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

the firm for whom he is working.
About $4,000 is missing. The saort-
age was discovered after he had turn
ed in false report sheet. He was
captured in Minneapolis two days at
ter by the sheriff of Dunn county, brot
back, tried and sentenced to one year
in the penitentiary at Bismarck.
Pearl Knapp, eleven years old, liv-
ing with her parents at Minor, swal-
lowed Z 1-2 grains of corrosive subli-
mate last Sunday morning by mis-
take 1t was soon discovered and q
physician was Immediately summoned
and thru prompt action saved the lit
tie girls life. She has fully recov-
cred.
The police have been asked by the
parents of August Mischke, age ~
years, whose home is at Tolley,. to aid
in finding the missing man, who has
not been heard of since late in Octo-
Der. At that time he told his parents
in letter posted at Theilman, Mimi,
he was on his way home and was suf
fering from typhoid fever.
C. J. Lee, of Valley City, was in St.
Paul, Mimi. with a shipment of cattle
from North Dakota. Mr.. Lee, togeth-
Ell with others, who are connected with
the Equity Exchange, are promoting
a proposed cooperative packing plant
in the state. Stock raisers will be
looked to for the money to finance the
new enterprise. The capital is placed
at 100000 and the shares will be sold
at S25 each.
John Ellison, a Hope farmer, was in
the St. Paul police court last week on
a charge of vagrancy He explained
that he went to a bank on Saturday
with saloon keeper and made de-
post of $500 but had lost the certifi-
cate Of deposit. He had forgotten the
name of the saloon keeper who took
him to the bank, and also the name of
the bank, and so he is without his
funds.
The Great Northern and 500 lines
are handling more grain than ever be-
fore, the movement thus far having
been so regular that cars are being
kept in constant service and all grain
shipping points are well supplied, ac-
cording to a statement made by prom
inent railway officials the other day. In.
view of the great size of the crop,
preparations were made early in the
fall to handle it quickly and every
possible precaution is being taken
daily to relieve any congestion that
might otherwise occur.
Attorney General Linde is still af-
ter the transportation companies in
his endeavor to compel them to quit
importing booze into the state for IL
legal purposes. He has turned new
trick and joined the attorney general
of West Virginia in similar case be-
for the Supreme court. Mr., Linde has
asked permission to enter the Virginia
case and submit briefs, which has been
granted. The case of the State of
West Virginia against the Adams Ex-
press company was an action to en-
join the importation of Intoxicating
liquors into that state for illegal pur-
poses.
The harvest of mangled men is the
most horrible feature of the Euro
pean war, says David Nelson, of May
vile, who is Rhodes scholar at Ok
ford, and who has been in Belgium and
France for many months with the
American relief commission. In .
letter to his parents at Mayville tell
ing of his return to Great Britain, he
says: "There happened to be on board
about 1875 Englishmen who were ex-
change prisoners being brot back
from Germany. All were unfit for
further service. Some had lost legs,
others arms or hands, some were part
ly paralyzed, some almost blind, and
others crippled in terrible manner.
It is a horrible harvest they are reap
ing here in Europe. The men had re-
.ceived small rations in Germany. Yet
they were in good spirits and simply
elated at the thot of returning home
again"