Got the Best of It.
A letter dated Dec. 28, from a Tribune subscriber in the Yellowstone Valley, says that last week Miss Kate Frising had an altercation at Morgan's Ranch with another belle, known as the Murphy girl. Miss Murphy started on horseback for Glendive, where an autumn zephyr caught her. She abandoned her horse, and the mail carrier, Mr. Wm. Connor, found her in a snow-bank. Her limbs were frozen stiff, from her knees down; her hands and face were also badly frozen. He procured a conveyance, and took her to Glendive, where the kind hearted Calamity Bill (no relation to Calamity Jane) did everything in his power to relieve her until she could be sent to her relatives, who reside above there.
Bismark Tribune, 1/9/1880
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Candidate Files Suit For $50,000 Damage
Minot, N.D., Nov 10—John C Lowe, Minot attorney, elected district judge in the fifth judicial district last Tuesday, has started a $50,000 damage action in the Ward district court against Dr. Archie D. McCannel of Minot. The complaint alleges that the defendant recently made statements in the presence of Arthur Harshman and others which were derogatory to Mr. Lowe. The complaint charges that the remarks were made when Dr. McCannel was discussing the criminal action which was made against Lowe just a few days prior to election. Lowe was arrested and bound over to the district court on a statutory charge preferred against him by Joy Eddy Newmack, a young girl who up until recently lived on a farm in Mountrail county near the farm on which Lowe spends the summer months.
Bismarck Tribune, 11/10/20
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Steal Ride, Are Robbed
Fargo, May 15—William O'Bryan and John Temple were arrested at Casselton today charged with holding up several laborers with revolvers in a box car between Tower City and Casselton last night. The robbery occurred on an eastbound train and the victims made complaint as soon as they arrived in Casselton, giving description of the men.
The alleged bandits were identified by one of the victims after they were arrested, according to authorities. The men will probably be brought to Fargo to be arraigned before the grand jury in session here.
The Bismarck Tribune, 5/15/1922
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Sod House Protects Tolna Dam Workers
Tolna, N.D., Nov 18—Use of sod housing as protection for WPA workers solved a problem faced by Foreman W. G. Ward at the Tolna dam. The dam is being constructed at a point where no farm buildings are available for shelter during the noon hour. Lacking funds to buy and transport lumber for sheds, workers recalled use of sod houses in pioneer days. Sod was turned and now the men eat in comfort.
The Bismarck Tribune, 11-18-1936
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Burglars Get Good Price
Wheat Stolen, Farmer Is Happy
Two confessed burglars stole 191 bushels of Thatcher wheat from a Viding township farmer Wednesday night but instead of being angry C. M. Dahlsad was mighty happy about the whole thing today.
Dahlsad didn't find out about the theft until early this morning when he was routed out of bed by County Attorney James A Garrity and Sheriff Rosco Brown.
Yesterday the two officials were called to Breckenridge by Wilkin County Sheriff James A Fitzgerald, who was holding two Breckenridge men for thefts of grain in Wilkin County. The pair, Kenneth Troxel, 27, and William Davis, 44, had confessed theft of 191 bushels of grain in Clay County.
No such theft had been reported to Clay county authorities. They questioned the two men, who drew a description of the granary which they had robbed and told officers it was "near a barn, both the granary and barn were painted red. There was no house on the farm."
Armed with this description Garrity and Brown found the granary eight and a half miles northeast of Georgetown. The nearest neighbor lived a mile away.
After further search they found Dahlsad, who knew nothing of missing grain but was willing to check up on his property. The grain was missing, they discovered. Dahlsad's estimate was only nine bushels more than the 191 bushels stolen.
"How much money did they get for it?" he asked Garrity.
Garrity told him the two had sold the grain at Sauk Center on Thursday and had been given a check for $159.
"That's a good sale" said Dahlsad in high glee. "That's more than I could have gotten for it."
Since Art Mcintree, Stearns county sheriff at St. Cloud, had stopped payment on the check, Dahlsad will receive the money.
The two Breckenridge men will prosecuted {sic} in Wilkin county for the burglary charges for grain thefts there.
The pair had sold the wheat for nearly $1 per bushel because they had hit a rising market when wheat topped a dollar in the Chicago market.
Moorhead Daily News, 5/17/1941
Sidenote: this was my great-grandfather, and I have never heard this story before.
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Bobby, the three-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Spielman of New England, fell into a tub of hot water on Wednesday morning of this week and was burned so terribly that he lived less than 12 hours. The sincere sympathy of the whole countryside goes out to the bereaved parents in their terrible affliction. The boy was a bright little fellow and though so young had made many friends by his winning ways. All the people in
New England mourn his loss.
Slope County News, 4/19/1917
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