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

den postoffice safe securing $3.50
The Williams County Scandi-
navlan has made it's appearance.
VIM. Joles, a drunk, set fire to
the kenmare jail and came near
being cremated.
Ryder, a city Of Is inhabi-
tants, and one Of the newest Of
our Ward county towns, will
have it's fourth bank soon.
w. H. Otterburn, a Normal
graduate, has been selected for
principal OF the Bowbells school.
Miss Patterson OF Valley City is
the assistant.
Carl ETH nan, fourteen-year-
old Mapleton boy, smothered to
death in a large wheat bin of a
grain elevator. The lad climbed
to the top OF the bin and fell in.
The man who gets mad at
what newspapers say about him
| should return thanks three times
a day for what the newspapers
knew about him and suppressed.
+. O. Hunters Bowbells horse,
Harry B. and Dave Dinnie's
PAGER, Trouble, will race on the
Minot track Sunday, for a purse
of 5000. Best three heats in
five.
In many places about the state
it is estimated that wheat will
average from twenty to thirty
bushels per acre. That will near
w pay for the land that pro-
duced it.
Theprofessional man who buys
from a mail order house belongs
to the same lodge as the business
man who sends outside OF the city
for his stationery. Mr.. Business
man, this is no lie. >tse m
Jim Ug]am OF Bowbells has
been cutting forty acres of grain
a day with one binder. He works
thru the entire twenty-four
hours, working six hour shifts,
changing both horses and men.
John Culp's horses ran away
at Bowbells, throwing the man
and his wife to the ground. Mrs.
Culp was most seriously hurt
The horses became frightened at
Mre. Culp's raising her parasol.
Railroad valuations have been
raised to $4,000 a mile on all
main lines in the state. Side
tracks and branches were left as
before except the 500 branches
which were raised $500 per mile.
The Lakota Herald has given
up the ghost. The plant has
been purchased by the Observer.
The paper was democratic last
year and the followers of Bryan
did not come thru with sufficient
capital to keep the paper alive.
The States attorney of Grand
Forks County has recommended
that the County Commissioners
set the county prisoners at work
breaking rocks for the roads.
And they expect to decide what
they will do at the September
meeting.
Minot stands a good show of
getting an up-to-date foundry
and machine shop. 0. M. Pierce
at the head of the new industries
committee of the Commercial
club has been corresponding with
a concern that will very likely
locate in our city.
Mrs. Mary Swan, a Harvey
woman, mother OF five children,
became infatuated with a young
fellow named Aug. Yost, and the
couple attempted to elope. They
were apprehended and the
woman is again living with her
husband. Yost took a hasty
departure.
Richard Kane, a tin horn gam
bier, shot and fatally wounded
another card shark at Drake.
The men were playing cards when
Kane discovered that Kelley had
been playing with a marked deck
and threatened to kill him un-
less he was given back 1926.
The murderer is slated for the
gallows, no doubt.
A veterinarian examined a
horse that had died at Mandan
from a mysterious cause and
found that the horse'e heart had
been pierced with grass spines,
known as needles. Stockmen are
cautioned not to allow the horses
| to eat hav made before those