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The Ward County independent., 1922-10-26

Murray's that you got to believing it
yourselves. You fellows have given
more space arguing this grain grades
than anything else the League has
done Now, no doubt your time is
very valuable, and | should not take
up any more of it, but / consider my
tine is just as valuable as yours, and
ii can afford to take the time to
write this, it is up to you to read it.
Now have another little slap | am
going to hand you, it relates to an
article on the same page, same issue.
1t is the one about the Home Building
Association. You seem to go into
Mysteries over the money the state
lost by this scheme. The amount, so
your article says, amounts to the
horrible sum of $152, 900, or about ten
cents apiece for every person in the
state.
Now, then, tell us, where to find
the article in your valuable sheet,
where you raise ed your humble voice
against some of the deals that were
pulled off during the war. Tell us
something about that bunch Of sad
dies that were purchased for the
army. We are told{ and on pretty
good authority that each horse and
mule was supplied with eleven sad
dies each, halters, four brushes and
that every mounted officer was sup
piled with SO sets of spurs, and in the
Year of Our Lord 1922 the govern
n Mt is offering for sale (and this
I3ui years after the war is over)
100000 kegs of horse shoes or enough
to give every horse and mule new
pair of shoes every day including
Sunday, that the Army owned, and
then the Soldier Boys would have had
enough left, to have several pitching
contests. Now, tell US something OF
the millions, yes, hundreds of mil
lions of the peoples money that was
squandered during the war, and then
set it up along side of this Sl52,Oooo
and see how insignificant it looks.
! am with kind personal regards,
Yours truly,
CHAS. A. PLATT.
The Ward County independent., 1922-10-26
Cold Snap Damaged Potatoes

A. c. Erb hauled live wagon loads
of potatoes to Minot Saturday only to
find that he had to take all but one
load home in order to sort them over
by hand to pick out the frosted pota-
toes. Mr.. Erb raised 60 acres of the
finest kind of potatoes and himself
and family worked very hard, digging
the crop. The potatoes were placed
in piles and covered with straw, but
the cold snap did considerable damage.
f. J. Aymond, north of the city,
raised 100 acres Of potatoes this year.
He harvested several carloads and
placed them on the market before the
cold snap, but quite an acreage is in
the ground yet. Mr.. Aymond start
ed digging the remainder of his crop
Tuesday and will sort them very care
fully to get rid of the frosted potatoes.
The Ward County independent., 1922-10-26
Frank Rose Wins Important Point in
Court

Frank Rose, better known as "Dago
Frank, charged with having liquor
in his possession, won an important
point in federal court Wednesday
morning when Judge Miller granted
the motion made by Roses attorney,
G. w. Twiford, that the evidence be
suppressed, on the grounds that what
ever evidence had been secured had
been ordered destroyed, and also on
the grounds that the officers had
searched the Rose room in the Grams
block without legal warrant. This
virtually means an acquittal for Rose.
There are numerous other cases
that will undoubtedly be dismissed
on the grounds that illegal search Of
the premises was made, the judge rul-
ing that officers have no right to en-
ter a mans residence or his place of
business in search Of liquor, without
having a valid search warrant in his
possession.
The Ward County independent., 1922-10-26
Sanish Man Writes About Grain
Grades
Sanish, N. D., Oct. 23, 1922.
Ward County Independent:

Sanish, N. D., Oct. 23, 1922.
Ward County Independent:
| have been going to write you for
some time but owing to pressure of
business, it seemed could not get at
it. | have been a subscriber to your
paper, since the Spring Of 1911, in
fact subscribed for it before
moved out on the first farm l rented,
after coming to North Dakota.
have just read your article in the
last issue, about the North Dakota
Grain Grades (Which of course is a
thing of the past). Now understand l
do not accuse you of writing the ar
ticle, but any way, it appeared in your
paper. Your article is very much
misleading, and l doubt very much
whether you understand the argument
you are trying to hand us. In the
first place, the paying for dockage
was to apply to dockage that had
some value in it, not for ground up
flax straw or chaff. Now | will just
cite you one instance, and let you
draw your own conclusions. A neigh
Dor of mine who joins me on the
south, broke out 90 acres for the first
crop. He put it in flax. The next
year he rented this same 80 acres,
double disced it and seeded it to
wheat. He cut the wheat and as is
usually the case, there was a lot Of
volunteer flax in it. He took it to. the
elevator and was told it contained 8
per cent flax, or 8 bushels of flax to
every 100 bushels of wheat. At that
time and I think it was in 1913, fax
was worth about S4.40 or $4.45 bu-
shell, he got something over Is bu-
shells Of flax, which he got the market
price for less the cost of cleaning.
Now that was just one farmer, and
I could cite you to dozens of them,
that had the same thing. Now under
the rule we are working today, he
would have been docked 8 per cent
and the elevator man would have poe
keted the flax money and you seem to
think that is all right, but l have fail
ed to see anything in your paper about
this robbing scheme they are using to
test the weight Of weat. You might
take a walk down to one Of your
nearest elevators, and watch them
test the weight, when a farmer brings
in load of wheat, watch them pour
it into their little funnel, and then
run it into the container that they use
to weigh it. In that way, they can
make 60 lb. wheat weigh SO lbs. or
'nss ard if it weighs less then it is
No. g.
The trouble with you fellows is you
run so much of that piffle Of old Geo.
The Ward County independent., 1922-10-26
CONFESS TO BEING IMPLICATED
IN WESTH0PE MARSHAL MURDER

