The Devils Lake world and inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1915-1920, 1917-08-23
IN NORTH DAKOTA
News Of the Week From Al
Sections Of tie State.
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST
Events Are Briefly Covered in Order,
to Make Perusal Easier for
the Busy Reader.

the Busy Reader.
Johnnie Tillman of Minneapolis
knocked out Ed Weltz in the fourth
round of q scheduled ten-round bout at
Gackle. I;
Alvin P. Clifford, forty-five years OF
age, q prominent business man Of
Grand Forks and we'll known in the
Twin Cities, died at Grand Forks Of
heart disease.
A home guard Of over 100 men wal
organized at Mayville recently for the
purpose Of protecting, crops and prop
erty of all kinds and to 9 that no
disturbance occurs.
Frank Marquette of Cayuga backed
his car over the perambulator in
which his two-year-old son was sleep.
ing In the shade Of the machine, kill.
ing the boy instantly.
A company, Second North Dakota in.
fantry, has annexed the baseball hon.
ors Of Minot army units, winning, 4
to 8, the final game of a series Of three
for the title from D company Of the
First infantry.
Farmers Of North Dakota who dur.
ing the month of July applied for
loans a%ggregating $1,252,75 s through
the Federal Farm Loan bank at st.
Paul, we're granted total loans amount.
ing to $455,000, according to E. G.
Quamme, president of the bank.
Returns as high as 80 1-3 per cent
on production cost are being made by
some of the corporations Of the state
on their Investments, according to pre-
liminary statements of engineers in. a
survey of North Dakota utilities under
the direction of the tax commission.
The large stock barn on the Henry
Lahren farm near Mandan raj struck
by lightning and burned to the ground.
A feed mill, three tons Of new hay,
five sets of double harness and a six:
year.old Percheron stallion were lost
in the fire. The loss is placed at about
$4,000.
A coroner's jury found that the
death of Martin Mittlider was due in
directly to the blow on the head in
flicted by his brother-in-law, Peter
Schlect. without felonious intent. Nc
criminal proceedings will follow. Mitt
lider died after q quarrel with Schlect
He lived a Sawyer.
Howard shipley, former jamestown
boy, in q letter to relatives tells o.
being severely wounded. in the battle
Of Vimy Ridge, on the West fighting
front in Europe, April, 10, and is still
on furlough while recovering from his
wounds. Shipley was hit in the right
arm and leg by a piece of shrapnel.
Much Of the $4,000 tons of coal
which the Great Northern railroad
stored at Minot to help secure an ade
quate supply for the coming winter
was destroyed in the fire that started
through spontaneous combustion and
burned for weeks. The road is now
moving the remaining coal to Other
locations.
Robert johnson, a farmer, formerly
of Minneapolis, was killed at Bis
marck when an auto in which he was
riding was struck by a freight train
A companion escaped with slight
bruises. Johnson is survived by q
widow and two children at Bismarck
and parents, brothers and sisters II
Minneapolis.
E. G. Covell, a farmer living neal
Granville, was gored to death by 9
mad bull, which caught him as he wa,
endeavoring to escape from the felt
In which the enraged animal wal
penned. The animal had been a fam
lily pet, q playmate Of the little chill
dren, and there is no accounting fol
its sudden mania.
The fourteenth annual convention O
the Bar association of North Dakots
concluded its sessions at Dickinson b,
electing. F. T. Cuthbert Of Devils Lake
president; Tobias d. Casey of Dickin
son, vice president, and Oscar Seiler'
of jamestown, secretary treasurer
The association chose Bismarck TO
the next meeting
The 500 Line is increasing it's stool
yards at Bismarck to four times thei
capacity to take care Of consignment
of horses shipped there for militar.
inspection. It is believed this indi
Gates that Bismarck will be the ship
ping point for government animal
concentrated from North Dakota AM
possibly Montana.
Jonas Holland, a young farmer resid
ing near Mott, will not be much. us
to Uncle Sam in the new natiopa
army. The day Holland was sum
moned to appear before the Hettinge
county exemption board he lost hi
trigger finger while repairing q binde
that baked. Holland was in the thir,
lot of fifty candidates drawn in tina
county.
Benedict Is rejoicing " the fac
that it is to have a place in the sui
IN tho survey If the st. I0uia. Wos,