Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1918-07-18

were filed by the Fargo city commits.
sion.
Lisbon.-A band of gypsies shot Q
valuable young sheep for Ed Thomp-
son, farmer residing near Oswego,
and were about to cook 1t when appre-
hended by Mr.. Thompson. who ordered
them to move on.
La Moure.-Daniel Mcleod, residing
SIX miles north Of this city, had sew.
earl ribs broken and suffered internal
injuries when he attempted to stop a
runaway team belonging to w. L
Struble, neighbor farmer.
Fargo-so many drug clerks in
North Dakota have gone to war that
the North Dakota Druggists associa-
ton probably will abandon It's annual
convention. The meeting is scheduled
to be held in Fargo on Aug. /.
Langdon.-Two car loads Of wool
were shipped from Langdon, the clip Of
Cavalier county sheep breeders for
this season. About $4,000 pounds
were sent east and will return about
100000 to the owners.
Minot. - Charles d. Kelso, we'll
known Minot attorney, has been named
collector of internal revenue in the
division Of inheritance taxes of the
treasury department, and has been
ordered to report at st. Paul for as.
stgnment to service.
Bismarck.-The Council of Defense
ordered the states attorney and sher-
III to Immediately investigate the
painting yellow of the New Salem
bank, of which c. F.. Kellogg, chair
man of the Morton county Council of
Defense, is president.
Fargo.-Dr. Sten Hanson of Fargo
was elected president of the North
Dakota Osteopathic association; DR..
Joseph Tarr. Lidgerwood, was elected
vice president at the annual meeting
held in Fargo. Fargo was selected as
the place for the winter meeting, Jan.
2 being fixed as the date.
Amidon.-Eight hundred and fifty
pounds Of arsenic have arrived in Ami.
don and twenty barrels Of molasses
and ten tons of bran are en- route, in
preparation for the Slope county drive
on grasshoppers. The three ingredi-
ents will be mixed into sweet mash
and distributed to farmers.
Bismarck.-The elimination Of I'M
lions, as means of reducing the cost
of handling cream and with the fur
Their object of releasing surplus men
for duty in necessary occupations, is
now being considered by the North
Dakota Council of Defense.
Fargo.-The North Dakota crop of
winter rye, which recently gave prom
Use Of being exceptionally good, has
fallen off materially, with the result
that the yield will be far lower than
expected. In many sections, late frost
blighted the grain, while in other re-.
gions, the dry weather last fall re-
duced termination.
Bismarck. Robert Muir, sarles,
was elected president; G. E. vermilya,
Bismarck, vice president, and Charles
Liessman, Steele, secretary of the
North Dakota state board of regents
at the annual meeting. Mr. Muir sue
ceeds Lewis F. Crawford, Sentinel
Butte. He is graduate of the Uni.
versfty Of North Dakota and q farmer
near Sarles.
Jamestown. When the congrega.
ton Of the German Lutheran church
at streeter divided into tv-o camps,
division Of the property holdings of
the church by lot was resorted to, the
drawing taking place in the district
court here. AS result, one faction
gets the church building and land,
white the other gets the church par
sonage, barns, fences, communion set
and the Bible.
Bismarck.-An order preparing for
the seizure of all the 1900 grain ele-
vators of North Dakota has been is.
sued by the state council Of defense.
The councils order provides that own
ers of seized elevators be paid rem
tai Of per cent year upon the actual
physical valuation of their property.
It also provides that the elevators
may be bought outright on the basis
of physical valuation.
Fargo.-The United States labor
bureau has established state headquar-
ters in Fargo for the purpose of han
ding Of the farm labor question dur
ing the coming harvest season, with
L. H. Patten, state director, IN charge.
Mr.. Patten has announced seven dis
trict Offices for the purpose of better
serving the farmers. The district
headquarters are in Fargo, Grand
Forks. Jamestown, Cakes, Minot. Bis.
marck, Devils Lake. County labor
chairmen also are being selected, the
latter working on a volunteer basis.
Fargo.-Lindley H. Patten, director
of the United States labor employ.
ment service for North Dakota, has
issued notice that United States en-
ployment offices have been opened at
Fargo, Grand Forks, Devils Lake,
Jamestown, Cakes, Bismarck and Mi
not. After August / all labor will be
cleared through United States employ.
ment offices, and the support of farm.
ers and laboring men is expected to
make this service one Of the foremost
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