The Ward County independent., 1904-01-20

A Rugby hotel keeper had his
$40 overcoat swiped.
The acetylene gas plant in the
large business block OF w. d.
Gile at Crazy blew up, severely
injuring Jud Dean who was clean
ing the plant.
A Mankota (Mim. J man, after
watching the hired man kiss his
wife Just sixtyfive times by actual
count, became angry and did
some shooting, though he failed
to bring down his game, only
winging the kisser.
Ex-County Superintendent De-
vine, ex-State Superintendent of
School Devine, ex-Lieutenant
Governor Devine and ex-Gover-
nor Devine all reside on one
ranch in McHenry county near
Towner.-Fargo Forum.
An $4,000 fire visited Leeds
Thursday night, when the "Pal-
ace" a pool and billiard, room,
was totally destroyed: The pro-
prietors had placed the most ex-
pensive fixtures in the building,
and everything was up:to-date:
A Michigan woman was scan
ming the marriage columns of a
newspaper, and remarked to her
husband, "Here is a strange CO.
Incidence William Strange
married a Martha Strange"
..Strange indeed" replied her
husband, "but | expect the next
news will be alittle stranger" lex
!: II your 32c-a-pound butter is
'crumbly," take a pound of it
and melt it. In this way the
lard or beef suet with which it is
"filled" will settle to the bottom
of the jar and after it is solidifed
again you will have the deadly
evidence to show to your grocer.
And that is all the good it will
do you.
A knock down proof Of the ef-
ficiency OF the faith cure is given
in the Saybrook Gazette, which
states that a wife of a farmer
near Kenny had a liniment that
she used for everything. The
other night she was sick and her
husband got up in the dark, got
the linin.ent, and rubbed it all
over her body. She was given
instant relief. The next morn
ing it was discovered that he had
gotten bottle OF billing intead
OF the liniment.
It has been very noticeable to
the Independent man that dur
ing his residence Of nearly two
years in. Minot, he has not seen
more than a couple of small boys
smoking and a very few young
women. We were surprised last
week to see a young married
woman walking complacently
along the street, pipe in hand,
putting away like any old tobac-
co fiend.
A Park erbusiness man who
has a little more push than some
business men. got up a special
sale and had a kid ring a bell out
side Of his store to attract the
crowd, and the mayor Of the
town, who hammers llday on
blacksmith's anvil, said the noise
Of the bell made his head ache
and he fined the merchant $27.-
40 which included the costs.
The mayors s name is Honey, and
some suggest that he must have
got into the wrong pew when the
names We're given out. Park
River citizens are naturally in
dignant over the treatment af-
forded the business man, and in
innate that the progressiveness
Of this age is too much for the
The following story from Mi
not, which touches on the recent
Optic deal, illustrates the trials
Of some newspapers workers. A
prospective buyer OF the Optic
paid over a sum of $500 to Mr..
Mcclure to bind the bargain.
Mac deposited in a bank what he
could not Immediately use OF the
and left for Colorado,
telling Editor Fahnlander to
draw ad lib. Joe accordingly
proceeded to draw come Sat
lrday highland found to his
a balance ofonly $3.50.
A few minutes later he received
. message from Mac, asking for
f25 by wire, for car fare. Now