The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1915-09-30
STATE NEWS

nish, is dead.
The Normanden, the states greatest
Scandinavian paper, will be changed
to semi-weekly.
The corner stone of the new Maso-
mic Temple at Devils Lake was laid on
Tuesday. -
Geo. A. Kerschman, a nine year old
Goodrich lad, while fooling with a
shot gun, blew his head off. The body
was found by six year old sister.
Bitten by mad dog, Jessie Ander-
son, aged 4 years, died while her par
ents were taking her to Valley City
for medical aid.
On the Dwain McAllister farm near
Devils Lake, 4,485 bushels of wheat
were threshed in one day, the half
bushel measure being tripped twelve
times minute.
Carl MCDANIEL, formerly of Graf
ton, writes from Canada that he has
Joined the army at Winnipeg and that
| his regiment will leave for the front
this winter or in the spring.
| A carload of wheat containing LOO
bushels of No. hard was shipped by
Chief Littlefish, head of the Sioux
tribe of the Devils Lake reservation,
to market. This is the first record of
an Indian raising and shipping wheat
on any such scale.
N. A. Way, special Indian officer Of
Devils Lake, confiscated eight gallons
of whiskey from Tom Tamica, a Jap
which he had taken over to the res
ervation for refreshments during the
hunting season.
A new dwelling house and cow barn
will be erected at the Feeble Minded
Institute at Grafton this fall. Two
new dynamos will be added to the ma
chinery equipment all at a cost of
about $4,000.
The clerk of Minnewaukan township
near Devils Lake, serves notice by adj
vertisement that no hunting will be
tolerated in any portion of the town
ship this season, and all hunters Will
be treated as trespassers.
Sam Mcneil of Medora, died from
a broken neck, when the horse which
he was riding fell. The man was
chasing horses off his farm. He had
visited his lawyer the day before and
made his will. He had just learned
of the death of his father in NORTH
Carolina.
At the meeting of the North Dakota
w. C. T. u. annual convention at Car
rington Friday evening, the feature OF
principal interest was the annual adj
dress given by Mrs. Elizabeth Preston
Anderson, Of Jamestown, president OF
that organization, which office she has
held for number of years,
The department Of the interior has
issued a map of North Dakota show
ing lands designated under the provl-
sions of the enlarged homestead acts.
A large area of such lands is shown in
the western tier of counties and a
smaller area in Standing Rock Reser-
walton.
Harvey has a rest room for the
farmers and their families, who come
to that city for trading purposes, and
it was formally opened last Saturday
by the ladies of the Civic League of
that city, who served refreshments
during the Afternoon and evening to all
corners.
Norman Bennett, a Sanish barber,
died at the home of Mrs. Case OF Can
do. after an illness of few days. 1t
is said that Mr.. Bennett was stricken
with a severe case Of typhoid fever
but Refused medical aid, relying en-.
tirely upon Chiropractic treatment tc
regain his health. Mr.. Bennett was q
young man only 20 years of age, anc
his home was near Cando.
The city dads of Wahpeton have de-
cided to pave Dakotah avenue, run.
ming east and west in that city anc
across to the Minnesota side, the ole
bridge which crosses the Bots dc
Sioux, which has some early history
connected with it, will also be replank-
ed and paved. The contract has beer
let to the Great Northern Bridge com.
pany of Minneapolis, at total cost
of 1922, 10000 and the paving will be
done with creosoted wood blocks.
Sykeston had a $4,000 fire last week
which came near taking the whole
town. The R. J. Atkinson furniture
store was where the fire started and
burned so rapidly that the building
could not be saved but with the aid of
the chemical fire extinguisher and a
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Office and the News office, it was ex-
tinguished after several hours of hard
fighting.
Last Wednesday the body of Chas
Vallette was found floating in the
James river near Jamestown, N. D..
by passing train crew, who on arriv-
ing in the city Immediately notified
the states attorney and coroner. The
officers, on arriving at the place. found
the mans clothing on the bank, to.
gether with papers indicating that he
had sister at Sentinel Butte. Ar
inquest was not deemed necessary
there being sufficient evidence that he
came to his death by accidental drown
ing.
Arnold Aakran of Norwich managed
to get in over the muddy roads Tues
day, to attend to business. He is one
of the fortunate farmers who finished
threshing before the rainy spell ant