The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1918-05-02

Jackman, chief deputy oil inspector
for North Dakota. Within the past
two weeks one concern alone shipped
200 carloads of gasoline into the state.
There is an ever increasing demand
for gasoline to care for the big in
crease in gasoline tractors and for
the many other engines using gaso-,
line, including the big array of auto4
mobiles now in use in the state.
The United States food administra-
ton because Of shortage of food
stuffs available for the allies has orr
dered all wheat in the hands Of the
farmers sold as war measure and
have issued instructions that wheat
must be marketed prior to May Is.
The price of 1920 is only available
for the 1917 crop until June ! after
which date the price on wheat grown
in 1917 becomes subject to any regula-
tions made by the United States food
administration.
Thirty thousand acres of land own
ed by Leslie S. Hackney and Lillian NJ:
Hackney, his wife, of ST. Paul, are adj
vertised to be sold under foreclosure
at the court house in Bismarck on
June IL, to satisfy mortgage in the
sum of $51 ,232.40 held by r. C. JEFF
ferson of St. Paul The property is
part Of that known as the Hackney
ranch, one Of the largest single tracts
remaining in central North Dakota.
1t is centrally located one the North
ern Pacific and has been the scene of
extensive farming operations for
many years past. The Hackneys have
been gradually parcelling out their
ranch in small farms, but the Hackney
ranch is still one of the largest single
tracts in the state.
Louis Tobias, better known as
"Toby,' languishes in the Stark county
Jail charged with compromising crimes.
The charge is preferred by Fred Sui
Ivan, self-confessed bootlegger, now
doing time in the Stark county Jail.
"Sully" claims that "Toby" accepted
sums of money from him at various
times with the understanding that
"Toby" would protect him from be-
coming tangled up with the law.
"Toby' failed to make good as the
last charge against "Sully' would in
dicate-and "Sully" "squealed."
"Toby" is unable to secure bondsmen
for his appearance in district court.
The Comptroller of the Currency
recently approved an application for
charter for new national bank In a
certain western state, as there was, ap-
parently, an opening for bank in the
community in which it was. to be es-
tablished and the applicants seemed to
be men of responsibility and means
and some prominence. Subsequently,
doubt arose as to the loyalty and pat
riotism of the applicants, and it was
ascertained that although the six ap-
plicants for the charter were reported
to be men of considerable means-sev-
eral of them claiming to be worth a
quarter of million dollars or more
the aggregate amount Of Liberty
Bonds Of the first and second issues to
which the six applicants had subscrlb-
ed was only 5000, several of the .ap-
plicants for the charter having taken
no Liberty Bonds at all, their aggre-
gate subscriptions to the Red Cross
had been only $149. The Comptroller
revoked the authority given for the
organization of this proposed nation
al bank, on the ground that men OF
means in these times who show so lit
tie public spirit in the matter of maxi
ing subscriptions to Liberty Bonds
and to the Red Cross are unfit to be
placed in charge of any national bank.