His Place is in Hades.
One of the lowest mortals that ever walked on two legs strolled into McCoy's drug store the other day and stole the little safe which was left on the show case, that people might drop in their pennies, nickels and dimes, the proceeds to be used for homeless children. The safe must have contained four or five dollars. For shame, that we have within the portals of our fair little city a being that will steal the pennies right out of the hands of needy little children. If any man ever goes to Hades, this fellow will.
Ward County Independent, 7/12/1905
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The boys at the freight depot unearthed a cat that had been eleven days imprisoned in a car without food. They took her into the office and fed her a few drops of milk. She flickered out all the same.
Bismarck Tribune, 10/9/1878
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STOLE TOOLS AND DRINKS BOOZE; JAIL
Mandan, N.D., July 28.—If B. W. McDonald had left booze alone, he might have gotten away with about $40 worth of tools which he took from the Connolly garage.
McDonald had been doing some work around the garage and soon after he left the kit of tools were missed. Sheriff McDonald and State's Attorney Langer were notified of the theft and were hot on his trail, having learned that he had gone to Bismarck. Arriving in Bismarck McDonald got in touch with a bootlegger who provided him a lot of cheap whiskey, and in this condition the tool thief hired a jitney to bring him to Mandan, and here is where he run afoul the toils of the law.
The prisoner was taken to the Morton county jail and will have his hearing soon.
Grand Forks Herald, 7/28/1916
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A Fatal Accident.
At about seven o'clock Saturday morning a terrible and fatal accident occurred on the steep grade of the Northern Pacific road just east of Valley City. When the third section of the Villard excursion train, which passed this city Thursday evening, reached Valley City a special engine or "pusher" was attached to the rear of the train to help it up the grade. Engineer Miller, in charge of the pusher, was given orders to go up the grade and look out for the regular passenger train, which was immediately following. The engineer was careless in reading his orders and instead of waiting for the passenger train
HE DASHED BACK
down the grade at a rapid rate. When at its highest speed the pusher met the train loaded with passengers, which was also puffing along at the rate of over twenty miles an hour. It was a wild, and awful moment. The engineers and firemen of both engines gazed at each other one painful, agonizing second; the levers were reversed; a short, spasmodic whistle screeched wild with terror, and with a loud, grinding crash the great flying bodies of iron came together, and the engine attached to the passenger trailed rolled over into the ditch, tearing the baggage car to pieces and throwing the hundreds of passengers headlong from their seats. The fireman of the falling engine, named Tom Collins, was caught between the engine and tender and carried with them to the ground. He was so firmly grasped by the hideous trap that
FOR THREE LONG HOURS,
while a large force of men were endeavoring to extricate him, he suffered untold pangs of pain and fear. His reason did not leave him until he died, after he had been removed from the wreck, and what thoughts flashed through his mind as he looked, helpless and terrified, at the throng of strangers who gathered about him, must be imagined by the reader. Almost immediately upon his release from the wreck he died, and his sold was on the swift, noiseless train to eternity. The passenger engineer, whose name is McLain, was quite seriously injured, having his arms broken and other severe wounds about the head and body, but will recover. Neither the engineer nor fireman of the "pusher" were injured. The engine of the passenger train
IS A TOTAL WRECK,
and the baggage car is badly smashed, while the destructive engine escaped with a broken cylinder and two holes in her tender. Miller, the engineer of the pusher, has acknowledged that his carelessness was the cause of the wreck, and it is thought that he will be arrested for criminal carelessness and held responsible for the death of the fireman. It is safe to presume, however, that he has already suffered more than years of imprisonment.
There were several Bismarckians on the train, including Gov. Ordway and Captain Stephen Baker, but none of the passengers were injured. The wreck delayed the passenger train from the east several hours, and it reached Bismarck at 10 o'clock last evening.
Bismarck Tribune, 10/5/1883
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At Valley City Rev. Mr. Woodford, pastor of the Episcopal church, stopped short his sermon and dismissed the congregation with the announcement that he would not hold further services while the Bonder-Root family attended the church.
The Bad Lands Cow Boy, 10/23/1884
Valley City Churches.
The factions at Valley City even extend to the churches. In consequence Rev. Mr. Peahe recently left the Pepiscopal church there, and the Jamestown Alert notes this: The Episcopal church at Valley City does not seem to be in the most pleasant condition. It seems from the Barnes county Record that the pastor, Rev. S. H. Woodferd {sp}, has an aversion to Mr. Root of his conversation, the Record says: On last Sunday when this nervous condition of the preacher was augmented by "physical illness" to an unusual degree, Miss Clara Root was seized with a fit of coughing during the sermon, which, being unable to suppress, she procured the keys of the house from Mr. Root and went home. This action of Miss Root the nervous preacher at once construed into a "studied annoyance," and subsequently when Mr. Root opened his prayer book, which rested upon his knees, the excited preacher stopped short in his sermon, dismissed the congregation abruptly, stating that he could no longer endure the presence of the Root family in church, and until they ceased their attendance there would be no more services in that church. Comment is unneccesary, but from what we know of Mr. Root we venture to predict that it will be a long time before the church is opened if Mr. Woodford's threat is carried out.
The Saint Paul (MN) Globe, 10/10/1884
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Airship Goose Hunter Arrested
WIMBLEDON, Oct. 20—Something new in North Dakota court annals and probably the first instance of the kind in the United States, is the arrest and fining in Wimbledon of Vernon L. Roberts, Fargo aviator, for shooting at wild geese from his aeroplane.
Somehow the chase was noticed by Deputy Game Warden Grulke, a farmer, residing a few miles southwest of Wimbledon. He came to town after the airplane had landed and arrested Aviator Roberts on the specific charge of shooting wild game from a moving vehicle. The defendant pleaded guilty and was fined $30.
The Devils Lake World, 10/20/1920
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