The Devils Lake world and inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1915-1920, 1917-09-13
News Of the Week From All
Sections Of the State.
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST
Events Are Briefly Covered in Order
to Make PerusaI Easier for
the Busy Reader.

tea caught fire at Rhame, a short dis
lance from Bowman. The car burned
SO quickly that there was no chance
to saw it.
Walter S. Page of Leeds and Ken
meth P. Bertrand of jamestown have
been appointed to the naval academy
at Annapolis by Representative G. NJ.
Young. They will take examinations
in February.
DR.. E. f. Ladd, president of the
North Dakota Agricultural college at
Fargo, announced that he had been
appointed as state federal food ad-
ministrator by Herbert G.. Hoover and
had accepted.
The stockholders of the Northern
Packing company, at a meeting at
Grand Forks, increased the capitaliza-
ton from 100000 to $1,000 o0 Steps
also were taken to issue additional
common stock at increased prices.
Billy Ryan of st. Paul had all the
best Of a ten-round boxing match at
Mandan with Bobby krieger of Mil
waukee. The bell saved the Milwau-
kee boxer in the seventh and tenth
rounds, according to newspaper men
at the ringside.
A fire of incendiary origin complete
ly destroyed the barn and thirty head
of horses on the David Moug farm,
seven miles northwest of Page. Moug
said that he suspected some laborers,
alleged 1. w. w, whom he discharged
early in the summer.
Four Germans applying for Amer
lean citizenship before District Judge
A. T. Cole at Fargo were denied the
right to become citizens of the United
States and, according to Judge Cole,
American citizenship.
A field of seventy acres of the best
wheat in that section of the state,
owned by John Czapiewski, just north
of Voss, caught fire in the shock and
was completely destroyed. The crop
vas estimated for thirty bushels an
acre. The fire was started by a spark
from a passing RAILROAD engine.
The state supreme court, on appli-
cation from the attorney general, is
sued an order, returnable Sept. IA, di-
recting Emil ScOw and J. A. Power to
show the reason they are holding the
Office as members of the board of re-
gents when their terms expired in
July.
According to w. S. Wilson of Bow
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Cry weather has produced a poison
GUS acid in green flax that kills cattle
within an hour after they eat it. Five
. herds in the vicinity of Bowman have
been affected and thirty head of cattle
have been lost.
Seventy acres of shocked wheat,
comprising some of the finest grain
which has been cut in that vicinity,
was consumed by a prairie fire which
broke out III the farm of John Gael.
weski near Voss. Neighbors saved
the farm buildings and adjoining build
path of the flames.
Major Richard R. Steedman, retired
has been relieved from duty with the
: North Dakota national guard and has
been detailed as military inspector OF
the North Dakota Agricultural college
at Fargo. designations of Captain
: Jenkins, First Lieutenant Shaw anC
Second Lieutenant Whitney, B bat
terry, have been announced officially.
So serious is the grasshopper pes
in Bowman county that NJ winter
wheat and rye will be seeded unit
= late in the fall. Ordinarily this worl
would be in progress now, but the
hoppers are so thick the farmers feal
they would eat the grain faster thar
it could be planted. Everything in thu
way of vegetation has disappeared il
the path of the pest.
Adolph Lehman, wealthy rancheI
and a retired farmer residing in st
Paul, will be tried at Beach at tn
January term OF the Golden Vale!
district court for the murder of Ma
thias Wetzstein on May 20, il accord
ance with a change of venue granted
by Judge w. C. Crawford at Dickin
son. Lehman has been in Jail sine
the day of the murder.
After tying Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Grad
to a bedpost robbers who entered thei
home near SELF ransacked the house
prepared and ate a meal and left witt
a team taken from Grads barn. Neigh
bors who went to the house two hour
later discovered the plight of tn
couple and released them. The team
was found fifteen miles from New
Rockford, but the bandits had de
parted.
Representative P. D. Norton, in
recent visit to Fort Yates, announce
that work should begin this fall o,
$50, 900 worth of improvements on tn
Indian school, for which he had OF
tanned an appropriation in the las
session. Mr.. Norton also will ask Al
appropriation for an electric ligh
plant to supply the agency building
and for such, private consumers a
rnav care To buy the current.