The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1907-01-03
State News

This is the time Of year when
a lot of old soaks usually swear
off the soaking up Of a lot Of in.
ferior booze.
The Balfour Statesman told q
story about a dog who discovered
a drunken man asleep out in the
cold and saved his life.
| The White Earth citizens have
organized an Athletic Association
to begin operations the New Year
and it is expected that by spring
some of the boys will be able to
do most any old stunt.
i The Record, of White Earth
says that it is not lawful for any
man to fence government land
not filed on by himself and init
mates that the government is
after those who have been prac-
ticing it.
The Ross Promoter tells of a
rough house in Stanley in which
a pool room was raided and
several shots fired to intimidate
those occupying the joint, the
fellows who did the stunt robbed
the slot machines and were af-
forwards arrested and brot to
Minot.
Corporations are sometimes
grateful. Last fall an elevator
was burned at Edmore. j. w.
Wheeler hitched his horses to a
J string Of freight cars and hauled
| them out of danger and as a re-
ward the G. N. has given him a
free ticket to the coast where he
is spending the holidays.
Different parties are already
figuring on starting in business
in the new towns along the new
500 extension leading out from
the town of Plaza and running
west thru the old Nesson flat in
Ward county, the names Of the
towns have not been settled yet
but Hoflund and Nesson will
probably be on the map.
Last Monday night Chas. Van
Scoonhoven and his entire family
passed into a state of semi-as-
phyxia. The patent top of the
stove pipe. which is supposed to
adjust itself to the wind became
frozen so that when the wind
changed the pipe remained so as
to force the gas from the stove
into the room. -Velva Journal.
Perhaps the highest price ever
paid for a piece Of land Of equal
size in the vicinity of Underwood
was paid Friday when Henry
Grochow closed a deal for the
sale of his 100 acre homestead to
Gotlieb Saylor. The considera-
ton was $500, a little over $35|
per acre. Mr.. Saylor is now the
owner Of two sections of the best
land in Mclean county and he
says he would not accept an offer
Of $40 per acre for it.
Mail Carrier H. C. Sparks Of
the Perley route is after the
scalp Of parties who have delayed
his progress by refusing to allow
him to pass on the public high
way by turning out of the road
as they should. In one instance
the parties blanketed their team
and prepared to camp, saying
time was no object. Mr.. Sparks
will take the matter up with the
department. There is a heavy
penalty attached to interfering
with Uncle Sans mail.
Dan Maloney, who was con-
victed of numbering an old man
who ran a blind pig near the
round house at Devils Lake sew
eral years ago, and sentenced to
the penitentiary for life, still
maintains his innocence, and in q
letter written to a citizen of
Ramsey county says he can fur
nish clues which will lead up to
the perpetrators Of the crime,
but that unless someone from the
outside will interest themselves
in the matter he will have to re-
main in the penitentiary until he
dies. Warden Boucher says Ma
lonev makes a good prisoner.
| A sad and most exasperating
incident came to the notice of
the authorities today at Moor
head in connection with the ex-
plosion which occurred at Mus
koda. A brother Of Weber, the
man who was fatally injured in
the explosion, accompanied his
injured brother to Hawley and
then boarded the N. P. train to
come to Moorehead with the
dvino hrothor He was without