The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1915-11-25
BRIEF STATE NEWS

Z DNIET OIAl e NEWS
ALEXANDRIA will have -four mill.
Charley Green and Elliot Engh, prom.
inent citizens Of that place, are bacl;
OF the enterprise.
H. H. Bergh, register of deeds of
LclIerry county, resigned recently to
act as cashier and manager Of the
First National Bank of Towner.
Charbonneau, in Mckenzie county,
is on the program for new creamery
and it is expected that locality will
produce plenty of butter and cheese.
The editor of the Sawyer Telegraph
scored one of his patrons because he
objected to running his advertising
matter on the front page of the paper
r. H. Bilden, near Aneta, had his
right thumb torn off one day last week
while attempting to regulate his wind
mill which he propels with gas en-
CINE.
Eleven boys were arrested and fined
at Sheridan recently for depredations
committed on Halloween. They were
charged with the destruction of prop
erty.
Marshal Cameron, U. S Deputy,
served 20 warrants for the arrest of
men charged with taking liquor onto
the old Fort Berthold reservation in
violation of the law
Ed Cartwright, of Cartwright, in
Mckenzie county, is prisoner in his
own home as a result of broken leg
received in attempting to saddle a
bucking broncho a few days ago.
DR.. Werutz of Missouri, is under
arrest at Olga, near Milton, for prac-
ticing without license. He is a den-
fist, and is doing the state in connec-
ton with moving picture show.
Olga Havig, ~ years old, of Finley,
died from the result Of swallowing a
chicken bone, which stuck in her
throat. The accident happened at the
home of her parents several days ago.
J. E. Mott, aged SO years, of VIII
liston, dropped dead a few days ago
near the Diamond coal mine. Death
was said to be due from heart failure
He was former resident Of Minneso-
ia.
C. A. Rosseau, electrical enginees at
Tioga, was overcome by gas at the
lighting plant in that city. Geo. Dur
ley happened to pass the building and
helped him into the fresh air. He re-
covered.
The 500 Line returned a check of
$500 to the authorities at Darlington,
which was half the expense of the
special train run from that city at the
time of the shooting of the chief Of
police, Nelson, by bandits. =.
A trio of religious enthusiasts were
found praying near straw pile in the
vicinity of Darlington and farmers in
that community thot them to be BAN
dts, causing no little sensation, until
their purpos ewas disclosed. They
were allowed to continue their prayer
meeting unmolested.
HI John Konen, for many years a men,
Der of the police force at Fargo, N.
D., has been selected to serve at the
head of the police force at Darlington,
TO fill the vacancy recently caused by
ithe murder of that official in the lat
ter, city. The former Fargoan has
two other qualified officers working
under him.
Ole Benson, of Hatton, fifty-seven
years of age and a wealthy farmer OF
that community, was suffocated while
fighting flames in his home last week
Benson was alone in the upper part
fthe house, and was overcome by
smoke, but was rescued from burning.
Shortly after he was taken from the
burning building he died. The build
ing was only partially destroyed.
Mrs. J. E. Stevens, of Lawton, made
a trip to Dunseith recently iii the in
terest of the education of the t'1bercu-
lar children being cared for at the
North Dakota sanitorium in that city.
1t is feature introduced by the anti
tuberculosis society. The sanatorium
has IL children under IS years of age
and there are twenty-four patients
under % years old. A proposition to
educate them all is under ,considera-
ti,n.
A new will, made but short time
before John Knite, of Devils Lake,
died, in which local families that had
shown him kindness were substituted
for legal heirs living at Holland,
Mich, is being contested in the
courts at the Satanic city. "Knite"