Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1918-05-09
North Dakota
News Siftings

velva.-A Home Guard company
has been organized with DR.. r. S. Nor.
ton as captain.
Granville.-Donald Kolba. local lad,
was shot in the eye with a bullet
from an air gun in the hands of one
Of his playmates. Myril Bacon.
Fargo.-A flax shortage, due to the
decreased acreage in flax is seen by
and is alarming the linseed oil indus
try, according to word reaching Far.
go.
North Lemmon.-The district COM
prising North Lennon, Spring Butte
and Cedar Butte townships have sub.
scribed their allotments on q $50
per cent basis.
Carrington.-With the departure of
DR.. E. l.. Goss for a base hospital a
short distance from Des Moines, Car
rington has given its third medical
man to the colors.
Grand Forks.-Prof E. A. Moses.
the recently appointed municipal d.
rector and school Instructor of band
music, has arrived in this city from
his home at Albany, Ore.
Jamestown.-Thet trustees of the B.
P. o. E., No. 995, offered the third
floor Of the Elks building to the la
dies of the Jamestown Red Cross
chapter for Red Cross activities.
Fargo-After three days of gen.
eral hospitality, fifty-six Cass county
soldiers and eight transfers from other
counties entrained at the Northern
Pacific station here for Camp Dodge
Turtle Lake.-Lawrence Stephen.
son Of Mrs. Hattie Stephenson, Turtle
Lake, died Of heart failure in a mill.
tary camp at Caswell, N. c., and
the remains were brought back here
for burial.
Dickinson.-P. Kelly of Bismarck
was awarded the contract for rebuild.
ing the 1873 miles Of roadway extend
ing north and south of Dickinson,
which is projected by the Stark coun-
ty commissioners.
Bowman.-One year in the state
penitentiary was the sentence passed
on Charley Check, who escaped from
the Bowman county Jail last week
with Robert Butler and was arrested
at Mobridge and returned.
Observation-Disclosures A. Bruce, chief
justice Of the North Dakota supreme
court, will resign about Oct. l and
go to Minnesota for the purpose of
taking up his new work as instructor
Of law at the state university.
MELVILLE. is planning a
Red Cross celebration May 10 and
has secured Governor Frazier as a
speaker. There will be sale with F.
H. Hyland Of Devils Lake and Mr..
Robson Of Cando acting as auction
eers.,
Bismarck.-Terms for the United
States district court in North Dakota
have been announced as follows:
Grand jury at Fargo, commencing
May 20; petit jury at jamestown,
commencing May 80; petit jury at
Bismarck, commencing June II.
Berwick-The hardware store Of
o. S. Hilmen was visited by robbers,
who stole number of automobile cas-
fngs, shotguns, watches and other
articles, representing total value
of about thousand dollars. The rob-
bers have not been caught.
Fargo.-Ransom county, on the day
the apportionment for the Red Cross
drive was given out, had oversub-
scribed its allotment Of $4,000 by
$1,145, according to word received at
state headquarters here. The drive
is scheduled to start next week. It
Is believed that Ransom county is
the first in the country to ego over
the top" in this campaign.
Minot.-Arthur Buck, one of the
four men held in connection with the
fatal shooting of Patrolman Patrick
Devaney and Kersey GOWN, special
officer, has confessed to States At
torney Herigstad he did the shoot
ing. Bullets found in the bodies of
the two officers We're of the same
calibre as Bucks gun. Bucks con.
fession duplicates C. M. Ticknor,
held on burglary charge.
Fargo-North Dakota retail coal
dealers to the number of about 100,
called into conference by H. l.. Laird,
secretary OF the Northwest Txaffic
bureau Of Minneapolis, which in re-
ality is the coal dealers association
of the northwest, went on record as
favoring the adoption of the card
plan of the United States fuel ad-
ministration in ascertaining the house
hold needs, and to work out a plan
by which it shall be carried into ef-
feet.
Fargo.-Two boys, IL and 10 years
old, respectively, have confessed to
wrecking the North Coast Limited
near Casselton. The boys were SEN
fenced in Juvenile court to the state
reform school when they pleaded gull.
ty on the request Of their parents.
The train was derailed at 6:29 D. M,
and hour and half after local
branch train had pulled into Casselton
station, which gave the authorities