The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1919-12-11
BRIEF ST; STATE Re i. NEWS.

N"o u!violng Nne IN STARK county, was
recently destroyed by fire. Blim Hin
ton, teacher in that district, will con-
tinue to conduct school, in q farm
house near the old site. The cause
OF the fire is unknown.
F. A. Huske, of Marshall had the
misfortune of losing six Of his best
milch cows and one three-year-o
steer. He had some bran left which
ne had been using for grasshopper
poison and in which arsenic had been
mixed. He swept the mixture from
the barn into the yard where the cat
tie ate it.
When LOO barrels of beer were
dumped into the Mississippi river at
Minneapolis recently, the newspaper
wits all had their fling, but the editor
Of the Winona Republican Herald
takes the palm. He announced that
the beer enroute should reach Wi
mona the next day, and the article
bore the headline, "Shall We Gather
at the River?"-Ex.
One Broms was arrested as a slack
err during the war. Soon after the
armistice, he was relased from Fort
Leavenworth, given an honorable dis
charge, travel pay, $50 a month for
the time he served, SIS month allot-
ment money for his wife, and SIS a
month for the two children. Broms
is now operating the "Red" headquar-
tiers in Minneapolis. Rotten-Ex.
A complaint was sworn out by Os-
car Undergrad of Belfield last week
against J. O. Mullaney of the same
place, on the charge of alleged access
sorry to grand larceny. It is alleged
Alfred Metzler and Ben Sisley, both
Of whom have already been indicted
for grand larceny, took from his place
II head Of cattle, valued at more than
$4,000. It is alleged by Undergrad in
the complaint that Mullaney aided
Metzler and Sisley in the theft and
shared in the profits derived from
their sale.
The annual execution of the cigar
cite bill was accomplished on schedule
time in the house Wednesday after
noon. This is the third time in three
years that the North Dakota legisla-
ture has refused to repeal the statute
which places the sale of sigarettes un-
der the ban. This time it did it in
the face of very vigorous pressure,
borught to bear by American Legion
Posts, labor organizations and others
who declared they saw no harm in the
lowly pill. Other attempts to repeal
blue laws are expected to meet a sim
liar fate. These include bills legal
izing ten-round boxing exhibitions and
creating q state athletic commission
to supervise them; legalizing CONNER
cial Sunday baseball and permitting
the operation of theatres on Sunday.
Senator McCumber announced that
final plans for the construction Of the
Missouri river bridge, between Bis
marck and Mandan had been agreed
upon by Major General Black, chief of
the Engineering Corps, following
report from the engineer headquarters
| in Kansas City. The specifications
agreed upon call for q clearance of
thirty-eight feet above high water
mark against fifty feet elevation of
the Northern Pacific bridge at the,
same point. The Kansas City. head
quarters at first recommended On ele-
walton of thirty-two and half feet
but this was not favored as it con-
tended that high stack steamers might
not be able to pass with this clear
ance. It was stated that the work
on the bridge could be commenced at
once since the specifications agreed
to will conform with the work already
done. t..s...r.
Complaint was sworn out last week
by States Attorney J. P. Cain for the
arrest of James La Deaux McCutchan,
of Belfield and Daxid Brennon of
Grassy Butte on the charge Of grand
larceny Of horses. The complaint al
leges that the defendants stole three
horses on February Is, 1918, and to
answer this charge they appeared be-
fore Justice Walter Sterland, Thurs
day. McCutchan, ST., and Brennon
waived examination but McCutchan,
Jr., asked for a hearing, which re-
quest was granted. Ali were bound
over to the district court, furnishing
torney Cain Of this county and States
Attorney Sol Pomerance Of Billings
county appeared for the state and
H. C. Berry for James L. McCutchan,
Jr. The other defendants having
waived examination, not attorney ap-
peared for them.
Declaring that it is common knoWl-
edge that J. w. Brinton, thru the
control and manipulation of the ma
jority members Of the printing COM
mission, namely John N. Hagan and
S. J. Aandahl, has been enabled to
dictate the legal newspapers to be ap-
pointed in the various counties of the
state and that it is alleged he has pro-
fitted to the extent of $4,000 thru
the passage and administration of
Senate Bill 157, giving the printing
commission this power, and alleging
that he has personally profitted in
amount Of $1,000 to $4,000 from the
sale Of farmers newspapers. Sem
ator F. w. Mees on Saturday after
noon introduced a concurrent resolu-
ton asking the appointment, Of q joint
committee Of five to investigate the
alleged activities Of Brinton and the
majority members Of the STATE print
ing commission. e s. 4
! .Hettineer suffered a 100000 fire on
Wednesday night Of last week when
the blaze wiped out half Of the city's
nrincinal husiness block. The heaviest