The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1905-11-08
Lansford has had housekeeping.

| MIS-. LAWS VI /duSlOIu, ID WIG
grandmoth of forty-si youngsters.
Editor Copeland of the Williston
GRAY hic, was badly injured in a runaway.
Goldberg Bros, of Glenburn. have
shipped several carloads of potatoes to
Minneapolis.
Christ Vie, the popular land locator,
has been united in marriage to Miss
| Gertie henson.
w. H. Winney finds the hotel business
so good at Lansford, that he will build
an addition to his hotel.
VIM. Graham while herding cattle,
was thrown from his horse near Mar
killie, and badly injured.
The business men of Bowbels and
Kenmare, are taking action against the
500 for failure to provide cars for grain.
Mrs. Tapp, after suffering from burns
for two weeks, died at Williston. She
leaves a crippled husband and little
blind girl
Editor Evans of the Lansford indie
pendent, is getting nice batch OF legals
Of late and from now on his paper will
be good paying one.
A farmer from Ramsey county secured
the Glenburn country, looking for his
| fifteen year-old runaway boy, who had
been working on threshing rig.
Half-a- dozen Of the females who were
in Lansford, for no good purpose, were
tined last week, after being placed under
arrest by States Attorney Bowen.
James Burgess of Velva. raised sun
flower parasol Of prodigious size. 1t
measures nineteen inches in diameter
and over four feet in circumference.
The City Fathers at Lansford, have
petitioned for an adequate system OF fire
protection, and the Times suggests that
it would be good idea to first get q
good we'll.
Flaxton has lot OF numskull boys
who disturb the public meetings with
shrill whistles and other wierd noises,
and the Times wants to know If there is
marshal in the town.
The country east OF Glenburn, was
J visited by damaging prairie IRE, Sun
day, Of last week. &. G. McIlroy, los.
nearly all his hay. Albert Ebert saved
one of his hay stacks. Several shanties
had close calls.
A Mi souri, paper gave piano contest,
and . girl who couldn't play note got
it. Since then she has begun to take les
sons, six subscribers stopped the paper.
Hope the Independents contest doesn't
turn out that way.
Jack Mania, hobo, stole q pair OF
; pants at the Golden West Hotel, pre-.
; sumabiy from one of the mon. The Glen.
burn Advance did not state that fact
At any rate he was fined ten dollars and
given thirty days in the county Jail.
!, Most editors fight the paper borrow
ing habit. The Independent doesn't
give rap. II you don't get the indie
. pendent and can't afford to subscribe
{ borrow it. Read it anyway. We DOM
! care if you do have to walk four or fvt
!. miles for it.
5 Albert Dubois OF Spencer, will put ,
I big blacksmith shop, equipped with trip
D hammers and engines, at busting Stan
4 ley. Henry Holmes will soon establish
feed mill there. Little Mac, of tn,
b Stanley Sun, must be causing lot O
/ revolutions in the burg.
: H. w. Willis, the tall sycamore from
Q Missouri, has purchased the Jenkin
elevator at Lansford, and his man,
r friends will be glad to hear of it. Henri,
4 has made small fortune in North Da
e kota, and does not propose to leave s,
d good a state, even II he did dispose o
his farms.
: A man named Langeseth, living nea
:. Grafton, has whiskers, eight feet lonl
= = and the North Dakota winds manage t,
!, blow through them. He travelled will
: Barnums show for years, but grew tires
Of travelling and settled down. He own
five quarters Of good land. He carries
!, his whiskers in roll inside his vest ant
has not combed them for years.
Dunlop's store at Deering, was robbie.
. one night last week of six fur coats an.
dollar. Two of the coats were recov
cred the next morning between DeesiDI
: and Glenburn, but the fellows mus
haye hung on to the dollar. The blinl
pig at Deering, was robbed by tw,
? masked men who stuck wicked looleinl
guns under the bartender's nose. The,
secured $4,000. .-..,....4-., 1850. st,s. /,
l Nine. Leveen who was to have give1
an entertainment at Flaxton, missed tn
500 lightning express because the agen
, 1t Kenmare, told her it was an hour and
3 a half late, whereas, it came in and LET
again within twenty minutes. Then sh'
4 started across the country with driver
E who did not know the way, and afte
: striking every wire fence in the country
!, pulled up at Bowbells at midnight. II
> the meantime, a very large audience hae
, assent led at Flaxton, and they wer,
greatly disappointed.
i Otto Cheneworth. who was arrested a.
: Medora, in 1901, for stealing 100 head O.
horses, and escaped, was arrested last
week in Wyoming, and returned to this
) state. He is the slickest horse thiet
who ever operated in the state. His
parents are wealthy, and he is we'll edu.
Gated. He will make an insanity plea.
The editor Of the Wells County Free
Press, struck Editor Stickley of the
News, on the jaw, as the outcome of 4
wordy war which has been going on be.
tween the two papers. Had the two
editors come together in some dark alley