Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1917-10-04

Willtston.-Paul Balltette, q prOmi-
nent farmer three miles from Watford
City, killed himself with a revolver
because of fear that the government
would call him to the trenches and
conscript his property, according to
Coroner Human Of Mckenzie county.
Minot.-Miners have begun to re-
turn to work in the Burlington Ignite
fields, a partial settlement having been
reached. It is anticipated that mines
will be running with full crews shortly.
A number of important concessions
have been made by both operators and
employees.
Fargo.-Ministers Of Fargo and
Moorhead, moved by the announcement
that Fargo college will close its doors
unless 100000 is raised, have pledged
themselves to the last ditch to save
"the college on the hill" The pastors
say that the closing would not only
be "calamitous, but it would be tragic
ally fatal to the interests of higher
education"
Minot.-Mrs. Marion D. Brown,
whose husband died in a local hos
pital from bullet wound in the head,
sustained at Fessenden, whittier has
had gone to look for a location as
barber, base demanded that Wells
county authorities make an investiga-
the shooting, with which some mystery
seems to be connected.
Fordville.-Three alleged I. w. W.,
giving their names as James Collins,
John Sweeney and Herbert Jones,
working on the Thomas O'Keefe
threshing rig near Mimic. were ar
rested on a charge of selling liquor to
made the officers found an empty
three-gallon jug and another jug par
TALLY filled with liquor.
Washburn.-A bomb. formed by
soaking a bundle of grain in oil and
concealing package of matches on
the inside, resulted in the destruction
by fire of threshing machine owned
by Barnick Bros. near here. A ter
rifle explosion resulted. Several times
previously sabotage had been tried,
several pieces of iron being fed into
the separator, concealed In bundles
of grain.
Fargo.-Mrs. Regina Idelkope of
Front street is the first woman to be
arrested in North Dakota for violation
Of the act of March 8, 1917. shipping
liquor into prohibition territory. Pc.
lice made the arrest and turned the
woman over to the federal authorities
Thursday afternoon. When taken into
custody she was walking across the
foot bridge with several bottles of
whiskey in her possession, 1t is alleged.
Observation-Disclosures from all Sec
lions of Stutsman indicate that there
will be potato shortage this year.
Devils Lake.-President Hillyard of
the Mayville normal, will conduct the
Ramsey county institute here during
the week commencing Nov. S.
Minot.-A field of 70 acres of some
of the finest shocked wheat in this re.
gion was destroyed by a prairie fire
that broke out on the John Czapieweski
farm near Voss.
Jamestown.-Local Elks have sub.
scribed over $1,000 to the fund being
raised among the antlered herd branch
lodges in all sections of the United
States for the establishment of 16
base hospitals, to be erected in con.
nection with the National Red Cross
society.
Dickinson.-While the clerks in the
N. p. ticket Office were at dinner
some prowler forced the door of the
ticket Office and departed with $53 in
cash which was left in the cash
drawer. No trace of the miscreant
has been found, though suspect who
was hanging around the Office during
the morning has been carefully sought
for.
Fargo.-Six hundred and ninety-one
soldiers of Liberty entrained here for
Camp Dodge. This marks the second
increment of conscripts from the state
of 40 per cent of the net quotas of the
counties which have not already dis
patched their men. Practically 1900
men have been transferred from North
Dakota to the cantQnment at Camp
Dodge.
Mandan.-Charles Heater, son of J.
r. Heater of Mandan and graduate OF
the local high school, who two months
ago entered the aviation school al
Cornell, has finished with thu highest
honors in his class and has been or
dered to Europe to service with the
aviation section of the Italian for
eign section. "Stayed highest man and
have charge of gang while ON road,
writes Charles in much deleted let
ter to his proud father.
Bismarck.-"Dinny" Hannafin, squat
ter governor" of North Dakota, Indian
fighter, frontiersman, friend of COVER
nors, and of men who have made gov
errors, is emerging from the shadow
Of the valley of death at the Bismarck
hospital, once more displaying the re
markable recuperative powers which
have stood him we'll in stead in the
ups and downs of 81 years of adven
turous life in a country where rea
adventures have been an everyday
occurrence.