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tt' Vol. 21 No. 12 Mi yi 'f s. ft: 1 ^S' /. 1- CARNIVAL ATTACHE KILLED BY POLICEMAN OFFICER WOUNDED •s— Archer C. Poole, of Delaware, O., employed on the Seaplane device with a carnival company that showed in Minot last week, was shot and in stantly killed by Officer J. Sharar, .Minot policeman, after he had opened fire on Sharar, wounding the officer twice, one shot passing thru the fleshy part of his left leg midway be tween the knee and the thigh and the other shot striking him in the right leg, the bullet lodging near the bone, just below the hip. The affai.r oc curred at 4:15 o'clock Friday morning. Poole was shot just above the left temple and never uttered a word af ter he fell. The tragedy occurred in the West hotel, on First Ave. S. E. in the hall and near the doorway of Room 7, on the second floor, which was occupied by Poole and Mrs. L. G. Middleton, aged 19, the wife of a lo cal drayman. Mrs, Middleton's elder sister, Miss Nellie Sprague, aged 21, occupied a room in the West hotel on the floor below, yrith Jesse Gibson, 26, another employe of the carnival. This couple were scfund asleep when the shooting was going on, but were awakened by the police and taken with Mrs. Mid dleton to the city jail. The trio now occupy cells in the Ward county jail, facing a charge of immorality. Mr. Middleton, who is a hardwork ing man aftd respected, complained to the police, that his wife had been out with someone connected with the car nival during the previous night or two. The police were on the watch, and it was learned that the quartette had gone to the West hotel where Poole and the Middleton woman regis tered as Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Poole. Officers J. Sharar, S. P. Nielson and M. D. Shockley were dispatched on the job and they proceeded to the West hotel. Sharar went to Room 7 on the second floor, the other officers standing guard below. Sharar rapped on the door and aroused the couple, informing Poole that he was an officer and came for him. Poole got out of bed, put on his trousers and secured his gun, a .32 calibre German Erfurt. Sharar heard him loading the gun and pulled his own weapon, a Smith & Wesson, .32 high power gun. Poole opened the door and started firing. He had placed but two shells in his gun and both of these took effect in the officer's legs. Sharar fired twice, the first bullet striking the door jamb and was deflected, passing into the wall of the room. Altho he could see but a little of Poole's head stick ing out from the edge of the door, he aimed true and got his man thru the! left temple. Poole fell in a heap and died almost instantly. Mrs. Middleton, as soon as Poole started shooting, cried: "Don't shoot,' honey," but her partner paid no at tention to her entreaties. When Mrs. Middleton saw Poole ly ing on the floor dying, she displayed more than ordinary nerve by getting out of bed and wiping up the blood with the bed sheets. When she was taken to jail she inquired: "Is this all over me As soon as the officers below heard the shooting, they rushed up stairs to aid Sharar, but the fearless officer had done the trick without assistance. He was taken to St. Joseph's hospital where he is recovering nicely. The bullet was taken from his leg the fol lowing morning. One of the bullets from Sharar's gun was found that morning later at one end of the hall where it'had spent its force. The occupants of the hotel were alarmed by the shooting and pande monium reigned fop some little time after,the affair. The quartette had been seen going into the hotel at 1:25 that morning and the shooting occurred at 4:15 o'clock. The west hotel is owned and operated by A. M. Thompson. Archer Poole, the dead man, had been with the carnival company since May, joining it in Washington, D. C. His associates declare that he was a very quiet sort of & chap and he wstfc Well liked by his co-workers, none OT whom suspected that he ever carried a gun or would use one under such circumstances. He was an overseas man. His body was taken to Van Fleet's undertaking parlors. Sharar is given much credit for his good work Saturday morning. Poole's display of artillery and the shooting of the officer was entirely uncalled for. Sharar merely told Poole that he was an officer and wanted to talk with him. It is said that Poole had been warn ed that Middleton was looking for him with a gun, and it may be that he feared that Sharar instead of be ing an officer, might have been the woman's husband. Mrs. Minnie Poole, mother of the dead man, wired the authorities from Delaware, O., to ship the remains of her son to Delaware, but it was de cided to hold the body until more definite arrangements could be made. It is said that Poole had assisted in the support of h,is mother. The coronor's