The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1919-01-02


Alex Bonanko Of Kief. has been
pound over to the district court on .
c s,.sLg OF burglary. He is charged
tile Co. =
The state draft board when it quit
work Dec. 8 had classified 45,4O2 draft
reglstrants, Of which 39,204 were
Claims Tor exemption on agricultural
A lone burglar smashed show win
doW OF the Hagen-Ne jewelry
store on broadway in Fargo last Tues
uay morpng and escaped with wrist
$1,000. "
When our boys turned the tide at
chateau Ih!erry they saved France
ana the world. l never have been 80
proud OF being an American as I am
today" said former Governor l.. B.
Hanna OF North Dakota, in an address
at Bismarck before the Commercial
club.
J. W. Riley, Fargo. will he clerk Of
the certlflcatlon department; H. G.
Arnsdarf, Valley City, deputy super
intendent; and Charles A. Mcfarland,
Valley City, assistant to Miss Minnie
j. Nelson, state superintendent of
public instruction-elect, commencing
Jan. 1.
Once upon time a rooster and a
rat got into fight and when the rat
was whipped the rooster proposed dis
armament. Called upon for details
the rooster suggested that all teeth
should be pulled in order that there
might be no more biting done. When
asked what was going to be done
about beaks and spurs he said it was
necessary to retain them in order that
the freedom of the barnyard might be
preserved, whereupon there was loud
cackling among the hen-heads.
Millard Morris, Belfeld young
boy, had a narrow escape from death
by drowning last week when he fell
into an open airhole while skating on
the Northern Pacific reservoir The
water was about Is feet deep at that
point, and the lad was just about ex-
hausted when Ralph Hughes, 81
schoolmate, bravely jumped into the
icy water and pulled Willard to the
edge of the hole, from which position
both of the boys were rescued by q |
number of other boys, who, lying on
their stomachs, formed a chain to the
hole.
w. P. Bienemann, farmer resid-
ing ten miles south of Belfeld, was
arrested by j. H. Trotter of Fargo,
deputy United States marshal, on q
federal warrant charging that he APP
piled vile name to returned Ameri-
can soldiers, and raised a question to
the veracity of their statements of
conditions in France. One of the
statements he is reported to have
made was: "You mustn't believe all
the damn lies that the -- re-
turned soldiers will be telling" The
accused was brought before U. S.
Commissioner Del Hughes at Belfeld
on Monday, who bound him over to
the next term of federal court which
will be held at Bismarck in March.
His bond Of $1,000 was signed, it is
said, by Mrs. Elizabeth Schussler.
The live stock industry in this vi
entity and county is due for a boom,
according to the opinion Of H. l.. Ell
liot. manager Of the Northern Pack
ing plant. He reported that the pro-
gress of the plant was all that could
be expected, but that he could not
make any statement as to the date of
opening. Mr.. Elliot pointed out that
diversified farming was no more a
fad, but reality. and that the Sue
cessful farmer hereafter would be the
man who adopted this method Of con-
Quoting his business. GGod prices
were assured in wheat for 1919, he
said, by the government, and the price
of hogs, in all probability would also
be fixed. Mr.. Elliot said that with the
packing plant here in the midst of
cattle and hog raising section big
future lay before the farmers in the
Live stock industry
Last Sunday, Frank Oberdear was
killed at his home north of Towner
| From what we can learn Of the affair,
| it seems that Oberdear and his wife
| had been having some family trouble
that day. Along in the afternoon, af-
ter he had made serious threats, his
wife went to room upstairs and he
followed her there. She warned him
to stay away or she would be compel
led to shoot in self defense. He pro-
ceeded to follow her up and when he
entered the room he met his wife with
a shot gun in her hands. He kept
right on and she pulled the trigger,
the charge from the gun striking him
in the face and tearing away the low
er part of his Jaw. He staggered
down stairs and was able to get that
far when he fell dead on bed. Pub
| lie sympathy appears to be entirely
| with Mrs. Oberdear as it is said her
husband has always been very quar-
relsome at home.
While wandering about on the ice
covering the Missouri river, search
! ing for his team, which he had lost
in fog, Nels Nelson. prosperous
farmer of Conklin, few miles west
| of Washburn, fell through an air.
hole Friday evening and was swept
away by the swift current before two
neighbors who were with him could
rescue him. There is little hope that
that body ever will be recovered. A
son of Thomas Thompson, who, with
! Honr&y Dahl 18th Na1onu ~ ho