The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1919-05-01

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Forks this year, petitions being in cir
culation which call for the laying OF
about three or four miles of pavement
in the residence districts.
Leo Leiske, young farmer Of the
Heaton district, near Fessenden, is
dead, as a result of the explosion
which followed the examination of
Jug of gasoline with lighted match
in school house near his home.
Voters of jamestown overwhelming
~ decided in favor Of municipal own
ership of lighting and power plants,
when 297 votes were recorded in favor
of the proposition and only Sc against.
The total vote however, was unusually
small.
Explaining in note that she had
penned just few minutes before tax
ing poison, that she was tired OF ilv-
ing, Frances Walker, fifteen-year-old
school girl, killed herself at the home
of her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Frank
Walker Of Courtenay.
w. E. Hayes of Minneapolis. 500
line brakeman running north out OF
Bismarck on the way freight, is be-
lieved to- have suffered concussion
of the brain when he was struck by a
box car while leaning from the cab Of
500 line engine in the Washburn
Ignite mine yards at Wilton.
| An exceptional development in the
dairying industry in North Dakota is
reflected in an increase of 200, or.
about 80 per cent, in the number of
applications for licenses filed with the
state dairy department by local cream
stations More than 800 of these sta
tons already have been licensed.
New strains of wilt-resistant flax
seed are relied upon to keep North Da-
kota well toward the forefront in fax
production, Notwithstanding this is
crop which does not ordinarily
thrive we'll except upon new land.
Grain specialists in connection with
the state Agricultural college at Far
20 are giving the matter careful at
tention and report satisfactory pro-
gress in their work.
Charged with having fed his wife
turpentine and with having kicked her
on several occasions, which resulted
in her death, Ed. Stoller Of Grant
county is in the custody of the sher
if at Shelby, Mont, and was held UNI
til the arrival of Sheriff Don Steven
son, who left Mandan Sunday morning
for that point. The wife, Mary Stol-
Ter, died about ten days ago and a
corners jury reached verdict that
she had come to her death at the
hands of her husband. Stoller will
be charged with manslaughter.
In addition to the allotment previ-
ously made to the fiscal year ending
June 80, 1910, amounting to $22O,385,
the. state highway commission an
nounced the receipt of certificatlon
that North Dakota's share of the $l5,-
900 900 made Immediately available,
upon the passage of the federal aid
amendment, which increased the
amount of federal aid from SIS 900 900
to $275 900 900, is $73S $50. The total
federal aid allotment for the fiscal
year ending June 80, 1919, is, there
fore, 1897, GAG. If the aSSnties and the
: township are equally liberal in their
appropriations, approximately $4,000
900 will be invested in better roads
this year.
League speakers commenced their
"don't sign petitions" campaign by
stating that the eminent domain clause
IN the honiebuilders' law did not apply
to farm lands. They are not making
the claim any more. The severe call
ing down they got from the farmers
made some of the speakers realize that
the farmers were not as guliib)e as
the League bosses had represented
them to be. The farmers knew about
the eminent domain clause a most
vicious feature-and that is one Of the
reasons why they lost no time in sign
ing the petitions. Incidentally, it was
one of the reasons why the League
bosses and their kept press were cry
ing, "don't sign petitions"
The worst tragedy probably ever
committed in that locality occurred
last Thursday morning at the Ode
gard home 6 miles south of Kindred
when Simon Odegaard shot and killed
his wife and then turned the gun on
himself and pulled the trigger. The
deed was committed with a .38 calibre
revolver. The youngest son, boy of
IL, found his mothers dead body in
the kitchen home, and went to notify
neighbors While he was absent, the
father went to a grove of trees near
the house, put the muzzle Of the gun
in his mouth and fired. Sheriff Void
and Coroner Ness were Immediately
called out from Wahpeton to act in
the case. None Of the other children
were home at the time of the shoot
ing. The deed was probably commit
ted in rage. Odegaard, altho Of
quarrelsome disposition, was in an
unusually pleasant mood that morn
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lily, and they are at loss to account
for the murder and suicide. The cou-
pie, about 50 years Of age, are pio-
neers, having resided in this district
six weeks ago from Guilford, Mont,
where he has farming interests. Four
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