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HE HAD MURDER IN VIEW
Claude Johnson Fired Twice at Andersons on Farm Ten Miles North of City.
Wednesday afternoon about 5 o'clock a tragedy was narrowly averted at the Anderson farm ten miles north of the city. Claude Johnson, a carpenter who had been discharged by a man named Peterson working for Anderson returned to the farm house armed with a revolver and several bottles of whiskey. He engaged in a conversation with his former employer, Peterson, and was taken into the house to set himself loose before Anderson and his son. When he left the room he turned around suddenly with the drawn revolver and fired two shots into the crowd. Consternation reigned for a time. One of the bullets tore off a vest button and the other sang a tune through the younger Anderson's hair. Nobody was hurt.
Johnson immediately made himself scarce and up to a late hour this afternoon had not been captured.
Grand Forks Evening Times, 11/9/1906
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SHOOTING AFFRAY IN ATLANTIC CASE
"John" Soo Fow, proprietor of the Atlantic cafe is lying wounded at his home today as a result of an early morning shooting affray at his cafe Thursday.
A man giving his name as George Nichols, laborer, is held at the city jail under a charge of disorderly conduct. Authorities are waiting to find just how severe Fow's injuries are before bringing a more serious charge against him.
Nichols, considerably under the influence of liquor, was put out of the chop suey house earlier in the evening. He insisted on returning and bringing with him a stray dog he had found in the street.
Fow ordered him away from the door three times and the fourth time stepped outside to see that his ordered were obeyed.
Nichols fired two shots and with his revolver still drawn followed the fleeing Chinaman inside.
Two patrons in the place succeeded in pacifying the man and holding him in conversation till the arrival of Chief Fortune and Captain Downing when he was placed under arrest.
One of the bullets struck Fow in the foot, inflicting a painful though not a dangerous wound.
Bismarck Tribune, 10/17/1913
Chinese Tongs Extend Aid to Prosecution
URGE BISMARCK PROSECUTOR TO AVENGE INJURY TO MEMBER OF THEIR CLAN.
Bismarck, N.D., Dec. 13.—Seven Chinese tongs in different cities of the Pacific coast have written States Attorney Berndt, warning him not to allow George Nichols, charged with assasult with a adangerous {sp} weapon, to plead guilty to a lesser offense and escape with a probationary sentence. Nichols is waiting trial for having shot Soo Fow, a Chinese restaurant man, with a revolver. Fow, a member of the seven tong clan, fears his assailant may be given his freedom and perhaps attack him again. He wired the native parlor of the tongs' clan in San Francisco and he has received reply that the tongs will spare no money or influence to avenge his injury.
Valley City Times-Record, 12/18/1913
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John Nelson took five of his lady friends out on the hill New Year's eve for a toboggan ride. All went well until the thing struck a bump and the girls went in all directions. No one was seriously injured.
Ward County Independent, 1/6/1904
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"Pal Shot At Him But Missed"
Dickinson, N.D., Jan. 6.—A peculiar chain of circumstances caused the arrest of Joe Reiser, wanted in Cando, N. D., for forging the name of Joe Fink to a $240 check and in Bozeman, Mont., for the murder of Fink. Two hours after his arrest Reiser called for Sheriff Geo. Brown and confessed to killing Fink in Salesville, Montana, December 23. Reiser had been in Dickinson several days first trying to get a check cashed at a local bank and then waiting until it should pass the Cando bank. Meantime he put up a hard luck story needing hospital treatment because of an injured arm and received a personal loan of $40.
The Cando bank passed the check but almost at once discovered the forgery and phoned the local bank not to turn over the cash. Just as Reiser was boarding a train for the east, officers received word to arrest him for the murder of Fink. A bank clerk located the man for the officers. Reiser told the sheriff he had never been in jail before and that he wanted to make a clean breast of it.
He and Fink had been chums all their lives, their families living together in Hungary; they came to St. Paul in 1902, and worked during harvest near Cando, going west to Missoula, Butte, and Bozeman, and then out in the country 20 miles to Salesville, where they were "baching" it while looking for work. The night of the tragedy, he said, they quarreled over the bed covers, Fink claiming Reiser had more than his share. The quarrel waxed furious, Reiser says, and Fink fired at him but missed; then Fink took an ax and struck him, injuring his arm. Reiser says he then got the axe and hit Fink over the head and killed him. He had receipts and papers belonging to Fink and two watches, two suits of clothes etc.
Reiser is about 38 and has a wife and child in Hungary.
Golden Valley Chronicle, 1/7/1916
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TIRED OF LIFE
B. H. Egeland, of Webster, S. D., Puts a Bullet Through His Head.
Moorhead, Jan. 20: Last night about 8:30 o'clock a well dressed man of about fifty years of age, entered the Columbia hotel office and asked for a room. He registered as B. H. Egeland of Webster, S. Dak., and asked to be shown to a room at once. The man seemed to be deep in thought.
When he reached the room which is situated on the third floor, he asked to have the bed changed, and the chambermaid, Miss Ella Olson recognized him, as she had lived in Webster for some years, and was well acquainted with the Egeland family which consists of the wife, two daughters and a son, all grown, and held in high esteem in the community.
About an hour after a sound was heard like a shot, but it was very faint. Soon after heard a sound of gurgling or heavy breathing was heard, and the proprietor, Mr. Hill, came up and tried to open the door of the room, but as it was fastened on the inside Mr. Hall, one of the guests climbed over the transom.
The man was found lying on the bed will {sp} a small revolver known as a 22 short, in his right hand, and bleeding profusely from a wound back of his right temple, and above his ear.
By papers found on his person it was learned that he was the county auditor of Day county, S. D., and a member in good standing of Webster Camp 1071 Modern Woodmen of America.
Jamestown Weekly Alert, 1/27/1898
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Narrow Escape.
Eppinger's little boy narrowly escaped being trampled to death by a shy horse on Wednesday last. In attempting to rescue his son Mr. Eppinger was himself kicked by the horse. Although quite severely injured the boy will recover in a short time.
Bismarck Tribune, 9/5/1879
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