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Tuesday afternoon, as W. D. Conner, a farmer living about 12 miles north of town, was driving out with a load of lumber, his team suddenly took fright near the Bellegarde bridge. He was dislodged from his seat in attempting to hold the horses in and was thrown heavily to the ground, sustaining serious injuries. He was picked up by a passerby and brought to the city and placed in the hospital, where he is recovering under the care of Dr. Ruger. One of his ears was torn off, his head severely lacerated and an arm broken in the accident, besides sustainging {sp} many body injuries. Although in a painful condition, he will recover.
Devils Lake Inter-Ocean, 8/10/1900
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DESERT BABY IN HOTEL; ARRESTED
Devils Lake, N.D., July 26.—Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Holt are sojourning in the police station here pending a hearing on the charge of having deserted their 17 days old baby in the Colonial Hotel here last March.
The couple returned to the city recently looking for the baby, which has since been legally adopted by a farmer near here. When Chief of Police Timhoe asked the woman if she was the mother of the child she finally admitted that she was. The case was referred to State's Attorney Hunt and the couple were locked up. The offense is a penitentiary one, and the couple have given no good reason for deserting the baby girl. Their home is near Voltaire, N.D.. Both are 27 years of age.
Bismarck Tribune, 7/26/1920
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Willie Crary was Drowned at Devils Lake.
Willie Crary, a boy 11 years of age, and the son of the Crary hotel keeper, was drowned at Devils Lake, Friday shortly after dinner. The little fellow went to the lake against his mothers {sp} will and floated out into deep water on a sack of corks. The sack got away from him and he sank five or six times. Two little companions were on the shore, and thought he was fooling. The boy could not swim. A man was called, and he stated that for a minute he saw the little boy floating in the water on his back. The water was not six feet deep, and the man could undoubtedly have saved his life had he rushed at once into the water. The body was recovered after half an hour and everything was done to restore life that could not be done. After several hours of futile work, the doctor present gave up. An attempt was made to induce artificial respiration and the remains were taken to the power house and given electrical shocks.
It was a pitiful scene when the aged father waded into the water and tried to locate his son. The remains were found by Joe. Rusink, a former Minot barber. This is the third drowning that has taken place at Devils Lake since the Chatauqua {sp} opened several years ago.
Ward County Independent, 7/12/1905
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T. G. Brown, formerly of Philadelphia, and lately Goverenment {sp} teamster at Fort Lincoln, was ruu {sp} over by a train at the Manitoba stock yards the 13th inst. He was brought into Mandan and his right leg was amputated above the ankle. He was taken to the county house. He was a sober and industrious man. It is thought he will recover.
Wahpeton Times, 7/18/1884
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Tokio and Sheyenne played base ball last Sunday and as usual Tokio was victorious. The score was so large that we are not permitted to publish it.
Devils Lake Inter-Ocean, 7/30/1909
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SEVEN KIDDIES ON $9 A MONTH; PENSION DENIED
The supreme court today was asked to decide whether Bessie R. Nixon of Fargo, mother and sole support of seven kiddies, the oldest 11 and the youngest two, ,and with an income of only $9 the month, is entitled to a mother's pension. More particularly, the court is asked to determine whether North Dakota's mother's pension act is constitutional.
County Judge A. G. Hanson of Cass on the mother's petition allowed her a pension of $8 per month, making the family's total income $65. State's Attorney Arthur W. Fowler demurred, but he was overruled. He then appealed to district court, where Judge Charles A. Pollock, in order to bring the matter before the supreme court for a ruling, entered a pro forma decision overruling every specification of error of the appellant and affirming the decision of the lower court. On this decision, State's Attorney Fowler appeals to the supreme court on the grounds that the county judge was without purisdiction to give Mrs. Nixon a mother's pension, inasmuch as Chapter 185 of the session laws of 1915 is unconstitutional.
Bismarck Tribune, 12/18/1916
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