The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1917-11-01

Stanley by Deputy Sheriff Slaughter
last Tuesday afternoon, and given a
hearing before the insanity board
The board reports that it is not very
serious case, and he may, after a few
days treatment, be able to be turned
loose again. He is at present in the
county Jail.
Big porkers seem to be the rule in
the neighhorhood of Braddock. The
News tells Of ere that was marketed
in that village recently, which weigh
ed $50 pounds and sold for $500.
Five hogs that size would pay for a
Ford.
The Great Northern has placed an
embargo on shipments of cattle from
Minnesota and North Dakota in order
to give the cars to longer haul ship
pers to South St. Paul-our punish
ment for peing too near a terminal
market.
Fire destroyed the barn on Senator
4. J. Gronna's farm, two miles east
of SPelin, Nelson county. Sixteen
head of horses were burned to death
and all Of the other contents of the
building were destroyed. The origin
of the fire is unknown.
An alarm of fire Tuesday evening
called large proportion of the city's
population to the Lidgerwood hospital
where gasoline stove had acted fun
ny. All danger Of conflagration was
over before the arrival of the fire de-
rartment or distant help.
"A simple device has been patented
to hold mans trousers up and his
vest down and to keep his shirt from
being displaced" says an exchange
No use. Can't work US on any such
machinery. Suppose some damphool
located the lever and threw it into re-
verse.
One hundred and seventy-fve tracts
of land, each tract containing approx.
imately 100 acres, will be disposed of
at the forthcoming sale Of non-com-
petent and inherited Indian lands to
be held at Fort Yates the last week
in December or the first week in Jan
uary.
Valentine Koch, Dickinson's repre-
sentative at the officers training camp
at Fort Smelling, Mimi, received an
enviable distinction when he made the
high score on the 2OO-yard rapid fir
ing range. Koch has been on the tar
get range all week and same out with
flying colors every day.
Editor j. M. Connolly, of the Het-
finger County Herald. has come to the
conclusion that coil heaters, like
grass widows, are hot stuff" One of
the critters (oil heaters, we mean)
COT fr, l., ~, oJi+o,.,. c1oo font
the other evening, and the flames
made short work of the canvas affair
]. C. Schleppegrel wants to go tc
war, and is offering his Hazen Star
for sale. The Star is a good money
maker, and "Schlep" should have lit
tie trouble in disposing Of it. Julius
is former Minot boy, working with
the writer for Geo. w. Wilson on the
old Ward County Reporter sixteen
years ago.
Emil Keller of Almont was brought
before United States Commissioner
Lanterman Tuesday by Deputy United
States Marshal Scott. Keller is charg-
ed with violation of the act of con-
gress of an attempt to cause insubord-
ination, disloyalty, mutiny and refusa!
of duty in the military and naval
forces of the United States. Commits
sioner Lanterman bound him over to
the next term of the United States
district court in the sum of $1,000
He furnished bonds and was released
Adolph Lehman, confined in the
Stark county Jail since May goth, on
the charge of numbering Matthias
Wetzstein, at Richardton, has been re-
leased from custody pending his trial
in the district court of Golden Valley
county, to which change of venue was
taken from Stark county. Bail was
fixed in the sum Of $4,000, the bonds
men being Paul Lehman, a brother
of the accused man, and George Ba-
hermann, a brother-in-law.
| A Stacker named Elliott, at Car
rington, claimed he belonged to an
organization that would "get" the
government. He is now part Of the
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