inquest was held Sat urday afternoon at Van Fleet's, the jury, Bertel Jacobson, S. S. Boden and C. E. Baker, deciding that Poole came to his death from a gun shot wound, from the hands of Jay Sharar, an of ficer who was performing his duties and who shot in self defense.' A very large crowd attended the inquest, and scores Were turned away. Many viewed the remains of the man. State's Attorney Herigstad examined the witnesses and Coroner R. W. Pence was in charge of the inquest. W. E. Pratt, general manager of the Seaplane outfit with which Poole was connected, told of a conversation he had with Poole a short time be fore, in connection with Poole's "step ping out" with married women. Poole said he understood that Middleton was "carrying a cannon for him." Dr. T. N. Yeomans told of being called to the scene of the shooting and of an operation performed in hopes of saving Poole's life. Mrs. L. G. Middleton, the woman who was in the room with Poole at the hotel, testified that she together with her sister, Miss Nellie Sprague, had met Poole and Jesse Gibson, an other sea plane outfit employe, at the baseball diamond, and that they had hired a taxi and gone to the West hotel, where she and Poole secured a room under the name of Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Poole, and Gibson and Miss Sprague also registered as man and wife. About 4 a. m. Mrs. Middleton testified, they heard a rap on the door. She got up and started dressing, she said, and Poole slipped on his troosers, picked up the gun and started toward the door. As soon as the door was opened, the shooting commenced. The witness testified that she thought it was Poole who fired the first shot, and estimated that three or four shots were fired. No shots were fired after Poole was hit, she thought. When Poole was hit, he reeled and fell to the floor. When the first shot was fired, Mrs. Middleton said she cried, "Honey, don't shoot." She helped Poole onto the bed after he fell to the floor, and she said that he murmured something which she could not understand. The policeman was placed on a bed across the hall by another policeman. Mrs. Middlton had been "out" with Poole before she said, and had told him that she did not want to live with her husband. Poole asked her, she said, what her husband would do if he found them together, and she replied that she did not know. Testifying regarding what the offi cer said when he rapped on the door, Mrs. Middleton said that she thought he asked them if they were from the carnival company. She thought at first perhaps it was her husband, she said. The policeman said "don't shoot," the witness said, after the first shot was fired, and then another shot was. fired, and the police said "don't shoot" again. Mrs. Middleton was not very clear in her memory of what the officer said when he rapped on the door. Miss Sprague Testifies Miss Nellie Sprague, her sister, cor roborated her sister's testimony re garding meeting the two men at the ball park, and going to the hotel, where they all registered. She testi fied that she did not know anything about the shooting until the police man who arrested them, told them about it. Jesse Gibson, a "buddy" of the dead man, as he termed it, told of meeting the women at the park, and of going to the hotel, and also told of an argu ment which he had with Poole before leaving the carnival grounds, about Poole carrying the pistol along with him. Poole seemed to think, Gibson testified, that "there was something wrong" and he didn't "want to takc^i any chance on getting bumped off by I this woman's husband." Jay Sharar, the officer, has been on! the force for about a month and a half. He comes from the Sawyer country and has shown conclusively that he is made of the right kind of stuff. Sharar will be out of the hospital in a week or two. In order to get the bullet out of his leg, it was necessary for sugeons to chisel away quite a portion of the bone, where the bullet had lodged. Mack Traynor Heads State Legion Mack Traynor of Devils Lake was elected state commander of the Ameu ican Legion at the annual convention held last week in Devils Lake, defeat ing Geo. Russ of Bismai'ck,. who mov ed Traynor's election by acclama tion. Jack Williams was re-elected ad jutant defeating Wm. Upshaw, 192 to 80. Philip Bangs, retiring state commander, was named national com mitteeman, to succeed Maj. M. H. Sprague. M. M. Campbell of Bottineau, was elected vice commander. Other offi cers elected were: Treasurer, Roy Baird, Dickinson Historian, Bill Jones, Lisbon Chap lain, Bill Upshaw, Jamestown. Fargo, the home of Jack Williams, who opposed Upshaw for state adjut ant, gave Upshaw 21 votes for chap lain. Wahpeton was chosen the conven tion city for 1923. There was no op position. Ensign and Mrs. Sherping, former ly with the