The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1907-05-02

afire,
The government is watching
the mails very closely to see that
merchandise going thru the
mails does not con tain writing.
Many people have been fined for
this offense, end thousands more
will be caught up. OF course you
can send a letter with me. chan
disc thru the mails, but be sure
you pay the letter rate OF post
age.
Fractional townships 152,
ranges 93 and 81, and fractional
townships $40, $50, l5l and
1872. range IS, in the Williston
land district, are being surveyed
and will be opened for filing on
and after May %, 1907. 1t is
said that there is some very
choice land in these townships
and those wishing to file on a
homestead had better look into
the matter soon.
Jacob Panturi, a Finlander,
was smothered to death in ten
bushels of wheat while enrOute
from Brocket to his home in his
wagon. The man was intoxi.
Gated and the neighborwho was
assisting him home lay him
down on his back in the wagon
on top Of the wheat. When they
arrived home the neighbor
found the victim face down
ward in the grain and dead.
G.. A. Birke, a Mohall farmer,
makes the statement that a
farmer can make money raising
potatoes even if he gets only 25
cents a bushel for them. That
may be, but if he has to paw q
hand $40 a month to take care
OF them and dig them, then fig
ure his time worth much when it
comes to the delivery of the
snuds, he will be a long time get
ting rich.
Grand Forks and Fargo are
fghting-as usual. This time it
is over the State fair. Some
where; in some Of the old read
ers we have had presented to us
the story Of the two big dogs
that quarreled over a bone, and
of the wiselittle pup that sneaked
it Off during the contest. A good
many people in North Dakota
are looking longingly for the ap-
pearance of the little dO,.
Farmers are warned to be on
the lookout for a smooth wire
fence mau who gets the unsus-
pecting to sign an agreement to
pay for ar eight barb wire fence
at eight cents a foot. The farm
er finds out later to his sorrow
that he must pay eight cents a
foot for each wire, making the
fence cost him a total of Ga
cents a foot. The Independent
has not heard OF any farmer in
this part of the state being
duped, but there are always new
games, and it pays to be careful.
We have heard many farmers
say that they are making good
money at raising and selling
hay and that they are going to
pay more attention to raising
tame grasses in the future. Tim
othy and bronze grass arespoken
of as favorite varieties. Our
most successful farmers are not
depending altogether on the
wheat and fax crops, but by a
rotation OF crops they are rails
ing more wheat.and flax to the
acre than those who stick to the
latter crops altogether.
They do things a little queer
at Williston, where evidently a
human life is no more than a
dogs. Elias Lune, q lad nine
teen years old, from Montana,
came into Williston Friday i'll.
A doctor announced his case
diphtheria, and the fellow was
removed to a little lone shack,
without windows, in Westlawn
addition. The authorities claim
that astranger, who volunteered,
was secured to care for him that
night. The stranger did not
show up and during the night
the lad died-alone. The county
had refused to take care of him.
If you happen to get sick it's a
good thing to keep away from