COMBER'S FUNERAL.
A Large Number of People Attend the Funeral. Account of Thursday's Accident.
George Comber, the seventeen-year old son of John Comber of Montpelier, died Friday from the effects of the gunshot wound which he received Thursday. As already stated in the Alert he received the wound while hunting with a cousin, Joe Comber, who was following him. They sighted a rabbit together and in raising his gun to shoot George's companion pulled the trigger and the bullet struck George Comber in the hip. There was no hope for his recovery as Dr. Baldwin could not locate the bullet and no surgical aid could avail. He lingered only a day.
The funeral took place from the farm residence near Montpelier Saturday, and was attended by a large number of people. The services were conducted by Father McPhee and interment was made in the Catholic cemetery.
The unfortunate affair has thrown a gloom over the neighborhood and the sympathy of everyone goes out to the bereaved family.
Jamestown Weekly Alert, 11/3/1898
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HOUSE IS FORT
Stutsman County Man Established Himself Behind Arsenal.
Jamestown, N.D., Feb. 3.—Charles Daede, who lives near Yysilanti, {sp} and believed to be insane, has barricaded him {sp} home and rooms and backed it up with an arsenal and ammunition sufficient to withstand a long seige in order to prevent himself from being arrested by Sheriff Romer, who for several months has a warrant for his arrest.
Daede believes he is being pursued by soldiers and has surrounded his house and barn with a barbwire entanglement and barricade ten feet high that is formidable. As he is a large and powerful young man his taking into custory {sp} is a matter for careful consideration and thought. He holds fort at home and has not appeared in Ypsilanti for some time and declines to talk to anyone except the members of his family, who visit him and keep watch over him, but do not stay there.
An attempt, made yesterday, to arrest Daede, resulted in the sheriff being driven off at the muzzle of a shot gun.
Grand Forks Evening Times, 2/3/1912
MANIAC IS CAPTURED
Officers Bind Him and Take Away a Gun and Long Knife.
Jamestown.—Charles Daede, an insane man, who has kept the Ypsilanti neighborhood in terror for months, and has defied the officers to arrest him, was taken by the deputy sheriff. The officers and two others caught the man from behind and had him bound before any violence resulted, although he was armed with a long knife and had a shotgun a few feet away in his buggy.
Ward County Independent, 5/9/1912
INSANE MAN WHO BARRICADED HOUSE AND DEFIED ARREST IS CAPTURED
Jamestown, N.D., March 22.—After terrorizing the neighborhood about his home near Ypsilanti, this county, for several months by frequently flourishing firearms and barricading his house, Charles Daede, an insane man, was captured Monday morning as he was trying to telephone from his home town to this city to inquire about a number of battleships he declared he had ordered to carry on his warfare. Deputy Sheriff Gibson was notified that the man was in town and with two assistants grappled with Daede, who is of unusually powerful build.
The insane man was thrown to the floor before he could make any resistance {and} was securely bound with a strap. A long knife was later found in his clothes and a short distance away he had a shotgun in his wagon.
Daede was an inmate of the asylum here some time ago but was later discharged. Several months ago he showed further signs of mental derangement, his mind running principally to firearms. He gathered a small arsenal of different kinds of guns and revolvers in his farm home and whenever he appeared outside of the grounds was conspicuously armed. The premises have also been fortified like a citadel, a high barbwire fence with numerous cross wires enclosing all his buildings.
These actions and his wandering talk of war and defenses resulted in complaints from the frightened neighbors and a warrant for the man's arrest. The sheriff and a deputy from this city went to arrest him on this warrant, but after being refused admittance and chopping to pieces the two doors they met Daede with a shotgun levelled at them. The officers left at once and no shooting occurred, but it was decided to postpone his arrest until warmer weather when it was hoped he could be caught by stratagem and violence avoided.
Daede was brought into county court this afternoon and after an examination committed to the asylum. During the hearing he said he had ordered a number of battleships from Washington.
Devils Lake Inter-Ocean, 3/22/1912
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MOOSE AND WOLVES
Former Trees Two Men and Is in Turn Attacked by Brutes.
Exciting Fight Witnessed from the Branches of the Tree—Moose Finally Compelled to Flee After Losing Its Antlers
Treed by a bull moose for three hours, during which time they witnessed a battle between the moose and a pack of wolves, was the novel experience of William Burnett and J. J. Geynor, of Duluth, Minn., while visiting their claims in Cook county a few days ago.
Burnett and Gaynor had wandered some distance from their claims, when they came face to face with a great bull moose. Neither man had a gun, so they took refuge in a balsam tree. The moose came up and pawed their snowshoes and seemed disposed to await developments. After three hours a pack of 20 wolves approached the tree. The moose was game and struck at the wolves with its forefeet and antlers and kicked at them with his hindfeet.
The wolves evidently had in view the idea of hamstringing the moose. A certain number would engage the moose at his head, but most of them were snapping at the hind legs of the animal. Mr. Burnett says the agility of the moose was remarkable, and he was as strong, apparently, as a locomotive. He caught and flung the wolves about like chips, and howls of anger and pain rang through the woods. At last, while making a mad lunge to toss some of the wolves, the moose shed his antlers. After one startled look, when he realized that he had lost his head weapon, the moose turned and fled at top speed.
"You ought to hae seen that moose run," said Mr. Burnett. "I never had any idea that they could run so fast. He ran up the side of a small mountain range, and we could see him for quite a distance. The wolves went after him, but I have no doubt the moose escaped."
Hope Pioneer, 3/13/1902
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Our Death Rate.
Undertaker Steinbach informs the Alert that the number of deaths in Stutsman county for the year 1881 was eighteen. Of this number two or three were paupers who came here from the west broken down in health and died and were buried at the expense of the county; one was drowned and the remainder doubtless some came here with constitutions so broken that they must have died in a short time whether they came to Stutsman county or remained away. The mortality was greater among the new comers than among the old settlers. So that taking into consideration the number of deaths of persons who really belonged here, it would not be over one half of one per cent. This fact alone should convince all that this is a healthy country.
Jamestown Weekly Alert, 2/24/1882
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WOMAN HAD RIBS BROKEN.
Minnewaukan, N. D., Nov. 15.—While in the performance of her household duties last week Mrs. J. M. Cubbison was quite badly hurt from a fall. She used a box and chair to enable her the more handily to reach her work. While on top of the box it tipped, and she fell heavily to the floor, causing a couple of broken ribs and a general shaking up.
Grand Forks Evening Times, 11/15/1911
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The epidemic of blood poisoning that has prevailed in the city seems general through the state. City Engineer Crabbe of Fargo ran a rusty nail into his hand, and in a few hours the hand was swollen to twice its natural size and he was nearly crazed with pain. Doctors split the hand along its length before being able to relieve the suffering.
Bismarck Tribune, 9/1/1899
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