The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1912-10-03
North Dakota
News Notes

from ScanOlding on which they were
working resulted in serious injury to
John Rice and Ole Sanstad.
FOrman.-A new school building
dve miles west of here was destroyed
by fire as the result of a pupil throw
Ing lighted match out of the open
window.
Ray.-Charley Corville. young son
OF silas Corville, miraculously escaped
death when his team ran away, plung-
Ing into wire fence and tipping
load Of lumber upon him.
Mayville.-The annual meeting Of
the North Dakota Librarians asso-
citation will be held in Mayville. Oct.
1 and 2. Dr. Arthur E. Bostwick,
librarian of the St. Louis library. will
be the principal speaker.
Williston.-The council has voted
to send Mayor Jackson and H. H.
Stoo1s, an electrical expert, to Wash
ington to represent the city in the
matter of securing a contract for
supplying Williston with government
electrical power.
Fargo.-Threshing was resumed in
this section of North Dakota after a
layo6 Of five days occasioned by wet
weather. Since last Friday it had
been impossible to work in the fields
because Of the cold, drizzling rain and
frequent hard showers.
FargO.-Mrs. Alfred Taylor, who
had been visiting relatives yin the
western part of the state, collapsed
on arrival in Fargo. when informed
that her aged husband had died sud.
denly at Grand Forks. She recovered
sufficiently to proceed home
Fargo. J. Hanson, Moorhead,
owns a remarkable Holstein COW
which produces twenty-one gallons Of
milk day It is necessary to milk
the animal four times day and her
owner is forced to get up in the mid
die OF the night for one milking.
Fargo-1n grasping for rein to
hold bis horses. which had started to
run away. John S. Johnson of Colum.
bus, N. D.. dropped his gun, which
was accidentally discharged. the con-
tents grazing his hip and cutting away
m inch of flesh Infection set in and
he died.
Raleigh.-This vicinity had five
days Of rain, which delayed threshing,
but was fine for fall pastures and for
fall blowing. Some threshing outfits
have attached plows to their engines
and worked them pending the drying
Of grain. 1t was almost a week be-
fore grain in shocks was dry enough
! to thresh, AZ heads Of wheat had
soaked and swelled
| Wahpeton.-Matt Kobold, a single
managed IS years. met death in a fire
! that destroyed 4 barn and contents on
the Fred Radke farm, north Of here.
The blaze was discovered about mid
night. and it was while endeavoring
to liberate some OF the ten valuable
horses quartered in the burning build
ing that Kobold lost his life.
Minot.-While her parents were
working in the harvest field. the g.
year-old daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs. Lud-
wig Mikkison rescued her 2-year-old
sister from the flames of their burn
ing home and then ran a quarter of A
mile to the neighbors to give the
alarm. The house burned to the
ground before assistance came and
-, some paper money was destroyed The
cause of the fire is not known.
Fargo.-The farm OF Ed Conley,
near Mckenzie, N. D., produced crops
this year which sold for greater profit
i than the amount paid for the land a
few years ago. Deputy Commission
er Wolbert reports that on forty acres
OF land, Conley threshed and sold
1,348 bushels, so pounds Of wheat, for
which he received ~ cents. Wheat
! grown this year on the L. W. Thomp-
son farm, near Mckenzie, also brought
in revenue exceeding tho amount paid
for the land in 1910
Grafton.-Fred W. Robinson was
arrested here charged with embezzling
| $500 from the police court Of Saska-
toon, Canada. where he was clerk for
several months. High living and fast
company. Robinson says. are respon-
sible. for his embellishments. He was
accompanied here by Agnes Jean
Smith, of Saskatoon, who believed
they had been legally married, but
! who found that ceremony which
had been read in Canada, was not
binding. The marriage. however. was
legalized here.
McClusky.-Last week w. J. Burt,
until short time ago editor of The
Goodrich Citizen. was sued for 5000
! damages. The plaintiff in the case is
County Judge Dunning, of this city
The complaint charges the defendant
, with SANDER and defamation of char
acter and is the outcome of an edi.
torial in The Goodrich Citizen during
!, the campaign prior to the primary
election. Both parties to the action
are well known all over Sheridan
county, and the case will b watched
with interest s. r#a.n~..N
Grand Forks.-Mayor w. D. Sweet,
Of Fargo. Progressive candidate for
governor Of North Dakota. and Judge
Noah Allen, of Brownsville, Texas.
are scheduled for series Of ad.
dresses in the state, Mayor Sweet is
confident the new party will carry the
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