The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, October 7, 1937, Page 3

NATURAL POISON IS BLAMED FOR DEATHS OF NUMEROUS DEER Acid Generated by Eating Cer- tain Foods Is Cause Says Brandenburg After studying reports of fatali @mong North Dakota’s deer pers tion, Dr. O. T. Brandenburg of the “I do not believe = s malady fs taking toll of deer colonies,” the veteranarian declared. “A like -con- ition has occurred in other - years end has been traced to prussic-acid.” He is of the opinion that deer are dying after eating various types of vegetation which generate prussic acid (hydrocyanic acid) in the stom- ach of the animal when “conditions ere just right.” Contents of the stomach of a dead buck found in a water hole near ‘Washburn were submitted to the ete regulatory department for an- ysis. Brandenburg, who with Almon Norton, chief game warden, exam- ined the animal, said a quantity of unmatured flax and choke cherry pits were found in the stomach. Both of these can produce prussic acid poisoning. If the animal has been dead more than s few hours Glee sibilities of finding prussic acid are ‘ not garetle Gad poe spreads rapidly ug! ie ly. The fact that many dead deer are found near dae a at Piaget indication they of which causes respiratory paralysis, Brandenburg declared. HEAR PROPOSAL 10 BOOST CLASS RATES Plenty of Drumsticks FAMOUS LECTUR 10 VISIT IN CITY ‘Ernest Thompson Seton and Wife to Be Guests at Lo- cal Schools Ernest Thompson Seton, famous naturalist, lecturer and author, and his wife, Julia M. Seton, a recognized authority on Indian lore, will be guests of the public schools of the city for two days, Nov. 3 and 4, ac- to an announcement by Supt. H. O. Saxvik Thursday. During their visit in the city Mr. and Mrs. Seton will appear before the grade school pupils as well as the older ones. ANNOUNCED AT'NDA Misses Gallahan, ~ Renwick, Middlemas and Lee Are Listed . A number of Bismarck gir! lamong the number pledged by soror- ities on the North Dakota Agricultural girl Greek letter groups at that time. . Bismarck students among the soror- ity pledges include Ruth Callahan and Jean Renwick, Phi Omega Pi; and LaVerne Middlemas and Mary Lee, Gamma Phi Beta. A public lecture will be given by | Arth the Setons the evening of Nov. 4, in the high school auditorium. Plans are being made for a reception dur- and Shirley Olson, McIntosh, Minn. Alpha Gamma Delta: ing the evening of Nov. 3, to give the |@ public an opportunity to meet 8nd | and Bessie C! visit informally with the distin- guished couple. Seton is particularly anxious to return to North Dakota since he did gson, Hunter; and Dorothy Hoesley, much of his work in the study of |Crystal. wild animals here and was deeply interested in certain phases of In- Gian life in the state. Kappa Kappa Gamma: Marie An- Jesse Halstead, Jean Heller, Virginia derson, Mildred Cone, Eileen Johnson, Patty Lavelle, bloiom, Dolores McDowell. McMillan, all of Fargo; Isaacs, LaMoure; and Marjorie Wil- son, Moorhead, Minn, Gamma ° Helen Land- Virginia New York, Oct. 7.—(®)—American ‘business, measured by the rate of in- dustrial activity, has dropped about six per cent since the boom time highs last-May. But the retreat in trade. and ind has been small ; ‘compared with the 30 per cent drop in stock market prices. It does indicate, however, a halt in Lor- | what has been described as the longest Eatinor Cranberries Your Car Grade of Oil . MONTGOMERY WARD Needs a Lighter .. NOW! sustained rise in the business history of the United States, the climb from the 1932-33 depths to peaks which, last spring, surpassed in many places the heights of 1929. Is the halt merely a resting place, jor a takeoff for a major fluctuation? 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Durrant, traffic commissioner of the Greater Grand Forks Traffic association; F. P. Aughnay, traffic commissioner of the Minot Association of Commerce and Frank Van Osdel Fargo’attorney. the commission will hear arguments on the proposed revision of rates on household goods « ®nd uncrated furniture. This case ‘was reopened on a petition of the Northwest Truck and Bus associa- tion which also asked the commission to prescribe uniform “collect on de- livery” charges. Approximately motor freighters are affected by the action. 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