The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1907-01-17

Tom Hunter, q BOwbellS I'M.
dertaker, attempted to board q
moving train, missed his footing
and fell with his legs under the
train. With a superhuman ef-
fort, he extricated himself just in
time to miss q horrible accident
which perhaps would have re-
suited III death.
Hon. NJ. N. johnson, in a re-
cent letter asks what would be
the use of doubling the output
| Of our farms when We are unable
to market the present product.
He offers to be one OF the 1000
North Dakota farmers to donate
prizes aggregating $1,000 for
good railroading.
Joseph r. Dam, aged u, who
was injured in q runaway several
months ago, is out again, He
| lives at Underwood. The Dam
horses ran away, smashing the
Dam buggy, breaking three of
the Dam ribs, injuring the Dam
legs and back and it was feared
for a time that there would be q
funeral in the Dam family.
A coal train consisting of %
cars stopped at Niagara, n. D.,
awhile until the track could be
cleared. During that time far
mers and prominent citizens
hauled coal from the cars, keep
| ing q careful account of the
amount taken. No trouble will
arise. The people has been Dor
rowing coal from each other.
The North Dakota building at
the jamestown exposition is
completed and the keys have
been turned over too. A. Ever
hart, a former residentof Fargo,
who will have charge Of the build
ing. MIR. Everhart paid every
cent of the cost of the building,
and the legislature now in ses-
sion will be asked for a email APP
preparation to defray the expense
OF an exhibition of the resources
OF the state.
F. f. Schank was arrested at
Riga charged with forging the
name of Olaf Herbranson to a
check for So. The latter had
sold a load of wheat to the Riga
elevator and q check made out
in his favor was stolen from the
elevator. The banks were noti-
fed to be on the lookout for the
check and in this manner Schank
was caught. Schank was former
ly engaged in the mercantile
business in Riga and later was
a brakeman on the G. N.
The food supplies sold by the
mail order houses show up badly.
Their maple sugar is fake, their
evaporated cream is nothing but
milk, their colored sugar, ex-
tract ofcinnamon. catsup, mood
les, ETC., all colored with coal tar
dyes, rank poison. and their
cream cheese is filed with borax.
Is it any wonder they can under
sell the local merchant when they
practice such frauds upon the
people?
The Valley City Times. Record
says that the board ofeducation
Of that city will make a test case
of County Treasurer Morton's
son, a boy between fourteen and
fifteen years of age who is not in
school. There are other cases
of a like nature throughout the
state and the decision Of this
case will practically decide them
all. The outcome will be watched
with interest by every thought
full citizen OF North Dakota.
The farmers demand that lum-
Der sold in North Dakota be up
to the standard measurement
that is when they GO to a lum-
Der firm and buy 1000 feet OF
lumber, that they get 1000 feet,
or if they buy an inch board that
they get a board an inch thick
OF course, ever body knows un-
der the present conditions they
do not. But who is responsible
for these conditions? inquest
ionably the men at the mills in
Washington and Minnesota who
saw the boards.