The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1918-12-26
BRIEF STATE NEWS

The state university will reopen De-
cember 80.
Grand Forks county had over 1900
men with the colors".
New road projects in North Dakota
will add 46l miles of highways.
Another bank is being organized at
Grafton with $4,000 capital. 1t
will be controlled by Nonpartisans.
The five Hazelton, Emmons county
men charged with rioting were ac-
quilted at Bismarck.
The North Dakota Bankers Asso-
citation is behind plan to bring new
settlers and capital to the state.
The jamestown college received
$4,000 from the Rockefeller founda-
ton.
Frank Barnett Of Van Hook was
thrown off horse and suffered a
compound fracture of the left arm.
The Makoti Sentinel claims Makoti
1 has marketed 100000 bushels of
grain so far, with lots more to come.
Four trunks containing 1913 bottles
of whiskey We're seized at Grand
Forks, and the owner has been in
vited to call at the police station anc
get them.
A Skogmo man was brought to Bal
four last week for medical treatment.
He had fallen from hay-sling and
both arms were broken, and he was
otherwise bruised.
A load of wheat was stolen from
John Torgrimson's farm near Drake,
recently and the wagon tracks were
followed to farm near Dogden.
One Of the saddest deaths that has
affected the Towner community was
that of Francis Reed, daughter Of
James Reed, for many years a resi-
dent of Towner and Of late years of
Harlem, Mont.
Lower Front street in Fargo was
held by Judge C. F. Amidon as being
a slum on par with those in Chicago
and New York in an address at the
Fargo Y. M. C. A. last Sunday.
Forty-three North Dakota men
were listed by the United States in
its, casualty lists made public Sun
day and Monday, being the largest
number from this state reported with
| in such short time.
A standard wage, regulation Of
working hours and strict enforcement
of labor laws for women and children
in North Dakota has been asked by
the state welfare association.
Prof. H. E. Willis, acting dean of
the college of law at the university,
has published an interview in the Non
partisan press supporting the recent
amendment deal as put over by the
Nonpartisans at Bismarck.
Private Sebastian Mischel, residing
twelve miles north of Dickinson, was
last heard from in France on Septem-
Der 10, and his parents have asked the
Red Cross to trace him.
Word has been received at Dickin-
son that Orville Gilroy, former pro-
prietor of the St. Paul hotel at Dick
inson, has been killed in action.
Bert Gilman, well known farmer re-
siding several miles from Belfeld,
blew his head off with shot gun
several hours following the death Of
his wife. He committed the deed in
his barn. The couple had been mar
ried two years.
Fred letter, one Of Dunn county's
pioneer farmers, residing four miles
southeast of Manning, died Thursday,
November %, and his wife died on
Wednesday, December 8, of influenza.
Three small children are left as or
phans.
Nick P. Falsh, Almont blacksmith,
was arrested Tuesday by United
States Deputy Marshal Trotter Of
Fargo, on the charge of sending an
obscene letter through the mail to
young lady Of the same vicinity. His
hearing will be held before United
States Commissioner E. R. Lanter-
man January and in the meantime
he is a boarder at the Morton county
bastile in default of $500 bonds.
January IA, Is and 16, next will be
big Society Of Equity days in Fargo,
with the annual meeting of the stock
holders Of the Equity Cooperative
Exchange being scheduled for Jan. IA,
and the annual meeting of the stock
holders of the Equity Cooperative
Packing Co., scheduled for Jan. is.
Secretary Baker informed Chair
man Dent Of the House Military Com
mittee today that all the discharged
soldiers may permanently retain the
uniform and overcoat they wore when
mustered out. Mr.. Dent prepared a
bill embodying the necessary author
ity. Previously the department had
planned to have the clothing returned
to the government three months after
a soldiers discharge.
Twelve arrests were made by Far
go and Cass county officials who CO.
operated Saturday night in series Of
raids on N. P. avenue, Front street
and Broadway establishments. The
charges were the illegal sale of liquor
and the maintaining Of disorderly
houses. Several taxi drivers were in
Guided in the list of those gathered in
the net.
The small bunk house at the Ser
mine near Stanton was destroyed by
fire. The fire originated from an oil
stove which was left burning while
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