The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1916-11-16
BRIEF STATE NEWS

A quarantine will probably be placed
on the village of Stirum, in Sargent
county, since 33 cases of smallpox are
reported there. The schools have been
closed.
A load of hay was burned near Tar
sus the other day by fellow trying to
light his pipe. The other haymaker
on the load was asleep on the load and
the fire nearly got him before he could
wake up and fall out of danger.
Several members of the James,
town college football team are bat
tered up and some have received brok-
Ell bones in the different games this
season. This is due to the return of
the rough-and- tactics of old
time football.
Milton D. Williams of Jamestown,
former land commissioner of North
Dakota, and prominent politician in
the early days of the state, is near to
deaths door. He has been failing in
health for some time and his condition
is now critical.
H. S. Prosser, Fessenden dray-
man, had his collar bone broken while
taking care of his horses. The ami
mails got loose in the barn and in at
tempting to get them back into their
stalls one of them jammed Mr. Pros
ser up against the wall of the barn.
Dennie Broderick of Dogden has a
real we'll of water. It has taken II
years and seven machines have work.
ed at various times until recently wat
er was found at depth of over 300
feet. No more water wagon for Dem
ME-
The girl that gives away to the de-
sire to CAD about the streets and culti-
vate the acquaintance of young men;
the simpering simpleton is laying the
foundation of a useless life. Ten to
one when she is married she will de-
velop into a slatternly gossip, if no
greater misfortune befalls her.
That all chicken thieves are not
black in color, although they are at
heart, is the belief of John Brackin of
Hankinson. Recently so Of his flock
OF pullets and young ROSTERS were
stolen during the night and the rig
was easily tracked to the outskirts of
Hankinson.
At the National Dairy Show held re-
Gently at Springfield, Mass, two North
Dakota buttermakers captured high
honors. North Dakota was the best
represented state west of the Missis-
sippi. The buttermakers of the state
are preparing for the big display at
Minneapolis next week, and it is ex-
pected that hundreds of North Dakota
farmers will be present.
Carl Maier, shot from ambush, is
dead at Mandan hospital. Officials
have abandoned the theory that Maier
was shot by hunters and now hold to
the belief that he was waylaid. One
suspect took to the brush along the
Missouri river when pressed by a
posse and no further trace has been
found of him.
Rugby Tribune: The editor of the
Tribune was served with papers last
Saturday, drawn in due legal form by
one of our rising young attorneys and
signed by w. J. Holbrook, wherein he
alleges that because we alluded to him
III terms which he considers uncompli
mentary, that his reputation, credit,
good name and reputation" have been
damaged to the extent of five thousand
dollars. He alleges that in the four
days that elapsed between the time the
paper was issued and the complaint
signed, that he was thus damaged in
the sum of four thousand dollars-one
thousand per day. We suppose we
ought to be quite thankful to him be-
cause he didn't wait ten or twenty
days-in which case we might have
had hard time to raise the money.
When a man has such Reputation,
credit, character and business" that he
can so easily lose one thousand dollars
day for four or five days and con-
tinue doing as much business as ever,
we can't see why he wants to sue a
poor newspaper man-especially when
paper is so high. It's perfectly fierce!