The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1916-01-27

| Darlington, on the 500, is figuring
street paving this spring.
The Knights of Columbus at Devil
Lake recently initiated class Of six
ty candidates.
One thousand five hundred cars O
wheat were shipped over the Dakot,
division of the Northern Pacific dur
ing the past year.
The old band at Glenburn was re
Gently reorganized with a new presi
dent and twenty members.
VIM. Mangle, section hand at Sher
wood, was found dead in bed one day
last week by Section Foreman J. H
White. Death is said to have beer
due to natural causes.
Robt. Lundy, living southeast Of
recently gave birth to triplets. All
are living and in healthy condition
The First National bank Of Ryder il
planning the erection Of fine modern
bank building early in the spring. The
total cost, of the building is estimated
at $4,000.
Harvey Knight, of Bentley, while
trying to start an engine at the farm
ers' elevator, had his foot caught in
the fly wheel and badly crushed. II
be necessary to amputate. &c.
While visiting his sister, Mrs. Hans
Berg, Ted Tarrud of Gull Lake, Sask.,
accidentally fell on the icy sidewalk,
and fractured leg above the ankle.
Within week of each other Mr..
and Mrs. K. Olson, formerly of Fargo
but late residents of Darlington, pass
ed away. Mr.. Olson was "a and his
wife II years of age. They were the
parents Of Mrs. Othello Johnson of the
latter city.
Grain valued at $4,000 was de-
stroyed by fire that RACED the Farmers
Independent elevator at Streeter late
last week. The total los is about $685.
900. The fire started in the engine
room of the elevator.
Adam Lesmeister of Harvey holds
the record in this state as champion
wolf hunter. Recently he brot in 731
pelts, captured during the past year,
which netted him the neat little sum
of s1,827.50 in bounty from the state.
Farmers elevator officers from prac-
tically every state in the Northwest
and Middle states will appear as
speakers at the annual meeting in
Grand Forks February 20, March l
and 2 at the North Dakota Farmers
Cooperative Grain Dealers Associa-
ton.
While storm was raging at Neko-
ma, one night last week, fire broke
out in Anderson & Sons blacksmith
shop, which burned to the ground, to-
gether with a livery barn adjoining,
before it could be gotten under con-
troll. The loss is about $4,000, partly
covered by insurance.
Slipping beneath the wheels of a
moving freight train at Ross one day
last week, Art Williams, Great Nor
thern brakeman, had a portion of one
foot so badly crushed that it was nee
essary to amputate.. The young man
was brot to the hospital in Minot and
is being we'll cared for.
The organization of the proposed
Bankers Trust company for Montana,
North and South Dakota and Minneso-
ia, with headquarters at St. Paul,
Mimi, has been postponed. Lyman
D. Baird, of Austin, Mimi, who is or
ganizing the trust company has been
i'll at his home since Jan. LIST. 1t is
reported that Mr.. Baird will continue
the organization when he RECEIVERS his
health.
HI. Sticken, of Hettinger, who was
instrumental in putting an end to the
Badly George Reynolds gang of horse
thieves in the Northwest two years
ago, was in St. Paul recently, the
guest of H. X. Jones Of the Burns de-
tective agency. Sticken was on his
return from Detroit, Mich, where he
arrested Ben Hunt, was was wanted
in North Dakota on a charge of forg-
cry. He traced Hunt 1000 miles.
Ka-be-na- give-wes, the 1913 year old
Indian. who was injured in the rail-
way yards at Cass Lake, Mimi, last
week, is resting easily at the hospital
in that city, the only pain being in
his hip. 1t is believed that he will re-
cover, He has finally consented to
sleep in bed, but not until another
Indian had lain in it. He was a for,
mer DakOtan and prominent IN the
Custer affair.
The Northern Pacific secret service
has lodged complaint with the
states attorney of Morton county, ask
ing for the arrest of Mandan ma
chine shop man. 1t is alleged that
the machine shop man had force of
boys trained to steal hundreds of
pounds of bronze and brass, and that
of dollars Of damage was
done to locomotives by boys break
ing off brass fittings.
Clara Suverly, aged 8, daughter Of
a farmer near Fort Rice, can speak
for the first time in three years. On
of States Attorney VIM.
LANCER, who alleged that the parents
did not give the proper care, the child
was taken to Mandan, N. d., and d.
600 cod tonsile and adanoids removed