-01-11
In an address before the Popular

Government league in Washington,
b. c., last week, Ray McKaig. master
Of the North Dakota Farmers State
grange, predicted that farmers non
partisan leagues will control the pol
icies of Minnesota, the two Dakotas
and Montana. He declared that plans
for the complete organization of the
league are we'll under way.
H. r. Berndt, states attorney for
two terms and defeated in the recent
election by F. E. McCurdie, shot and
killed himself In front of the court
house in Bismarck last Tuesday.
A widow and several children survive.
The coroner's jury returned a verdict.
however, declaring death was the re-
suit of accidental discharge of the
| weapon.
w. A. Coates, editor of the Nonpar.
tisan Leader. was elected presi Isn't
Of the North Dakota Gridiron ,luu
last week. Other officers chosen are:
H. P. Knappen, Bismarck, first v.ce
president; A. o. Tostevin, Man.un,
second vice president; Thomas P.
Junkin, Grand Forks, third vice presi-
dent; Charles Brewer, Fargo, secre-
tary, and w. F. Cushing, Bismarck,
chairman of the entertainment COM
mittee.
A bill providing for military train
Ing in high schools similar to that to
be introduced in the Minnesota le.,-
islature will be put before the Mort!
Dakota assembly soon. Miss Mar
garet Young, principal of the Me-
Rockford high school, called at the
Minnesota capitol last week to inquire
about the terms of the proposed Min
nesota law, and declared the measure
will be presented to the state assem-
bly, at Bismarck.
j. M. Anderson, president of the
Equity Cooperative exchange, was in
Bismarck last week to ask the state
legislature to pass a reso-
luton calling On the interstate COM
merce commission to order a hearing
in st. Paul on freight car demurrage
rates. Anderson charges the proposed
increases are exhorbitant and insists
they do not facilitate unloading of
cars. Both houses passed the resolI-
ton late last week.
First action in Northwest states
looking to preservation of soil fertil-
ity was taken last week when a bill
was introduced in the legislature pro-
viding for a compulsory rotation Of
crops annually. 1t is eplained that
while the soil productivity of the
Northwest is not threatened by any
noticeable diminishing returns, tire
measure is a safeguard against de-
Perforated soil conditions which exist
in many parts of the United States.
Plans have been completed for the
annual Northwest Bowling congress
at Grand Forks Jan. % to q. Teams
from the following cities already have
entered: Grand Forks, Fargo, Bis
marck, Minot, Devils Lake, Valley
! City, Dickinson. Wahpeton and Car
rington, this state, and from Crooks
ton, Moorhead, Thompson, Brainerd,
st. Cloud, Duluth, Chisholm, 1nterna.
tional Falls, Mimi; Superior, Wis;
Aberdeen, S. D., and Winnipeg, Man.
Fred Tiegens, night captain and a
veteran Of sixteen years on the Fargo
police force, has resigned, and three
other members of the department
were called on the carpet" in a
shakeup instituted by Chief C H. Troy
err, who lodged charges Of gross
neglect OF duty against two OF his
men. Patrolmen Nick Konen and Sam
Bayard are off duty and awaiting a
hearing before the city commission
on public safety. The chief charged
that places to be raided had been
tipped off" and that other official
acts OF the men had gone u]nreported.
The supreme court justice contro-
versy was renewed last week, and as
a result the decisions of that tribunal
during the month of December may be
invalidated. Arthur LIE Sueur, attor-
ney for Grant Youmans, who was de-
MED a new hearing OF his $250,O0O
damage suit against former Governor
L. B. Hanna and members of the for
ulGI SLdLc Ud1lhl1lS DOdIU, asked the
court to seH aside the decision on the
ground that Justices Fisk, Burke and
Goss, who retired from office Tues
day, should have done so a month
ago, and that their participation in
court work during the month invali-
dates all decisions. LIE Sueur asks
the new court to review the Youmans
case. If he is sustained in his COR
ten.ion other cases OF Importance will
have to be reviewed. Arguments on
his motion may be heard this week.
Shippers Of the state will demand
a rehearing of the case before the in
terstate commerce commission at
Kansas City, Jan. 10. Investigating an
attempt Of the railroads to; raise the
intrastate -four and milling freight
minimums. The Fargo Manufacture.
ers' association. acting for the ship
pers, has sent j.. R.. Little to- Kansas
City to present the demands. A re-