Dr. DePuy and Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Eager recently had an exciting wolf chase with hounds. The party was out eight miles southwest of the city when the dogs started at a large gray wolf. The hounds gave chase and the occupants in the carriage followed as rapidly as the team could run. The chase was across lots over the prairie and in some places the carriage wheels touched but the high spots as the horses entered into the sport and ran their best. The ride was exciting to a degree and was only ended by the wolf taking refuge in a deserted building from the windows of which the glass had been broken. Here one of the party got out and "shooed" the wolf from a room in one corner of which he had taken refuge. As his wolfship shot through a window to escape the Russian wolf hounds pounced on him and soon killed him. The hounds came out of the fray with hardly a scratch. "Whiskers" and the Russian hounds have learned by experience to be cautious and it takes a pretty cunning wolf or jack rabbit to beat them when it comes to artful dodging and work at close quarters.
Jamestown Weekly Alert, 5/30/1895
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MANDAN GIRL MADE ESCAPE.
Ran Away From the Crittenden Home.
About a month ago a young girl about sixteen years of age, Mary Amundson by name, was sent from Mandan to the Crittenden {sp} home in Bismarck, supposedly in a delicate condition. It now transpires, according to the doctors, she is not in any such shape.
One morning last week she ran away from the home and went to the house of Sheriff McGillis. The matron of the home was communicated with. She came to the sheriff's home and tried to induce the girl to return with her. This she would not do but persisted in staying where she was.
She was taken to Mandan and turned over to the authorities at that place.
It is thought that the girl is not bright. She had been living with an aunt about thirty-five miles south of Mandan. Her father lives with her step-mother in Connecticut, and about a year ago the girl came to North Dakota to live.
Golden Valley Chronicle, 4/24/1908
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A little son of Treasur
{er} Anderson of the school district on
the reservation south of Bismarck, recently shot a man who had entered the house in company with another, while his father was absent, and, pointing a revolver at the boy's mother, demanded money. The shot was fired from a shotgun and took effect in the right breast and shoulder of the man. The other dragged him off, and several days afterward a body, supposed to be that of the man shot by the boy, was found in the sand hill, 15 miles from Bismarck.
The Wahpeton Times, 5/23/1884
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Accident at Yankton Agency.
Springfield Times
One day last week a party of young Indian men at Yankton Agency went out duck hunting to a lake not far distant. Arriving at the lake the party separated and took stations around it and each concealed himself in the grass. As the party were constantly shooting at ducks the discharge of a gun was of course unnoticd {sp}. When gathered together again at the time for returning home, one of the number, by name of Ed. Bishop, an unusually smart and well edncated {sp} man, was found missing. His comrades went at once to the place where he was last seen and found him lying in the grass dead, with a fearful wound in his breast. The muzzle of the gun must have been pointed directly at the heart, as that organ was pierced by the charge, but whether the shooting was accidental or intentional cannot be told, though it is believed to have been thə {sp} former.
Jamestown Alert, 5/5/1882
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Chas. Peterson, while working on a
traction engine Tuesday near
Carlyle, had the middle finger of his left hand caught in the mechanism and nearly torn off.
Beach surgeons will be able to save the injured digit, although at first it was feared that amputation would be necessary.
Golden Valley Chronicle, 4/22/1910
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Benedict.— While George Bronsak, Sr., was hauling a load of potatoes from
Ruso with a four horse team, his horses became frightened and upset the wagon, throwing him out between the wheels, the wheels passing over his leg and breaking it. The lead team swung around and trampled him, injuring him internally, from which injuries he died. He leaves a wife and eight children.
Ward County Independent, 5/9/1912
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