The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1904-12-21
AROUND The STATE,
The Westhope Standard is
publishing ~ legal notices.

Ueeu SOtl TeceiltlN lOF sSz.VVV.
Efforts are still being made to
reorganize old Renville county.
Williams county papers are
still bowling about the way the
county superintendent was elect
ed.
A caboose on the Sherwood
branch overturned, shaking up
the passengers badly and after
wards burned.
Gustaf Anderson. a farm labor
er, was arrested at Devils Lake
fer bOthering women. He is
mildly insane.
The Glenburn cistern. a lug
shaped affair, caved in lust us
Jack Fortune came out OF it.
His life was barely saved.
The VERSIONS at Tiago have
$50 acres Of land and altho little
rain fell at Tioga this year, the
wheat averaged 20 bushels.
John A. Johnson. the new
governor OF Minnesota. had to
leave school at the age Of ten to
help his mother do washing.
The mayor OF Devils Lake has
provided a public skating rink.
In Minot-well the people get
their skates on occasionally any
way.
Thos. Oskendahl, theunsuccess-
full candidate for sheriff Of Pierce
county has entered a contest
against Nick Meyers, the sue
cessful man, in district court.
He asks a recount Of the votes.
Postmaster Gee now owns the
Flaxton Eagle. Puddin Head
Johnston. the former editor
turned up missing, and he never
sent back that print paper we
loaned him, either. Johnston is
q slippery cuss.
Altho the editor OF the Rugby
Optimist calls Col. Brewer a fat.
pin head, he acknowledged that
the Forum is the best paper in
the state. Col. Brewer is certain
Iy one of the boys who has placed
the Forum where it is today.
The Buford Tribune rightly
asks that the election tickets be
printed in the county and not
sent to Fargo and Grand Forks.
Those papers do not help county
officials to be elected and it is
better to leave the money at
home anyway.
RI. l.. Putnam. OF Kun, sold
100 head Of hogs to \. O. WEIGH
last week. The hogs were seven
months old and averaged 200
pounds each. Mr.. Putnam raised
them on his farm north Of Kun
and fattened them on ground
barley and speltz, which seems
]. to do as well as corn and is raised
with much less labor.
A. W. Johnston, OF Marine
Mills. Mimi, was at Devils Lake
recently proving up on some
land. He recently fell heir to
$500, 900 aid the Journal states
that he made the eagle scream
right before he parted with his
dollar. He put up at the cheap
est hotel and was economical
generally.
Arthur Hendrickson, a 16year
old Rugby boy trapped musk
rats and put a sharp open knife
in his coat pocket. He forgot
about the knife and in the even
ing when doing his chores, he
lifted box of coal into a bin.
The blade was forced through
the flesh into a kidney. No pain
was felt at the time and the boy
did not know he was injured un-
til he noticed blood in his shoe.
A physician was finally called,
but the boy died in few days.
William Ward. a farmer living
on the Canadian side. OF the
boundary has been arrested
charged with killing horses.
Three horses were found dead
near Wards place and were sup
posed to be poisoned but the
sergeant of the northwest mount
ed police upon investigation
found that they had been shot
with 80 calibre revolver bullets
and were extracted from the
bodies OF the horses, also the re-
volyer, was found in the possess
ION Of Ward. He is confined in
the police barricks in North
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