The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1906-11-29
State News
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Six Of the eight small pox pa
TENTS at Harvey have recovered.
Thieves have broken open sew
eral trunks at the Harvey depot.
Charley Hepburn engineer on
No. 4, was severly scalded at
AnamOose.
Osmond Oby, Of Neville, N. D.
who slandered his own wife, is
serving ten days in jail.
Governor Elect Burke was in
a wreck near Devils Lake when
No. 3 went into the ditch. He
escaped unhurt.
Chas. w. Harris, formerly Of
the Presbyterian church OF this
city, has AIKEN the lecture plat
form in the state and is telling
of the wonders OF Europe.
VIM. Wagner, the Anamoose
banker, who assaulted Rollin Il.
Butler and caused him to be
placed in Jail, settled the dam
age suit by paying the plaintiff
5000.
Michael Will was convicted OF
rape in Logan county and ser :
fenced to serve ten years in tt e
pen. This is the first conviction
in district court ever has III To-
gan county.
BE careful of hanging laterns
in your barns. Michael Wagner
a Harvey farmer was not eau
tious enough and set fire to his
barn burning ten head of cattle.
No insurance.
County fair appropriations do
not seem to be popular. Propo-
sitions to appropriate funds for
county fair purposes were voted
down in Barnes, Cass and Rich
land counties.
In round numbers there were
100000 bushels OF grain taken
in at Williston up to the present
time this season. This repre-
sents about 100000 that has
reached the farmers pockets.
J. Gowasky, a Fargo business
man, expects the arrival OF his
wife from Russia today but he
does not yet know that his little
baby was thrown over board
the boat by the crazed nurse and
drowned.
Ward county leads all other
counties in the state in the a.
mount of money secured for her
schools from the state tuition
fund. For thelast quarter Ward
county received $2641.O6 while
Cass county gets $2622.14.
Photographer Evans of Devils
Lake owns a book which is over
200 years old. 1t was publish.
ed in 1f41 in London, the title
of which is Moses His Choice, by
Jeremiah Burroughs, dedicated
to Rt. Hon. Robert, Earle OF
Warwick.
Mrs. w. II. James OF FLASHER
captured an immense eagle last
week. The bird had landed in
the hog yard and could not get
room to spread it's wings sutfic,
lent to raise himself. When kill
ed it was found to measure SIX
feet from tip to tip.
A Granville man by the name
OF w. j. Silk claims the thresh,
ING record-5,645 bushels Of
wheat in Is hours and is min
utes. The above record was
beaten six years ago by the late
d. HI. Houston, Of Hunter, n. d.,
having threshed $500 bushels
of wheat in less than ten hours.
w. e. I<incade doesn't believe
in doing things by halves. Last
Saturday he came to town with
his traction engine hooked to
nine wagons loaded with grain.
The sight was an interesting one
and gave a person some idea OF
the immense amount Of grain in
the countrv.-Glenburn Advance
County Supt. Of schools, d. G
Warren, came up the line Thurs.
day night and visited schools to
the south Friday morning. He
says there are now about 800
schools in the county and it is
keeping himself and his force on
the dead Jump to look after
them all. Warren has made
great Roadway with Ward coun.
ty schools. Mohall Tribune.
Cando is trying to land the
Dunkard college. The sum Of
RI 900 has already been signed