The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1919-05-15
BRIEF STATE NEWS

piked roads which cost Approximately
eighty seven dollars per mile.
The Van Hook curfew bell is to ring
at $3.50, when all boys and girls will
be obliged to scurry home if under
1S years of age. Good stunt.
Jack Carter, an inmate of the state
penitentiary, is visiting at Sanish.
In saying he is an inmate it might be
well to add he is one of the guards.
Backlog is reported to be raging
in several districts of Slope county,
one farmer reporting the loss of IL
out Of 13 head of cattle from the d.
sease.
Judge Cole of Fargo does not look
with favor on red card men, having
denied citizenship to Northern Pa
cific brakeman who is member of the
I. w. w.
The Makoti farmers telephone COM
pany is driving for additional sub
scribers, and the manager has hopes
of securing 80 per cent of the farm
ers tributary to Makoti.
A bond issue of $4,000 for the con-
struction of a municipal auditorium
will be voted on May l3, by the peo-
pie of Dickinson the proposition
having been under consideration for
some time, and has finally taken con-
crete form.
The Nonpartisan Leader editor
seems to think that Bishop Wehrle is
out Of tune. Well, he is--with the
Townleyites. You could hardly ex-
pect that dignified old bishop would
give the same advice that Townley
gave to Mees
Knute Stevenson Of Upham, having
"gone over the top in Townleyism,
suggests that the farmers form Rus
sian soviet and march on Bismarck
and "make short work of LANCER and
Kositzky" Of course that does not
sound like Bolshevism, does it?
Ed Brennan, N. p. section fore
man at Gladstone, subscribed for 49,
500 worth of Victory bonds. Under
government operation section men
now rank with bank presidents in the
matter Of salary, and can do patri-
otto things like that, and not miss the
money.
The Van Hook Tribune says an 49,
months old child of James Sullivan
was run over by q tractor and sus-
tanned no further injuries than flesh
bruises and breaking one bone in a
leg. The soil must have been very
soft for the child to have escaped with
so little injury.
The editor of the Towner Farmers
Press says someone has been "mon-
keying" with the machinery in the Of
fee He is of the opinion that some
of the "accidents" that have been en-
countered are the result of a we'll
organized plot to discourage farmers
from getting behind the paper with
financial support necessary to make
the paper success The editors
deductions" entitle him to place
along side Sherlock Holmes.
Mrs. George J. Smith, now editing
the Plaza Pioneer, soliloquizes thusly:
Editors are only human beings; they
do not claim to be immune from mis-
takes, but after editing newspaper
awhile they naturally become hui
morists; it is so amusing to be jumped
onto every time you poke your nose
outside the office door for some little
fool mistake that has crept in. There
would not half the holler be heard
if we said that the capital of the
United States was Plaza instead of
Washington that there is if we hap
pen to make slight error in report
ing some social happening. Theyi
kick if you do, and they kick if you
don't, so there you are"
Two female tourists of the merry
moment stripe were escorted out OF
Dickinson early Sunday morning by
Officer Tom McDonough after one of
them had been brought before Judge
Walter Sterland on the charge OF
stealing gold watch and chain, and
assessed costs of So and ordered TO
leave town. They left on No. Tor
Bismarck. The two women, Anne
Jones and Thora Ness, stopped IN
Dickinson several days. Saturday az
ternoon they called at store and Joi-
lied one of the clerks and finally Dor
rowed his gold watch and chain.
While the clerk was busy with GUS
toner the women left the store but
did not leave the watch and chain.
The young man preferred charges
and McDonough made the arrest near
midnight in an east side roomlng
house. :,
Ben Loneman, an Indian of the
Fort Yates country, roped full
grown eagle last week and the ma
tional emblem bird is now on display
in q cage at Mclaughlin. While rid
ing along a trail Loneman caught
sight of the eagle feeding on the car
cass of a steer. 1t is we'll known
among the Indians that an eagle can
fly only short distance when gorged
on food, which proved true in this
case as the big bird would get up re-
peatedly but light after only short
flight. The Indian cowpuncher
spurred his mount and finally sue
ceeded in throwing his lariet and get
ting the loop around the neck and one
wing. After hard tussle he man
aged to slip his mackinaw over the
bird and after securing his trophy
by means of his rope, brought it to