The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1919-06-19
North Dakota
News in Brief

NlullI NOlhS."1NOll AuhOIsl > III
ed Commercial Travellers held their
annual meeting here last week.
Michigan.-A $4,000 cooperative
store, organized under local manage
ment, will be opened for business here
this week.
Fargo.-A hearing on wheat grades
will be held here by representatives Of
the United States department Of agri-
culture on the 2Sth of this month.
Fargo.-Ada, daughter of Bishop
and Mrs. J. Poyntz Tyler of this city,
was seriously injured in an automo-
bile collision in Chicago Il few days
ago.
Fargo.-The Madawaska, bearing
additional members of the 313th EN-
gineers, including men recruited from
this state, landed in New York a short
time ago.
Bisbee.-Police captured ut Minot
a man believed to have been he per-
petrator of Il recent robbery of the
union depot here, when $3.50 worth of
transportation was stolen.
Jamestown.-Th e promise of n
regular passenger service on the Pin
sree-Wilton branch of the Northern
Pacific after June 23'is hailed with
pleasure by the towns along that line.
Fargo.-The death of d. G. Tufts,
former receiver of the United States
land office at this point, is announced
from Yakima, Washington, where Mr..
Tufts had resided in recent. years.
Park River.-Arthur Gullickson, for
mer student of the state university
and we'll known in athletic circles of
the Northwest, died us the result of
injuries received here in an autOmO-
bile race.
Devils Lake.-A class of six gradu-
ated from the state school for the
deaf, all the members returning to
their homes prepared with suitable
vocational training for a place in the
worlds work.
Bismarck.-The. Farmers Insurance
company of Dickinson has been grant
ell a certificate Of authority to trans
, act business by. Commissioner S. a.
Olsness, head of the state insurance
department here.
Grand Forks.-A. ]. Surratt, North
+. Dakota field agent of the United States
department of agriculture, estimates
. this states potential wheat yield for
1919 as 8G,000,0OO bushels as compared
with Il final production of 1O1 100000
bushels last year.
Bislnarck.-Burleigh county farm.
ers are rejoicing at figures given out
4 at the local weather bureau, which
show that May of this year was the
. dampest May in recent history except
that of the year 1915 which produced
this county's banner crop.
Observation-Disclosures western coun
a ties in the state received needed rain
fall last week in amounts ranging as
. high as 2!OS inches at Williston, ac
cording to government reports. The
:. precipitation has been greatly needed
;. to help check the growth of the grass
:, hopper pest.
- Enderlin.-Hev. Robert II. Craig
9 one of North Dakota's Mcthodism's
best known clergylnen, died suddenl!
4 Of heart trouble at his home in this
city, He had been pastor at Lisbon
G Bismarck and Dickinson, before being
o'oSA6iASN W wv VI I'LL paw
He was at one time a missionary tt
d India.
Fargo.-A total of 1874 real or al
legged cases of juvenile delinquency
a have been handled in the court OF
t Judge A. +. Guptil, juvenile commits
sioner for the Third judicial district
$ with headquarters in this city, during
a his %incumbency in office during the
v past -four years. Judge Guptil's court
was one of the first of its kind to be
established in this state.
Fargo.-One of two important judi.
cial decisions announced in this state
i, Saturday was that of Federal Judge
Charles II. Amidon in dismissing tho
action brought by AZ North Dakota
citizens seeking to enjOin the state
industrial program upon grounds OF
= alleged unconstitutionality. Judge
Amidon held that the matter was no,
!, of Il nature to permit federal jurisdic.
. ton, and therefore dismissed the suit
= Grand FOrks.-Four hundred and
s~eventy-three students, faculty mem.
- bers and alumni of the state univer.
y sity saw service in the world war, &C.
cording to a list which has just been
. issued from the institution. Two hun.
y dred and ninety-four of these were
students at the time they enrolled
7 for service; eighteen were faculty
men, and the remainder were previous
students who pre- known to have join
ed the cOlOrs.
Bismarck.-The supreme court Sat.
urday issued d writ of mandamus re.
quiring Secretary of State Thomas
Hall to sign the $2,OOO,0OO capital
. stock bonds Of the Bank of NORTH
Dakota, four Of the five justices, in
Guiding Justice Robinson, %concurring
f, in the decision. Secretary Hall, be-
fore the commencement of the action
!. in the supreme court, declined to sign
the bonds until the court should re-
view the question and establish the
legality of the procedure. Justice
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