The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1918-12-12
AROUND THE STATE

/ AROUND THE STATE
It's useless to be in hurry unless
you can make it contagious.
The Missouri river is about frozen
over, says the Sanish Sentinel
Jim Kimball of Makoti is on his
feet again after hard siege Of pneu-
monia.
Andrew E. Fereder, of Underwood,
has been arrested on complaint of
| William Bartleson, of Underwood,
charged with perjury in obtaining a
marriage license at Bismarck for him.
self and Miss Elizabeth Bleth, in ref
erence to giving their ages.
-. c. r." who was heralded about
the state as a man Of mystery and as
the long lost son of the late J. H.
Caldwell, wealthy ranchman who re-
sided at Dickinson, is in Seattle, where
ne is said to be subsisting on charity.
An effort was made in 81. C. 8" be-
.af to hae him adjudged one of the
aldwell heirs, but the court decided
Gin an imposter.
| Emmett Halves, residing northeast
OF Sanish, died at St. Pau while on his
way home from Chicago where he
marketer a carload of cattle. He died
OF the influenza. He leaves a wife
and five children.
The total assessed valuation of the
! state of North Dakota for the year
1918 reaches the very respectable
sum Of $403, 422,258, according to
| very interesting compilation issuing
from the department of the state aud
itor. This shows the actual value Of
all property in the state to very closes
| ly approximate two billions of dollars,
which is also coming along some.
Mrs. Elizabeth Peck of Dickinson.
received word last week Of the death
Of her son, Harold. who entered the
service at Fargo last June. The
young man was victim of pneumonia
and succumbed while on the Atlantic
ocean enroute overseas He was
buried at sea with full military hon.
| ors. His death occurred October 16
shortly after the mother had received
a card announcing his safe arrival ov-
erseas.
To enforce their demand for pay
ment Of their salaries during the per-
iOd that the city schools were closed
by reason of the influenza epidemic,
teachers in the Hettinger schools went
on strike. They dismissed their pu-
pills half hour after sessions had
convened, on receiving notice that no
salary allowance would be made by
,, the board to cover the period that the
schools had been closed. School pat
| rons took hand in the situation, and
the board of education called a special
meeting, acceding to the demands of
the teachers.
Plans for the 1919 Devils Lake
chautauqua have already been partial
ly completed by the association, an
nouncement being made today that at
fractions stronger than ever will be
offered Several North Dakota chau-
taquas have combined their interests
in securing talent, the Devils Lake, ,
Valley City, Mohall and Walhalla en-
terprises being included in the cir.
cult. -a, .-
A feature of the Ransom county
district court Tuesday was the plea of
guilty by Alexander Glen Jaworski,
the Enderln bigamist, and the SEN
tence given him by the court. He
drew 1-2 years in the penitentiary.
The best thing that can be said of
Jaworski at this time is that he was
man enough to own his guilt and take
his medicine. But as man sows, 80
he reaps-tares not wheat in his case
Blinded by the headlight of train,
John Schmidt of Richardton steered
his car directly into one which con-
tanned C. R. Smith, his wife and three
small children and W. A. earns, all of
Taylor. The latter received a slight
cash in the forehead and the Smith
car was damaged to the extent of
500.
Three Morton county men, Philip
Bender of Hebron, and Albert Jensen
and Charles Westerman of New Sa-
lem, have recently been convicted of
charges resulting from disobeying the
North Dakota bone dry laws. Bender
was let off easy, with a 81 fine, while
the other two Jared much worse, being
fined $500 and sentenced to serve three
months tine in the Morton county
Jail. Bender was arrested and taken
to Fargo last Wednesday by J. II.
Trotter, deputy Unsred States mar
shall, charged with bringing liquor into
the state in violation of the bone dry
law, was arraigned in federal court
and fined 81. Evidence disclosed THAT
he used the liquor for medicinal pur-
noes on1v