Infant Smothers To Death
When House Catches on fire
Minot, May 14— Violette Van Hook, 10-months-old daughter of Mr and Mrs L.S. Van Hook, 521 First avenue northeast, was smothered to death at 11:30 A. M. when the kerosene stove in the Van Hook home exploded while Mrs Van Hook was visiting at the home of Mrs. Barlow, a neighbor living next door. When the flames were discovered William Champion, who lives across the street, endeavored to gain entrance through a window to the room where the baby was sleeping but the flames drove him back. Miss Sophia Johnson, who lives nearby, tried to enter the door but others who were near held her back, the inside of the room into which the door led being a mass of flames.
Bismarck Tribune, 5/14/1921
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Coal Oil on Fire Kills Two.
Moose Jaw, Sask., Feb. 18.—A wire from Eyebrow tells of a fatal coal oil explosion 26 miles southwest of that town in which Gladys Blair, aged 10 years, and her sister, Tootsie, aged five, lost their lives.
Turtle Mountain Star, 2/20/1913
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A Montana man who was sent up for sixty days for taking booze onto an Indian reservation was pardoned by President Taft on information that the man's stock was freezing from lack of his attention.
Bismarck Daily Tribune, 2/15/1911
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At the suggestion of
Joe Taylor, one of the earliest pioneers on the upper Missouri river, an effort will be made by the State Historical society to obtain for preservation the historic site of
old Fort Mandan, where Lewis and Clark camped during the winter of 1804-1805. Although over 100 years have elapsed, the old rifle pits and fortifications are still distinct and the site is one of great historic interest. The site is at Elm Point, about 70 miles above Bismarck—17 miles above Washburn—section 14, township 144, range 84, nearly opposite the present townsite of
Deapolis.
Bismarck Weekly Tribune, 2-14-1908
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Fall From Sleigh
Results In Death
Valley City, Feb. 14. Andrew Karstad, the well known farmer living sixteen miles southwest of this place, met with an accident Thursday evening while driving home from Valley City which resulted in his death last evening. He was thrown from the sleigh and his skull crushed. It is thought that the accident was occasioned by a snow bank. He remained unconscious until his death.
Bismarck Daily Tribune, 2/15/1911
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Upon hearing that her son had been convicted at Minot of manslaughter in the first degree, Mrs. J. W. Crowell of Pulaski, Virginia, collapsed and soon died.
Hansboro News, 12/7/1917
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