Got Her Revenge.
Some time in the early part of last May Turtle-no-Head and another Indian, who belong to the Fort Berthold reservation, went out deer hunting and Turtle-no-Head accidentally shot his partner. The squaw of the dead Indian, with the natural instinct of her race, wished for revenge, and tried to get a young half-breed named O'Connor or White Elk, to kill Turtle-no-Head's squaw. O'Connor finally consented aud {sp} killed the woman by striking her on the head with an ax as she was going into her house. United States Marshal Murdock McKenzie went to Berthold last week and arrested O'Connor and the squaw who caused the murder. He returned to the city Sunday and lodged the prisoners in the county jail. They will probably have a hearing at the court house next Thursday.
Bismarck Tribune, 7/8/1890
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Badly Squeezed.
Bismarck Tribune.
At 7:30 last evening while attempting to make a coupling, Charles Miner. a young brakeman, was seriously injured by the slipping of the bumpers which permitted the cars to go together with terrific force. Miner was caught and squeezed flat, and was held in his painful position until the slack of six cars permitted him to fall out. He fell across the rail and narrowly escaped having his limbs cut off. He was taken to the Lamborn hospital where Drs. Porter and Fraser attended him and made a careful examination of the injured parts. The exterior injuries were not serious, but it was discovered that one of his floating ribs had been broken and that he had sustained other internal injuries. Miner is about 26 years of age and his home is in Wisconsin.
Jamestown Weekly Alert, 7/14/1887
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ASYLUM EMPLOYEE COMMITS SUICIDE
C.O. MOORES, AN ASYLUM ATTENDANT, BLOWS OFF THE TOP OF HIS HEAD WITH REVOLVER.
Jamestown, N.D., July 16.—Clifton O. Moores, an attendant at the state hospital for the insane near Jamestown, committed suicide Thursday morning by shooting himself in the head with a revolver. He was dead when other attendants reached his room a few minutes after the shot was fired.
Moores came to the institution in 1904 and a year later was employed as an attendant; a position which he filled until the time of his death. For some time past he had been suffering with a malignant tumor of the eye and this, it is thought, may have had something to do with his killing himself.
A pathetic touch was lent to the suicide by the fact that the young man's mother had arrived on Tuesday from Saginaw, Mich., and the two had planned to leave at noon Thursday for their home. Tickets had been bought and everything was ready for departure when he fired the fatal shot.
Williston Graphic, 7/22/1909
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TRAILL COUNTY VISITED
A Cyclone Near Clifford Kills a Family of Five—Others Injured.
Fargo, N.D., July 24.—Reliable information has reached here of a cyclone near Clifford, in the northwestern part of Traill county, which resulted in the death of five persons in one family, and severe injuries to a man and his wife in another. Considerable damage to property is also reported.
Only Three Injured
Fargo, July 24.—Later particulars from Traill county say the house was struck and the house of a farmer named Anderson, demolished, severely injuring his wife and two children. Owing to the track of the cyclone, being a considerable distance from a telegraph station definite particulars are hard to get, but here it is not generally thought that any lives were lost.
Jamestown Weekly Alert, 7/21/1890
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A Ford car was stolen last night at
Sanborn Chief of Police Swanson informs us. The car belongs to John Flach, of this city and the license number is 40221. There was a dance at Sanborn last night and the Ford was stolen while this was going on.
Valley City Weekly Times-Record, 8/7/1919
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The depot caught fire again Saturday, but the old building refused to burn. A spark from an engine caught in the roof among the shingles. Some one saw it and gave the alarm. The fire department turned out, but some one had drowned the little blaze with a bucket of water before they reached it. The only damage done was the destruction of a few shingles. The fire did not burn through the roof. The depot had caught fire three times in the past two years.
Jamestown Weekly Report, 7/31/1890
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