Salvation Army here, will return in two weeks from Mitchell, S. D., where they have been for two years. Commandant Martin of this city has been appointed to Huron, S. D. Commandant and Mrs. J. M. Hale of Minneapolis are in charge of the work here temporarily. These good people were overseas for 18 months. Mrs. Hale served doughnuts to the soldier boys in Verdun while that city was under shell fixe and both Com. Hale and his wife had narrow escapes. tnwi in nwiniiiwiii.il iiiiiroiur-fm-n-l-nri-i—i—r-r—rr 1 rr i. .. OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF WARD COUNTY AND THE CITY OF MINOT This Issue 16 Page^ a THE INDEPENDENT HAS THE LARGEST CIRCULATION OF ANY WEEKLY IN THE STATE First Section Well, See Who's Here 40 YEARS OF WARD COUNTY HISTORY DEPICTED IN PAG EANT IN MINOT JULY 21, 22 Forty years ago this summer—in 1882—the first white settlers came to northwestern North Dakota and made their homes in the Mouse river valley. To fittingly observe the anniversary of their arrival, the Minot Associa tion of Commerce is planning the presentation of an elaborate historical pageant in Minot Friday and Satur day July 21 and 22. And officers of the association, in announcing their plans for the big spectacle, declare that no expense will be spared in making it the biggest event of its kind ever attempted in the state. The. Association has secured the co operation of the Playmakers of the University of North Dakota, the Mi not normal and city schools as well as professional producers, including Melvin B. Johnson of this city who has been identified with the J.ohti, Rogers Producing Co. of Fostoria, 0., and who is spending a few weeks at his home here this summer. It is planned to select a cast of some 400 people from all parts of northwest| ern North Dakota and make the pa geant of interest to the entire district. Every effort is to be made to have re-enacted several of the important events in the development of this sec tion of the state and to make certain that justice will be done to all of those events, the pageant will be pre sented in a natural ampitheater and will be presented in the evening when lighting effects are possible. The pageant will be prepared by Mr. Johnson and Jas. S. Milloy, secre tary of the Minot Association of Com merce who has written the history of northwestern North Dakota. They will be assisted by Leslie A. White, city superintendent of schools, and Mrs. John B. Cooley of Grand Forks, who has been identified with the Play makers of the North Dakota Univer sity. Miss Lulu Potts of the Minot Normal scho.il will assist with the dancing numbers and many of th. cast will bo selected from the Normal school student body. Many of the pioneers who arrived in 1882-S3 wi!l assist in preparing the pageant an:' will take part. A parade to show the progress of 40 years will#be held each afternoon at 2 p. m., July 21 and 22. PJ fj pw is sfe! P. 1. Thingstad Hauled Family of 13 in Ford and Wins Prize Rain interfered with the attendance at the Free Ford Day entertainmen staged in Minot Friday under the auspices of the Westlie-Charbonneat Co. Rain continued to fall until eleven o'clock and made the roads al most impassable, so the crowd at tending was small. Those who did attend were well re paid. They enjoyed free movies, free lectures, free prizes, free coffee and free lemonade. No attempt was made to sell Fords that day, for Fri day was si :is de for pure education al purposes and for entertainment. During the forenoon the splendid garage and salesroom of the Westlie Char! onneau Co. were inspected. Several families enjoyed a basket pic jjflkjdjf:varsida Park. The moving p^ncoli-cs were shown in the Grand Theatre and addresses were given on practical farming, Ford policy, and slides were shown pertaining to the Ford automobile and the Fordson tractor. Col. Shupe was one of the I lecturers. I P. I. Thingr*-. 1. r- south prairie I fanner, was g'.v'ci th" SJ0 prize for 'hauling the bi rg :si uiiily int.) ii not. He had ji.st. I" in his Ford, driv ing ten miles over muddy roads. His family comprised himself and wife and eight children and his wife's sis ter, Mrs. Parker of Pembina, N. 1'., I and her two boys. P. I. packed the youngsters in like sardines and the standing room was about all taken up. The trip paid him well, however. The trip was made in his 1913 Ford. I). D. Whaley of Minot received the *10 prize for exhibiting the oldest Ford. It is a 1900 model, and has been recently painted. Its brass shines like a darkey's heel and the i-ngine sings like that of a Cadillac. .Mr. Whaley has driven il over 100,000 n.iles and has covered 13 states with it. The car number is 11,875, while oi' tile next oldest car driven in w- "n the 90,000V.. The 0,000,000th ear was built in Detroit in May. A1 Fox of Norwich was given a $10 rii i/-. for the best ten line testimonial .