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VOL. XVI, NO.
TWO BROTHERS MEET DEATH
Overcome by Cas in Well North of
Garrison.
On last Saturday at 9 o'clock in
the morning Nicholas Zenz, aged
24 years, and John Zenz, aged 21
years, sons of Mr. and Mrs. Peter
Zenz, who reside fourteen miles
northeast of Garrison, lost their
lives in a well, being overcome by
The boys for some time had
been operating a well machine in
their home neighborhood and were
engaged at this time in putting
down a well on their father's farm.
Everything had gone nicely until
they reached the depth of eighty
feet, when they struck coal which
gave them consideable trouble.
Several times on Friday they were
compelled to go into the hole, but
there were no signs Of gas. Dur
ing Friday night it must have
formed and on the fatal morning
things did not work right so
Nioholas decided to go down. A
windless was used and when down
about sixty feet the rope suddenly
became slack and John realized
that something had gone wrong.
He called to his brother but re
ceived no reply. Instantly, and
certainly without thinking, he
seized the rope and started to slide
down it to rescue his brother who
was undoubted dead in the bottom
of the well by this time. A young
er brother says John had only gone
down a short distance when the
rope again slackened, which
showed that he had been precipi
tated to the# bottom of the well.
The younger brother at once se
cured help. Owing to the pres
ence of the gas it was found neces
sary to use hooks to bring the life
less bodies to surface and this re
quired fully four hours.
The coroner was notified and he
appointed Dr. Ray to look after
the case as acting coroner, and the
above facts were secured from him.
Upon testing the well, by letting
down a lighted lantern, the doctor
found that the light would be ex
tinguished within three feet of the
top, thus providing that the hole
was entirely filled with the deadly
fumes.
Mr. and Mrs. Zenz and family
are new comers to our country,
having removed here from Bel
grade, Minnesota, only last Octo
ber and are not widely acquainted.
Several members of the family had
taken homesteads, including the
decedents, and all had started out
in an industrious manner to make
themselves homes.
Funeral services were held at
the home Monday and interment
took place on one of the claims
northeast of town. The bereaved
family had the sympathy of the
community in their sad affliction
but will only
#find
oomfort when
they fully realize that God knows
best.—Garrison Times.
Cronna Introduces Bill to
Protect Depositors.
Washington, March 7. —Con
gressman Gronna has introduced a
in
bill to protect the depositors
national and state banks reported
/*to the comptroller of the,, currency
*Yt*?4nm individual loss: The bill
^provides that by virtue of the
banking laws. United States na
tional banks shall pay to the comp
troller 1 per cent of the capital
1
stock and surplus for the purpose
of creating a fund in trust of the
comptroller to be used to protect
the individual depositor from loss
of his deposit in event of the bank's
failure. It is Gronna's idea that
such a bill would tend.* to restore
confidence andj*utr money-ingthe
banks #rhichfisi|kio\| in-safetyl^e
posit vaults, secret money chests
and stockings, and would have a
jtendenoy to increase oinralation..
Gouniy Correspondence.
Turtle Lake Wave.
Wednesday, the water tank fol
lowing the snow plow jumped the
track below Denhoff and delayed
traffic a few days.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. C. O. Nel
son of Wiprud, on Saturday, Mar.
24, a ten pound boy.
W. V. Jones arrived Friday from
Goldfield, Iowa, and assumed his
station as assistant in the Wave
office.
Albert and Sarah Stevenson and
Pearl Darling returned Fri., from
Wasioga, Minn., where they have
been visiting the past few months.
They will probably do some farm
ing on their claims this summer.
Fred Dodd started for S. D. last
week with 78 head of horses which
he intended to sell at his place.
At Bowdle, S. D., he unloaded the
bunch to sell a few. During the
night, as we hear it, some one let
them all out and at present he has
been unable to find but 9 head.
John E. William, law student of
Grand Forks University, is spend
inga week's vacation with his part
ner, Fred L. Larson of this place.
He will finish his course in June
and then locate for business here
at Turtle Lake. Mr. Williams is a
great foot ball player and holds the
position of captain of the Grand
Forks University team.
Henry Delger spent the first
of the week visiting relatives near
Boden. His brother Charley, has
a new Reeves breaking outfit and
will break some twelve hundred
acres near Jamestown this spring
He expects to keep the machine
going both day and night.
Karl Klein and A. T. Allshouse
of Washburn were in town Thurs
day afternoon discussing telephone
with our business men. The Wash'
burn Telephone Co. intends put
ting in a line to Goodrich, through
Turtle Lake. It is now up to the
people along the route to organize
and tap the line with a local sys
tem.
McLCAN COUNTY GAZETTE.
Miss Bertha Fisher, of Indiana,
arrived this week and will begin
teaching in the Oliver school
house April 1st. Miss Fisher has
graduated from several schools in
Indiana and holds good recommen
dations as a teacher.
Mr. Burto9 of Stillwater, Minn.,
arrived last Tuesday to look over
McLean couaty with a view of lo
cating. We acknowledge a pleas
ant call, and assured the gentle
man that in locating here he was
certainly "hitching his wagon to a
lucky star."