Harry Patterson and Earl Kyle, two
of the five men arrested by Sheriff
Scofield and Deputies at Kenmare, re-
cent y, were taken to Bottineau Sum-
day by Sheriff Hennessy, charged with
being implicated in the murder of Carl
Peterson, night watchman at West
hope recently.
Kyle has made a confession to the
effect that he was in the car the night
of the murder. Patterson he says
drove the car to Westhope and Kyle
cut the wires leading out of the city.
He says he was invited to go with the
men and presumed that they were
going to Canada for whiskey. In
stead they planned on robbing the
hardware store at Westhope. The
marshal was shot and killed by one
Of the men who robbed the store. They
were known to him only as White
and Blackie and he was sitting in the
car waiting for them to come out. He
heard the shots and says the men
came running to the car and said:
'Step on her and go like hell. We
had to knock one fellow over"
The car the men used was a Buick
stolen from a Harvey man. This car
was later located at Columbus by
Deputy Vandenocvcr. The sheriff
was up recently from Fessenden and
took Kyle back as witness but could
not hold him as Bottineau county
wanted him on the murder charge.
Both Kyle and Patterson have confess
ed to the part they took in the af-
fair.
Joe Kraemer and Jack Long, serv-
ing sentences in the Ward county Jail
charged with vagrancy, were accused
by Kyle and Patterson as being the
men who stole the Buick at Harvey.
1t was thru the automobile that Of
ficers got some tangible evidence
which lead to the arrest of the men
who did the job at Westhope. The
officers followed the car from West
hope to MaXbasS and found that the
men had broken into an oil station
there. The Buick was seen going
thru Mohall and an acquaintance rec
ognized Earl Kyle Of Kenmare as one
ol the occupants of the car.
The Ward County independent., 1922-10-26

The Vrlva journal, published by
". II. Francis, is a candidate for the
official EcWs 2nprr y. c!!en"y county
and the name Of the journal will APP
pear on the general ballot.
The McHenry county Farmers Press
at Towner is now the official paper
of that county and it is presumed
that it will again be candidate. Hav-
ing had the honors for more than
two years, or ever since the new law
went into effect, it is only right that,
some other newspaper should be
chosen.
The Velva Journal is admirably
equipped to handle the work. Mr.
Francis recently installed a modern
tt'r esettirg machine. He is an ex-
cellent printer himself, publishes one
OF the very newsiest papers IN this
section Of the state and has a large
circula ton thruout NcHcnry county
The journal is entitled to BE- chosen
AID the Independent hopes to see Bro
FtantjS win.
The Ward County independent., 1922-10-26

