The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1919-01-30

has never before been so great a de-
mand for licenses. Trappers are Sc
curing about $500 for muskrat skins
latter being unusually plentiful, after
several years protection in this state.
The Van Hook Tribune says Jack
Stupart, the Mountrail county ban
dit, who cut a wide swath last sum-
mer, in committing burglaries, shoot
ing at officcrs and so on, was brought
back from Camp Dodge to Stanley,
taken before Judge Fisk and sentence
ed to five years in the penitentiary.
He plead guilty to grand larceny. In
this wise did our bad man come to
an inglorious end.
Henry F. Bechtold, one time sheriff
of Morton county and later chief of
police of the city Of Glen Ullin, has
been deposed from that office. Bech-
told was temporarily removed from
office last fall, charged with incom-
potency The matter was taken into
court, and finally came before COM
mission appointed by Governor Fraz-
ier, and headed by the governor. This
commission handed down decision
this week permanently removing Bech-
told from the office of chief of police
of Glen Ulijn.
Valley City, home town of North
Dakota's new woman superintendent
of education, is all wrought up. N.
c. Macdonald, retiring superintendent,
has brought action to prevent Miss
Minnie Nelson holding the office on
the ground that she is not qualified.
A charred effigy of Macdonald hangs
on a telephone pole near the Northern
Pacific station Citizens staged the
burning last week.
Courtship gifts formed the basis of
a law suit which was tried in the Cass
county district court. Gustave
Kruschke, Cass county farmer, sued
Lydia Palmer, in an endeavor to re-
cover $4,000, which, he claimed, was
the value of gifts he lavished on, the
defendant during their courtship, a
courtship which ended when the de-
PENDANT married another man. The
two principals and one witness testi-
fed in the case, and the jury decided
upon hearing the facts that Mr..
Kruschke was entitled to judgment for
$500.
An official dispatch from the war
department last Friday brought the
good news that Tello Mccullough, son
of Mr.. and Mrs. j. H. Mccullough, of
Minor, had been released from Ger
man prison. On Thanksgiving day
Tello was reported missing in action
and his parents and many relatives
and friends were very much afraid
that he had been killed although there
was still hope that he might pos
sibly be found alive.
Old Dog, chief of the eros Ventres,
one Of the four tribes which live in
peace, and harmony on Berthold reser-
walton, has taken Mrs. Old Dog to a
Bismarck hospital for treatment. Old
Dog is full blooded Gros Ventre, and
is one of the wealthiest and most pro-
gressive Indians on the reservation.
He has thousands of acres Of good
land, several thousand head Of regis
tered cattle and hundreds of fine hors-
es Last summer he built a nine
room house in which he installed a
modern heating and plumbing system.
Atty. B. A. Dickinson appeared be
fore the State Banking Board Jan. II
in behalf of the Great Western Oil and
Refining Co., Ryder, N. D., of which
he is general counsel, asking for a
permit for the company to do business
under the Blue Sky laws of the state
of North Dakota, which permit was
granted to said company to sell stock
within the state up to an amount to
be limited by the board. The COM
pany is Incorporated under the laws
Of the state Of Delaware. with cap
ital stock Of 100000, and is organic
ed to engage in oil business and de-
ualon ifs oil leases frihllta rx To Ruder