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Ole Oxted, who recently returned from Canada, attempted to kill himself in the presence of his father and mother by slashing his throat with a razor at Palermo. Too much booze.
Ward County Independent, 12/19/1912
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Deadwood Pioneer: H. S. Price, a preacher of the Campbelite faith, arrived at Pine Bluff a few days ago, and announced that on the following Sunday he would deliver a sermon. Sunday brought a big crowd of cowboys to witness the novelty, but before the appointed hour for service all hands, including the divine, were pretty near " how come you so." A sermon was preached, however, and at its conclusion the minister started for antelope {sp} riding with one of the boys. A short distance from town, without word or warning, he died. The remains were interred by order of the commissioners of Cheyenne county.
Griggs County Courier, 1/9/1885
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A Lisbon merchant, who has not been able to keep a lady cashier over two months at a time, owing to the great demand in that city for female life partners, now advertises for the ugliest girl in America, and the Star tersely adds: "Dakota is rightly named the poor man's paradise. It might also be called the Eldorado for girls who do not wish to die old maids. The pretty ones go off like hot cakes—can't keep a large enough supply on hand. And, in fact, girls and young ladies of all classes, high, low, righ, poor, slim, stout, short or tall, cannot do a better thing than to come to Dakota."
Cooperstown Courier, 2/9/1883
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A young Hungarian by the name of Anton Weisman was found dead on the north fork of Cedar creek Jan. 14. The young man was a sheep herder and had been working for Martin Siem for two years and nine months. He went out with the sheep that morning but when evening came the sheep came home without their shepherd boy. One of the boys suspecting that all was not right went out to look for the rest of the sheep and found the young man dead, with a winchester lying in his left hand. The bullet went in his mouth and blew out two of his teeth. The rest of his teeth and his lips were powder burnt, the bullet coming out through the top of his head. The coroner's jury laid the cause to accidental shooting. The deceased was 24 years old and single. His parents live in the old country. An uncles of the deceased took charge of the body.— Medora Herald.
Golden Valley Chronicle, 1/31/1907
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A very peculiar accident happened to Mr. M. Greer the other day. He has a tub with which he draws drink from his well, unfastens it and carries it a short distance to water his cattle. One of the animals got its head wedged tightly in the tub, by means of its spreading horns. It couldn't see, of course, and cavorted aimlessly around. Mr. G. tried to head the quadruped off and relieve it, and while engaged in this humane endeavor it lowered its head, a la billy-goat, charged, and struck him amidships with the tub, folded him up, and tucked him through a wire fence.
Emmons County Record, 1/10/1890
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DYNAMITE IN COAL EXPLODES
POWDER IS FED INTO STOVE WITH COAL AND CAUSES MUCH TROUBLE
Hazelton, N. D., Jan 19.—A small piece of unexploded dynamite fed into a cook stove along with some lignite coal damaged the L. C. Malchert residence here considerably by wrecking the stove, blowing the chimney stops in all directions. cracking the brickwork, and covering the entire house with soot. How it got into the fuel is a mystery.
Devils Lake World and Inter-Ocean, 1/20/1916
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