The jury, after celebrating for 1S
hours in the case of the government
VS.. j. E. Reed and Chas. Lano, charg
ed with transporting liquor, failed to
agree, and Judge Miller discharged
the jurors after. they had so reported
at 10 o'clock this morning. The fore;
man reported that the jurors were
about equally divided.
Col. Hildreth, district attorney, re-
ported that the case would be retired
at an early date during the present
term.
The government presented two wit
nesses, Martin Gilbertsen, Bottineau
county farmer living 40 miles north
of the city, and Cliff Wentz, who is
serving year in the state peniten-
tiary, to prove that Reed and Lano
had visited the Gilbertsen farm on
the afternoon of March 21, 1921, and
had taken approximately 18 cases of
whiskey which Wentz, a self confess
ed whiskey runner had secreted in the
high weeds of a hog lot adjoining the
barn yard. The governments wit
nesses stated that Reed and Lano had
carried the whiskey in sacks and in
bottles in their arms from the lot,
placing them in two cars, then drove
away towards Minot. Wentz stated
that he had broken the crank case of
his Cadillac car north Of the Gilbert
sen farm, which is located along the
highway used by whiskey runners
and had finally driven the car into the
Gilbertsen farm leaving it there while
the radiator, which had frozen, was
brot to Minot for repairs, Wentz ac-
companied by his pal, one Howe, who
was not used as a witness, and a
neighbor of Gilbertsen's, accompan-
led the latter to Minot where repairs
were made. Wentz and Howe stayed
at the rooms over the Troy laundry
that night and did some drinking
while in Minot.
Shortly after their return from
Minot that afternoon, they said a
Hudson car, evidently highjacking
car, drove up to the Gilbertsen farm,
then drove on half mile where it ap-
said that when himself and Howe
were putting on the radiator Of the
car, the two men supposed to be high
told them to stick up their hands.
Howe threw up his hands, but Wentz
did not do so, as he was working un-
der the car He said the highjackers,
known to him as Chuck and Slippery
Bill, kept them covered for more than
an hour, the former pointing a gun
at them which he had concealed in his
coat pocket.
Wentz and Gilbertsen say that two
cars carrying Reed, Lano and another
man soon appeared and drove into
the barnyard.
The testimony Of both the govern
ment's witnesses and those for the
defense coincide largely up to this
point, but Reed, Lano and Geo. Wart-
chow, occupants of.the two cars tell
far different story from there on.
The three witnesses for the defense
told practically the same story, sub
stantially, as follows.
Reed had been watching Wentz and
Howe when they were in Minot and
seeing them with Martin Gilbertsen,
suspected that the Gilbertsen farm
was a rendezvous for highjackers. At
The Ward County independent., 1922-10-26
VELVA JOURNAL CANDIDATE TOR
OFFICIAL PAPER OF NJ l2lz'IzENRY co.

Dan E. WeigIe, St. Paul, to Speak
Here Civic Week. Beginning Nov. l9
The board of directors Of the Minot
Association of Commerce. have decid-
ed to make the week Of Nov. 10, Civic
Week in this city and will concentrate
on .leviving the community spirit
throughout the city.
Minot citizens have always been
foremost in community work but need
little brushing up in the school of
civic education occasionally.
Dan E. Weigle, the noted commun-
ity worker and orator from St. Paul
has been engaged to come here during
that week to speak before the various
clubs and civic organizations.
The week starts out with Civic Sun
day, Nov. 10, when the pastors of
cur various churches are expected to
deliver sermons appropriate to the
occasion.
The Ward County independent., 1922-10-26
JURY DISAGREED IN JOHN REED
AND CHAS. LAN0 LIQUOR CASE

the time Reed was Captain of Police
Of the city of Minot. He said he
wanted to get into the camp of the
highjackers and look them over and
possibly arrest them if the proper op-
portunity arose. Accordingly, he
called Chas. Lano, former chief of
police, and Geo. Wartchow, then sup
erintendent of the Minot waterworks,
telling them he wanted them to ac-
company him. Lano knew where Gil
bertsen's farm is located, having re-
sided at Mohall not far distant for II
years. The men drove over mud
roads in two seven-passenger cars,
made a search of the Gilbertson farm
for highjackers, saw one fellow
known as ''Dirty Face" who carried
his hands in his coat pockets as tho
pointing two guns at Reed. The man
wasn't arrested as the defendants say
that they thot they might have been
covered by his confederates at the
time, possibly secreted about the
buildings. Both Reed and Lano say
they saw a man, presumed to be a
highjacker, hiking across the field go
ing away from the Gilbertsen farm
They denied seeing any whiskey on
the farm, said they didn't go there
for whiskey and they were supported
by Wartchow in their testimony. Wart-
chow says his business was to take
the number Of Wentz's car, which he
did, saying, Where is the whiskey?"
as he walked up to the car. He said
he was not looking for whiskey, but
merely wanted to engage them in
conversation.
The defendants and Wartchow say
they spent about 20 minutes at the
Gilbertsen farm, then drove back
towards Minot, arriving at 8 o'clock
that night. When about Is miles
north of Minot, two high powered
cars with flash lights, coming from
the north passed them and blocked
the highway. Reed got out and he
was blinded by the flashlights. Wart-
chow's car took to the ditch and
went around The two cars, suspect
ed Of being driven by highjackers
moved on as soon as the occupants
recognized Reed.
Wentz's car was stolen that night,
according to his testimony, by ten or
twelve men who visited the Gilbertsen
farm after dark. Wentz says he later
paid $500 reward to w. H. Sibbald, a
Minot attorney, who was instrument
tai in locating the car at Nashua,
Mont, and Reed who worked on the
case admitted that he ereceWed $3.50
of this money.
The defense attempted to show
that the testimony of Wentz and
Gilbertsen was frame-up, accusing
Wentz of being angry at Reed for
what he thot was the officers part in
the car deal. The defense inferred
that Gilbertsen's reason for swearing
as he did was to save himself from
prosecution for using his farm as a
rendezvous for whiskey runners.
Dudley L. Nash was the attorney
for the defense.
The Ward County independent., 1922-10-26
Human Hearts" Story of Real People

