The Ward County independent., 1904-01-20
FACTS SSFANCIES.
News Througto.,t The Fllcl<ertan state.

VI VoOu oll GU WV CAOlfSHs ~
A farmers institute is to be
held at Rugby February 8.
The Granville new school build
ing was opened Monday.
The farm products OF this state
for 19O3amountedto $135, ,OoO,-
900.
Experiments show that hemp
can be grown in. some parts OF
the state.
The Des Lacs Observer will send
a special correspondence to- Japan
if war is declared.
The city squirt gun at Rugby.
has been overhauled, and the
citizens no longer fear fire.
A.lheif are 43,868 farms in
North Dakota and 6,45O ranch
es-and all good paying proper
ties, too.
The farmers about Sawyer held
a meeting at that place Thurs
dBy and talked ON the creamery
proposition. -, '.... '-
The Portal International heads
an article telling Of a man drop
ping dead on the street, ..s.Strang7
er In Town. -
A suit involving $40 lasted
two days and nights at Velva.
Those Velva people look after
the daddy dollars.
Editor Killion, of Towner,
doesn't let getting married in
terriers with his getting out a
rattling good paper.
A train of forty-three cars OF
Ignite from the Washburn mines
was sent over the 500 line to
Minneapolis last week.
A Harvey bank sold $4,000
worth of mortgages on farm
properties near thatplace to New
England capitalists.
A couple OF Velva youths met
to fight a duel. They had no
weapons and skipped fearing the
officers would nab them.
Noath Dakota hassixty cream
cries, and about ten more under
construction, with perhaps twen-
ty more in the course OF con-
struction.
VIM. Bortesowetz, Of Sawyer,
Jacob Lakogorski arrested char.
ged with stealing a live pig-not
a blind one-and some articles
from his trunk.
That this state is becoming
quite a factor in educational
matters is shown by the fact that
there are employed at present in
the state 5,O41 teachers, and
still there is a shortage.
The state papers claim that E.
l.. Zimmerman, OF Fargo. has
bought the Minot Optic. Rumor
at Minot has it that. local par
ties own it, that have hired Mr..
Zimmerman to conduct it.
The value OF the dairy and
creamery industry in North Da-
kota for the year.just closed was
about 50, 900, 900, which is not
so bad for a state that is new at
the business.
Miss Mary Lloyd and Frank
Williams, Of Norwich, wished to
wed but the girls family bitterly
opposed the match. The couple
met several times and managed
to elope to Minot where they
were wed.
According to a report given
out that there are eight and a
half million acres of land still
vacant in the Bismarck land dis
trict, and open to homestead
entry. Wells county has 10, 500
acres open for homestead entry.
A Russian from south OF Rugby
reported to the Coroner Of Pierce
county the death OF a little child,
accompanied the father around
by Minot and down the 500 to
the home, where he found the
child had simply died from ma
tural causes., He was indeed
angry on account of his unneces-
sary trip.
Mrs. james A. Montgomery, of
Bism arck, poured kerosene into
a bcner of clothes, and the stuff
took fire. The flames reached
the ceiling Of the kitchen, but
Mrs. Montgomery bravely car
ried the boiler outside where it
could do no harm. She was Sc
verely burned, but she saved the