The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1920-03-11
RUSSELL NEWS

kUSSELL NEWS
The Farmers Elevator burned to thf
ground on March 8, fire thought Il
be of incendiary origin. The fire ex.
tinguisher was filled with gasoline
Mr.. Anderson, the manager, leaves TO,
Minot the following morning, has moi
yet returned. Books show q shortage
of at least Fifteen hundred dollars, &C
cording to statement made by Mr.
Day, auditor for the company. Mr.
Hawkinson, State Fire Marshall ap.
pears on the scene, and orders the ap.
prehension Of Anderson until an in.
vestigation can be made. The eleva-
tor was completely destroyed also the
coal sheds and a small Quantity OF
coal. The fire was first discovered by
Mr.. E. E. Nelson, about four in the
morning who at once sent in the
alarm. Help arrived at once but the
elevator was completely enveloped in
flames and the fire fighters turned to
save the adjoining elevators. Anderson
being a bitter enemy of the farmers
organization SOC made friends with
the l. V. AS in town and now since
he has fled they are spending a great
deal of time trying to excuse his &C
lions, in spite of the fact that Mr..
books show a shortage,
and there appeared to be about 1000
bushels less wheat in the house than
Mr.. Anderson reported in, and appar-
emily a whole carload Of corn missing,
and the fire extinguisher filled with
gasoline just a day or so before the
fire, yet there are some of the I. V. A.
friends of Mr.. Anderson's who say
that is no reason at all for suspicion
that the fire was Of incendiary origin
and thus try to hold down investiga-
ton. However the writer of this article
believes that a thorough investigation
should be made, and if there is any
one who is responsible for the fire
they should be made to suffer for it
and if not then let the matter be
dropped, and none accused, no inno-
cent party should be made to suffer
for what he has not done, neither
should farmers or any one else who
have toiled long and hard for prop
erty have it destroyed at the hands
of anybody and that n who destroys
it go unpublished.
Grandma Fisher is quite i'll at the
home of Mrs. VIM. Schillinger, one
of her daughters, living near town.
Grandma Fisher is " years old and
has many friends in this community
who hope for a speedy recovery.
Miss Esther Knudson had a narrow
escape from being gassed at the home
of Mr.. Thomson on Sunday night,
Feb. 20. Gas escaping from the hard
coal stove was the cause, when found
she vas unconscious and it took sever
al hours to bring her back to con-
seriousness again.
Miss Francis Turnbull had the mis-
fortune of falling and hurting her
ankle Saturday evening, and it ap-
pears that lie will be some little time
before she will be able to walk on her
foot.
Miss Lucille Maier, who has been or
the sick list is again able to be around.
Ray Fisher returned here from the
where he has been for some
time.
Cecil Goheen spent a few days in
our town last week. He is now living
in the Red River Valley.
It is indeed sad to report the burn
ing to death of the little daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. e. Roster, who live IL
miles south of here and this being the
only child makes it all the more sad.
Mr.. Roster left early for town last
morning for town leaving
few small chores for his wife to do
and while she was out, about 8 o'clock
to finish the work, and returned about
five minutes later she found her child
flames and almost burned to a
crisp. The doctor was called imme-
but there was nothing to be
done and the little one passed away
about two and one half hours later.
The sympathy of the entire neighbor-