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

The Larimore Commercial club ship
ped rs bushels of Grand Forks county
potatoes to "Bill' Holbein, at the
North Dakota building at San Fran
cisco, to be exhibited at the exposition.
A meeting was held at Linton for
the purpose Of organizing city fire
department and becoming member
of the state Firemen's association, IN
order to receive the annual insurance
tax from the state.
H. B. johnson, of Granville, who
used a big boulder on another mans
head, pleaded guilty to charge of
assault with a dangerous weapon and
was sentenced to one day in Jail and
fined $40 and costs.
When Chas. Newman, farmer near
Carson, put 5000 bushels Of wheat in
the loft of his barn, it proved to be
too heavy for the timbers Of the build
ing and came down, killing two very
valuable horses by crushing them to
death. .-s..=
Chas. E. Watkins, a farmer living
about nine miles southeast of Dun
seth, lost valuable team Of horses
last week from feeding the animals a
small sack of oats which it is said had
been doped with gopher poison about
year ago.
While travelling in a car between
Tagus and McGregor, thugs attempted
to hold up Andrew Diggerness, but
were foiled when the driver hit up a
forty mile clip and left them standing
in the highway.
! Kamse Hill, pioneer of Cass coun-
ty, was found few days ago in the
bottom of cistern on his place at
Erie, having supposedly dropped in
accidentally or else committed suicide.
Mr.. Hill was a former member Of the
Legislature of the state and prominent
in his home town. He was connected
with the State Bank Of Erie.
A newspaperman at Grace City has
! been hailed into court at Darlington
for pulling a gun on the manager Of
the telephone company at that place.
It appears that Mr.. Bradley, the quill
pusher, owned the building occupied
by the phone company and some trou-
BILE arose when John Nichols, the man.
ager, was moving out. The gun is
said to have been double barreled and
loaded to the muzzle.
Mrs. G.. o. Kro was fatally injured
in runaway accident at the little
town of Wellsburg, which is located
near Harvey. An auto attempted to
pass the team she was driving on a
narrow grade, which frightened them,
causing the runaway. The lady was
thrown out and had both legs broken
and her skull fractured. She was hur-
ried to the city Of Harvey where med
ical aid was secured. But little hope
of her recovery is entertained.
Thomas McDole, who was picked up
in the yard of Clarence Knutson some
ten days ago, in an unconscious con-
dition, died at the hospital at Towner.
No one will ever know how he met
his death. He might have been slug
ged and robbed or accidentally fallen,
but somehow he received blow that
fractured his skull and rendered him
unconscious. His home address is
given as Stevens Point, Wis, and he
had been working as thresherman
in the visinity Of Bantry and Towner
during the fall season.
While the volunteer fire department
at Belfeld was fighting a fire that
burned the farmers elevator to the
ground and at the same time Destroy
ed several thousand bushels Of wheat,
two other fires started in different
parts of the city and the whole town
turned out to fight the CONGREGATIONS.
Sam DeMouth, a farmer living near
Belfeld, was severely burned but saw
ed his years crop when a separator
standing near large grain stack
caught fire. DeMouth ran into the
blaze and attached a cable to the ma
chine and hauled it away in time to
stop the fire from spreading to his
grain.
The officials at the Agricultural col
lege at Fargo report that there are
good prospects for intercollegiate de-
batting at the N. D. college. Among
the institutions that have asked for
debates are the Oregon Agricultural
college at Corvillie, Ore; the Mon
tana college at Bozeman; the South
Dakota college at Brookins; the Min
nesota Agricultural college and the
Farm college. 1t is prob
able that dates will be arranged with
these institutions as the prospects are
good that there will be one Of the
strongest teams Of the times.