The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1915-11-04
BRIEF STATE NEWS

The enterprlSlng citizens OF Cand
are constructing mammoth auditor
ium on the site formerly occupied b,
the town hall.
Editor Falkenstein thinks that i
ever the Germans get sight of hin
they will load him up with rifle ant
make him fight in the trenches.
The Tolley Journal came out las
week with eight full pages of gooe
news and advertising, all home prin
and brand new head
Half a dozen colored folks were ar
rested at Rugby one night last weel
by the authorities. Two of the "gen
tlemen" are to be arraigned on {
charge of "black slaving."
Isaac Isaacson. living near Kloten
Nelson county, was killed last Satur
day night near that place when his
auto plunged into a ditch and turned
turtle. He was trying to pass team
at the time.s
The Tolna Tribune, weekly paper
printed and published in Nelson coun-
ty by George L. Phillips, has beer
purchased by Harry M. Case, publish
err of the Neville Journal, who will
conduct both newspa pers.
Last Thursday night two highway
men held up a man who had been
working for Harry Knauss of Tolna
and robbed him of his roll, consisting
of $50 in cash. The robbery was COM
mitted one mile east of that town.
One of the largest farmers coop
erative concerns in the state will be
organized in the city of Williston thru
the consolidation Of the Farmers
creamery and produce company and
private creamery company.
Chas. H. Harris. a former grand
treasurer of the Grand Lodge of Ma
sons of this state, recently died at
Glendora, CAL. where he has lived
since leaving North Dakota six years
ago. He was very active in Masonic
circles while a resident Of this state.
A law that passed the last session
of the legislature provides that differ
ent townships in the state shall APP
point a noxious weed commissioner,
and many of the different counties in
the state have taken advantage of the
law and made their appointment for
the coming year. ~
Mrs. M. H. Jewell of Bismarck,
widow of the founder of the Bismarck
Tribune. was endorsed for the position
of curator of the North Dakota His
torical society, to fill the position re-
Gently vacated by H. G. Fish. The
society met in Grand Forks this week,
when the selection was made.
Leased railroad sites on which ele-
vators are located are not taxable I'M
der the North Dakota state law, but
sites on which oil stations, lumber
yards, electric light plants, general
stores and coal yards are located are
taxable, under decision of Judge
Nuessle of the district court at Bis
marck. ~....
Dick George, age % years, and VIM.
O'Brien, charged with robbing several
harvest hands in the railway yards at
Portal, have been arrested and are
being held in the Burke county Jail.
They were caught as the result of in
formation given by small boy who
saw one of the robbers and identified
him. -
Jim Gleason, charged with murder
in connection with the shooting to
death of a laborer at Coulee last week,
escaped from the Jail at Kenmare by
picking the lock of the cell in which
he was confined, but was recaptured a
few days later in the hills north of
Stanley by Sheriff H. J. Slaughter, Of
Mountrail county. Thus far the offic-
ials have been unable to establish the
of tho y,o,1r1oroC mon
Eighteen men were held up and rob-
bed on a freight train between Ber-
wick and Granville few nights ago
in novel way. The robberies were
staged by three masked men, who
started at the engine and made sys-
tematic search thru the whole string
of cars. All told, eighteen men, who
were riding in the box cars, were rob-
bed and the robbers Melted $4OO in
cash.
Emil Sandman, who was robbed,
shot and thrown from fast freight
train near Arvilla, in Grand Forks
county a few weeks ago, died on Oct.
3Oth, and the local officials are left in
the dark as to the identity of the MUIR
derers. Sandman was unable to give
an accurate description of his assail-
ants, who entered the box car in which
he was riding, taking $50 in cash from
him and throwing him from the train,
after shooting him thru the stomach.
Secretary Of the U. S. Treasury
William G. McAdoo, in an address to
1000 people in the auditorium of the
Masonic Temple in Fargo last week,
explained the federal reserve system,
stating that he believed it would be
one Of the greatest things that has
ever been promulgated, making it pos
sible for the farmers to hold their
grain and sell to the best advantage.
"For the first time in the history of
this country the farmer is given the
same privilege as the others have en-