The Ward County independent., 1904-05-04
Around the State.

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Of Bowbells. the price of lumber
has been cut.
Miss Lena Fisher, a Young lady
at Walhalla, walked in her sleep
and fell down stairs. Her back
was broken and she is paralyzed
from the waist down.
Fred Legge, a Bottineau man
who was hit on the head by a
falling tree a year ago, attempt
ed to end his life by taking an
ounce OF laudnum.
The licenses which the govern
ment issue to liquor dealers in
states. which are notprohibition,
are said to make the piggers in
North Dakota very bold.
kidder County Commissioners
have instructed the Auditor to
advertise for bids for fire breaks,
including 80 miles Of new breaks
along the east and west county
lines.
An Indian doctor refused to
pay a license for peddling medi-
cine at Willow City on the ground
his tribe had a right to sell the
medicine anywhere in the United
States as a result Ofan old treaty.
| j. l.. Wing, who defrauded the
Minneapolis Bridge Co., out Of
81, ZOO at jamestown, attended
his sisters funeral at Aurora, Ill.,,
and was captured by detectives
who learned that he was to at
tend the obsequies.
Jasper Hansen had a claim
shack near Washburn. This
spring he found the window
gone. He placed a sign on the
shack warning all persons to
leave the property alone. The
next time he went out the whole
shack was gone.
| A Minneapolis milkman claims
to be on speaking terms with 81
hired girls. on Joking terms with
16, on kissing terms with eight,
and has three regular sparkers
who permit him to kiss them
good night over the gate. How
would you like to be the milk
man?-Ex.
Mrs. Traversie, a German
woman and Joseph Red Leaf a
full blooded Indian, were married
at the Episcopal church at the
Cannonball Indian reservation.
This is Mrs. Traversie's third
matrimonial venture and the
Indians second.
The Balfour boy who was told
by his mother that an angel had
brot his new born brother to her,
remarked with fine scorn. "Well,
Mamma, all I've got to say is
that you're dead easy. I'd like
to see any old angel put such a.
looking thing as that off on me.
l s'pose we are stuck unless l kin
work Johnny Green and trade it
sight unseen for one ofhis spotted
pups" !"
| Art Van de Worst, a Hollander,
has been arrested in Emmons
county suspected of being res
ponsible for the death OF his
daughter, with whom is believed
he had unnatural relations. A
15-year-old daughter died and
the physicians reported the cause
the result OF a criminal opera
tion. In an old well on the prem
ises, was found the body OF a
nearly developed infant.
l A homesteader named Watcher
from near Portal started for
Portal during the time OF the
high water, with the dead body
of his wife. For two days he
lodged coulees which were filled
with water and had to return
home. He was compelled to per-
form the functions OF carpenter,
sexton, minister and lay away
the woman he had loved, in a
sunny corner, on the homestead
near the little claim shack they
had occupied.
J; The Campbell Bros, have leas-
ed a big ranch west OF Pingree
and will stock it with $4,000
sheep. They say the native
grasses OF the state areiust right
for the dairy COW and old sheep
but the coarse grass OF the
sloughs are not fit for the lambs.
The old sheep feed in the winter
on a mixed diet OF grain and
grass hay, do well. He would not
advise small farmers to go into
the sheep business, for if the busy