The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1917-01-18

prize winers were Samuel Currie and
John A. Harris. Four prizes were
awarded in the district including
Walsh county. The other two went to
Devils Lake and Munich.
Harry Hardy, one of Mountrail
county's commissioners, will be chair
man of the board Of commissioners of
that county for the ensuing year. Mr..
Hardy's many friends will be glad to
hear that he was selected for this i'm
portant position. g
The barn on the farm occupied by
Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence Bessette, north
east of Noonan, was destroyed by fire
Sunday night or early Monday morn
ing. Detailed information as to the
origin Of the fire is lacking, but it is
believed that it was Of an incendiary
nature. 1l9
The International Harvester com
pany will demonstrate the possibilities
Of raising hemp in North Dakota the
coming year. The company has leased
several hundred acres of land in the
Red River valley, some in the vicinity
of Hillsboro, and will give this new
crop thorough trial the coming year.
Should it prove successful it will add
another very profitable industry to the
resources of the state.
Wednesday night last week the lit
tie town of Killdeer had wild time,
when the spotter who had been on the
trail of lot of blind piggers, gam
blers, and other violators Of the laws,
was himself strapped in his room with
about fifty of the gang breaking in
and pounding him up. However, he
was not so incapacitated but that he
Immediately got busy and was able to
round up fifteen of the offenders, who
are now out on bail, the amounts vary
ing all the way from $500 to $1,000.
That decision of the u. S. supreme
court Monday in the Webb-Kenyon
liquor case which sustains the. West
Virginia law made prohibiting the
shipment of liquor from "wet" to a
"dry" state and the importation of
liquor into ''dry' state even for per-
sonal use hits the mail order liquor
business body blow, for fact. This
decision appears to be final. Perhaps
! it does not apply to North Dakota in
| it's fullest sense-as yet-but it may
be made to fit.
Andrew Jacobson, one of the we'll
known farmers in the Wildrose vicin-
! ity, is now installing one of the first
farm electric lighting plants in this
vicinity. The plant is of sufficient
size to operate 40 15-watt electric
lights. The plant will be operated by
gasoline engine, which will also be
used to pump water and do other work
about the farm. Mr.. jacobson built
model farm home last summer, hav-
ing wired for electricity at that time,
and is now completing it with the in
stallation of the electric plant.
Last Sunday afternoon Stanley Her
manovitch, Russian, and John Stains
lovski, Polish, who have been work
ing at the Hough mines southeast of
Noonan, engaged in an alteration
over the war. The argument became
so bitter that fight ensued, and as a
result the Pole nearly split the Rus
slams head open with an axe. Attic
bearing two deep cuts in the scalp,
Hermanovitch was able to 60 to Cros-
by Monday morning and take the mat
ter up with the states attorney. A
warrant Of arrest was issued for
Stainslovoski and he was taken be-
fore Justice Noonan where he de-
manded hearing. The case was set
for Saturday. States Attorney G. B.
Brace will prosecute for the state and
the defendant will be represented by
Geo. P. Homns.
Louis Nardello (Fuerllo) who was
killed in the railroad yards at Mandar
when coal car severed his head from
his body, had $3.50 in gold on his per.
son when he was killed. The money
was discovered by the undertakers
as they were embalming the remains
He had no other wealth that can b