The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1916-02-10

Great Northern train wreck in the
Cascades and several similar news
stories were flashed to Baldwin and =
half hour later were read at the farm
ers' club meeting.
News of the death in Jerusalem Of
David Sprung, father Of NJ. L. Sprung
of Devils Lake and Samuel Sprung, of
Wahpeton, was received last week.
Business cares brot on by the war are
said to be responsible for his death.
J. H. Flanery few days ago lost a
valuable team of horses by accidental
~ driving them into an old well at the
Bob Lyons farm three miles south
west of Bottineau. The well was q
deep one and covered by the snow so
as not to be noticeable. Both horses,
the two most valuable on Mr.. Elan
ery's farm, persisted before it was pos
sible to extricate them.
Every member of the Kramer fam
lily, reported killed by the Mexican
bandits, are safe, according to word
received from Ell Paso, Texas; by Mrs.
Haney, of Grand Forks, a daughter of
the American rancher. Kramer and
his three sons owned ranches $50
miles west of Chihuahua City, in Mex
leo at the foot hills of the mountains
in which Villa and his forces have
taken refuge.
While hauling ice from the river,
Wednesday afternoon, Arthur Booth,
foreman of E. G. Paterson's dairy
farm near Bismarck, slipped and fell
under the loaded wagon, rear wheel
passing over the lower part of his
body and breaking one Of his legs
quite badly. Mr.. Booth was taken
back to the farm, where the injured
member was attended to, and the pa
tient is getting along as we'll as could
be expected, under the circumstances.
Sheriff H. J. Slaughter was called
to Plaza last Thursday to cause the
arrest of J. E. Scott on the charge Of
stealing grain in that vicinity. The de-
PENDANT was taken to Williston Mon
day afternoon, accompanied by the
Sheriff, Clerk of Court Iverson and
States Attorney Wyckoff, where the
defendant appeared before Judge Fisk
and entered q plea of guilty to the
crime charged, and was sentenced to
serve one year in the state peniten-
tiary at hard labor. The defendant
will be taken to Grove, North Dakota,
within the next few days to serve his
sentence.
Arrested by a deputy sheriff work
ing in conjunction with w. e. Mcfad-
den, secretary of the North Dakota
Bankers association, S. w. Jones, for
merly Of Fargo, has been rounded up
and brot back to the above city for
passing bogus checks aggregating
close to $500, about 5000 of which
amount being obtained in Fargo and
the balance in Moorhead, st. Paul and
St. Joseph, Mo. Jones was arrested
on the Campbell farm nine miles
northwest of Buchanan, N. D., where
he was working for his board and
room. Officers say he will plead gull
ty.
The twelve-year-old daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Albert Hanson, residing six
miles from Kenmare, had a frightful
experience last Thursday night
spending the entire night. out in the
storm wandering over the prairie. She
left her home about five o'clock in the
evening to go to the mail box for the
mail. The wind and snow was blow
ing at fearful rate, she being unable
to see but short distance in front of
her, and she became lost. The horse
she was driving broke some of the
harness while crossing snow drift.
She then unhitched it and with the an
imal started out in the direction she
thot to be toward home. Being unable
to locate herself by any landmark she
kept going all night till daylight when
she could see some Of the buildings in
Kenmare. She came on to town and
was tieing her horse in front Of the
bakery when she was discovered by
Mrs. Clara Peterson, who was just re-
turning from the train. Mrs. Peterson
took the girl home and dressed her
warmly and then called DR.. Mclean,
who promptly attended to her. The
girl was quite badly frozen, and it will
be some time before she will be able to
be out. She was taken to her home on
Sunday afternoon but was at that time
still unable to use her limbs or arms.
It was frightful experience and one
that caused the unfortunate girl a
world of main and suffering.