The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1905-10-18

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mother is state charge in Washington
is denied. She is in a private sani-
torium.
An Ada man is said to have raised a
pumpkin ID feet in circumference. Well
we are from Missouri when it comes to
that size.
A Lansford farmer says that snow
fell for about ten minutes one night last
night. Wonder which druggist he
patronizes.
State Veterinarian has several horses
under quarantine at Lansford for CLAN
ders, and one eight miles northwest
from Minot.
The G. N. agent at Sherwood received
a check for $50 as extra pay for his
August work. He had remained loyal
during the strike.
Late sown flax and corn has allmatured
nicely by this time. Ordinarily much
of the late grain would have been
damaged by frost.
E. The fact that there have been no boi-
Ter explosions in the. Northwest this
year, leads one to believe that engineers
are getting onto their jobs.
When Sheriff Lee arrived at Sherwood
one evening last week to make an arrest
he found that his dove had flown.
Someone had sent word on ahead.
The Donnybrook village marshall has
decided to deal with drunken hoboes
with no clemency after little unde-
sireble experience with one of them.
Victor Corbett has been appointed
postmaster at Kenmare. He was the
favorite of the Gray faction while John
Bach was supported by Attorney Childs.
Farmers are commenting on the great
yield of fax on Mrs. Mary Streets farm
near Donnybrook. A field of thirty
acres averaged q bushels and 1Opounds
to the acre. A third of this crop would
be considered fair yield.
Stewart Hood, former Minot printer,
is interested in the paper at Michigan,
N. D., 'The Arena Mrs. Doherty
could not make one paper thrive there,
now there are two, since she removed
her plant to Sarles.
John Rooney, who will hang, Oct. II,
is kept in close confinement and no one
is allowed to see him excepting the
warden and the watches. The stories
Of Rooney in connection with his con-
finement are mostly fakes.
The merchant-leeches, the fellows
| who lot the other business men do tine
advertising, then trust 10 tho Lord for
their share of the trade, are becoming
less numerous in this state and We hope
will disappear entirely. The mail order
houses have taught tho business men to
advertise.
A bigger at Berwick named Young
no relation Of Editor Young shot q
companion twice in the log with re-
volvsr, assisted in carrying him to a
doctors office ana after assisting in To-
eating the bullets, made . cool get away
before the authorities thought of arrest
ing him. Queer things happen at Ber-
wick.
Two soiled doves and their paramours
we're before Judge Jones Saturday
charged with fracturing one of the will
age ordinances. The quartet was fined
go APIECE making total of S40-and
we're istructed to "move along up the
pike.," They left on the northbound
train for pastures new.-Minnewaukan
Siftings.
An Emmons county man has threshed
| 80 acres of fax that yielded 20 bushels
to the acre. His total investment, figur-
ing his land at ten dollars an acre, in
cludiug the expence of breaking seeding
and harvesting was N,288 and his gross
returns from the fax were over s1,4OO
showing that he received in one year
S135 more than the cost of the land and
the entire expences. North Dakota is
full Of such examples and the prospec-
tive homeseeker should take notice.
The threshers are getting off luckily
this fall. Most Of the shock threshing
has been completed, and the stack
threshing is we'll under way, and the
weather is still warm. It used to be
that threshing lasted up into the edge
Of winter and it was nothing for the
boys to be reused from their strawy beds
in the early morning to find two inches
of snow on the ground, icycles hanging
to their whiskers, and there was nothing
better to take the chill from their fingers
than nice hot cup of coffee, in which
they would stick them. And all this
for two dollars day.