YOUTH PINNED UNDER DEAD HORSE SIX DAYS
Funeral services were held at Watford City last Saturday for 15-year old Walter Chaloner who died as he entered a Williston hospital after suffering for six days until found under his saddle horse Thursday.
A good horseman, young Chaloner rode away from the ranch of his father, W. H. Chaloner, of Watford City, prominent bedlands rancher. When he did not return, presumably to round up horses on the range, the family was not worried but thought he was visiting a neighboring ranch.
His sister, Caroline, 14, found the youth alive but unconscious Thursday in a deep ravine about 17 miles south of Watford City. The horse apparently lost its step. Walter was pinned beneath the dead horse.
Unable to remove the horse from the boy, Caroline returned to the ranch and her father, aided by a neighbor, pulled the animal away with a team of horses.
He was taken to a Williston hospital but died on reaching there.
Besides his parents he leaves a brother and five sisters.
Mouse River Farmers Press, 8/18/1933
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Fargoites have the gold fever and it is probably that the spring will see a party of fifty of them, fully equipped with the necessary coin and other paraphernalia, start for the
Clondyke.
Bismarck Daily Tribune, 7/29/1897
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Adjudged Insane—Leonard Driver, the horseman who attempted to commit suicide in the county jail the other night, was adjudged insane by the county insanity board Monday and taken that afternoon to the insane asylum by Sheriff Welsh. Driver came from
Emmons county, where it is said he has a family.
Bismarck Daily Tribune, 9/11/1906
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The name of the lunatic who escaped from the
asylum at Yankton the other day is John Pickard. He is still hid in the woods and cannot be coaxed out.
Jamestown Alert, 9/2/1881
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Met With Painful Accident.
Cogswell.—John Stout met with a painful accident in a runaway while cutting grain on his farm in Brampton township. A colt that had never been hitched to a binder before became frightened when the machine was put into action and started the trouble by rearing and kicking. Then the horses broke into a run through the field with the binder in gear. Stout lost his seat and in falling caught his right hand in the elevator gearing and it passed between the chain and the cog wheel. He managed to stop the team. He came to Cogswell where the doctor dressed the injured member. The hand was badly smashed but was swollen so it was impossible to tell just how serious the injury is.
Turtle Mountain Star, 8/17/1911
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Two Minot deputy sheriffs were badly beaten up by Canadian mounted police, in a smoking car at
Portal last week. The sheriffs had in charge two Portal
piggers whom the Canuck police demanded be turned over to them. As a result of the refusal of the Americans to accede to the request they were badly beaten with revolvers and the prisoners taken from them.
Bismarck Daily Tribune, 9/19/1905
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