The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1915-11-18
BRIEF . STATE NEWS

Superintendent of the farming depart
ment at the state penitentiary, is dead
i The Wimbledon commercial club of
fered prizes for the best exhibits Of
grain on exhibition at the annual
Grain Show now in progress in that
city.
WOW of the North Dakota democrats
airy 9Th, if the movement that has
been started by the party politicians
proves successful.
The management Of the Rugby hos
pital has. undergone change and new
business rules for the institution have
been adopted The sum of $4,000
was recently subscribed to put the hos
pital in better condition.
A Great Northern freight train
struck an auto in which the Wells
county commissioners were riding.
The occupants of the auto jumped to
save themselves from being killed.
The machine was total wreck
One of the banks at Hillsboro has
on exhibition turnip weighing twen-
ty-three pounds and rutabaga which
weights sixteen pounds. Both man.
moth vegetables were raised near that
city. Guess no one can dispute this.
In the district court at Devils Lake,
the plea Of L. Therowx, of Omemee,
that he spent the time away from
home at Hot Springs, Ark, taking
treatment for rheumatism, failed to
save him from conviction for wife-de-
sertion.
AL Merrill of Werner had two of his
fingers clipped off while working on a
threshing machine near that place.
He was trying to save himself from
fall, when he stumbled. and got his
hand into the gear chains of the sep
arator.
An eight year old son Of F. G.
Hauge Of Elgin, is in critical condi-
ton as result of injuries received
in a fall from horse which he was
riding, the animal tramping on his
stomach. Internal injuries may cause
his death.
DR.. Lee I. Lucey, former home
steader down near New England, was
recently heard from in darkest South
Africa, where he has been spending
several months of his vacation hunting
the wild beasts of the jungle in that
far-of land.
Hold-up artists held up Miss Moran,
lady who runs millinery store at
Cando, one day last week, while on her
way from the store to her boarding
place. The thugs waited till she was
within a few feet Of them and then
grabbed her hand bag. She yelled for
assistance that arrived just too late.
At Golden Valley, down in the
southern part of the state, David, the
four-year-old son of L. B. Hardy, was
instantly killed. Perched on top of a
load of grain he was riding to market
with his father when he fell from his
seat One of the wheels of the loaded
wagon passed over his head, crushing
his skull.
Drake has had third fire, this time
a blacksmith shop was consumed and
part of a lumber yard, three automo-
biles and lot of tools were also de-
stroyed. The origin of the fire is not
known but it is thot to have started
from gas engine that had been in
operation in a feed mill joining the
blacksmith shop.
Agents of the French government
are Still busy buying horses in the vi
cinity of Watford, Mckenzie county,
and several car loads have recently
been shipped from that point. While
twenty head were being driven to town
to be loaded, two of the animals STUN
bled and killed themselves in a fall.
Their owner filed bill Of $500 against
the town.
A fellow claiming to represent q
concern similar to the one that Leslie
Young was connected with, tried to do
some business with the farmers trib-
utary to Drake. He was given the
third degree at the Matt Wright farm
and confessed that his company was
not the same one represented by
Young. Lucky for him that he got out
of the country.
Henry Radke, young man living at
Expansion, was instantly killed last
Monday at the little town of Rec.
Radke was engaged in moving some
buildings and was. using a horse and
capstain in the work. While working
he whipped up the horse, which caused
him to lunge, breaking lever used in
the operation, a portion of which flew
back, striking him on the forehead
killing him on the spot.
John L. Alexander, of Chicago, sup
erintendent of the secondary division
of the international Sunday School as
ISOLATION, will be the main attraction
for the twenty-sixth annual convention
Of the North Dakota Sunday School
association to be held in Devils Lake
in June, 1915, the dates of which are
the 18th, 14th and 18th. This an.
nouncement was recently made BY
State Secretary Walter A. Snow.
The days Of the Spanish 1nquisitior
, ter written to his mother by Gler
Ullen boy, who is with the United
States infantry on the Mexican border
"The Mexicans got hold of an fAmeri
can on this side and cut the bottoms Of
| hia feet and the muscles out nf his