Quite a reaction has arisen at Fargo because a teacher is said to have whipped a boy with a strap while the janitor held the boy over a desk. Still, it could not be expected that the teacher would hold the boy and whip him at the same time and her calling in the janitor proves that she was a woman of many resources.
Bismarck Daily Tribune, 3-26-1904
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As James Burgum, a travelling man, stepped off a train at
McLaughlin, S.D., the foot stool on which he alighted tipped over and he was hurled to the ground and rendered unconscious, and is in a critical condition.
Bismarck Daily Tribune, 2/19/1911
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"Dick", the brown sorrel horse owned by Richard Hesketh, the mail carrier between Rolla and Dunseith, died suddenly last Wednesday in the livery stable at Dunseith. "Dick" began his memorable career on the road in July 1899, when he was five years old, and has been in continuous service since that date. His aggregate travels would have taken him four and a half times around the world.
Turtle Mountain Star, 1/23/1913
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Puppy Killing Case Dismissed By Court
Gus Songas, proprietor of the Mandan Palace of Sweets, received no judgment from J.E. Campbell, police magistrate, in a municipal court Wednesday. Songas asked for damages from Robert Huff, city dog catcher, who shot and killed a puppy belonging to Songas.
Police Magistrate Campbell ordered the case dismissed on grounds of lack of evidence. Campbell ruled that Huff had no right to shoot the dog before warning the owner according to a city ordinance.
The Bismarck Tribune, 4/12/1928
(I believe the writer messed up the names of the people involved in the last paragraph)
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Pleads Guilty to Charge of Murder
Joseph McPeek of Stanley Sentenced to Serve 20 Years in Penitentiary
Stanley N.D. Feb 3—Joseph McPeek, charged with the killing of his wife last spring, changed his mind and pleaded guilty to the charge of murder in the second degree, and was sentenced to serve twenty years in the state penitentiary.
Crystal McPeek, the bright little 8-year-old daughter of Joseph McPeek, took the witness stand late yesterday afternoon in the trial of her father on the charge of murdering his wife.
She testified that she and Royal lived with her mother and that she had been with her father on March 22 and 23, that in the evening he took her over to her mother's house, but Mrs. McPeek was out, that they then went back to the restaurant and stayed awhile—that while there Mr. McPeek said "I don't want anything serious to happen, but if she does not come home with me tonight something serious will be done."
She testified that she then started with her father toward Mrs. Shaw's residence again and stopped in at Judd Wood's confectionary lunch, then went on — that when a couple doors from Mrs. Shaw's residence McPeek took his revolver from his inside coat pocket and put it in his overcoat pocket, that they first went into Mrs McPeek's kitchen and then into the bedroom that Mrs McPeek said it was retiring time and he said, "Yes, give me a kiss before I go."
According to the child's testimony, she replied "No, you are not my husband now." Then she testified he stepped back towards the door, pulled the revolver and shot her, saying "We will see whether you will kiss me or not." The little girl said that her mother shortly after the scene died.
Bismarck Daily Tribune, 2-6-1915
(The story seems to have been poorly edited down from a larger description of the testimony, leaving things out. I transcribed it exactly as it appeared in this paper)
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Bert Offley, who was acquitted of murder in the famous Bowen murder trial which stirred the entire western part of the state, recieved a letter signed "50 K.K.K." ordering him to leave the county and state within thirty days and threatening dire consequences if he did not. Offley was a constable when a party went to the Bowen home and although he was not the man who fired the shot which killed Bowen, according to witnesses, he was the first tried of several accused of the crime.
Offley lives in Bull Run township about 20 miles south of Beach. He does not expect to leave.
The Bismarck Tribune, 5-8-1922
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