The Dickinson press., 1916-09-02
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STATE NEWS NOTES
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head from the government. This
payment is in lieu of the sale of
land several years ago.
The first mothers pension in Nc
Henry county was granted to Mrs.
Mabel Rogers of Velva. She was al
lowed the minimum amount, $40, for
each of her two children.
After two robbers had taken $40
from H. B. Hanson of eNw Rockford
they aggravated the crime by re-
moving his clothing and tearing it
into shreds in search of more money.
D. w. Snyder, IS, of Wolford, was
badly beaten by robbers who got
$1,000 Snyder had secreted in his
home. They failed to find $4,000
more.
The work of laying 90-pound steel
rails to replace the 80-pound rails
the previously we're used on the
Great Northern road for a stretch of
25 miles between Grand Forks and
Larimore, is just being completed by
the road.
S. R. Miller of Calvin had the corn
ers of his mouth badly cut when he
ran into a wire clothes line. He was
thrown backward by the line and his
head struck a stone, rendering him
unconscious for quite a time.
The Hogy Elevator Company at
Burlington quit business with about
$4,000 worth of storage certificates
outstanding. A blanket bond of
$4,000 will help protect farmers in
terested.
Lee Bronson, clerk at the Phil
Smith pool room at Goodrich, was
asleep when a burglar entered the
place. "Please go away and let me
Sleep" he walled into the face of the
big six shooter. The burglar went.
Bursting under the pressure created
by a clogged pipe, the water pump
used by the Great Northern at York,
exploded with a crash that wrecked
the interior of the engine room
Henry Pound, the operator, escap-
ing injury though but a few feet from
the engine.
Horace E. Peck dropped dead at the
wheel of his touring car, on his way
to Kenmare from the Turtle noun
tains with a party of friends. The
machine was going IS miles per hour.
Death was instantaneous from heart
ld1lu "a NO1IlPC1lAOIA 1oOOCu CIlC
wheel and saved a serious accident to
the balance of the party.
The business men of Watford City
and Shafer have subscribed $3.50 to-
wards a fund for a highway through
the Bad Lands in the Little Missouri
country south Of Watford City. This
money is being used principally for
the construction of a ferry to be
operated at the river crossing near
the Dave Warren ranch.
A school election held recently for
the purpose of deciding whether or
not Saunders school district, near
Leith, should consolidate, proved to
be a lively one. There was a total
of 1877 votes cast, &C voting for con-
solidation and 81 against, the propo-
sition carrying by the narrow margin
of five votes.
J. w. Riley, superintendent of
schools of Cass county recently
awarded to Miss Gina Kantrud, IA
year old daughter of Nh. and Mrs:
G. O.. Kantrud, of Gardner, an
achievement pin in recognition of the
girls record of seven years. perfect
school attendance. In that period, at
tending the school in district No. 1O7,
the girl has neither been tardy nor
absent.
Appraised of the fact that he had
been made heir to a $4,000 estate,
left by an uncle in New York City,
Jack Burke of Pueblo, Colo., painter,
who had been employed at New Rock
ford, laid down his brushes and is
bound for New York city to claim the
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tire estate by the terms of the will.
Roy Smith Of Makoti made a trip
to the Jack Nichols place to look at
a horse. They got the animals in a
corner and when Smith stepped up to
him the horse reared and struck him
with both front feet, knocking the
man down. One hoof hit him in the
forehead, cutting a big cash, the
other hit in the body, breaking two
ribs.
The nine months old daughter of
Fred M. Chapek of Anamoose was
taken to Minot suffering from an in
jury caused by a head of wheat which
the child had swallowed, but which
went through. the windpipe into the
bronchial tubes leading to the lungs.
The child vas nearly dead, being
hardly able to breathe. The babe
was placed in a local hospital, where
a specialist, by the aid of modern in
struments, was able to locate the
wheat and remove it.
Raphael, aged 10, son of Kasper
Schantz, died at the Northern Pa
cifc hospital at Glendive following a
prolonged illness. About six months
ago the boy was employed with a rail-
road section gang working north of
Mandan. The gasoline speeder used
to haul the men back and forth from
town refused to work and the fore
man told the men to catch a ride on
an inbound freight. Somehow or
other young Schantz fell beneath the
wheels of the train and the flesh was
ground from his thigh. Taken to
the Northern Pacific hospital at Glen
dive, he apparently had every chance
for recovery when he was taken ill
with abcess of the liver. Operations