Miss Mae Washburn arrived
Sunday evening to take charge of
the McClusky school. Miss Wash
burn has taught several successful
terms of school in Nebraska and
comes w6ll recommended, she has
also taken a course at one of the
Fargo colleges and the parents as
well as the children can congratu
late themselves on the good luck
of getting so capable a teacher for
the school.
ft
wonderful
•y,, North Dakota $B
%tate—the fertility/of its soil is as
tounding— the standard of its
population in" energy and- intelli
gence, is unexcelled--and the opT
portunities offered here to the new
|om|j^^^it^u^^pj
log. and thai its development is
more rapid than even those! beat
acquainted with its advantages, be
lieved poaaible.-—Fargo Forum.
Items of Interest from Special Cor- $
•AC': respondents and from the Various
Newspapers of McLean County.
WILTON NEWS.
Charles Anderson who has been
confined to his bed with sickness
during the past three weeks is now
able to be around again.
The stork visited the home of
Mr. and Mrs. Chiarles Hitt at the
Washburn farm last Friday a,nd
left a fine six pound girl.
John Sundquist received a tele
gram from Iowa last Friday an
nouncing that his mother was un
dergoing an operation and was not
expected to live. He boarded the
first train and went as far as Bis
marck, where he received another
message stating that she was out
of danger. He then returned to
Wilton Saturday.
At the sale of McLean county
school lands held in Washburn to
day the southwest quarter of sec
tion 86, just east of town, was sold
to John R. Larson for $22 per
acre. E. O. Ulness and J. F.
Dahlgren bought the northeast
quarter of the same section, at the
appraised price of $11 per acre.
McLean Co. Independent.
Charles Stanley and Herbert
O'Hare have been busy this week
moving up from the rancli. Their
families will come in tomorrow.
Loui Bale and Miss Sanderson
of Minneapolis were married at
Underwood Saturday. The Misses
Mattie and Anna Bale and Messers
H. E Dale and Geo Robinson 1ft~
tended from here.
Mrs. O'Hare returned from Bis
marck Monday where she has been
making an extended visit with her
parents.
Pastor Mowry is building a resi
dence and is expecting his family
and car of goods the last of the
week.
DENHOFF VOICE
W. H. Rohrer, wife and two
sons, arrived from Atlanta, 111., on
Friday last and will make Denhoff
their home. Mr. Rohrer is a jewel
er and watchmaker, and will make
Goodrich, McClusky and Merer on
different dates, at which places he
will solicit business in his line.
Atty. Grethen and wife have
moved into the house recentlyva
cated by. Mr.. and Mrs. Bob Wil
kinson.
Mrs.H. Gray is spending this
week visitine her brother, Will
Hazelgrove, who lives south of
Goodrich.
Otis Boody, of Eldora, Iowa, will
start for Denhoff, soon after Easter
and will be employed at the Den
hoff Voice.
Examine Your Cattle.
A Stutsman county fprmer writes
aT follows:
Now is the time to kill the grub
which is lodged under the skin on
your cattle. Run your hand along
each side of the spine of the ani
mal and you can easily feel the
lumps or tumors^ if th^re are any.
These warbles are lairis of the
larvae of the ox gad-fly. They can
be easily squeezed or picked out,
or apply a little turpentine in the
opening in the warble and this will
prevent the development of a fly.
Every farmer and stock owner
should do his duty in this. The
gad-^$?r5
ipj$jtfra*el f^^otf
this .|lan -were generally. carried
t' out the fly would be exterminated.
Threshing Machines insured in
lod line Insurance Companies,
see or write F. E. Funk* fit. Natl
Bank, Washburn. N. D.
WASHBURN, NORTH DAKOTA, APRIL 6, 1906
V/...
Nels Mikkelson returned Tues
day from Denmark where he went'
last fall'to spend the winter. ,.
It Is No Use Talking
Go And See For Yourself
You Will Find the New
School Notes.
Miss Rose Little has been teach
inga term of school in the south
ern part of Roosevelt district. Miss
Little is highly qualified as a
teacher and does excellent work.
A directors' meeting was held at
Garrison on March-30, and nearly
all the districts who had been
called upon sent school officers
there. The meeting was unani
mously in favor of securing text
book and library-book records and
of having manuals for clerks and
treasurers drawn up and printed.
Miss Jane McGinnes has been
teaching a successful school in the
Roosevelt district.
The spring schools in Hackett
district were opened April 2.
Roseglen district is to build two
new school bouses the coming
summer.
The politicians who are strain
ing themselves to place a candidate
in the field against Gov. Sarles are
looking to very unsafe and un
sound means to aggrandize their
peculiar spirit of political dema
gogism. Gov. Sarles has given the
state a good administration, and
there is little cause for faultfinding
on the part of those who appreci
ate ability, sincerity and fairness
in a ohief executive. If the gover
nor has failed to minister to the
personal ambitions of petty dis
gruntled politicians, who consider
themselves worthy of more especi
al mention than the interests of the
state as a whole, the governor is to
be commended for his wise action.
—Cavalier Chroniple
Over the state, the feeling seems
to preyail that whatever changes
ahd improvements in conditions
come, must be through the instru
mentality of the republican party.
Side shows cannot bring these
things to pass.—Forum..
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...LOCAL ACENT...
WASHBURN, NORTH DAKOTA.
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