The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1917-08-16
AROUND THE STATE

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Judge Robinson of the supreme
court says North Dakota has no "bone
dry law. Judge Amidon Of the fed
eral court says that a person has no
right to carry flask on his hip when
coming into North Dakota from wet
territory. And there you are. Better
be safe than sorry.
The shoplifter, like the highway rob-
Der, is of very little use to society and
thrives only in obscurity--when no.
body is looking. Several expensive
pieces of dress goods have recently
disappeared from the counter of an
Ambrose store, which indicates that
some unfortunate person is yielding to
an evil suggestion which may before
long get them into heaps Of trouble.
The Starkweather Times editor
makes complaint stating that petty
grating takes place at the state fair,
which is a state institution. The editor
made purchases of ice-cream cones and
red lemonade for which he paid ten
cents throw, thus causing the feeling
of dependency to come over him. War
times, Brother Morgan.
Roscoe and Forrest Gloon, small
sons Of John Gloon, a homesteader
south Of Sanish, ran away from home
a couple of weeks ago. The youngest
boy, aged eleven years, while getting
off a train at GAINESVILLE, Mimi, was
thrown against a switch, his left leg
being so mangled it had to be am
putated, his right arm broken and
two fingers had to be amputated from
the right hand, The father was called
there to take the boys home.
Metal obtained from two bells stolen
from the Catholic church at Fingal,
Barnes county, one night recently and
from the church at Saunders, four
miles south Of Fargo, the following
evening, will net the thieves about
81 800. Bell metal is made Of copper,
brass. bronze and aluminium and some
tin, all of which have scared in price
since war time. Bell metal now should
bring between so and IS cents pound.
1t is believed the thieves are making
Fargo their headquarters and that af-
ter robbing the church at Fingal they
worked their way east to Saunders
and then into the latter city.
of Van Hook, and Oscar Sventson, of
Plaza, were arrested under federal in
dictments charging Introduction Of liq-
uor on Indian reservation territory. A II
were bound over to the grand jury.
With no cure for snake-bites permit
ted on the reservation, there was con-
sternation in camp when lngvald
Erickson drove into Van Hook with
his fivvcr covered with foam and told
Of terrific struggle with six-foot
bull snake which almost squeezed him
to death before he succeeded in killing
the reptile.
Glendale has been selected by the
government as the location for the
second Astrological observatory to be
built in the United States, the only
other one now in existence being To-
Gated at Omaha. A 4O-acre site has
been purchased and six men will be
located there permanently to install
and care for the apparatus. The work
done at a station Of this kind is similar
to that done at a weather station. eX-
cept that all reading are taken from
great atmospheric heights by means
Of kites. Velocity Of air currents, hui
Nudity, temperature and air pressure
readings will be taken as high as five
miles from the ground.
Fort Yates was the goal of an
eighty automobile race on Friday
of last week. The race was from Nor
ristown for bet of $500 between F,
r. Ginther, driving a Ford, and c. B.
Palmer. driving Dodge. The two
cars left Morristown at dusk over the
Yellowstone and Standing Rock trails,
and Palmer, who won the race arrived
at Fort Yates two hours and 81 min
utes later. The Ford was two min
utes behind the Dodge at Mclaughlin
when the driver met with an accident,
the car turning over, doing consider
able damage to the car and injuring
the driver. He secured help and right
ed the car and continued the race, only
to get on the wrong trail, and gave up
the contest. 1t is said that the race is
to be run over again. The Dodge av
eraged 80 miles per hour for the 80
miles.
Henry Handtmann, 10 years old, son
of John Handtmann Of Mandan, who
recently was relieved Of his position
as deputy sheriff because Of an article
he wrote Of an un-American trend, for
The Nord Dakota Herald, a German
at Dickinson, is showing
his father the way to be patriotic. The
young man enlisted on Company l of
the Second Regiment of North Dakota
In Judge Nuessle's court at Bismarck
Tuesday evening Joseph and Hugh
Burtts, arrested last week on a white
slavery charge, pleaded guilty to in
ducing the formers wife and the wife
of third brother, who is serving sem
tence in the Minnesota prison at Still
water, to come here from Minnesota
to enter a life prostitution and of
subsisting upon the women's earnings.
Judge Nuessle announced that he
would pass sentence Friday morning.
Five years in the state penitentiary is
the maximum penalty. All of the par
ties concerned are in their early TWEEN
lies.
A raid in the Bismarck "jungles" on
the south side of the tracks Tuesday
evening, planned and participated in