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


ment of T. L. Stanley of Garrison as
federal field agent to supervise the
distribution Of labor in the state.
Two elevators and the $500 Line"
stockyards at Fessenden were Destroy
ed by fire last Friday. The loss is es-
timated at $4,000. The elevators, own
eddy Carl Kruger, contained several
thousand bushels Of grain. The origin
of the fire is unknown.
Mrs. T. w. Chambers, daughter of
Mrs. Laura Gibbons, of Minneapolis,
welded only short time, died sudden
ly at her home at the lake colony near
Devils Lake. Mrs. Chambers had been
i'll only few hours. Mrs. Paul Ben
son of Heron Lake, MIMI, and William
Gibbons of Heron Lake are a sister
and brother of the dead woman.
Supposedly influenced by l. w. w.
agluaCors, Workmen employed by the
T.. G. Evansto company OF st. Paul, on
NOrJnern racine construction opera
lions IN jamestown, struck for an in
crease from 70 to 50 cents an hour.
Their demand was not complied with
and the men laid down their tools. The
company Is organizing new gang.
A request that university students
members of the North Dakota ma
tional guard on the Mexican border,
be released when school re-opens this
fall. was forwarded to Secretary Bak-
er of the War department, by Presi-
dent F. l.. McVey Of the University of
North Dakota. The action follows sue
cesses attained in Minnesota in behalf
Of soldier students
An army of nearly 500 |. w. WIS
today are making their way to points
in South Dakota, after having been
halted in their efforts to invade James,
town by the standing reception COM
mittee" Of 200 citizens, armed and rea-
dy to repulse any attack. Leaders of
the "army" after sizing up the cit
izen committee, declared they had no
intention Of causing trouble.
According to an announcement, four
more western North Dakota counties
have organized branches Of the North
Dakota Insurance Federation. Nor
ton, Golden Valley, Billings and Stark
falling in line. W. w. Fuller is chair
man of the Morton county organiza-
ton; H. L. Reichert of the Stark coun-
W SlOup, ~. ". l. ulleI HeduS CIle NOl-
den Valley organization, and Paul Le
DO leads that in Billings county.
There is a new skin game going the
rounds and everyone will do well to
bear this warning in mind. It is in
the form Of an automatic sewing ma
chine and is being sold by some agents
through the country to farmers gen.
orally. These "shell gamesters" get
the purchaser to sign contract for
their machine and then when the time
of delivery comes no one lives up to
the contract but the purchaser.
Harold Belcher. the youngest son of
Mr.. and Mrs. A. F. Belcher of Fessen-
den, was injured in an automobile &C
cident Tuesday morning and for a
short time his life was considered in
danger. He suffered a fractured jaw
and a severe shaking up. Prompt med
on the road to recovery, although he
will have to wear his jaw in plaster
cast for some time.
Last Saturday evening Victor Bro
wash of Steele, for some unknown rea.
son, shot his wife in the forehead as,
she was performing her duties as
housekeeper on the Stanffacher farm
near Steele. Mr.. Staffacher interfered
before he had a chance to shoot her
again and he was shot in the side. Bro
wash then went outside and fired four
shots at himself, and died few hours
later. His wife will recover, as will
Stanffacher.
Sheriff Rettinger of Pierce county
nabbed a pickpocket on the Rugby fair
grounds, after he had been caught
with his hand in another mans pocket
and promptly marched him off to the
county bastile. He was taken before
Judge Burr the next day where he en-
tered plea of guilty and as token
of his penitence he parted with roll
amounting to about thirty-seven bones
and took his departure from town
without any apparent
hesitation.
The mother stunned by bolt of |
that killed the horse she was
driving, two-year-old Jesse Rougatt,
daughter of Mrs. M. Rougatt, kept a |
lonely vigil at her mothers side thru
out the night, during an intense cleo
trical storm, the couple being found |
twelve hours later by neighbor The |
baby, exhausted at the exposure, was
lying beside the mother in the ditch, |
drenched in rain and mud. Mrs. Rou-
gait regained consciousness yesterday. !
40 hours after being found. She and
the baby will recover.
Last Saturday night as a party of
were journeying home
ward from the Galesburg VS.. Halstad
ball game an accident occurred The
members of the party were Henry Rel
tan, Percy Buchanan, Earl Bergh, Cliff
ton Vinje and Grin Nygaard. As they
were rounding a curve about seven
miles west of Kelso the automobile
skidded over an embankment, turned
a half somersault and landed on the
very upper edge of the Elm river, the
wheels upward. Fortunately one of
The front wheels caught in plank
projecting from the bridge, which pre-
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