The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1914-02-05
STATE NEWS

wants it.
The farmers elevator at Antler
burned one night last week.
A wrestling match followed by a
dance was one of the social diversions
for Plaza.
Joe WIKI, prominent Upham mer-
chant, would be McHenry county's
next sheriff.
r. G. Henry, former Williston
printer, lost a foot at Glasgow, Mont,
beneath a train.
For the first time in the history of
Burleigh county, all the county com
missioners are farmers.
Chas. Schumilas, Tioga lad, was
brot to st. Joseph's hospital last week
suffering from pneumonia.
Ole Johnson, from twelve miles
southwest of Ryder. lost 1O-year-
old daughter from the humps.
VIM. Crowder of Bathgate has a
pack of swift hounds which have
caught one wolf and nine foxes this
winter.
Willow City is not satisfied with the
attractions furnished by the Ridpath
Lyceum bureau, which included sew
eral substitutes. ~
Jos. Wustner of Ryder is putting up
three foot ice shipped in from Wash
burn. Early in the season an ice fam
inc was threatened. .,
Cooperstown horse dealers received
this week seventeen imported stall
lions shipped from New York in cleo
trio lighted, steam-heated cars.
Neil McDougall was. at Westby last
week, making bid for moving the
whole town to its new location as soon
as the townsite is finally selected.
Governor Hanna will present :, pull
pit bible to the Presbyterian church at
Tioga. Rev. w. J. Richardson, the pas
tor, is the governors personal friend
One of the first buildings located on
the new townsite of Parshall on the
reservation is church edifice. Lum-
Der will be hauled for a new bank this
week.
Frank Num-, formerly of Minot, has
sold his electrical business at Devils
Lake and will return to this city. He
will go into business in this line in the
spring. ........
The Rugby Athletic Association has
been organized with nearly so men,
bers. This promises to become one of
the finest clubs in the state. Rugby
is an enterprising city.
Oliver county authorities offer a
large reward for the capture of
Christ Beanie, charged with the al
legged rape of 14-year-old girl. 1t is
believed that the man is in Canada.
The young woman teachers of the
Upham school have leased residence
and are doing their own cooking. All
the young bloods of the town have Of
fered to carry their water and coal.
w. J. Holbrook of Rugby, whose lit
tie son lost limb while crawling be-
meath freight car year ago, is su-
ing the G. N. for damages, the case
coming up for trial at Rugby this
week. 80
H. H. Meixner, Mandan farmer,
cut one field Of alfalfa four times last
summer. The first cutting is 81 inches,
the second 27, the third 10 and the
fourth l6. Every cutting yielded first
class stuff.
Matthias Kirchen, who was born in
Germany SO year ago, died at Garri-
son last week. He leaves wife, six
sons and three daughters. One son,
Mike, lives at Kenmare and another,
Charles, at Lansford.
j. M. Vatsvog, an Upham imple-
ment dealer, carried a quarter page
ad. in the Star announcing his candi-
dacy for Senator from the 34th dis
trict. Vatsvog's friends assert that
his picture looks very much like that
of Teddy Roosevelt.
The three-year-old son of Mr.. and
Mrs. John G. Pollatz of Niagara, be-
came i'll of appendicitis and the local
doctor advised the parents 20 take the
child to Grand Forks for an operation.
The child died in his mothers arms
before that city was reached.
T. L. Stanley, the Garrison publish
er, has returned from tour of sever
al eastern states where he gave lee
lures illustrated with lantern slides of
views in and around Garrison, in the
interest Of the Garrison Industrial
Assn. This is an effective way of adj
vertising North Dakota.
Lyman R. Casey, one of the first
two U. S. Senators from North Dakc-
ia, died recently at his home in Wash
ington, D.. c., from heart disease at
the age of II. Senator Casey came
to Darlington in 1879 and organized a
big land company. He was consider
ed one of the states ablest senators.
Rev. Mr.. Osmard, at one time pas
tor of the Bowbel]s M. E. church, les
in sanitarium in the west, very i'll
of a malignant disease, which nc con-
tracted in Bowbells while caring for
the sick some years ago. A fund for
his relief will be raised Feb. s. The
doctors say Mr.. Osmond can be cured
in time.
The Independent has received one of
the recently issued Railroad Commits
sioners' Map of North Dakota" It is
four by six feet and up-to-date in it's
railway information. The New Rock
ford-Lewiston extension is shown as
striking the Missouri river at TT. Stew
enson and going along the river bot
tom to Elbowoods. M
II DR.. Ray of Garrison, who grew IA
nous in a day by stating that rabbits
may have been infected with tubercu-
losis, now says that he never made the
direct statement, but merely repeated