The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1916-01-20

evening.
Sherman Gilbertson of Towner was
named by Gronna for the West Point
appointment.
The Red Trail bridge across the
Little Missouri near Medora is near
ly completed.
Three boys escaped from the state
reform school at Mandan during the
recreation period.
John G. Gronlie, 81 years of age, of
Delamere, was placed under arrest on
a charge of bootlegging.
It is expected that paving opera
tions on large scale will be carried
out at Mandan next summer.
A disastrous fire at Watford City
last week consumed the Simmons liv-
cry barn. Five head of horses per-
ished in the flames.
The states total barley yield was
44,80O,0OO bushels. This gives North
Dakota first honors in three grain
crops-winter wheat, flax and barley.
Forty-four carloads of fish passed
thru the state on the Northern Pacific
few days ago, for the eastern mar
ket. The cargo was consigned to st.
Paul, MINI.
James Matthie of Inkster has sent
| word home that he arrived safely in
England and is now located on Sails
bury Plains near London, the military
training camp.
Sheriff Slaughter, of Mountrail
county, succeeded in landing two boot
leggers at Palermo recently. It is
alleged they had been operating in a
local livery barn.
Heavy damage was done by pra-
irie fire which swept many sections in
the district west of Mandan. Farm
ers succeeded in stopping it after a
battle which lasted for three hours.
A little excitement at Dickinson:
Simon Damulis broke beer bottle
over the head of Charles Summers
and paid fine and costs for disorder
| " conduct. Then Summers was ar
rested on the same charge and got
his for throwing stovepipe at Damu-
lis.
i Leland Jensen, the sixteen year old
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Jensen
farmer living about four miles south
and eight miles west of Larimore, is
) critically i'll on account of having his
feet badly frozen while returning
: to his home from the above place. It
is stated that he and Allinger Nahon,
of Northwood, who was accompanying
him, became lost and that they ap-
piled for admission at farm home
but were refused, and that they re-
manned all night in straw stack with
the result that Leland's feet are badly
frozen and amputation may be neces-
sary.
Anfeld Shifet of Darlington is at
Washington, D. c., to get patent on
device that may stop the European
war, so far as we know. Anfield did
not tell anyone just what he had in
vented but to Minneapolis acquaint-
ance he divulged that he had magnet
or preparation or something that
would make bullet wobble like a
drunken sailor. otis this way" said
Shifet. "You put up target five feet
: across; stand back twenty-five feet
and shoot with .38 calibre revolver.
The unknown power will pull that bull
let away from it's mark and even tho
YOU aimed absolutely correct the bull
let will not even touch the five foot
' target, but will be attracted off to one
: side"
Ogallala Fire, 80 years old, an In
. dian chief and a survivor of the his
!. torical battle known as "Custer's
! Last Stand" and once fighting com
panion of such chiefs as Rain-in-the-
| Face, Spotted Tail and Rain Cloud,
was found in the bathroom at his
[ home in Chicago Sunday near death
l from self-inficted cut in the throat
'T'm tired of living. I can't stand it
any longer" were the only comments
when he was found by the wife of Lit
/ tie Bear, known as Henry Reake, in
whose house the chief had been living:
} The woman said Chief Ogallala had
: been Respondent for some time be-
l cause of failing health. The former
( fighting Indian chief years ago adopt
ed the ways of the white man. Recent
ly he had been employed by motion
: picture company in Chicago. Among
, the relics of his fighting days which
the chief always kept with him, were
; his tom-tom, several strings of beads,
his feather head dress, his blankets,
peace pipe and a belt taken from a
soldier Killed by him in the Custer
fight.
When Fred Fox, of Ambrose, a
; clerk, opened the door of the City
Pharmacy last Monday morning about
|, 1880 o'clock to start business for the
day, he. found the air sitting with the
fumes of wood alcohol. He passed in.
to the prescription room in search OF
the cause, and there the fumes were
still stronger. He then opened the door
of the store room at the extreme rear
of the building and the sight that met
his gaze. was one that will not likely
soon fade from memory. The room
had recently been ablaze, the heat was
intense, bottles of different drug COM
pounds, on the shelves were fizzing
! and several had exploded. A large
barrel of wood alcohol was still run
ming from the faucet and formed a
big puddle at one side of the room
where it had evidently at one time
been a mass of flames. A table stand
ing in the pool of alcohol was almost
entirely consumed by fire, and other