The Dickinson press., 1917-07-28

Alexander Faribault, pioneer Indian
trader of the Standing Rock Indian
reservation, and a son of the man for
whom Faribault, Mimi, was named,
died at Fort Yates last week at the
age of CT years.
H. E. Roberts, secretary of the I.
O. O. F. lodge of Shields, is in a
critical condition from burns received
when a gasoline lamp exploded. He
had remained in the lodge hall to do
some work on his books and the ex-
nlosion raised the roof of the build
ing and shattered all the windows.
The annual meeting of the stock
holders of the Hebron Fire & Pressed
Brick company was held at the Off
ces of that concern at Hebron last
week. The company is in a prosper
ous condition and is working a large
force at the plant. This is probably
the largest plant in the entire north
west.
Federal charges of selling liquor to
men in uniform at Camp Lincoln will
be preferred against "Kid" Winters
of Mandan, whose home was raided
Tuesday night and $4,000 worth of
LIQUOR seized. "Third degree" meth
DDS used by Attorney General LANCER
and militia heads revealed information
leading to winters arrest.
Fred Ely, an old time Minot citi-
zen. was killed at New Rockford on
Monday of last week when his auto
struck another and then turned upside
down in a slough. Mr.. Ely was
pinned face downward in the slough
which contained a few inches of water.
It is said by physicians, however, that
his death was not due to drowning.
The Mandan Daily Pioneer force at
Mandan was hard hit by the draft.
Earle H. Tostevin, city editor; Walter
G. Tostevin, circulation manager; and
Edward D. Tostevin, collector, sons of
E. A. Tostevin, publisher, were drawn
in the first call of the Morton county
contribution to the new army. G. F.
Pierce, foreman of the printing de-
partment, was also drafted.
St. Joseph's Catholic church has
heen organized and Incorporated at
Killdeer. The board Of directors, be-
sides the bishop and vicar general of
the diocese, consists of Rev. FIR.
Krank, and the trustees are M. S.
Cuskelly and Stanley Hoffman, with
J. F. Milestone and j. c. Clarke
members of the advisory council.
plans are under way for a fine new
building.
Automobiles driven by George
Gaebe and Hilmar Gonitz, respective
w. clashed in a head-on collision near
New Salem last Saturday night. Both
were travelling at a good rate Of
sneed and in spite of the fact that
came together with a crash which
canoet ogether with a crash which
damaged both cars considerably. For
tunately the passengers were only
badly shaken up.
Judge and Mrs. Fred White have
returned to their home at Amidon
after an automobile trip to Devils
Lake. where the judge attended the
state convention of county judges.
:Indpe White said that the trip as a
Whole was rather discouraging from
the amount of poor crops that he saw
an route. He said that the crops in
the Dickinson and Amidon vicinities
were the best along the entire route.
soren Myhret Of Halliday is
languishing in the county bastile at
Manning as a result of getting
tanoled up with the Halliday village
officials. Myhret had some old ma
chinery standing on the village streets
and refused to move it and the au-
thorities had it moved for him. The
following night Myhret returned the
machinery to its former place and
received a Jail sentence for his pains
Twenty-seven automobiles were de-
stroved and a loss of approximately
s5O 600 incurred, when fire destroyed
the Dakota Motor Company's plant at
Bismarck Sunday night. Flames
mounting more than a hundred feet
into the air, fed by jets and sprays
Of gasoline and oil, shot up huge
burning embers which were carried
aver the city. 1t was only through
oood fortune that a dozen blazes die
not break out simultaneously. Chris
Rertsch. Jr., fire commissioner, was
hadlv burned in attempting to save
&c. 3. Little's fine new Packard llmou'
sine. which had only been run once o.
twice. Within ten feet from the
door the car collided with an oil tank
and was blocked, and COMMISSIONS,
Rertsch barely escaped with his life
being severely burned about the face