Cayuga—a neighbor was talking to Charles Kiefer and holding a loaded shotgun when a small Kiefer boy pulled the trigger and shot his four-year-old brother dead.
Hope Pioneer, 9/30/1920
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FINDS WIFE FOR STRANGER.
North Dakota Justice Then Ties the Knot.
Judge William Murray of the Minot police court found a wife for Elmer Jones, a stranger, recently, and received a check for $300.
Jones entered the judge's office one night and asked if he could get married. "When will you bring the young lady around?" asked the judge. "I haven't found her; can't you find a wife for me?" was the reply.
The judge said he would do the best he could, and in a few minutes secured the consent of a bright young lady twenty-two years old.
By this time Jones had changed his mind and asked that the matter be deferred until another day. But he appeared at 2 o'clock the next afternoon and requested that the ceremony be performed. The first girl had disappeared, but Judge Murray said he would find another. This he did and the two were married.
Golden Valley Chronicle, 4/18/1907
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Minot.—Miss Ruth Malstrom, the 17 year old girl who mysteriously disappeared on the night of April 6, returned to Minot from Devils Lake where she was located by Alex Searlett, president of the Minot Human society. Miss Malstrom walking from Minot to
Granville, a distance of twenty-five miles, in the middle of the night and said that she made the trip merely for an adventure.
Ward County Independent, 5/9/1912
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Calf With 2 Heads and 2 Tails.
Hillsboro. — A freak calf having two heads, four front legs, two tails and many other admirable features appeared on the farm of Orlando Heckle, a well-known farmer of this vicinity.
"Now," said Mr. Heckle, "I shall labor no more on the farm. I will sell this freak calf and be rich."
His good fortune was short lived, however, for not only did the calf perish, but also its mother, which was one of his best cows.
Hope Pioneer, 4/12/1917
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WOULD DEPORT HIM.
Minot, N.D., April 5.—Believing that Niels Olson who was adjudged insane at Donnybrook a short time ago was a noted police character and pauper of Copenhagen, Denmark, and was sent to this country by the foreign police. Public Administrator Hovey is making a strenuous effort to have the man sent back to his old home. Olson is now at Jamestown a Ward county charge and from all indications is a hopeless case. Mr. Hovey has through correspondence ascertained that Olson was for a long time a pauper and police character at Copenhagen, and it is his belief that the police cent him to the United States. Olson struck Donnybrook last fall and entered the employ of a shoemaker, working for his board.
Grand Forks Evening Times, 4/5/1909
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Grand Forks. — Louis Corcoran, aged 6 years, was killed at
Ardoch by being run over by a heavy grain tank. The boy had jumped on the rear of the load and was riding when the team started to pull the wagon up the incline at the elevator. On the way up the team was unable to pull the load and started to back down with it. The boy jumped and was caught under the wheels.
Hope Pioneer, 4/15/1909
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