() ihe Fordson tractor. "Why Not Minot?" Golfer Harding Presents the Prize !fa. A President Harding presenting Lowell Mellett of the Washington News with the McLean cup, as winner of the second annual tournament of the Washington Newspaper Golf club. President Harding won fourth place, re ceiving as a prize a dozen gott balls. Minot, Ward County, North Dakota, June 29, 1922 Subscription $2.00 Per Annum ithe s1° ilort 1 BUSINESSMEN GIVE PRIZES FOR JULY FOURTH CELEBRATION -5* '5» 5 J» 5* Hye Will Average 25 Bushels Orlando Brown, farmer from 4 miles east of Minot, brot sev eral heads of rye from his 160 acre field to the Independent of five Tuesday. The heads are 5 inches long, perfectly filled to the very tips and each contains 52 grains. Mr. Brown estimates the yield at fully 25 bushels per acre. This field is no better than thousands of other fields in northwestern North Dakota. The rye acreage is fully as big if not bigger than the wheat. The wonderful rains have done the trick, bringing out in great shape fields that two weeks ago had started to turn white. Noth ing but hail can cheat us out of the greatest rye crop in North Dakota's history. »J SPECIAL CREDIT NEEDED IN MIXED CROP FARMING That the farmers of North Dakota who are today facing a transition from a one-crop system to a several crop system of farming are in need of a special type of credit involving loans for a period of five years with a provision for partial payments on principal was the statement of Pres ident John Lee Coulter of the North Dakota Agricultural College, who spoke at the state-wide livestock meeting at Cooperstown Saturday af ternoon, June 24 on agricultural fi nance. ''One crop farming calls for one year thinking, and one-year thinking results in one-year finam ing," raid Dr. Coulter. "A mixed cropping sys tem calls for at least five-year think ing and five year financing. Farm ers of Wisconsin and Minnesota have made the transition from the one crop system to the mixed crop sys tem, and therefore have no special problem of finance facing them at this time. North Dakota farmers a just beginning this transition, and a special type of credit is necessary to ,'s change as rapidly and a:. efficiently as possible. "lf .2 farmer is going to beg:: diversifying, he does not need enouir1 money to buy a carload of hogs cattle. He must build fences, rai corn and other feed crops, buy ma chinery for handling these crops, pos sibly erect a silo and build a bar.. VLtlv't,es cannot be financed with the returns from a crop plant ed, harvested and marketed in a per iod of half a year. With mL {fanning system however, th« .roin the stock, miik. (g!": f,-„ wool, and other products will Hon ly .'v interest for the first year or so am then payments can be'started on th" aUhl I thf6 ^h0l° debt cIcanc:: up at the end ot the five vear erio ordinary luck. I At present we have the long turn- yMrS or I™ tlme •theLT financing of handle the crop, but theie is no intermediate form of crec' 'times special need of accomplish this ve purpose has just boon introduced inf house by u. commission at Washington bv Cl-ai 5'an syf!nt-y Anderson, represontativ-- tnTlhM,nn,e?uta- This a,t provide making of five year loan?, the pnncipal to be repaid in. nartia! i,v, ijiients. These loans wiif be hnndh'' by existing commercial batiks, to necessary local attention, but'"the paper will be rediscountable thru the tederal farm land banks. The intcr est rate would be set and the local banks would be allowed a margin of one percent on which to o-iera e. I Dakota, I believe, will Wo!i: io than any other state j{ this art i put into operation." Horse's Kick May Prove Fatal Young Lad Bcrthold, June 22.—Kenneth John sen, an orphan nephew of Burr at,:' Ray Johnson who has been makir.:. his home here for some time past, had his skull crushed this afternooi by a kick from a horse. The i. jured boy and his nephew were ro- turning from a trip to town wit a load of grain. They had purchased a toy pistol while in town and doub less the noise fr.r.n this had made th team somewha' :r-rv n, and vvhc the boy, in hi:, pixy, foil out of th wagon, one .,i r• ,es started kick, hitting Kcnr.jv.i in the forehead. A doctor was summoned immediately. A hasty examination revealed the se iousness of the injury and the boy was taken to a Minot hospital where a more thorough examination made. It was found that the skti'i was badly crushed, and the hospit:. surgeons say that the boy cannot po sibly recover. He is about 14 yeai of age and has been attending schoo in this city. John F. McGuire was chairman Monday's Rotary meeting. Francis Murphy gave a three minute talk or: Rotary Education. Wm. P. Steven son, delegate to the Rotary Interna tional Convention at Los Angeles was to have read a lengthy report