The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1904-11-23
Around the State.

The total vote in Williams
county was !, 141.
There will be one lone Democrat
in the state senate.
! The mill at Mckinney is grind
ing night and day to keep up to
it's orders.
A new pipe organ is being plac-
ed in the Presbyterian church at
Bottineau.
JOS. Trapp, of Williston, while
digging coal, had his leg broken
by a cave in.
Slim Jones, who was recently
shot through the body at Willis
tan is able to be out.
Tom Gardner brought big
bear down to Bottineau from
the Turtle mountains. Itcleaned
over APO pounds.
The Graphic hears that several
Williston boys from 10 to IA
GEARS old, spend thier time in
back yards drinking beer.
! 1t is rumOred that Senator
Hansbrough may seek harmony
in Ramsey county by having
Phil Short appointed postmaster
at Devils Lake.
4 The farmers of the Red River
Valley are compelled to buy seed
wheat for next springs crop.
The wheat crop in the valley was
very poor this year.
Canadian farmers can haul
their grain across the line to
!, Sherwood and ship their grain
in bond. This should make bust
ness at Sherwood lively.
Major Makee, a prominent
Democrat, has opened new
drug store at Kenmare. Chas.
Jacobson, the former Mckinney
druggist, is managing the store.
Nine counties in the state made
changes in the county superin-
tendent as follows: Richland,
Pembina, Cavalier, Bottineau,
Ward, Williams, Burleigh, Nc
Henry, Dickey and Stark.
John 0. Moe was arrested at
Oberon. charged with stealing
81, 300 from his friend, Ole Line
lin, who had the money secreted
on his farm. Moe turned the
money over to the officials.
A kenmare blacksmith outfit
pulled by a steam engine passed
through the country last week
overland forSherwood. The out.
fit displayed this sign: 'Sher.
wood or bust-busted in Ken.
mare
+. Il. Brownson was elected
superintendent Of schools on the
Democratic ticket over +. A.
Bronson Republican, with 81
votes. The Graphic is surprised
at the result and hastens to say
that BrOwnson is a good fellow
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: thirteen years ago with 1000
a subscribers. Now that paper has
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: scribers. The Independent is
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believe that this paper is the best
in the state.
Three Williston miners. EN-.
ployes of the Pioneer mine. were
badly injured in an explosion in
the mine Tuesday night. Asparl
from their candle ignited two
! cans of blasting powder which
had been wet. The men were
burned about their hands, face
ody.
\ patent medicine man got the
, Devils Lake farmers in a new
way. He sold medicine good to
cure anything, on six months
time. the buyers to give their
notes. The medicine was to be
taken according to direction for
six months, and if there was no
cure. there was to be no pay.
J, The medicine was so vile that no
: one could take it, hence the notes
Y were forfeited One man lost
$42.
Milton Logan, fifteen year
old boy, was caught in a pillow
on his fathers farm near Antler,
: Bottineau county, and dragged
500 feet. Tie bones of his LEG.
between his ankle and knee were
I broken three times. The plucky
boy forced the bone back into
place the best he could and
mounted the pillow and drove