The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1909-11-25
Short State Stories

is lacking.
Westhope will celebrate the install |
lation of natural gas ON Dec. l.
Frank Jahner, a Mandan farmer,
fell from load of lumber, and was
killed.
Grand Forks supply OF milk is said
to be excellent, after careful test
was made.
\ Matt Purge, a Mckenzie county
homes yeader, was suffocated by gas
in his claim shanty, the cause being
a broken stove pipe.
Congressman Hanna left yester-
day for Washington, u. Z. to be pres
ent when Congress starts business.
North Dakota's paint raw is a good
one, and dope paints have practical
ly been driven from Ihe state
Thanks to Prof Ladd-
Bruce Arducer, the Rugby butcher,
. intended 10 cut beef with his big
sharp knife, but instead cut several
cords on the back of his hand.
. The price of cocktails at Moore;
head is to be advanced to 20 cents
which will be sad news to number
of Mino ers who visit Fargo occasion
ally. 5-..
The Fargo Forum asserts that Far
goIs morning daily is supporting Tom
Marshall, while the democrats are
left to hold the bag with SAL 900 in
debtedness.
Several have been injured by corn
shredders i'm the stat which shows
that we are in the corn belt, and also
that the hands are mot very familiar
with these new tangled machines.
ALBERT ]. Piers who fell in sewer
ditch a: Fargo year ago, injured his
spine, was awarded $1,000 damages in
a suit which has just ended
The law is no respector of persons
at Valley City. States Atty Paul
son and Prof. Andrews were fined IS
for neglecting to clean the SNOW from
their walks. '.~ ' "sf
MartainBye, from Rogers, entered
a Fargo livery stable, and turning
one of the horses out in the cold,
made comfortable Ded in the hay
and dreamed sweetly until morning.
He was placed under arrest ~.
Sigel Brijberg, Of Max, North La
kota, placed too much confidence I'm
couple of strangers whom he met ON
the train while enroute to iMinneapo-
lis. The strangers suggested that
they all sleep in large room in a
hotel, and when Britburg aWoke IN
the morning, he missed $3.50 in cur
rency, $3.50 check and his watch
and chain.
Thousands of acres af fax were
showed unnder in the vicinity OF
Jamestown, and the loss is bound to
be considerable. In a single town.
ship south of Cleveland, it Is esti-
mated that $4,000 wo.'on of fax lies
in the field Prior 10 the storm, one
threshing rig worked "A hours, try
ing to save the crop.
D. Lainen, bachelor living near
Frederick, North Dakota, has lost
faith in women. He became ac-
uuainted with a comely widow IN
Minneapolis,and the couple We're soon
engaged. While strolling, they met
three of the widows friends, who
knocked Lainen down and took $l6o
from his coat pocket. The woman
felt sorry for her intended, and told
him she would go to a 6rug store to
Get something to put on his wounds
she has not yet returned
Harry J. May, who burned to death
in his cement factory at La Porte, Ind.
turned out to be Harry l.. Thompson
of jamestown, N. D., who leaves a
wife and two children. He also
leaves wife at La Porte, whom ne
married in Minneapolis. Until his
death, neither woman knew anything
Of the other. The Minneapolis wife
asked only for memento OF the man
and the Jamestown wife sent her
pair of Harry's gold cuff buttons.
He was always considered fine fell
low. was a member of the Me hodist
church and Epworth League.
Senator Thompson has declared his
.tatesympathy with the insurgents =
sre Senate. In an interview he SAYS
- is going down to Washington, MS
- revolutionize things all at once
but rather as business man entrust-
q VITA work Tor him 70 Do.