The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1919-10-30
BRIEF STATE NEWS

Henry Schoenrock, of the Farmers
State Bank at Sanish, has been ne
gotiating for eighteen hundred sheep
to be shipped in from Montana, and
which will be disposed of among the
farmers of that community. The,
sheep were unloaded at Stanley and
are being driven across country to-
Sanish.
For the first time in it's history the
hustling mining town of Scranton en-
joyed the conveniences of electric
lights last week, when the johnson
Electric Company turned on juice for
public consumption. The johnson
Electric Company has 100000 plant
in connection with the company's lig-
mite briquetting plant, and the service
which formerly was confined entirely
to the mines, has been extended toi
the town people. The plans of the
company are to extend the service
along the Milwaukee railway next
year from Lennon to Marmarth.
Unidentified for nearly an hour,
Mrs. Albert Peters lay dead under her
Ford car on the ST. Anthony road near
the Bohemian church eight miles
south Of Mandan, while two farmers
brought her two-year-old son to Man
dan for attention and Identification.
At the court house Miss Cecile Por-
ter in the county judges office and
little Dolores Rovig, daughter of Reg
lister of Deeds John Rovig, reco gnized
the child as Roger Peters. He wa
dusty and disheveled from the fall and
breathless from shock and excitement,
but after he had been unbundled from
his clothes and cleaned up, practically
his first words were, ''The car stopped
and NOTIFIED died."
Ellen Medalen, aged IA years,
daughter of Andrew Medalen, resid-
ing near Nekoma, is at the hospital
in Langdon recovering from injurf9G
which she sustained in a distressing
auto accident at Nekoma Sunday
night. 1t seems that Mrs. Medalen
and some of the young folks had been
out to the neighbors for visit and
were returning home after dark in
their automobile. Ellen and her bro
Their We're sitting in the front seat,
and the latter was driving. The lights
were not bright and they did not no.
tice number of cattle in the road I'M
til the car was upon them and it was
impossible to avoid hitting them. AS
the car struck one or more Of the an
imals, the impact caused the young
lady to plunge through the windshield,
and sustain injuries when will MAIN
her for life.
Among the tasks, more or less stu
pendous, that have to be decided att
Bismarck, is the color of the automo-
bile license tags. We do not know
upon what they base their selection
or whether or not the color scheme is
worked out to any advantage, anyway
green and yellow will be the color of
next years automobile tags. Con-
tracts have been awarded by the auto
mobile registration department to the
HibbardSpencer-Bartlet company of
Chicago for manufacturing them on a
bid of IA $40 cents each for the first
$4,000 and 10 14-1OO cents for the
first additional 1900. The tags cost
26 cents apiece last year. The back
ground of the tags will be green with
yellow raised letters, instead of sunk
en- numbers as heretofore. Sunken
numerals collected dust so that often
the number could not be deciphered.
More than 100000 has been collect
ed this year so far for auto licenses.
Last year the total collected was only
S473,000. Only 71,687 licenses were
issued last year, while 82,217 already
have been taken out this year.
Hulda Gunderson, tep-daughter of
Mrs. Sam Gunderson, living south of
Walhalla, young woman Is years of
age, committed suicide on Monday Of
last week as about 1880 o'clock in the
evening by taking carbolic acid
swallowing about one and one-half
ounces. She had been employed at
the Walhalla hotel, but had stopped
work there and was living at her
home. When the stage came down
from Langdon she was a passenger.
She went to the Walhalla Hotel and
said she wanted room for the night
and Mrs. Wood assigned her one and
asked her to eat supper with them.
She refused, saying she had lunch be-
fore leaving home. Then she went up
stairs and Mr.. and Mrs. Wood sat at
the table and had finished eating when
one Of the girls who had gone up
stairs came back and said that Hulda
had asked for Mrs. Wood. The latter
got up at once and went to see what
had happened, but when she reached
the room the girl was unable to say
more than that she had taken the acid
and wanted help. Mr.. Wood was told
and made every effort to get DR.. Lam
dry at once and every way known
was employed and at one time Tues
day it seemed that the girl would re-
cover. but after. suffering the most
horrible agony life departed Wednes-
day morning.