The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1906-10-11

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A party of former Saline coun-
!; ty, Missouri, people who have
made all kinds of money farming
7 north of Granville, will soon re-
turn to their old home in spec
ial car to spend the winter.
The postoffice at Souris drop
| ped from second to third class,
lacking just twenty-seven dollars
worth of business. The estab-
! lishment Of new Offices in that
vicinity is given as the couse for
this.
It is said that the South is
planning to send ten thousand
darkies to North and South Da-
kota. The percentage of negroes
in this state is not large, but is
growing fast and the coons will
make good voting material.
Albert Miller's leg between the
knee and the ankle was horribly
crushed on the Hans johnson
farm west Of Bowbells. A wagon
loaded with flax passed over the
leg, crushing the bones into small
pieces. The leg may have to be
amputated.
Tom Hurley, editor of the Bow
bells Tribune, was 'tickled to
death" with the production of
"A Woman's Power" at Bow
bells. Tom does not see good
show very often and evidently
mistook that one for a high class
entertainment.
The pure food commissioners
should do something to stop the
housewife from making pumpkin
pies out OF carrots and mince
pies out OF green tomatoes and
palming them off on unsuspect-
ing husbands as the kind their
mothers used. to make.
This is hard luck. A thresh-
ing engine started a fire at w. ].
Sandrey's farm east of Granville.
Sandrey attempted to put out the
fire and at the same time the en-
gineer hauled the separator away
out Of danger. The wheel pass
ed over Sandrey's foot injuring
that member horribly.
Mrs. Preston Anderson, Presi-
dent Of the North Dakota State
w. C. T. U. in a speech at Park
River last week, scored Gov.
Sarles. She accused him of
sneering at the prohibition law
of the state, with serving wine
at his public dinners, and claims,
that his habits are Incorporate.
An officer at Westhope did a
brutal act when he knocked a
young farmer down and beat
him numerically with billiard
cue after he was down. The
officer had arrested the
farmer, who objected to going to
jail, but insisted on putting up a
cash bond for his appearance.
The Fessenden authorities are
looking for a man who was mean
enough to steal collection box
filled with pennies, nickles and
dimes, from the public library at
that town one day last week and
if found with or without the
plumber, he may receive batch
of tar and feathers for his trou-
BILE and public horsewhipping
on the side, most any side at
that.
The home of C. o. Idding near
Maxbass burned to the ground
last Monday together with the
contents and the family narrow
ly escaping. Sixty dollars in
bills were burned to a crisp but
were found in such shape that
they will be redeemed by the
treasury department at Washing
ton as soon as they can be for
warded.
The II year old daughter of a
Bowden farmer skipped out last
Saturday and joined a band of
gypsies enroute for Montana but
was captured at Anamoose by
the sheriff who had been notified
by the girls father who had be-
came aware Of her intentions.
When asked why she wished to
follow the life Of a gypsy she
answered that she thot it would