Human Hearts" Story of Real People
Human Hearts, which comes to
the Orpheum theatre on Wednesday,,
Thursday and Friday of next week,
is one photoplay that depends upon
the. oft-neglccted factors of a real
story and perfect cast for success.
The scenic background and other set
tings are beautiful but they are kept
in the background where they belong.
The script is the same as that of the
famous old Hal Reid play which was
the king of the stage decade ago.
House Peters plays the leading role
Of Tom Logan with Edith Hallor as
his leading woman. Both players are
prime favorites with the theatre-go-
ers and are ideally cast in their re-
spective parts.
King Baggot, director Of the pic
ture, had played the role of Tom Lo-
gan in stock many times, and has al
ways declared the play his favorite;
hence, when he was chosen to take
charge of the production, he used the
greatest care in the selection Of hte
cast. Among the favorites playing
important roles. are Russell Simpson,
Gertrude Claire, George Hackathorne,
George w. West, Lucretia Harris,
Ramsey Wallace, Mary Philbin, H. S.
karr and Snitz Edwards. o..
The Ward County independent., 1922-10-26
"BUY 4 SACK OF POTATOES''

The Minot Association of Commerce has mailed
an appeal to the and of northwestern North
Dakota urging them to "Buy Potatoes Now ana hellp
create market for the splendid potatoes producea IN
this section of North Dakota this year. The appeal
points out that money can be saved by buying potatoes
at this time when the price at the bottom and the
marketing of part of the crop, now congestec on
farms at shipping points, will aid materially IN b1'ng
ing the farmers fair return for their years work
D. E. Mair met with the board of directors of the
Association of Commerce Tuesday and urged that me
Association launch such campaign for this section OF
North Dakota and also urge clubs in other cities and
towns of the state to relay this advice to the people
Of their immediate territories The campaign was
started in Minnesota short time ago and is aiding the
potato producers of that state.
The Association has sent its appeal to the men and
women of Minot and several hundred towns in what is
regarded as Mnot's trade territory.
T. "The opportunity is golden' President c: E. Dan
elson of the Association stated today for the people
of Minot and Northwestern North Dakota to save
money and at the time render a real service to
the potato producers Of this section Let's buy at least
part of supply of potatoes start the product
moving and will all benefit by it. Potatoes will not
be as cheap next week they It doesn't
matter who you buy them from--but be sure and
buy now" ...-s..a. "a. u:
The Ward County independent., 1922-10-26
-Four Men Charged witt! R0bb;,7g
Fcknlnn Store

Four suspicious CHARACTERS arrest
ed in Minot were taken to Bottineau
by Sheriff Hennessy Sunday charged
with robbing store at El!,2>Gn. One
Of the men had watch which was
identified by the Ecknan merchant by
the cost mark which it still carried.
The men arrested are known as Clair,
Il a %lay, Ryan, James Doyic and
jackson, alias "Oklahoma Kid.
The Ward County independent., 1922-10-26
NEW SAWYER BANK

Bismarck, N. D., Oct. 25.-Artitles
of incorporation filed with the secre-
tary of state include:
Northwestern State bank of Saw
yer; capital stock, $4,000; incorpora-
tors, Edward S. Lee, Minneapolis;
Peter Kulaas, Minot; John K. Borg,
Crosby.
Gackle Realty company, Kuhn;
capital stock $4,000; incorporators,
Martin w. Gackle, Otto Gackle, John
G. Gackle, Gottfried Gackle, Kuhn;
Geo. Gackle, ST., Minneapolis.
The Ward County independent., 1922-10-26
La Toilette Not Coming to Minot

