The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1918-10-03

1hlIlIleSOCd Luz lloOu udIldSeS III CNe
upper part Of the Red River Valley
are to be argued before the U. S. SUI
preme court in November.
District Attorney Hildreth has an
nounced that the government has the
facts that will lead to nearly twelve
arrests at Mott and vicinity in con-
nection with the gigantic boxcar rob-
berry conspiracy.
The state railroad commission has
taken steps to secure the shipment of
hay from points where it is available
to avert shortage which has been
threatened in the slope grazing sec
tions west Of Bismarck
Keep your rat poison where the lit
tie children can not get it, for you
may get a scare if you do not. Mr..
and Mrs. Earl CLANCY, of Granville,
had such scare last week. Their
little boy was found playing with a
box Of poison. He was taken to the
doctor and at last report appeared to
be all right.
According to the county papers
prairie chickens are not very plentiful
in the country this season. Due to the
cold weather the birds were as wild
as March hares and in many cases
hunters could not get within shooting
distance of them.
Lieutenant John A. Forseth, Of
Grand Forks, fell 1000 feet while fly
ing in France, and is recovering in a
French hospital. Forseth, writing to
his parents, says he was leading three
other American airplanes toward the
German lines when his machine was
struck by shrapnel. 1t fell and he was
bruised and internally injured, but
writes that his rayery is assured.
Before the war Forseth made exhibit
ton flights.
Two thousand domestic and foreign
corporations doing business in North
Dakota must file their now delinquent
corporation reports with Secretary of
State Thomas Hall or have their cor
poration charters revoked. These re-
ports are required by law to be filed
annually with the secretary Of state,
accompanied by small fee. For sew
eral years many corporations each
year have failed to make their reports
and have either lost their charters or
had been reinstated under curative
legislation provided for that purpose.
There is law in North Dakota re-
quiring land holders to pillow land
which is infested with grasshopper
eggs. The enforcement of this law
lies with the county commissioners.
In all counties where grasshoppers
have been noticeably abundant in the
past season the county commissioners
should take active steps toward the
enforcement Of this law. It will be
found upon investigation that there
are almost. no counties in North Da-
kota that do not have grasshoppers in
dangerous numbers over more or less
of the cultivated area. In some Of
the counties in the central and vest
ern parts of the state, grasshoppers
are found in considerable numbers in
almost every field. The time to take
active measures is now, if we would
escape wholesale calamity next
year.
Roger Carter and H. C. Hawkins
confessed thieves Of the j. T. Leahy
automobile at Mandan, when they APP
peared before Judge Nuessle in the
district court chambers, were each
sentenced to one year in the state PEN
itentiary and Immediately began
serving sentence. The apprehension
conviction and falling Of these thieves
probably established record in the
courts Of the state for speedy prose
cution. They stole the car Tuesday