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DYNAMITE LETS GO WITH DIRE EFFECT
Jud Leader: Word reached here Monday morning announcing the occurrence last Saturday of a terrible accident in the hills west of town, from the results of which one man may die and another is badly injured.
John Gumpke and a brother, whose name we were unable to learn, young German farmers living about ten miles west of Jud, were blasting rock with dynamite. At about seven o'clock in the evening last Saturday, they had placed a charge of dynamite in the rock but it failed to explode. They removed this and proceeded to recharge the rock and it was during this process that the accident occurred. John was tamping the earth around the charge with a crowbar and in some manner discharged the explosive.
The explosion destroyed one eye and the other was all but destroyed. His face was terribly lacerated and several fingers of one hand were blown away. His brother, who was farther away when the explosion came, was badly injured about the face but not seriously. John was immediately taken to Gackle where everything possible was done to relieve the suffering of the unfortunate man.
Bismarck Daily Tribune, 5/13/1911
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NABS RUM RUNNER AT TRAIN STEP AS HE SIGNALS PALS
Aberdeen, S.D., May 26.—Roy Dixon, a brakeman on the Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul railroad, who was arrested here last Friday for transporting liquor, will be given a hearing tomorrow.
Dixon stepped off the morning passenger train as it arrived from Minneapolis early Friday morning, recognized none of the local authorities, gave the signal to his partner, and deposited two suitcases on the platform.
Before his partner, however, could lay hold of the grips, Deputy State Sheriff Charles Peters of Mitchell, who had been previously "tipped off," opened the cases and "nabbed" Dixon.
The cases contained ten quarts of whiskey.
Mitchell Evening Republican, 5/26/1921
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$20-A-WEEK LEAST ON WHICH GIRL CAN LIVE
Devils Lake, N.D., March 1. Twenty dollars a week is the minimum amount with which a North Dakota girl or woman can properly support herself, according to testimony submitted by a number of witnesses to the State bureau of compensation, which has been in session here.
The women who discussed living costs included telephone operators, clerks and hotel employees. Nearly all of them agreed upon the $20 minimum.
According to members of the compensation bureau, the testimony of the witnesses varied broadly as to the meaning of "necessities." Several young women put silk stockings in this class. Some held that five hats a year should be the absolute minimum.
Bismarck Tribune, 3/1/1920
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Body Of Infant Found In River
Fargo, March 16. Yesterday afternoon some boys who were walking along the river near Oak Grove park discovered the body of an infant floating down the river, and after hard work succeeded in getting it to shore. The remains were partly incased in ice.
A student of the Agricultural college who happened near at the time took charge of the body, placed it in a box and took it to his lodging house on Seventh avenue north, and called at police headquarters where he notified Chief Towney.
The body was that of a very young child and was frozen stiff. It had evidently not been in the water any great length of time and was probably either placed in the river from the of the bridges, or as the police think, may have been thrown into a sewer and during the last thaw had reached the river.
Bismarck Daily Tribune, 3/16/1911
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Girl Driving Car Runs Down Boy on Bicycle
Edgeley Will Enforce Ordinances Against Child Chauffeurs After Accident
Edgeley, N.D., June 9—Samuel Dickson is in a hospital suffering from serious injuries, sustained when he, on a biycle, and Miss Maxine Salisbury, driving a car, attempted to use at the same time the same side of the road. As a result of this accident, the village ordinances prohibiting the driving of cars by children will be more rigidly enforced.
Bismarck Tribune, 6/9/1917
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Minot—Peacefully sleeping with his head pillowed on one rail of the Great track and his feet on the other, a 13-year-old boy here owes his life to the fact that a brakeman had to leave an approaching train to throw a switch.
Turtle Mountain Star, 5/18/1922
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