The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1920-01-22
BRIEF STATE NEWS

Nine carloads of wheat were loaded
in Sherwood in one day.
An explosion of gas from the well
under the fire hall in Sherwood Sc
verely scorched freman's face when
he attempted to start fire in the
Jack Westervelt, bachelor living
about five miles northwest Of Wind
mere, was found dead in little shack
where he lived, by neighbors Monday.
When the body was found it was fr0z-
en- stiff, which would indicate that he
had been dead for some time.
The J. Charlson store at Tagus was
broken into last Tueday night and a
small quantity Of merchandise was
taken. This is the third time within
five weeks that this store has been
looted and Mr.. Carlson estimates that
his loss from the three raids will ex-
coed thousand dollars.
stove in which the gas had "pocketed."
A subscriber writing to the Mohall
Tribune News from Ell PasO, Texas,
where he has been located for year,
tells of how we'll he has done since
moving there. He'd saved dollar,
and sent it to the editor to apply
on subscription. If St. Peter don't
pass that guy the dope is all wrong.
Says the Sherwood Tribune: ''Teach
your girl how to cook, sew, mend,
patch and darn, and if she does not
thank you for it, some mothers son
will by and Bly," Yes, and we might
add: Teach her to know the differ
ence between a man and an imitation
which is a mothers son in either case
but vastly different proposition with
which to go through life.
Holding a lighted match near the
opening of a carbide tank, to ascer-
tain whether it was empty or not,
caused an explosion which was rather
disastrous to John Shallenberg, lathe
man in the blacksmith shop of the
Washburn Ignite Coal company. The
upper part Of his face and his head
was badly burned by the explosion,
but happily with no serious results.
More than 47O firms and associa-
tons filed articles of incorporation in
North Dakota during 1919, according
to records at the offices of the secre-
tary of state. The total of 40 includ-
ed 60 cooperative creameries and 80
banks. Since the first week in Sep
TENDER, the records show Is religious
organizations and three cemetery as
sociations having filed articles.
The attorney generals office of
North Dakota has been notified by
telegraph from Washington that
motion has been filed to have advanc-
ed on the calendar of the United
States supreme court suit contest
ing the validity of the state laws pro-
viding for an industrial program. Ac-
cording to the attorney general, it was
his first information relative to the
motion.
The farm home Of Harold Hottie,
four miles east of Sentinel Butte, was
burned early last Friday morning,
Jacob Knoph, an uncle of Mr.. Hottie,
being burned to death. Mrs. Hottie
died Monday as result of burns re-
ceived. Mr.. Hottie was also badly
burned in saving his baby, which he
rescued by throwing it from window
into snow bank. Mr.. Knoph was "a
years old and too feeble to escape
from the fire, which had engulfed the
house when discovered. The cause Of
the fire is unknown.
Sheriff T. N. Hartung of Stark
county delivered Adolph Lehman to
the state penitentiary, the state SUI
preme court having refused to grant
the petition filed by Lehmann's a.
torneys, L. A. Simpson Of Dickinson
and Ben Rigler Of Richardson, for a
rehearing in the case. Thus the last
chapter has been written in q case
which had its beginning on May 20,
1917, when Lehman, in frenzied
rage, murdered Matthias Wetzstein of
Richardton. The murder was COM
mitted at the home Of the victims
mother-in-law.
Grafton, Walsh county, N. D., and
Warren, Marshall county, Mimi, news.