The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1917-09-20
AROUND THE STATE
There was bold man named Keren.

There was bold man named Keren.
sky,
Who started a Russian offensky
And got it well started;
But when he departed
The soldiers fed back to their tentsky.
Harlan Darling of Bottineau almost
had the entire scalp torn off his head
last Tuesday afternoon when he fell
.under bundle wagon, one of the
wheels passing directly over his head
tearing the scalp on both sides.
j Willar, the 12-year-old son of Mr.
and Mrs. F. O.. Hanson, former resi-
dents Of Balfour, was killed in storm
which demolished a shed at the home
of his parents at Acton Montana. The
lad was crushed beneath the fallen
timbers and died four days after the
accident, in a Billings hospital.
Thieves broke into the Office of the
Piper-Howe Lumber Co. at Flaxton
last Tuesday night and secured about
six dollars in change and fifty cents
in stamps from the till. They forced
entrance by way of the back door and
the robbery was first discovered when
Agent T. S. Thompson opened the Of
fee early the next morning.
Otto Remy, who lives near Werner,
was seriously injured last week when
he got entangled in the rope he was
using to rope mule with. He was
dragged several times around forty
acre pasture until his foot caught on
a post and the rope broke. Mr.. Remy
suffered several severe bruises on his
body and also had his hand broken.
AS representative of the Velva
| Farmers Elevator company, August
| Prefer contracted for 800 tons of hay
at Mcleod, a small station east of En-
derlin, to help relieve the shortage in
| feed which threatens this section of
the state because or the drouth dur
| ing the summer, which stunted the
| pasture and meadows.
V. B. Noble of Bottinfau sold his $40
acre farm last week to j. A Toms of
Minneapolis. This was one of the big
| geSt real estate deals ever made in
Bottineau county, the consideration
being $4,000. The farm, which ad-
joins the School of Forestry grounds,
is considered one Of the best equipped
farms in the state, having up to date
buildings and machinery and pure
bred stock, which sold for an addition
al $4,000.
81 got tired reading in the papers
that l had been murdered in Fargo
and just thought would come and tell
you it was a gosh-d1nged lie,' was the
remark of Hans Holm to a Fargo un-
dertaker. A man alleged to have been
murdered by Frank Hofy Sunday ev-
ening had been identified by several
parties as Holm. 1t is stated now
that the murdered mans name is H.
M. Home and that his mother, Mrs.
Martin Olson, lives in Minneapolis.
That the thirty day storage clause
will be waived to permit the storage
of seed wheat and that difficulties ex-
listing between the food administra-
ton and the North Dakota farmer will
be satisfactorily adjusted are the
opinions of Robert o. Taft, son Of the
former president, here as personal
representative of Herbert G. Hoover,
ney Genral LANCER.
Charles D.. Gibbs, one of the few re-
naming typical Indian scouts of the
early days, died in his old shack in
Williston last week. The Indian scout
at one time refused $500 for taking a
party of government agents from Fort
Buford to Fort Benton. He was the
confidant of hundreds of Indian chiefs.
Relatives had often asked him to
come ana live with them but he pre-
ferred the old shack that reminded
him of the old hunting days.
The late John G. Johnson, the great
Philadelphia lawyer, was one day
pleading case in court, when he adj
dressed the bench: "Will the court
bear in mind please that this man on
| trial is not SO great scoundrel as
Your Honor"-here Mr.. Johnson stop.
ped for a moment with twinkle in
his eye, while the courtroom roared
with laughter, and then he added
| takes him to be-" "Will counsel be
! so kind hereafter said the court to
l Mr.. Johnson, ''as to put his words a
| little closer together?"
| The new automobile license
| law which became effective January
l 1918, abolishes the present fiat fee OF
So, and introduces a sliding scale be
ginning with Sc for car of 20 horse
~ power and fifty cents extra for each
additional horsepower. The ordinary
!. FLYER of % horse power under this act
+ will cost 81 the year, and the 40 horse
power moose will tax it's owner Sill
IL is expected tnat the returns from
! the sale of license tags which this
! year was approximately $1SO,0OO viii
be trebled next year, and that the
state will realize from this source al
i most half-million for state highway
building.
That the burglar who entered the
postoffice and general merchandise
! store owned by William Shaw, at Pin
gree, last Friday evening was a bold
bad man, is indicated by his attitude
when fired at by Mr. Shaw, who dis
covered the thief about to blow tn,
store safe Mr.. Shaw rushed to tn,
store, the robber made circus lea,
through the window, and Mr.. Shaw
cut loose with .3S, firing three times
Holy smoke" shouted the burglar
as he leisurly made his way dow
main street, "be careful or the frs
thing you know somebody will be get
| ting hit around here"
After securely tieing eight peopl
SO they could not move, three maske,
men robbed the farm home of A. BIZ
shard, located near Rugby. When tn