The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1916-10-19
BRIEF STATE NEWS

BRIEF STATE NEWS
Over in Dunn county the News ed.
itor asks that the "chickens" be giver
a rest.
The Mandan News reaches the 24tk
milestone with success and is still q
most healthy looking youngster.
A new law will be invented for the
benefit of auto thieves at the next ses.
sion of the legislature.
Too much booze of the squirrel va
riety causes unpleasantness and dis
gust to the good citizens of Hazelton
Amidon hopes, by the Grace of God
and the will of the people, to become
the permanent county seat of Slope
county.
Milton is going to get that electric
light plant. The business men of that
town are going to pull off the stunt.
Sparks from threshing engine was
the cause Of fire near Watford City
which destroyed a large amount of
hay and grain.
"Jim" Brinton, we'll known newspa-
perman of this state, is secured to
"stump" the state for the republican
ticket.
Despite the fact that editors and
other preachers urge the farmer to
prepare against prairie fires, the slope
country has been badly damaged by
fires in different sections.
Towner has been assured of an
electric light service within the next
60 days. The property owners in the
downtown district are already con-
sidering the installation of a dazzling
white way.
An exchange says that the time is
gone by when the farmer comes in
with load Of good hard wood and
pays for a years subscription. Gone
indeed! Now he brings in an egg and
the editor pays the change in money.
The Richard Dahl house at Botti.
neau caught fire in the roof around the
chimney and owing to the high wind
the building was nearly destroyed. The
building was the original county court
house and one of the landmarks of the
city.
Yellowstone Lodge A. F. & A. M.
NO. ITO OF Alexander was formally in
stltuted last Friday evening by Grant
Hager of Grafton, Past Grand Master
of the order New officers were in
stalled and the charter delivered.
Billy Vaughn, at one time porter in
the r. l.. Breen barber shop at Town
er, writes his old employer that his
trial on a charge of murder at Ellen
dale last week resulted in verdict of
murder in the second degree and that
ne had been sentenced to serve thirty
years in the state penitentiary.
How single years crop has paid
for newly purchased quarter section
of land is the interesting story related
by Joe Folven, a farmer near Wat
ford City. Folven purchased 100 acres
adjoining his own farm last year and
planted it to flax. The farm produced
2,2OO bushels of flax which sold for
1924 per bushel, the profit being great
enough to pay for the plot.
Secretary of State Thomas Hall has
just distributed to the several counties
of the state the sum of $1O2,267.5O,
being the receipts from the registra-
ton of motor vehicles up TO Septem-
Der l of this year. The law provides
that this money is to be used for road |
purposes. There have been $4,000
automobiles registered and 1902 mot
orcycles, 1916 breaking all previous
records.
After making an almost superhu- |
man fight against heavy odds for his |
life, Paul Johnson, the twenty-year-
old son of Mr. and Mrs. Emery John
son, finally succumbed to injuries re-
ceived last July while engaged in drill |
ing water well. The end came at 2 |
o'clock Thursday morning in the Viii |
ton hospital, where he had been under |
the care of physicians ever since the
accident.
A colored man by the name of John
son was peppered with charge of !
bird shot near SELF Monday before he
could be stopped and taken into Gus
tody by officers, on charge of boot
Logging. An attempt was made to ar
rest him in Harvey but he eluded the |
officers who traced him to SELF with
the above result. He is now in the !
Luther hospital recovering from the
superficial wounds caused by the shot
and upon recovery will be arraigned
on said charge.
As G. J. Briggs, Great Northern ag-
ent at Watford, was going to bed, be-
tween 10 and II o'clock Saturday eve
night there was a crash Of glass and
.32 caliber bullet came through the
window and buried itself in the wood
work, missing him by about foot Mr..
Briggs sleeps in the rear Of the Office
part Of the depot and the bullet came
from the east, or side nearest the
track, of the depot. He had just put
out the light when the bullet came
sasshaying along, and if a second shot
had been fired it would had to have
gone under the bed in order to find
him. Who fired the shot, or why it
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