The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1906-08-23

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Reservation received $4,000
from the government last week.
| Mayor Whitman of Devils Lake
| is determined that no whiskey
will be sold to the Indians this
year.
The Home Investment Co. Of
Devils Lake has erected five OF
the twenty commodious houses
which they will build. Devils
Lake expects $50 families to be
added to that city in a short
time.
The Bottineau News says the
Looting OF Alaska was treated
as a Joke. Ii the editor will look
at his files for March and April
he will note that the News did
not treat the matter as a Joke in
any sense OF the word.
There is Harry Hart at Ken
mare who catches them going
and coming. In the winter he
sells coal and in the summer ice.
Last week there was a potato
famine and the nlmble Harry
sold tubers at 81 per bushel.
James Baker, the man charged
with stealing a horse and buggy
from Olaf FOss at Velva last
spring, has been arrested at Will
liston. Baker was once arrested
at Washburn but eluded the Of
Ulcers.
You can shoot prairie chickens
after Sept. 1, providing you have
taken out license. The state
game warden is Offering a re-
ward OF $40 for anyone furnish
ing convicting evidence of any
one shooting one or two birds,
or 500 for more than that num-
Der.
John Lajoie, a nineteen year
old lad, had his left arm cut off
in a moving machine, at his
home northwest from Ray. The
lad was driving a yoke OF oxen
and in going over some rough
ground, dropped the lines. In
picking them up, his arm was
caught.
A company with a million dol
lars capital, is being organized
to locate distilleries over the
state for the purpose Of manu-
featuring denatured alcohol. Mi
not ought to get one OF these
distilleries, and likely will. Many
CT the members of this concern
reside in Fargo.
Miss Adell Nelson, a young
Kenmare school teacher, became
violently insane at the CONNER
cial hotel in Kenmare, running
gbout the place, entirely desti-
tute Of clothing. The woman
was found to be suffering from a
terrible attack Of typhoid fever
and was sent to the Minot hos
pital.
Three of the blind pigs at
Drake have been pulled. The
piggers claim that they had
squared themselves with the city
by building a Jail and hiring a
marshall, paying him SIS a
month to look after the DRINKS.
Something will take a drop at
Drake, for no city has a right to
enter into such a contract with a
set Of piggers.
Out at Kramer the other day
there was need for some place in
which to incarcerate a guilty
party. There being no jail they
sawed a beer keg in two, knock
ed the heads out and slipped one
end overtime fellows head and
the other over his feet, and after
fastening the two parts firmly
together with pieces Of board
they labeled it Getty jail" We
failed. to learn the sentence.
Two prisoners in the Devils
Lake jail, who were sentenced to
serve long terms in the penitent-
larry at Bismarck, sawed of two
iron bars from the window, pat
ched up the bars with soap, and
were ready to depart wheu the
sheriff discovered their carefully
laid plans. They had a file, a
table knife converted into a file
and a key made from tin foil
which comes off from tobacco.
North Dakota candidates for
Office, who paid a fee to the sew
eral county auditors in the state
for fling, and who had paid it
under protest, claiming that it
was illegal NAV he intprostod in