The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1904-06-08
Around the State.

The Bottineau creamery is a
success.
The Barry trial is going on at
Grafton.
There is a rumor that the Bot
tineau branch will be extended.
Tagio is attempting to do
away with her houses OF prosti-
tuition.
Henry Reider, a single man,
was dragged to death by his
horse near kenmare.
r. S. Scofeld Of Bottineau is
sowing 20 acres OF wheat. Last
wear tn ..eld was in flax.
| Grunvill has two women base
ball teams and the men are
nursing the babies and the like.
Ramsey county farms are us
ing gasoline engines for pump
ING water. This is a good plan
considering that tits never windy
in North Dakota.
Anton Gefrod OF southern
Pierce county was shot in the
head by the accidental discharge
of his rifle which he carried in his
buggy. He is unconscious and
will likely die.
E. D. Carpenter OF Goslen S. D.
kills gophers by chasing them in.
to their holes, saturating cotton
lbatting with gasoline, placing in
! the hole and stopping it up.
In one day the Medina cream:
cry received 1000 pounds OF
cream. 1t has sixty eight pat.
rons. Several new patrons have
been booked since and there are
} more in prospect.
A freak of nature is to be seen
at the farm OF Christian Zacher
; near Glenullin in Morton county
, in the shape of a lamb with eight
legs, the lamb is as ryand live.
ly as any OF the flock.
The term OF sale OF the. Wash.
burn road to the 500 road have
been made public. The Soc
road is understood to have paid
, $4,000 per mile for the line
, which consists OF fifty Eight
s miles of track.
!, During the month OF Apri
there were $50 births in North
Dakota, with only 127 deaths
l At this rate we will soon need tc
l care nothing for immigration, az
t the natural Increase will be sutfi
} Gent to keep the state moving
along.
i L. J. Wing, a prisoner in tn
' county Jail at jamestown at
! tempted to escape the other day
! but he was detected and prevent
ed. Wing is the man who stol
;. money with which to go to Chi
9 cago to visit his sick sister.
s This spring there were twelv
e steam plows atwork adjacent t.
y Washburn. Each outfit can turI
= over twelve acres per day, max
ing 24O acres Of prairie sod tina
is broken up every day. At thi
0 rate all the farming land will b
I. cultivated in a few years.
RI It will be we'll to bear in min
e when taking up stock found rur
g ming at large from April LIST t
NOV. LIST, it must be advertise
), inside OF ten days. There is
penalty Of fifty dollars for failu1
V to comply with this section {
o the law.
Il The death OF a three-year-ol
u child at Wimbledon from drinl
a ing a small quantity of butte
d coloring is a starting proof {
# the injurious properties contain
= ed in many of the socalle
) harmless colorings. The pro
r duct Of the dairy is certainly nc
t. improved in flavor by their us
e and as in the case we mention
d many colorings contain ran
% poison.
" SIX hundred the twelve wa
n rants we're issued by the con
o missioners of Mcintosh count
. for gopher bounty, amountin
9 to So, 977.8O. This shows a tote
a OF 193,89O gophers for whic
4 bounty was claimed. 1t is est
mated that the gophers kille
within the county this sprin
would fill two large box cars, an
n when it is estimated that eac
gopher destroys about five busl