A few days ago C. Y. Irish, a merchant of
Fort Pierre, by means of gifts of candy, etc, inveigled a little girl named Estella Ploof, six years old, into his store, and attempted a rape. She was taken sick yesterday. Her parents thought it diptheria, and a physician was called and the real trouble discovered. The most brutal liberties had been taken with her person. His hellish design was not fully accomplished, but the child is probably mortally injured.
The Bismarck Tribune, 3-18-1881
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Al Smith, who recently purchased a motorcycle, is occasionally seen and heard for a very brief period of time as he passes through
Telfer township.
The Bismarck Tribune, 6/22/1931
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Mountrail County Farmer Is Injured
Stanley Sun: Main street in Stanley was the scene of a serious accident, as a result of which Andrew Peterson, who has a farm 13 miles southwest of here, lies in the Northwestern hospital in a precarious condition. He had come to Stanley to buy supplies and was sitting on his wagon in front of Louis Sheldahl's store in the act of taking some groceries from Louis when his team started with a sudden jerk, throwing him under the wheels. The wheels of the wagon, which was heavily loaded, passed over his head and body obliquely, breaking both jaws, the upper and left, and both sides of the lower jaw, and injuring his chest. The wheel struck his head squarely and struck and dragged him some little way on his face, which was very badly lacerated. He was carried by the bystanders into the office of a surgeon where his wounds were dressed and on the following morning he was taken to Minot to the hospital, where he could get the care necessary to keep him in the land of the living.
After the accident the team ran on down Main Street and were stopped out south of town.
Mr. Sheldahl recieved a telephone message yesterday to the effect that the patient was doing as well as could be expected and that if no complications set in he has a good show to get well, although his face will be doubtlessly mutilated for life.
Bismarck Daily Tribune, 5-16-1911
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SHOOTS WIFE WHEN CRAZED BY JEALOUSY
CHARLES W. SYLVESTER, CONDUCTOR ON NORTHERN PACIFIC, IS ARRESTED AT BELFIELD SOON AFTER THE TRAGEDY
WOMAN MAY DIE AS RESULT
Attention of Other Men Said to Be Responsible for the Act.
Dickinson, N.D. Feb 5.—Charles W. Sylvester, one of the best known passenger conductors on the Yellowstone division of the Northern Pacific railroad, last night shot and probably fatally wounded his wife in their apartments over the Times-Herald newspaper office at
Belfield. The bullet entered the woman's stomach and, according to latest reports, she will die. No cause for the shooting is known, although it is said that Sylvester has been jealous of his wife because of the attentions paid her by other men. Since being taken into custody by Constable Like at Belfield, Sylvester has remained silent over the affair. He will be taken to Dickinson tomorrow morning in custody of States Attorney H.A. Bergeson and the deputy sheriff.
Bismarck Daily Tribune, 2-6-1915
CLAIM SHOOTING WAS ACCIDENTAL
Wife of C.W. Sylvester Stepped Between Husband and Another Man.
Dickinson, N.D. Feb 6—Charles W Sylvester, the Northern Pacific railroad passenger conductor, who shot and fatally wounded his wife in their living apartments over the Times-Herald newspaper office at Belfield, Friday night, arrived in Dickinson this morning in charge of States Attorney H A Bergeson and a deputy sheriff. He refuses to talk of the shooting. Mrs. Sylvester's condition remains critical and attending physicians say she cannot live longer than three days. The bullet entered the stomach. While awaiting the arrival of the Dickinson authorities, Sylvester as permitted to be present, under guard, at this wife's bedside at the hospital.
Wife Claims Accident
Although Sylvester has refused to talk, his wife told of the tragedy which may cost her life, and claims the shooting was accidental. According to her story, Sylvester had been quarreling with Earl Stevens, the argument became heated and her husband drew a gun, advancing in a threatening attitude towards Stevens. In order to prevent any serious trouble, she stepped in between the men and grabbed her husband's arm. In the scuffle to free himself, the gun was discharged and the bullet penetrated her abdomen. Mrs. Sylvester is at present in the hospital here.
Bismarck Daily Tribune, 2-7-1915
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Rainmaker Is Not Yet Needed
Amidon, N.D. May 30—County commissioners who, in behalf of farmers, offered $5,000 an inch of each inch of rainfall in excess of 3.54, the normal for May and June, to Rainmaker Hatfield, are happy to think their sporting proposition which called for no payments at all unless the 3.54 inch average was reached. So far in May the Slope county districts have averaged over 3 inches of rainfall and indications are that the precipitation will reach over 5 inches before the close of June.
The Bismarck Tribune, 5-30-1922
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Jail Empty.
The Hughes county jail is empty for the first time in many months. The last prisoners were released at noon today. They were two Indians who have completed year sentences as United States prisoners. One of them, Levi Zimmerman, a Santee, very much objects to the ending of his sentence and wants to stay. Job Lefthand, or Broughton, is a Sioux and does not object so strenuously to being let out as Zimmerman does.—Capital-Journal.
The Daily Huronite, 5/7/1904
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