The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1918-09-05
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Dolnss Of Last Few Days Throughout
North Dakota Condensed for
Hasty Perusal.

Hasty Perusal.
Fortuna.-Fred Olin, a we'll known
young farmer ear here, committed
suicide on account of poor health.
Fargo.-Women workers in the fields
are doing much to relieve the labor
shortage in North. Dakota. and they
also are doing very efficient work.
Bismarck. - Nine deserters and
slackers we're taken to Fort Smelling
from Bismarck during the last week
by army officers detailed for this pur-
pose.
Jamestown.-Private Louis Foreman
Of Freid, listed as killed in action in
the United States army casualty list,
was a member of Company H Of
jamestown.
Jamestown.-Rev. j. s. Brayfeld of
Jamestown has been advised that his
son, Capt. Cuthbert Brayield, with the
Canadian army, has been wounded in
action.
Bismarck. - Three tons of cover
sheets for questionnaires- alone now
are in the mails for the general regis
tration of selects between the ages Of
10 and IS in North Dakota.
Grand Forks. German Instruction
will be entirely eliminated from the
Grand Forks high school this year.
Only three o four pupils signiied
their desire to study German.
Fargo.-L. B. Mattieson of this city,
who deserted from Camp Dodge, has
been captured at Milbank, 8. D., and
will be returned to camp on an order
issued by Cass county draft officials.
Wahpeton. The first deaths Of
Company members in action have
been reported by the war department.
Milton G. Stevenson of Paramount and
Corporal John M. Hafner of Wahpeton.
Fargo.-Fargo conducted a "commu-
nifty picnic" for the Cass county draft
men who left for Camp Lewis, Wash.
Seventy-six men departed and several
thousand people were on hand to bid
them farewell.
Bismarck.-The government is call
ing on the North Dakota farmers to
maintain their acreage of winter rye
the coming season. North Dakota pro-
duces about one-third of all rye raised
in the United States.
Mandan, N. Drank Klingenstein,
aged 10, was struck by lightning at his
home at Youngstown during a big cleo
trical storm and instantly killed. His
two brothers were both badly burned,
but not seriously injured.
Dickinson. - John Frenzel, a we'll
known farmer residing about IL miles
south of Dickinson, lost a valuable
barn by lightning. All of the contents,
including an automobile and "a full set
IF threshing belts, were destroyed.
jamestown. = The new p~ostofice,
Community, which was recently au-
thorized to be opened at Spiritwood
Lake, is now in operation, serving a
large number of summer residents as
well as the farmers that live in the
vicinity.
Bismarck.-Peter Schmidt, a Rich.
ardton farmer, is dead as the result of
being gored by a mad bull several
weeks ago. He was taken to a Bis
marck hospital after the attack and
seemingly was on the road to recov-
cry when he suffered a relapse.
Grafton. Company c of Grafton,
which went into the American army as
a unit of the North Dakota National
Guard, has adopted a 1O-year-old
French orphan who is constantly with
the company in France and declares
he will come to America with the SOL
diers when the war is ended.
During the fiscal year which ended
June 80, 1917, the state expenditures
were ~$2,32O,000. The expenditures dur.
ing the previous year were 81, $4,000.
Practically every state department has
recorded increased expenditures. The
leading exceptions have been the of.
fees Of governor and state treasurer.
Their expenditures have remained al
most stationary.
Bismarck.-North Dakota will have
to have more prisoners in it's state
penitentiary or close its Irvine factory.
Today there are only 100 men in
prison, compared with a prison popu-
lation of BAT about two years ago. BY
January !, next, the number of pris.
oners will be reduced to 81, and of
that number, IA are cripples and VI
able to perform any work.
Bismarck. Ernest G. Wanner.
founder of the North Dakota Home
Guard association and who retires
Sept. l from the secretaryship of the
state board of control after five years.
service. has accepted an important
post with Capt. l. P. Baker in the Fed
eral fuel administration for North Da.
kota. He will supervise the distribu.
ton Of all bituminous and anthracite
coal.
Grand Forks.-An epidemic, more or
less of the familiar summer type, has
affected 40 children here in a week,
three cases proving fatal. The dis
ease shows its first serious effects in
commissions and loss of consciousness.
The sickness lasts as long as three or
four days. Several explanations are
offered. n being that chemicals in
the city water which have not been