Murder at Fargo.
Fargo has had a genuine, premeditated murder. It occurred Wednesday night. From the Argus of the 16th we glean the following facts: J. H. Wheeland, a sewing machine agent of that city, had a dispute with E. Quinn, bar tender, at the Grand Pacific about a bill. The bar tender struck the agent. It seems that night Wheeland returned and engaged the bar keeper in a game of billiards, and when they were alone, turned loose on him. Quinn was found with his face in a spittoon. Wheeland gave himself up to the authorities.
Bismarck Tribune, 3/17/1882
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Bert Farnsworth of
Flasher, is charged with shooting and killing five horses that got onto his property and were helping themselves to some hay.
Valley City Times-Record, 2/4/1915
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FARGO GIRL KILLED BY FALL FROM BRIDGE
Fargo, Jan 17.— As a result of a fall from the north bridge, Sophie Gaare, 16 years of age,, a stenographer employed by Atty. A. T. Cole, Fargo is dead and Barney Cinnamon, also of Fargo, aged 24, said to be a pugilist, is lying in a serious condition at the Northwestern hospital.
The couple had spent part of Sunday afternoon at Howard's coffee house, which is connected with the Higgins-Aske saloon. They had dinner there and in company with Bert McGinnis, a waiter, and Inga Peterson, an employe {sp} of the J.D. Grant Candy Co., Fargo, started to Fargo at 7.20 in the evening. Miss Gaare and Cinnamon were walking some way ahead of the other couple. They had been scuffling together and when they reached the bridge they began walking slower. When the couple at the rear noticed them next the girl was sitting on the railing of the bridge. There are conflicting stories of how she got there. One version is that Cinammon picked her up and placed her there, another that she climbed up on the railing herself.
At any rate she had barely reached a sitting posture on the railing when she lost her balance. She clutched her companion and her momentum was so great that they both plunged twenty feet to the stones and frozen earth below.
Bismarck Tribune, 1/18/1910
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SHOT STRIKES MAN IN HEAD—MAY LIVE
Wyndmere, N.D., Feb 16.—While standing before a mirror combing his hair, Ed Able, an employee on the Case farm two miles southeast of McLeon {sp}, was accidentally shot in the head with an old rusty pistol in the hands of a four-year-old son of his employer. The bullet struck Able just below the right year and penetrated the head. It is believed that he will recover unless complications should set in.
Valley City Times-Record, 2/17/1916
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Seventy-one out of eighty-five women in the city of
Larimore are opposed to women suffrage. A poll of the women of this city, was taken by Edgar Richter, with the purpose of throwing some light on the sentiment the question being before the North Dakota legislature. Of the 85 women polled 71 declared that they were absolutely against women suffrage three confessed to indifference and only 11 were in favor of it.
Valley City Times-Record, 2/6/1913
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Charles Hendricks, a vagrant, was picked up day before yesterday for getting too familiar with a young girl in
the Northern Pacific depot. As no specific charge could be brought against the man, he was held for vagrancy and sentenced to thirty days by Judge Moe and sentenced suspended pending his getting out of town. He said he was 26 years of age and he had escaped the draft and on being asked why he was not in the army he said they just happened to miss him. He is a regular tramp and the town is better off without him.
Valley City Times-Record, 2/5/1920
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