Senator Bob La Toilette of Wis
consin, who is scheduled to visit the
eastern part of the state soon in the
interests of Frazier's candidacy, can
not come to Minot, as expected. La
Toilette recently won the republican
nomination for Senator in his state,
passing his nearest competitor by
over 223 900 votes.
The Ward County independent., 1922-10-26
Bismarck u; NIinot @

The Minot high school football
team journeyed to Bismarck where
they were defeated by the Capital
City team Saturday, II to 0. The
local boys fought hard but went up
against a stiff team and luck was a
trife against them in the bargain.
About 60 Minot fans accompanied
them.
The Ward County independent., 1922-10-26

A Grand Forks farm hand secured
quantity of Intoxicating liquor by
tapping the bottom of a silo. The
concoction is said to possess death
dealing kick.
The Ward County independent., 1922-10-26

Mrs. NJ. l.. Venaas, formerly Miss
Esther Darby of this city, returned
to her home, Santa Maria, Calf, af-
ter visiting Minot friends and rela-
tives. Her husband is enjoying a
very successful dry cleaning business
in California
The Ward County independent., 1922-10-26
ERROR MADE IN COPYING NAME,
ABE GORDON CASE DISMISSED

security on the note, which had al
ready been secured by an assignment
of rents.
The Ward County independent., 1922-10-26
Mrs. A. r. Blondes Father Died i'm
Wisconsin

Mrs. A. P. Blonde received a tele~
gram stating that her father, Soren
Herum, aged 90, had passed away at
his farm home near River Falls, Wis,
Tuesday evening and left Wednesday
afternoon to attend the funeral which
will be held Friday. Mr.. Herum was
one of the oldest settlers in that vicin-
i'y and was the father Of large
family. His wife who is 80 years of
age survives.
Oscar Herum, cashier of the First
National Bank of Carpio is son. He
also left to attend the funeral.
The deceased resided for GS years
on his farm continuously and never
allowed his taxes to become delinquent
once, never had mortGag on the
farm or ever gave note to anyone.
The Ward County independent., 1922-10-26
Auto Struck Cow Near Surrey

A man whose name we cannot
learn. struck a COW while driving on
the Roosevelt highway q short dis
tarcc east of Surrey Monday night.
His car was put out of commission
and it was necessary for him to send
TO Minot for a service car. The COW
must have received some injury.
The Ward County independent., 1922-10-26
Armistice Day Ball

Armistice Day Ball
The American Legion has rented
the Scottish Rite Home for big ball
to be held on the evening of Armistice
Day. ..s
The Ward County independent., 1922-10-26

H. O. Kiorsvik Of Drayton, n. d..
is spending the week in Minot, re-
ewing treatment from 4 nose special
St.
The Ward County independent., 1922-10-26
Gov, Nest0s Spoke at NOhall

Governor Nestos passed thru Minot
Wednesday afternoon by auto en-
route to Mohall where he delivered
an address at an entertainment given
by the Catholic church Of that city
John J. Coyle, j. F. Mcclure, and
others attended the affair which was
very successful.
The Monroe journal., 1922-12-08
Judge Elect Said to BE Ku Klux

The story in the last issue of The
journal about Rev. Oscar Haywood
who is under an avalanche of criti-
clsm for his lectures in New York
for the ku klux klan has an added
significant interest to North Carolina
people since his charges several days
ago stating that Judge Henry A.
Grady, recently elected to the Super
lor Court bench in this state, was the
head klan official in North Carolina.
People in all sections of North Caro-
line have been stirred over this state
ment, and expressions of repugnance
are being heard from lawyers, minis
ters, and officials, at the idea of a
judge being high official in the Ku
Klux.
Judge Grady is from Clinton,
Sampson county, and was elected a
Superior court Judge on the Demo-
cratic ticket in November. The alleg-
ed connection of Judge Grady with
the ku klux klan has evidently
stirred the members of the bar of
his home town and it is said that
unless the judge can deny the charge
that he is high official of the khan
in this state the people generally
may resent being represented on the
Superior court bencn by a member
of the invisible empire" and will
demand his impeachment.
Judge Grady, returned, according
to rumor, from trip to Georgia, de-
clined yes erday to be interviewed.