Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1917-12-27
Brief Items Of
State News

Ottawa.-In the American names in
Canadian overseas casualties list is.
sued here is that of Corporal A. B. Ew-
Ing, of Walhalla, as wounded.
Fargo.-Rev. Father P. NJ. Kennerk,
assistant pastor of st. Alphonsus
Catholic church at Langdon, N. D.,
died in Fargo Of cancer. The funeral
was held at Langdon.
Wilton.-By unanimous vote the
city council decided to have a survey
made and plans drawn for system OF
waterworks. The plans will be sub
mitted to the council in January.
Camp Dodge-Private Clifford M.
Jenness of Ardmore, a member of the
machine gun company of the And U.
S. infantry regiment died at the base
hospital from abscess of the brain af-
ter brief illness.
Fargo.-As the result of the first
'lightless night" three roberies were
reported here. Chief Dahlgren said lit.
tie protection is offered for a city with
small police force under the fuel ad.
ministration's order for lightless
nights
Mathematician county's new
court house, now completed, was built
without the county mourning cent
of Indebtedness. The building was paid
for from money accumulated in the
tax penalty fund. 1t is said that only
one other county in North Dakota
has ever erected building in this
way.
Fargo.-If his public duties permit,
Herbert Hoover, national food admin
istrator, will be here next month and
speak before the eighteenth annual
convention of the Tri-State Grain and
Stockgrowers' association to be held
Jan. Is to 18 inclusive, in the audi
forum. The food administrator has
promised to come if possible, and will
be assigned a prominent position on
the program.
Minot-Clark Hovey, former deputy
sheriff in Ward county, who myster-
iously disappeared six weeks ago, is
now believed to have committed sui
eide by drowning in the Missouri river,
near Mandan. The clothes of the MISS
ing man were found on the river bank,
identified by the official badge, and a
picture of his wife. Financial trou-
bles are said to have been the cause
of his disappearance.
ton.-Representative John
M. Baer, of North Dakota, has intro.
duced bill In which he asks congress
to appropriate $4,000, 900 to aid west
EN- farmers in carrying their livestock
OYER the winter and purchasing seed
grain for their 1918 crops. The bill
provides that the governor and two
| other state officisls shall be designat.
ed by the president to investigate the
need of federal aid for farmers and
stockmen and upon their report the
looms are to be made.
Bt,wman-"will Mrs. Totten be re-
lievsd of her duties as postmistress of
Bowinan?" is a question that is agitat.
ing this community. The postal auth.
critics at Washington have sent out
notices announcing civil service ex-
animation to be held here for candi-
rates for postmaster at Bowman. Mrs.
Totten has been in the limelight con.
siderably lately. Her great admira-
ton for Mrs. O'Hare, the socialist lead
er, who was sentenced to five years in
the penitentiary for seditious utter
ances. and her defense of this woman
both before and after the trial, has
given her considerable publicity.
Bismarck.-That for months proceed
ing his arrest Secretary of State Thos.
Hall made practice of dipping in
to tie state automobile funds for q
forced loan whenever he CHANGED to
be hard up; "embezling to the shame
and disgrace of the state; putting in
the cash drawer in place of currency
slips and checks that were no good"
that during months of 1917 the Secre.
tary Of state made statements under
oath-statement after statement-in
which he stated that his office carried
on hand money which he knew he had
embezzled, were declarations made by
Assistant Attorney General Brennan in
his opening argument for the state in
the Hall case on trial here.
Killdeer-John ]. Northrup, Dunn
county pioneer, old-time plainsman
and for years postmaster at North
rup. is dead at the age of 70.
lfatton.-The Farmers Cooperative
Mercantile company of Hatton, has
jus: donated to the Red Cross, for use
in relief work among civilians IN
France and Belgium, women's, misses
and children's garments to the value
of $S45.
Bismarck.-The annual state con.
vention of the North Dakota Farmers
union adjourned after re.electing r.
]. J. Montgomery Of Tappen president
and Robert solberg vice president.
Rugby.-Fire wrecked the new
printing plant and Office of the Rugby
Farmers News, a weekly paper re-
Gently established by farmers CO.
operative company. The plant, which
was valued at $4,000, is seriously dam
aged and the building almost total