The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1916-04-20
BRIEF STATE NEWS

August Frykman of Souris has ap-
piled for two patents recently. One is
an oxy-acetylene welding and cutting
torch and the other is a piston ring.
Both are said to be great advance
on anything in the market today.
A poison fend who put strychnine
into food at Peter Weber's home, near
Napoleon, nearly killed several men,
bers of the household. The man, Civ
en- lodging, placed strychnine in the
coffee and breakfast food. He left
during the night and no trace of him
has been found.
j. T. Dourthy, of Sherwood, while
hauling load Of hay in the employ of
Mrs. Roy Alsdurf last Tuesday, in
some way fell off the load in front of
the wagon wheel, which passed over
his chest. DR.. Halliday of Mohall was
called and found five ribs broken, one
of which had penetrated the lung. Mr..
Dourthy is an elderly man and not
very robust.
Baden township was arrested early in
the week on the charge of selling
mortgaged property. Walter Nelson,
of the Coulee State Bank is the COM
plainant. Mr.. Ogburn was arraigned
before Justice Griffith Wednesday af-
ternoon, where he waived examination.
He is out on bonds to await trial at
the next term Of district court.
A disastrous fire wiped out the o.
r. Krul home and granary near Beach
Saturday morning of last week, the
family losing all their personal proper
ty in the house, as we'll as the grain
stored in the granary, there being no
insurance carried. The family is be-
ing helped by the neighbors in their
hour of misfortune, and basket social
will be given tomorrow at the Bonnie
View school house to take care of their
immediate needs.
Street gossip at Westhope indicates
that the postal authorities or the in
surance company have secured suffic-
the party who got the $4,000 package
of bills sent from the Grand Forks
bank last fall to the Antler bank. The
suspected party has been resident Of
Antler, but we are not at liberty to
state who it is, as the information at
hand is not authentic. We sincerely
hope the young man will return soon
and vindicate himself and clear away
ugly rumors.
New Rockford citizens will vote on
May whether or not the city shall
establish its own electric light plant.
The plant now there is owned by the
same company that operates at Car
rington. New Rockford is paying the
company $4,000 year for lights on
streets and power for pumping the
city water. New Rockford voted on
the same proposition three years ago,
but for some reason the plant was not
established, although the voters de-
cided the issue Ill to S. in favor of
the city operating the plant. The pres
ent election will determine if $4,000
in twenty year bonds will be issued, to
draw 6 per cent interest.
The federal campaign to wipe out
the illegal interstate shipment of liq-
uor, opened recently with the imposi-
ton of fine of $1,000 on a St. Paul
firm, was furthered Saturday when
Deputy United States Marshal Wat
ties served papers in Devils Lake as
the first step in the prosecution of five
Twin City liquor houses. The processes
were served on railway company
agents, after which the liquor shipping
concerns will be ordered to show cause
why the shipments seized as Illegally
labeled should not be confscated. 1t
is understood that this is preliminary
to bring the matter before the United
States grand jury at the next session.
A number of Bismarck sports" Wis
tied Mandan last Saturday night and
became loaded with beer. They went
to a Mandan hotel and secured room
which they turned into Irregular
brewery" from the looks of the room
the next morning. Manager Luce
confesses that he paid no attention to
the boys after they went to their
rooms, as they did not appear to be
drinking at the time, but when they
left early in the morning to catch
train No. he noticed they were
drunk. He went to the room they had
been drinking in and found twenty