DEADLY HAY TRACK LAYS TWO PROMINENT FARMERS BY HEELS
Cloyd Kurtz Badly Used Up in Fall—Hague Man Has Shattered Shoulder Blade
Hazelton, N.D., July 20—The deadly hay track was responsible for two serious accidents, occuring within a few miles and within a few hours of one another at Hazelton and Hague. At Hazelton, Cloyd Kurtz, one of the most promising young farmers in Emmons county, while repairing a hay track was precipitated to the floor of his barn, 27 feet below, when some poorly secured planks gave way. An ankle and two ribs were broken and his shoulder was dislocated. It is feared that internal injuries may develop.
At Hague, S.J. Sweitzer had been pulled up to the track on which his hay carrier runs, when the wheels of the trolley slipped and Sweitzer fell 37 feet {illegible} unconscious when picked up and remained so until after he had reached Ashley, where a surgical examination showed his left shoulder blade to be fractured in a number of places.
Bismarck Tribune, 7-20-1917
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Two Children Struck; Farms Are Damaged
LaMoure, N.D., May 12—Two children were struck by lightning and seriously injured, and farm buildings were destroyed with a total loss of probably $50,000 in a storm of cyclonic proportions that swept the district from Nortonville to Kulm early Tuesday.
The children hit by lightning are of the John Weber family living near Dickey. They probably will recover.
The Bismarck Tribune, 5-12-1922
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R. L. Metcalf: I wish you would tell the boys around town that the School Board will pay 25
cents per head for all cows, horses, pigs, oxen, mules and any other animal found on the school
house grounds that they will take up and put in the pound. They have already did us over $200
worth of damage and we will not stand it any longer.
The Lakota Herald, 7/18/1902
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Contribution Box Contained Horse
Jamestown, June 26—Even a horse was placed in the contribution box in the form of a pledge of the value of the animal when the great annual offering was taken at the Methodist camp meeting Friday. The offering, including the horse, checks, cash and pledges amounted to $2,500, the largest in the history of the camp meeting.
The Bismarck Daily Tribune, 6-26-1911
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POSSEE HUNTS MAN WHO SHOT S.D. SHERIFF
Forty to Fifty Persons Launch Hunt Near Moorhead, Minnesota for Rust
Fargo, N.D. July 13—Sheriff Fred Kraemer of Fargo, and Peter Melvey of Moorhead, were called to Detroit, Minn., last evening to help capture Edwin Rust.
The hunt for the youthful murderer of Sheriff L.C. Fulker of Aberdeen, S.D., on a train near Moorhead Sunday evening, July 1, has been resumed in earnest. A sheriff's possee renewed the search last night when Rust is said to have been discovered on a freight train in the yards at Detroit.
Traveled With Rust.
About 8 p.m. yesterday a stranger came to the office of Sheriff Ed. Swanson of Becker county in Detroit and reported that Rust was beating his way east on a freight train that just had arrived in Detroit. The assertion was borne out by another stranger, companion of the first. They claimed they traveled with Rust from Staples.
The sheriff with deputies {illegible} the train.
A man, whom the officers believe was Rust, took to the woods when the officers attempted to surround him. The sheriff and his aides gabve chace and a general alarm was sounded.
The fugitive managed to get away in the woods to the west of Detroit and up to an early hour this morning the man hunt had proven fruitless.
Alarm is Sounded.
The sheriffs of Clark county, Minn., and Cass county, N.D., were immediately notified and they, with several deputies joined the hunt within a short time. At midnight it was reported at the Detroit jail that between 40 and 60 persons had taken up the search.
Bismarck Tribune, 7/14/1923
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Bad Nose Bleed — Ex-Mayor Leslie has been greatly troubled with nose bleed the past two days and had to call a doctor to stop the flow, which is very frequent.
Bismarck Daily Tribune, 6/1/1906
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