The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1906-08-30
State News

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
For the first time the Chicago
ranch in Stutsman county rails
ep grain this year, 100 acres
being tried as an experiment.
The Oriental Limited on the
Great Northern made the IS
miles from Grand Forks to Far
60 in IS minutes, including two
stops.
School children of Grand Forks
must be vaccinated before enter
ing school, or show a certificate
to that effect. This is meeting
with much opposition.
It is reported that a new milk
ing machine will be put on the
market that will milk two COWS
at once faster and better than it
can be done by hand. The milk
is delivered into an alright COW
cred pail and therefore very clean.
North Dakota, although it rises
to the rank of the banner wheat
state of the Union this year, is
not more than half farmed yet.
There is still plenty of oppor-
tunity for another hundred thou
sane men who want to make
money raising wheat.
David Clark's prizes at the
fairs in Fargo, Grand Forks and
Leeds amounted to about $500
and the expense of showing the
cattle was less than 5000. In ad-
dition he sold one heifer for
81, 900, and the popular Bottineau
man isn't kicking.
While Knute Elvick, a farmer
six miles south of Michigan, N.
D., was arranging the chain on
the bull wheel Of a binder, the
team started up and the wheel
passed entirely over him, bruis-
ing his left side severely, but not
seriously.
johnson and Haines Of Lans-
ford operate the oldest and the
biggest livery stable in the town
and are kept continually on the
jump, being a special favorite
with the commercial boys. He
also sells a lot of : eastern
horses, sometimes to the tune of
a carload a week.
Mr.. A. F. Winke has bought
the Golden Rule restaurant from
w. N. Johnson at Mohall. Mr..
Winke used to sell goods on the
road and comes pretty near
knowing what the average trav.
cling man likes to see in a res.
taurant. He is also going to op.
crate a bakery in connection anC
keep all kinds of bakestuffs fo1
sale.
D. P. Abbey, the publisher O
many newspapers, preacher
laundryman and prospective
banker at Mott, Hettinger coun
ty, is in jail at the Stark county
capital. He was arrested al
Richardton for assaulting Joe
Crist OF Fargo and also for mis-
representing himself as a United
States marshal. The bond in
each case was fixed at 5000 and
failing to get bondsmen at home
he was brought to Dickinson.
Kermit Roosevelt, accompanied
by his fathers old friend, Seth
Bullock Of Deadwood, S. D., is
on a ten days. horseback ride
through the region of Medora.
He expects to meet many men
who were with his father during
the stirring days of the rustlers
outbreak. Young Roosevelt ano
Mr.. Bullock are both using the
regular cow ponies and are sup
piled with a general provision
wagon.
Mr.. E. O. Haraldson, the pop.
ular young lawyer at Lansford, is
fast gaining distinction. He was
a delegate to the Republican
state convention at jamestown
and is now a member of the Bot.
tineau County Republican Cen.
trail committee. Mr.. Haraldsor
gives special attention to the
practice Of law but also does col
lections, insurance, farm loans,
etc. He is a graduate of our owr
state university and was a pupil
of Judge Cochrane.
Down at Ashley the other day
a young man in the presence of 9
young lady used words not to be