The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1915-08-19

collection costs the residents Is 10
cents per month.
Crosby last week awarded contracts
for the construction of two miles of
concrete sidewalks.
Friday was the hottest day of the
year in North Dakota, the thermome-
ter registering 80 degrees in the shade
at Grand Forks.
Ole johnson, a transient carpenter,
son of prominent Minnesota family,
was found hanging from a rafter by
a piece of baled hay wire at Mandan.
Otto A. Olson, of Aneta, a we'll con-
tractor, working at Crosby, struck
flowing well on the farm of Peter A.
Hagen, at depth of but $50 feet.
J. M .Devine is to have new resi-
dence at Mandan that will be con-
structed of concrete blocks made by
the boys of the state school.
I The action for libel brought against
Messrs. Roble and Jepson of the
Beach Advance" by J. M. Still, of
Beach, was dismissed for lack of evil
dence.
An unknown man about thirty years
of age fell from moving train near
Raleigh into the Cannon Ball river
and was drowned Tuesday. In COM
pany with about so harvest hands he
was riding on top of a box car when
he fell off.
Thieves stole two mail sacks at the
depot at Beach Thursday morning and
made their getaway completely. The
rifled sacks were found along the
track a half mile from the town. 1t
is believed that no great amount of
valuable matter was secured.
The farmers of Wells county
formed an association at Cathay re-
Gently and fixed schedule of wages
to be paid during the harvest sea-
son. The rates were fixed at $3.50
per day for shocking and $500 per
day for threshing
There are now 273 consolidated
! schools in the state of which 40 are
located in towns and the remainder
in the country districts. Most of
these schools are in the northern part
; of the state, Cavalier and Towner
counties being in the lead with 16 con-
solidated schools in each.
! Deputy u S. Marshal Mostad went
to Crosby Tuesday where he arrested
! William Newman for the alleged
crime of smuggling, and took him be-
fore Commissioner Ware for examina-
ton in default of bail in the sum of
$4,000.
A well dressed stranger about 35
years of age was murdered pre-
sumably by hoboes and thrown from
a N. P. train into the Cannon Ball
river where his body was recovered.
! H. A. STAN, a recent arrival from
Darlington, Mo. was arrested at Ry-
der, charged with attempting to steal
another mans wife He is in the
county Jail The woman in the case
is Mrs. A. c. Lee.
B. E. Johnson, manager of the
Langworthy lumber yard at FOLLY,
has disappeared leaving no trace as
to his whereabouts. He was highly
respected citizen, his accounts were
: found correct with everything ac-
counted for and no reason can be
given for his disappearance.
Peter Tamsen, a former resident,
returned to Ambrose and purchased
the electric light plant and theatre
, and will assume the management of
his properties Oct. I.
J Andy Hay, prominent Crosby
farmer recently purchased $4,000 feet
of lumber of the Kuhlass Lumber Co.
and hauled it to his fine farm II miles
south of town with a gas tractor
hitched to nine wagons.
j. W. Warren a pioneer of this sec
ton passed away at his home in Stan
ley Saturday morning, aged &C years.
The remains were taken to Mayville
for interment. Mr.. Warren was the
father of E. G. Warren, formerly
county superintendent of Ward county
schools, who recently moved to Kansas
City.
j. G. Bately, of Maxbass received a
letter recently from DR.. Moreland
saying that report is current in Chi
cago that North Dakota crops have
been frozen out completely and that
a train pulled into Chicago from the
Northwest with the coaches still
covered with snow. Would that the
consummate prevaricator who spread
this fabrication might be out here and
follow a binder around quarter sec
ton a few times and feel the icy blasts
play hide and seek along his spinal
column and whistle through the hir-
suite appendage which vegetables on his
chin.
The Mott Spotlight has the follow
ing write-up of wreck on the Man
dan-Mott line: "A Union Tank Line
car had sudden inclination to climb
one of the Missouri river bluffs as we
were headed for Mott Tuesday. Per-
haps it decided to get better view of
the magnificent scenery, which has a
wide reputation in the vicinity Of mile
post no 80. The tank car proved very
industrious on it's trip, as it took along
about seven rail lengths of track with
it on it's trip of explorations. Nobody