of th convention, but instead will have the floor next Monday. A violin and vo cal duet by Otto Ellison and Lafe Flaten was particularly pleasing. An electric fan donated by James Milloy, secretary of the Association of Com merce, was won by C. D. See. Judge K. E. Leighton was a guest, speaking on "Minot, the Park City." Arrangements have been completed for events to be held in Minot next Tuesday, July 4, according to an nouncement made today by the Minot Association of Commerce. Every ef fort is being made to have the parks of the city patronized that day and events arranged will be held in tho parks. At 10:30 a. m. the boy scouts of the city will meet and march thru the business section of the city to River side Park where flag raising exercis es will be held at 11 a. m. The exer cises will be under the direction of Scout Commissioner D. D. Riley. From 11:15 a. m. until 12:30 o'clock there will be a series of swimming contests at the swimming pool and afternoon an hour's recess to enable those present to have a picnic dinner, a program of athletic events will bo run off. The swimming and athletic events will be under the direction of O. Bridgford, recreational director af filiated with the city parks. The Association of Commerce has received ready response from busi ness firms of the city for prizes for the events. The list of contests and prizes are as follows: Swimming Events 20 yards, free style, boys: first, swimming suit by Anderson Drug Co. second, flashlight by New York Fur niture & Hardware Store. 20 yards, free style, girls: first, silk stockings by Samuelson's Shoe Store second, box of candy by Camp bell-Tompkins. 50 yards, free style, men: shirt by The Men's Shop. Cracker race for boys, swimming suit by Leland Drug Store. Cracker race for girls, fancy swim ming cap by Leland Drug Store. 20 yards for women: first, hand bag by The Fair second, toilet water by Benno Drug Co. 20 yards, fat men, Shirt by Tho Shirt Shop. Plunge for distance, men, Box Roi Tan Cigars by Stone-Ordean-Weils Co. Plunge for distance, women, Cin derella locket and chain by H. L. Win ters Co. Underwater swimming for distance, men, box of Chancellor cigars by Gamble-Robinson-Minot Co. Athletic Events 50 yard race, boys under 12: first, pocket knife by Jacobson & Fugelo second, baseball bat by Taylor Drug Co. 50 yard race, girls under 12: first, stockings by New York Dept. Store second, stockings by Leland Depart- ment Store. 75 yard race, boys under 16: first, hat or cap by B. & R. Store second, baseball by Minot Hardware Co. 75 yard race, girls under 16: first, silk stockings by Leland Department Store second, silk stockings by New York Department Store. 20 yard three-legged race for boys under 15, hose by Boston Store. 20 yard boys' sack race, baseball by Ward Drug Store. 50 yard sack race for fat men, any tie in M. G. Olson Co.'s store. 40 yard race for ladies, Kewpie doll lamp by Valker's. 400 yard relay race for boys' teams under 20 years, caps by J. C. Penney Co. Watermelon eating contest for boys under 15, watermelons donated by Ward Fruit Co., prize, five tickets to "Reported Missing" by The Strand Theater. There will also be two special events for boy scouts. One will be a relay swimming contest and the other a tug-of-war. Each troop is urged to enter a team and special prizes will be given the winning troops. The Association of Commerce has arranged to furnish free ice cream for the smaller children at Riverside Park. The Elks have been asked tj furnish a committee to pass out the ice cream cones. The Baseball Games The Minot baseball team plays 1wo games at home July 4, the Northern Pacific Ry. team from St. Paul being the opposition. One game will be at 3:15 p. m. and the second at 0:30 p. m. The Minot Community Band has been offered a share in the gate re ceipts of the evening game to play a band concert between 6 p. m. and 0:30 p. m. in the baseball park. Park board officials expect several hundred families to motor to Minot and picnic at Riverside Park July 4. i'-il Damaged Sawyer Crops Sunday Ilril die! a great deal of damage to ops northeast of Sawyer, doing al cst tufca! damage to a strip five il.s long and from half a mile to 1/2 miles wide. The damage st: rt~ abatit three miles northeast of :v.:yar and extended east. Guy F. ir.phreys, representing the Paper :pply Cai, traveled along the drm area 'the foliowing day and says oven the corn was broken to the -.v.nd. Two storms met at that 'int. '"ar! E. Dr nielson Again Heads Asso ciation of Commerce At a meeting of the directors of the Association of Commerce Thursday, the following officers were re-elected: President, C. E. Danielson vice president, Lee H. Piper treasurer, W. J. Gerding. This is Mr. Danielson's second year as president, his first year bringing the finest kind of results. f) TTV