The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1919-09-11
BRIEF STATE NEWS

A vacancy exists in Granville post
| office and examinations to fill the po-
sition will be held at Minot on Sep
| TENDER "a.
The Farmers Elevator at Sanish
| burned to the ground last Monday
night. Besides the building and 1000
bushels of grain, five box cars were
! burned.
The Sherwood Tribune asks the cit
| liens of the community to rally to the
support of the hospital A hospital is
| certainly valuable asset to any COM
munity and should be given all posi-
BILE support.
Editor Kendall of the Granville Her
aid says that caution should be OBJ
served in discarding cigar and cigar
cite stubs, along the road, while they
are lighted. Without question a great
many fires have been started in this
manner which little caution might
have prevented.
Five wheat stacks belonging to
John S. Johnson of Ryder burned
down Monday evening. No cause is
known for the fire and it may have
been of incendiary origin. Mr.. John
son threshed some wheat from the
same field Monday and hauled two
loads to the elevator, and it graded
No. Northern.
Patton Evananka of Dodgen had his
threshing, machine badly wrecked by
dynamite when bundle of wheat, in
which quantity of the explosive had
been placed, was fed into the machine.
The dynamite, which might have kill
| ed several men working close to the
separator, was placed in the bundle,
it is believed, by some one who had a
grudge against the owner of the ma
chine. Farmers and threshers are on
the lookout for I. w. WIS.
Chester O. Meredith, who returned
recently to his home at Beach from
the American front in Germany, has
nailed as false the rumor that Benny
Janiciki, the first man to enlist in Co.
M, was CONVICTED as spy while on
shipboard, shot and buried at sea.
"That is wholly without any founda-
tion," said Meredith, when asked to
give the particulars. "Bennie was
with those who were assigned to the
First Machine Gun battalion and he
made mighty fine soldier. Later he
was detailed as bugler and made one
| VI VIC OCoG III Vic IL. LIZ WdS
recognized as 'trusty' in whatever
with the army Of occupation under a
re-enlistment."
John Meindl of Belfeld, charged
with the theft Of five head Of cattle
from Oscar Indergaard' Of Billings
county, made a complete confession
to States Attorney Sol ,Pomerance
this week in which he stated that R.
L. Leeper was sent out to steal five
horses from w. T. Hendren Of Bill
ings county, at the instigation Of Al
Hike, Belield butcher, and that he,
himself, rounded up two steers for
Hike. Following this confession
Hike was arrested Wednesday in
Billings county on one charge and
| Thursday was again arrested in Bel
field and brought to that city,. 1t is be-
lieved that of the two charges
against Hike, the one brought in
Stark county will be given precedence.
A serious automobile accident oc-
Cured last week near Center, in which
George Strong, a young man of that
place, was instantly killed. Mr.. Strong
with Gust Maretz and Art Piltke, also
of Center, was driving into town for
| repairs for threshing rig on which
they were working and in the haste
he was making at the wheel, the man
next him became alarmed at the speed
and shut off the gas on him, at the
same time warning him that he was
going too fast for the Ford runabout
| in which they were travelling. It was
but moment later that the car hit a
stone and tipped over. Strong was
killed instantly, his jaw and neck
both broken; both the other men were
badly bruised but not seriously injur-
ed.
Twenty ranchers and farmers Of
,,illings, Mckenzie and Stark counts !;
in the vicinity Of Belfield have signed
an instrument offering $1,000 reward
to any person or persons who shall
make actual delivery TO- the sheriff Of
either Billings or Stark counties, Of
the person Of w. H. Hardy, q fugitive
from justice, wanted for alleged lar
ceny Of horses and cattle, the tech
meal charge being grand larceny; or