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WARREN'S WEARY WAIT.
Kept a Prisoner in His Shack for Three Days.
Last week, John Warren, the veteran frontiersman, returned from the Yellowstone country to his shack at the coal bank and found his old friend Charley Green "at home" in it. Warren had located Green on the claim, pending his absence, for the purpose of protecting it. Gren {sp} came to the conclusion that it was his and when Warren came back he learned that there was a contestant in the person of his employee. Warren entered the shack forcibly by breaking the padlock. Green was off duty at the time, and when he returned he found Warren in possession. That simple circumstance seemed to exasperate him and with a rifle he perched on a big boulder and whistled for Warren to come forth. He cooed like a mad dove, but Warren wouldn't heed his cooing worth a cent. Warren was unarmed and as Green was apparently in earnest, he kept in doors. This joke continued for three days. Green boarded at the stage station and Warren feasted on flour and water. It was not an even thing until Warren was presented with a gun by a friend, who stole a march on Green's watch. When he got the gun, Warren raised the black flag. He yelled to Green to rally and open fire at once. Green wouldn't rally for battle, but pleasantly asked the half starved Warren if he wouldn't go a fishing with him. The besieged brother answered back that he would a gunning. The explanation of his answer in detail persuaded green that there might be a funeral if he lingered in those posts long. Green fell back to Mandan. Warren now holds the fort and is patiently waiting for the railroad company to come along and buy a few hundred tons of coal. The coal is good lignite and will make excellent fuel. There is evidently plenty of it under cover. The small excavations show two veins four feet thick each. The claimant insists there is an inexhaustible supply within easy reach. He has been holding on for six years with the hope of seeing the day that will undoubtedly dawn this summer.
Bismarck Tribune, 5/10/1879
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GHOSTLY SOUNDS
A Young Lady Sees a Messenger From Heaven in the Shape of a Dove.
Strange and Unaccountable Things Have Occurred in the House Since Its Advent.
Stove Griddles Dance, Ghostly Sounds Are Heard, and Articles Mysteriously Disappear
MADELIA, Minn., July 2—Miss Nelson is an 18-year-old daughter of H. Nelson, living nine miles northeast of this place, has seen what she thinks is a messenger from Heaven in the shape of a white dove carrying an open book. Miss Nelson called a sister to see the vision, but t was visible to no one except herself. The dove passed acrossed the bed chamber and disappeared at the foot of the bed, and since that time the household has been disturbed by rappings, stove griddles rattling on the stove, whistling and humming of tunes, which sounds cannot be located, but resemble the human voice.
These are not only heard by the young lady, but by any one present in the house either day or night. And so far no one has been able to locate the strange sounds or tell what would cause the stove griddles to dance. This latter happens only when the young lady passes by, but not near enough to touch anything.
Another mysterious thing in connection with the affair is that small articles belonging to Miss Nelson are continually disappearing, even when the house is locked and a watch kept around the place, the largest article being a dress, and part of this a skirt, being found in a tree in the yard the next morning.
The Norwegian Lutheran pastor held a meeting in the house, hoping by this means to drive the ghostly and spiritualistic sounds away. There were about a hundred people present, and all that could get in the house came away satisfied that these sounds were heard and the stories were not all fiction.
Bismarck Daily Tribune, 7/3/1891
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He Wanted a Steed.
Jamestown, Dak., July 1.—Last Saturday a stranger, about twenty-five years old, dressed in the garb of a farmer, applied at Halstead's livery stable, of this city, for a horse and rig to drive out a few miles into the country where he was having some breaking done. He was given a good sorrel horse and open buggy to be gone two hours and has not been heard from since. It is now believed he was a crook and played the farmer to get away with the horse.
Bismarck Weekly Tribune, 7/4/1884
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FARMING WITH DYNAMITE
Good Reel of Pictures Shown at the Agricultural College This Afternoon.
Farming With Dynamite was the subject of a reel of moving pictures shown at the agricultural college this afternoon at 4:30 o'clock as one of the weekly educational films that have attracted so much attention among students and townspeople.
The film shown this afternoon was loaned by the Du Pont Powder Co., and takes in all phases of farm work where dynamite plays a part. It shows the use of the explosive in planting trees, plowing, making of trainage ditches and many other works.
The showing of the film was accompanied by a lecture by Dean. E. S. Keene of the engineering department. Last evening Dean Keene gave a special exhibition of this picture and gave his lecture for the benefit of the students in the agricultural chemical class.
A film from the Cushman Motor Co., will also show this afternoon.
The Fargo Forum and Daily Republican, 2/5/1915
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ATTACK MARSHALL WHO CONFISCATED BOOZE SHIPMENT
Lured to Electric Light Plant and Beaten Up — Assailants Pay Stiff Fines
Steele, N.D., July 7—Lured to the electric light plant late at night, when the city was suddenly plunged in darkness, H. W. Maynard, township constable at Pettibone, was surrounded and a demand made that he turn over a large consignment of booze which he had confiscated on its arrival. After being sorely misused, the constable deputized 18 husky citizens and rounded up the gang, who were bundled into four automobiles, whirled to the county seat and jailed for the night. The following morning John Shea paid tribute in the sum of $70.80, A E Johnson and Gilbert Johnson, $50.90 and $57, respectively, and W J Cahill $13.95, upon being convicted of assault and battery upon the person of an officer, and Charles Anderson, alleged leader of the rioters, was bound over to the district court on a charge of inciting a riot.
Bismarck Tribune, 7/9/1917
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Rev. Se. E. Ryan, presiding elder of this district in the Methodist church, had a narrow escape from death by lightning the other night. He had been sleeping in the study of the Oakes church and had just left it to take the train, and had not yet reached the depot, when the lightning ran down the spire into the study, demolishing things generally.
Bismarck Daily Tribune, 8/12/1897
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