The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1912-02-29
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Taylor,-There are many rabbits 70
ported around Taylor
Bowbells.-Bowbells had . SUCCESS.
full farmers institute.
St. Thomas.-A sixteen-piece band
has been organized here.
St. Thomas. - The Sopher house
here was burned last week.
Kindred.-A commercial club he's
been organized at Kindred.
Washburn. Washburn defeated
Wilton at basketball 80 to 3.
Gackle.-A German society was or
ganized here with H. =. Berlinke prest
dent.
Carpio. There was . successful
rabbit hunt near here. Five msn
killed sixty-five Dummies.
Fargo. c. A. Hasselquist Of
Fargo, has been appointed collso-
tor of customs at St. Paul.
Mandan. - The people Of Mandsn
want tho Milwaukee to extend forty
miles and run into that town.
Fargo.-Students in tho engineering
school at the North Dakota agricultur-
al college held an electrical show.
Minot.-Walter L. Houser, campaign
manager for Senator La Toilette, ad-
dressed several hundred progressive
republicans here. He predicted La
Toilette would hold the balance Of
power in the convention.
Minnewaukan. A. e. Hutchinson,
of this city, will be a candidate for
the republican nomination for com.
missioner of agriculture and labor.
w. G. Gilbreath, the incumbent, has
already announced he is q candidate
for reelection.
Fargo.-Joe T. Purcell, Fargo COM
mercial traveller, has announced his
candidacy for railroad commissioner
on the republican ticket. He has
made this announcement publ in
several places throughout the state
In the last fortnight.
Fargo.-A Cass county farmer will
raise number of colts this spring,
has eighteen cows giving milk, about
300 poultry, sixty hogs, and plenty of
hay and feed-and he doesn't intend
to seed great deal of wheat this year
He has solved the problem.
Drayton. 49, There was q double
funeral here when the last rites
were offered for H. ". Wallace,
the banker, and his son, Rex Wallace,
who, after killing his parent. com.
mitted suicide. The two bodies were
inferred in the Drayton cemetery, side
by side.
Fargo.-With the government ,ther.
mometers in the state 1T IS above
zero, the snow practically all melted
! and spring three weeks of, tho actual
work of the North Dakota Better
Farming association IL actively unde,
way and seven agricultural experts
are in the field in their respective die
tricts, getting the North Dakota farm.
e. started on a scientific basis for
this seasons crops. ...~- o
| Drayton. Back OF the double
, tragedy enacted hero when Rs1
! B. Wallace killed his father and
then committed suicide in tho bank,
because his parent had refused to id.
vance him money, was an affair OF
the heart. A torn telegram, found near
the scene Of the tragedy, leads to this
belief. When put together the name
of the person to whom it had been
sent could not be read, but the sense
OF the message was that young Wal
lace was to meet some woman In Fort
Worth.
! Bowman.-Slaying a wolf with hii
bare hands, Bert Thorson, a resident
OF this county, has sprang into the
same class as former United States
Marshal Alternately of Oklahoma, one
Of Mr.. Roosevelts friends.
Thorson had set trap for wolves
which had been killing sheep Of late
in that neighborhood and when hi
visited the trap in the morning found
large wolf captive. He shot thu
animal with a small caliber rifle which
only melted the brute to break loose
from the trap; but rather than los>
his quarry Thorson, who is Q man O
powerful physique, seized the beas
by the hind legs, whirled it around bill
head and dashed it to the ground.
Grand Forks.-The New Rockfort
Commercial club has a plan Of pro
noting immigration which wa,
presented to the North Dakota Fed
Grafton of Commercial clubs 1T tn,
meeting to be held in Grand Fork,
Feb. 20 and 20. This plan has beel
worked out to many details and tn,
New Rockford club will ask the stat,
organization to take a hand in carry
ing out the idea.
Among the speakers were Pau
Campbell, president of the Northwest
ern Development League; D. NJ. Neill
OF Red Wing, Mimi, president Of tn,
Minnesota Federation of Commercial
clubs; Thomas Cooper, director Of tn
Better Farming association of Nortl
Dakota, and G.. M. ThIrber secretar,