The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1916-08-10

! arriving at Mandan, woman was dis
covered in the bunch.
| Mandan is working hard for that
100000 packing plant. The slope
country should get behind Mandan in
her work.
Former United States Senator H. &.
Hansborough greets old time friend
at Devils Lake, after an absence Of
several years.
Bold, bad burglars broke into gen
eral merchandise store at Barlow, get
ting away with $3.50 worth of goods
and 81 for spending money.
Victor w. Meyer is wanted at Bow
man on a charge of passing forged
check, using the signature Of r. M.
Mosbrucker, by whom Meyer had been
employed.
BARRIERS examinations are being
held in various parts of the state dur
ing the month of August. This affords
plenty of hair cuts and shaves but no
price cutting.
A turkey raising brood of wild
ducks and taking care of them in shall
low water is an unusual sight at the
home Of Mrs. Geo. Nelson. residing
southwest of Dawson.
Chas. Deitz of Edgeley met with
quite serious accident. While stoop-
ing in the dark his face came in con-
tact with an iron pipe which punctured
his eye lid and eye ball.
North Dakota is scheduled to receive
it's first share of the government road
funds. Our state gets $4,000 as first
money. Keep up the Good Roads
movement and we'll get more.
The Mott Equity Exchange handled
387, 597 bushels of grain during the
past year, which is the largest amount
| shipped out of that territory by any
one firm, says the Mott Pioneer Press
A honeymoon in far northern Alaska
where the bridegroom will do mission
airy work among the Eskimo tribes, is
the plan of Rev. and Mrs. William
Schattschneired, who have left Tower
City for the Arctic zone.
Alex Barta, a prominent Gladstone
farmer, has disappeared and it is be-
lieved that he has met with foul play.
Barta went to town to hire harvest
help and when he left the farm car
ried $500 in his vest pocket.
A pair of Canadian clippers, both
married, and the woman the wife of
preacher, were caught in a rooming
house at Hazen. Both are now in jail
facing charges preferred by relatives
on both sides of the mix-up
Four counterfeit dollars were the
total sum obtained by thieves who
blew the safe of the Fairchild Fuel
company Of Grand Forks, after thor
ough job. during which it is estimated
the yeggmen spent $40 in time, tools
and explosives.
Brakeman B. Graham fell between
two box cars of moving train near
Rhame and was crushed beyond all
recognition. The body was taken to
Marmath. There is some possibility
that Graham was slugged and thrown
between the cars.
John Schueler, living southwest of
Velva, had his foot badly cut in now
ing machine. He had stopped to make
some repairs, when the team became
frightened and started up before he
could get his foot out of the way of
the sickle. Physicians hope to save
the foot.
w. L. Richards and Carl Gunkle
have disposed of the ranch north of
Beach which they purchased recently
for the sum Of $134,0O0, to John Lake,
who owns ranch adjoining this one.
This gives Mr.. Lake a large ranch,
and the transaction includes 1900 head
of cattle, 10 registered bulls, bun.'h
of horses, $500 acres of land and the
incidental equipment.
Farmers owe a duty to protecting
the prairie chicken. At this season il.
lives on grasshoppers and other in
sects that are injurious to growing
plants, and were it not for the prairie
hen great damages would come from
this source. The chicken helps the
farmer and the farmer should help the
checker by reporting all violations Of
the game law to the game warden or
his deputies.
Pigs on alfalfa pasture will return
more profit per pig if fed a grain ra-
ton equal to per cent of their weight
is claimed by data received from an
experienced farmer near Grand Forks.
The pig is a pork producing machine
and, like other machinery, is most
~ oAACoOAS "lISll uIl az Ill NdpdSiIy. "A
pigs stomach is so small that it will
not digest enough alfalfa alone to
make profitable growth.
Two Armenians employed as section
hands were arrested at Bowman last
week on charge of stealing 48 pairs
of shoes. The charge was preferred
by ]. L. House, a detective for the
Milwaukee Railway company. Sears,
Roebuck & Co. made shipment of
carload Of shoes from Chicago to Sc
attic and the car was broken into and
48 pairs of shoes were missing when
the car arrived at it's destination.
George Reitman, aged 10. of Under
wood, died in the Bismarck hospital on
Friday night after being taken there,
following an accident. Young Reit-
man was unloading hay into an ele-
vator, when one of the poles broke,
hitting him on the upper abdomen. He
was rushed to the Bismarck hospital
where it was found that he was injur-
ed internally He lived only 80 min
utes after reaching the institution.
He was son of John Reitman, a farm
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