The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1907-07-04

ounces, stands tWenty-One lncne6
high and is Jet tlack in color.
The sire Of this midget at six
years Of age weighed only a trifle
over a hundred pounds, the dam
close to $50 pounds.
James Marlenee, one of the
prominent Sawyer farmers,
states that he is having the time
OF Lis life fighting wild buck
wheat. It's his opinion that
about the only way to get rid Of
it is to summer failow the land
at the right time. The Inde-
pendent would be glad to hear
from someone who has fought
this weed.
An eastern editor appeals to
his subscribers in the following
unique manner; if you have ire
queDt headaches, dizzyness. and
fainting spells accompanied by
chjlls. ehilblains, epilepsy and
jaundice, it is a sign you are not
we'll and liable to die at any min
ute. Pay your subscription a
year in advance and make your.
self solid for a good obituary NJ.
tice.
Geo. LaFolIette Smith in his
paper, he Plaza Pioneer, says
Sam Clark hasn't enough IA oney
invested in the Reporter to buy
a third interest in the Des Laos
Valley Observer, and still Sam
tries to run Minot, Ward county,
North Dakota: the United States
and the universe. He's started
in pretty well, but seems to have
engaged too much territory.
He's liable to mix up in the bust
ness OF the Almighty.
Geo. Hart, the Ryder druggist,
had All unlucky week. His team
became mired in a mud hole and
ran away. The next day while
attending a ball game at Ryder
the batter let his club fly and
George was struck in the mouth.
Two teeth were knocked out and
he was stunned. The following
day he received a telegram Win
nipeg sta ting that his valuable
race horse had fallen dead on the
track. This was his birth day
at that. e, .Y t..at
Lyman Smith, of OInabrock.
has been awarded $500 from
the Minneapolis & St. Louis for.
the loss Of n leg. The case has
been on taial in district court at
St. Paul for several days and the
Jury brought in u verdict last
Saturday. Smith, farm imple-
ment dealer, was helping friends
on a tain at the Nj. & St. l.. de-
pot and tn" train started before
he could get off. He was told by
the brakeman 70 jump aud fell
under the wheels. t'.~| +
And it came to pass that alter
he had advertised his goods,
there came unto him nultitudes
from all the regions around
about and did buy of him. And
when his competitors saw it they
marveled among themselves,
saying, How be it that this
man is SO busy while We liza idly
around our doors?" And he
spake unto them saying, I'm
this fast age of push and hustle
it is easier for u camel to enter
the eye OF Ii needle than for q
man to flourish without adver-
Using. '-ESchange. f..
Grace Burns. the 15-year-o|d
daughter of Mrs. Hylda Buns,
was murdered along the banks
of the Red River, near Fargo.
Nearly 81 week after the murder
the girls body was found il the
river near the sceue of the terri
bic tragedy. The police have alb
s1lutel v no clue to the murderer.
1t is believed that the girl was
lured TO the spot by some man
who told her that he would take
hei tn her father, who was not
living at home but who has been
in the west. Ii is believed that
the fpnd GU TRACED her. and then
to cover the crime killed the gi;l
and threw her body into the riv-
err. Two wounds We're found on
her body; one, as from some
blunt Instrument, was over Der
temple, and another in the alb
domen pierced the lobe OF her
liver. The girl was q very beau
tiful blue-eyed lass, and the whole
country is stirred up over the
terrible crime Fargo is getting
reputation for crime. Within
five weeks five bodies have been
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