The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1920-07-15

are ascribed Is the immediate cause
Of her death.
! ]. N. Peters Of McHenry county,
one Of the state hail adjusters, was
around the Douglas neighborh0Od last
Saturday trying to adjust the dam
age that was done in the rye fields
by the hail storm of three weeks ago.
The result was that the farmers got
the shortest end of the deal, because
the adjuster now counted the short
spears that had sprouted out after the
storm, and in this way he got the per-
centage down to less than one-half
of the actual loss.
Dickinson, N. D.-Here is the un-
usual in check passing.
Fred Carpenter, of Dunn Center, as
serting that check for $25 which
he is accused of attempting to pass
on Belfield, N. D., merchant, is gen
uine, but th&t he reduced the face of
the check from $25 to $3.50 in the
belief thst it would be easier to ne
gotiate the smaller check, is the CEN
trail figure. He is in the Dickinson
Jail awaiting disposition of the charge
of forgery.
Two checks for 500 and SIS, passed
at Hagen, N. D., supposedly by Car
jamestown, N. D.-Arnold Ecklund,
the 11-year-old son of Mrs. Elmer
johnson, was killed at the Peter Calf
ney farm near Buchanan when the
horse which he was riding stepped into
badger hole and fell. The boy was
pinned under the horse and death was
instantaneous.
Wahpeton, N. D.-Funeral services
were held at Mooreton, Richland coun-
ty, for Doris McDougall, IL, who, with
boy chum, Leo Martin, 20, was
drowned late Monday evening while
boating on Lake Elsie at Hankinson.
Their bodies were recovered at mid
night Tuesday. They were found, with
the aid of a searchlight, lying less
than 100 feet from shore in water
eight feet deep. The body Of the boy
has been shipped to his home in Suth
erland, la. The holiday tragedy makes
the toll of Lake Elsie number five
deaths in the last five years.
Cakes, N. D.-Fred Wedel, 2O-year1
old son Of Mr.. and Mrs. August Wedel
of this place, was drowned in the
James river just north of the Cakes
bridge. He went in bathing with a
half dozen other boys who could not
swim. He got beyond hi sdepth and
drowned before help could be sum
moned.
Fort Yates, N. D.-Jack Guyer, ac-
cused of cattle rustling in one of the
most sensational cases brought to
light in recent years, will 60 on trial
for the second time in the Sioux coun-
ty district court on July %. In the
original trial of the case early in June,
the jury disagreed, 10 for tacquittal
and two for conviction. A special
term of court for the trial of the Guyer
case was ordered by Judge .. M. Han
ley.
+ Dickinson, N. D.-Robert Smith, an
auto mechanic, was arrested here,
charged with the theft of an automo-
bile, and facing the possibility of also
being charged with abduction. With
Smith was a 44-year- old Bismarck
girl. The girl told authorities that she
and Smith were heading for Wyoming,
expecting to be married there.
Bismarck, N. D.-The state licens-
ing department will continue to be OPP
Grated under the direction Of the at
torpey generals office, as a result of
the repeal of the state sheriff law in
the primary. The department was to
be transferred to the state sheriff, if
the law was upheld. AS a result of
the publicity given the act, taking the
licensing department from the attor--
ney general on July l, many dealers
have obtained the mistaken impression
thatthe licensing department has been
abolished.
: Dickinson, N. D.-Mary Jane, aged
8, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph
Hartze, died in Dickinson hospital
as result Of injuries received by the
kick Of a horse. The\child was playing
in the barn on her parents farm near
Carlyle, Mont, when a, colt kicked her
in the forehead.