The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1903-12-02

EGlenburn viii have g drug store.
Lansford has bought 100000
worth ofgrain. this.fa .. !.
A pure white deer with pink
eyes was shot near Selma. a
Fifty Nelson county farmers
have filed OH land near Tioga.
Hans o. Hanson haskilled two
bears in the Turtle mountains.
The freight rates on grain from
Mohall to st. Paul are 19A cents
a hundred.
There are 26 inmates in the
state reform school at Mandan,
~ boys andtive girls. E
A dead cat was fished out Of
!; the town well at Hoople. The
people will now drink beer.
A farmers institute is to be
held at Harvey December .. An
effort should be made TO have
one held in Minot.
Unless the NJ. 4. people at Bot
/ tineau are offered more Tor their
ruined church, they will not build
: IA new one this year.
! +. W. Pitsor, formerly editor
! of the Berthold Tribune, has
started the Herald at Cleveland,
in Stutsman county. 1t appears
prosperous.
"A Carpio man shot what he
thought was Il white owl Oh the
roof Of his barn. He was surpris-
ed to find that he had shot one
OF his own hens.
The Bottineaup;t are boom
ing their town which is one OF the
best in the state. An effort is be-
ING. made to have AN orphans
asylum. a college and hospital
opened there.
The melancholy days have
come,
The saddest OF the year.
Not cold en.Dngh for whaskey
straight,
Too cold for lager beer.
Daniel SchimnKe, OF Harvey, was
arrested for lburying has own
child without IA burial certificate.
This is the first case OF the kind
to come up in this part OF the
state and will be watched. The
man is out on bail
Prof. 1iadd has given the mer-
chants until January l., 1904, to
get rid ofthe impure foods, then
warns them not ITO buy amy
more He means business. Mer-
chants. look at your food stulffs
and zee that YOU slrenot violat-
ing tine law.
4 Farmers institute will be held
at Carpio Saturday, December
II, under the management OF
the State Farmers Institute
Board. These meetings are al
ways beneficial and everyone
within reach III @Carpio should at
tend.
Mrs. Fred Nisbee, shot her hus-
band four times with a revolver,
near Lokota, killing l,i1n. They
had quarreled and the women
with her three SONS went to Il
,eighbors. The man followed
them and smashed in the door
and attempted to shoot his wife
with a small rifle.
Julius Affeldt While digging Il
well on his claim near Hamburg
struck a chunk of ice IA large as
Ia football at a depth OF seventy
fleet. The question now arises as
to how that ice got there and
|how long itwas there 1t was
dear as crystal.
| a man down at St;El'kweather
threshed small field OF fax the
other evening" after dark and was
surprised to look in the wagon
box and find itempty. The next
morning he readjusted the selves
and threshed the straw pile and
got "a box fun of fax.
4 Frenchman visiteda.country-
man, John Charignon at Stanley
and swiped his shot gun. He
then went to Ed. Lewis shack
and slept with him, extracting a
$40 bill from Eds pocket before
he left and rode away on anoth-
er mans bicycle. He took the
train at Lone Tree and was ar
rested at Minot where he is held.
The law passed three years ago
causing all examination papers
Of teachers, to pass the board of
examiners at Bismarck, has had
q tendency Of reducing the num-