The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1917-01-25

was notified by telephone and a search
was begun and five hours later Worth
was prisoner again, having been TAX
en- at Griffin by G. w. Soderman and
his trusty rifle, ably assisted by the
same old jinx, bright moonlight.
Bowman is about to vote $4,000 to
sink several additional wells and lay
several miles Of water mains. Over
half of the village is served at the
present time, but the rapid growth in
size during the past three years has
taxed the present water facilities be-
yond their capacity.
To sleep in strawpiles during Thurs
day and Friday nights and to wander
about trying to find human habita-
ton all day Friday during the terrific
blizzard last week was the experience
of Abe Guenther Of New Home and
Andrew Gust of Sykeston. After
spending the day at Sykeston they left
for Mr.. Guenther's home with a bob
sled with coal and other provision.
After travelling some distance the
storm got worse and they got off the
road and lost their way, at point aft
erwards found to have been about
three miles south of Sykeston, near
Mike Doyle's. The wind changed, a
fact which further confused them, and
later their team got down in Mike
Setrn's field, the pole of the sleigh
breaking. In working about the sleigh
Guenther took off his coat and it blew
away or got buried in the snow. From
that time until Saturday morning they
were either on the prairie, fields or at
strawpiles. The faithful team stayed
with them, and only by the action Of
one of the horses, the animal nibbling
him, did Mr.. Guenther wake up Friday
night and crawl into the strawpile and
prevent his freezing to death. Both
men we're nearly exhausted and frozen
by Saturday morning, when Mr.. Gust
discovered a trail from the strawpile
to the residence of John ]. Dirksen.
Gust thought that Guenther was dead
or dying, but when they brought him
to the house it was found that only his
hands and feet were frozen while Mr..
Gust; feet were badly affected by the
cold. They found they were only three
quarters of mile from home. The
horses came through the storm all
right and the men feel extremely
thankful that they themselves are
now alive.
A case which created considerable
interest came up before Justice De
Lance of Sanish Monday afternoon, in
which E. E. Wesley, one of our leading
hotel keepers, had sworn out war
rant against one VIM. Pearce, COM
monty known as "Shorty the Stew"
charging him with the theft of pock-
etbook containing ten-dollar bill. The
stealing was supposed to have taken
place between the hours of II a. m.
and 2 p. m. Tuesday. Mrs. Wesley was
the first to discover that the money
was missing and notified her husband,
who had Pearce arrested on suspicion.
Constable Fowler brought the accused
before Judge Defiance on petit lar
ceny charge. Pearce pleaded not gull
ty and demanded a jury trial, which
was granted him. Attorney Medbery
of Stanley appeared for the defense
and examined all the witnesses very
carefully before submitting the case
to the jury. The evidence against
Pearce was only circumstantial and
the jury was out only few minutes
when they returned with a verdict of
not guilty. Thus endenth the first
not guilty. Thus endeth the first
Fire from an unknown origin caused
the total destruction Of the A. E..
Spieser two-story mercantile brick
building and the general merchandise
and hardware stock belonging to Her
man Kalinowski and the j. F. Eding-
er pool hall in Fessenden at 2 o'clock
last Friday morning during one Of the
worst billiards. that this section has
ever known. The estimated loss is
close to 100000. Roomers in the sec
ond floor Of the building were awaken
i ed only in the nick Of time to escape
, before the building became mass of
! flames. w. A. Graupman, ex-sheriff
i and widely known old resident of the
2 county, escaped through window,