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

An Iowa man Will likely put d
farmers telephone line in at
Tolley.
Henry Sussman, who MUIR
dered his wife in Minneapolis re-
Gently, once lived in Fargo.
Stanley Lemley, a sixteen year
old Page boy, left his home Sept.
%, and his father offers a re-
ward of 500 for his return.
The wife Of a Grand Forks
confectioner left her home for
tights and lights. The woman
showed a decided preference for
the stage.
Flaxton farmers are contrasting
to see who can haul the biggest
load OF grain to that place. Chas.
Port wears Ethe belt with 16OA
bushels to the load.
A stranger rushed into the pc.
lice headquarters at Fargo and
claimed that he had been robbed
in a barber shop. He later found
his money in his coat where he
had left it.
Twenty-six hundred and twen-
ty-three children are enrolled in
the Grand Forks schools, esti-
mated to be the largest enroll
ment of school children of any
city in the state.
Charley Wallander, who used
to supply the White Earth homes
with vegetables, was accidently
killed with his own shot gun
while attempting to crawl thru
a fence. He lived near Huffland.
Burglars were detected in the
house of T. F. Beisecker a Fes-
sender banker by his wife. Off
GERS were notified and arrived in
time to exchange shots with the
marauders, who, however fled.
They left the valuables which
they had gathered.
Mrs. H. F. Tracy OF Grinnell,
was in White Earth a few days
ago with a wagon load OF fine
vegetables, and among them
were ripe tomatoes and some of
her cabbages weighed 20 lbs
each. AS fine vegetables are
raised here as any country on
earth.
NJ. A. Hansen who lives north
OF Tolley bought some powders
from a stranger which were sup
posed to make his horses fat.
After feeding the horses two days
two of them died. The water in
the we'll has been analysed and
found to contain arsenic. The
stranger cannot be located,
J. B. Cameron, a Kramer far
mer, lost $4,000 worth Of prop
erty by fire Wednesday night
and had but SIS, 600 insurance.
Thirteen head Of horses, 5000
bushel of wheat, granary, har-
ness, two wagons, and other
things were burned. 1t really
behooves the farmers to carry
insurance.
A Kansas editor has discov-
cred how to tell a mans politics.
Take your man into ahotel wash
room. A republican will wash
and empty bowl, a democrat
will wash and leave the water
stand; the prohibitionist will
wash in the water left over; and
the socialist will comb his whis-
kers and not wash at all.
Manager Paul Leohardy OF the
Williston baseball team re.
ceived the pennant of the North
west Dakota league few days
ago. This pennant was won by
the Williston baseball team and
is a beauty. 1t is about twenty
feet long and four feet wide at
the widest end, tapering to a
point at the other end. The pen
nant bears the inscription,
champions Northwest Dakota
League, 1906, Williston.
The wife of a farmer had a
sister come from Chicago to make
a visit. One day last week the
threshers came and the guest in
sisted on doing the work alone
and sent her sister away to rest.
When twenty-seven threshers
filed into supper that night they
found a sandwich tied with rib
bon, one chicken croquette, one
cheese ball the size Of a marble,
and a button-hole bouquet at
each plate.
The most valuable asset of a
good newspaper, says the Monte
video Leader, is not it's fine Office