The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1919-05-22
BRIEF STATE NEWS

AuuSi0h
f. L. Sullivan, of Mayville, made
his deput as editor and manag sr.yof
the Mouse River Farmers Press last
week, succeeding d. Clint Ashmun,
who has gone to Sacred Heart, Mimi,
to assume the management of =
farmers paper at that place.
A modern high school building to
cost approximately $45,000 will short
ly be erected at Cathay.
A 100000 hotel building, which has
been standing unused at Lakota. will
be reopened, it is announced.
About 43 miles of road work is be-
ing planned under state supervision in
Stutsman county this season.
Valley City council has appinted
a committee to Censor films pre-
sented by local picture theatres.
Action on the passage Of an ordi-
nance authorizing the jamestown Gas
company to increase rates has been
indefinitely postponed.
The accidental drowning Of young
school girl in coulee near Bisbee
has been reported to the county cor
oner's office at Rolla.
Search for the body of Ole Helseth,
drowned in the James river at Kensal,
has been abandoned as fruitless after
extensive efforts had been made.
The Northwestern Educational as
ISOLATION of North Dakota in recent
convention at Grand Forks declared
itself unanimously opposed to the
new administration law providing
centralized political control of all
grades Of public schools.
Elzie w. Barley, aged 36 years,
took his own life at his homestead
farm Az miles north of Sentinel
Butte, aSturday morning of last week
between 8 and 9 o'clock. The cause
of his rash act is laid to period Of
melancholy and dependency follow.
ing an attack. of influenza from which
he seemed to never have fully recov-
cred.
Two Fargo sufferers from the
strange sleeping Sickness" whose
cases have attracted widespread at
tention, are both gradually improving
and their ultimate recovery is believ-
ed to be assured.
Ole Hanson, the plucky mayor who
helped restore order during recent
riots in Seattle, has been invited to
speak before Norwegian-American So
cieties planning to celebrate at Grand
Forks on May II.
Idle gossip of children at school is
assigned as the cause Of the suicide
of fourteen-year-old Frances Walker,
at Courtenay. The child prepared a |
note explaining her actions and giving
detailed directions concerning her fu- !
neral.
Farmers of the Tioga section have
agreed to follow the movement being
taken up in so many North Dakota
towns, and will organize live stock
shipping association.
Burglars entered the store of H.
H. Olson at Ray and took several
hundred dollars worth Of merchandise,
and included large quantity OF candy
and cookies in their loot.
Alvin C. Lindberg, former resi-
dent of the Hillsboro vicinity, was
killed by the fall of an automobile
over a forty-foot embankment near
Bellingham, Washington, few days
ago.
A bridge across the Missouri river
between Mandan and Bismarck, a
dream of generation, is assured by
actions taken by the Morton county
commissioners ON Tuesday and by the
Burleigh county commissioners on
last Thursday. Appropriations Of ST.
proceed with the preliminary surveys
and soundings, and it is freely rre-
dicted that the bridge will be ready
for use in late 1920 or early 1921. The
entire cost of the structure is estimat-
ed at 81 100000 The federal govern
ment pays half of the amount and the
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the balance.
Says an exchange: "The great diff
ference between the real statesman
and the pretender is, that the one sees
into the future, while the other re-
CARDS only the present; the one lives
by the day and acts on expediency;
the other acts on enduring principles
and for Immortality. The Valley City
bank deal, the Brinton line Of news
papers, the strong and repeated APP
peals to prejudice by arraying class
against class, all go to show that the
league bosses are pretenders and not
statesmen in any sense of the word.
They are not building for the future,
but resorting to expedients to gain
their own selfish ends"
Some of the League speakers are
telling the farmers that the eminent
domain clause in the homebuilders
bill passed by the legislature does not
apply to farm lands, but only to town
Such statement is absc,
lutely untrue. It is just as lawful to
grab quarter section of land under
this law as it is to get possession of
a city lot. A League speaker in Cass
county recently had to admit that such
was the case, after he had made the
statement that it did not apply to
farm lands.
Consumers of oil and gasoline In
the state have paid a tax Of almost
ten thousand dollars for the month Of
March, according to state reports.
This is not very injurious to the STAN
dard Oil company because, as a re-
suit of the gas tax law, John DIS
company has incidentally collected
from users an extra amount at least
equal to the tax.
John Mason, Great Northern en-
ploye at Devils Lake, and Mrs. Mason
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