Jim Shutlyff of
Gladstone suffered a broken thumb and an injured leg in an accident with a horse. He had no more than arrived at the doctor's office at Dickinson to have his injuries dressed than his son came in with a broken thumb caused by a horse falling on him.
Bismarck Daily Tribune, 2-5-1915
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"Frenchy."
Last Monday afternoon the river gobbled its first victim in the person of poor "Frenchy," a private in the Seventh Cavalry. "Frenchy" started across the ice, from the Point, showing another man the way. On the Lincoln side the ice was thin. As he stepped upon it, he turned to warn his comrade, when the ice broke, letting poor "Frenchy" in, and the current swept him under the main body of the frozen river. Among the unfortunate man's soubriquets was that of "Bad Speculation," a name he bore through life but only realized in his last tramp across the Missouri.
The Bismarck Tribune, 3/29/1877
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Attempted Attack is Frustrated by Woman
The description of an attacker who Monday night siezed a Mandan young lady on Second street near the resident of Judge B.W. Shaw has been furnished the police of Bismarck and Mandan and an arrest is expected.
Frightened when a man jumped from a bunch of shrubbery, the young lady screamed and broke away and ran into the J.D. Allen home. The attacker escaped.
The man is described as being short and stocky, about 30 years old, wearing a khaki-colored shirt and overalls and a fedora hat.
The Bismarck Tribune, 3/21/1928
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Cando Farmer Hangs Himself
Cando, N. D., Feb 15. George Lightfoot, living on the old J. W. McVey farm, four and one half miles southwest of Cando, committed suicide by hanging himself. Despondency over family affairs is supposed to be the cause.
Bismarck Daily Tribune, 2/16/1911
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A Quiet Pay Day.
Pay day at Fort Lincoln last week was exceptionally quiet. The soldiers were as a a rule content to remain in their quarters and those who did become hilarious skipped to the Point where they could hold high carnival with Texas Charlie and other notorious prostitutes without the least danger of being "milled" by the guard. Pay day usually is but a signal for Discipline to quit her throne, and for that old usurper, "budge," to reign supreme, but this time everything passed off very quietly, and but few of the boys will be compelled to lay down their "hand" at a garrison court on a "raise" of $10 and thirty days at the wood pile.
The Bismarck Tribune, 1-27-1879
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A kid at Devils Lake was run over by a wagon after a fruitless effort to catch onto it.
Bismarck Weekly Tribune, 2-14-1908
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