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Lisbon has a sensation and the Gazette says: An incident of female frenzy and revenge, with nearly fatal results, occurred at a farm house a few miles from town last Friday evening, forcibly illustrating the oft-quoted " Hell has no fury like a woman scorned." The occurrence, as the particulars have leaked out, was as follows: A woman, a stranger in this region, knocked at the door of the farm house, and when the lady of the house, who was alone, opened the door the woman outside exclaimed, "You are the person I want to see!" and springing upon the other like an enraged tigress, seized her by the hair and throwing her to the ground fastened her fingers around the victim's throat and choking her into insensibility, left her lying upon the ground, thinking, no doubt, that her victim was dead, and in which condition the murderously assaulted woman was found by the husband on his return from the barn where he and a hired man were engaged doing the chores, the assailant having in the meantiime {sp} disappeared. Secreted in the hair of the assaulted lady was a note addressed to her husband, calling attention to his disfigured wife and ending with the expression "Revenge is sweet."
Bismarck Weekly Tribune, 3/18/1898
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TWO CHILDREN KILLED BY POISON PEAS, SAD TRAGEDY IN UNDERWOOD
Underwood, N. D., March 30.—Two very sad deaths occurred in one family when the little girls, aged three and six, of Mr. and Mrs. Axel Lundgren of Underwood, died of ptomaine poisoning. The cause of the poisoning is said to have been canned peas.
Grand Forks Herald, 3/30/1914
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New Rockford.—"It isn't German measles at all from which I am suffering, but Liberty measles, piped little Miss Vida Wilson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Wilson of this city to her friends who gathered at the bedside, shortly after she had been informed of the nature of her malady.
Grand Forks Herald, 3/12/1918
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MAN IS HELD FOR A FOUL DOUBLE CRIME
Devils Lake, N. D., March 27.—With the charge of attempted murder, depending on the recovery of one of his victims and the charge of fiendish assault on the daughter of the woman he attempted to kill, Michael Ulick, is tonight held in a cell in the Ramsey county jail, mute with consciousness of the awful crimes which he committed.
Sneaking up behind a rig in which Mrs. Bernhard Wessels, her daughter, Sarah, age 18 years, and a little sister, were riding last night, Ulick fired two shots into the mother's head. Her body dropped out of the rig, and leaving it for dead on the public highway which forms the county boundary line between Nelson and Ramsey counties, Ulick took her seat in the vehicle, and driving to a nearby woods, subjected the daughter to a brutal assault. This morning Ulick drove into Lakota, where he was apprehended by Sheriff Martin Olson, who, with Deputy Ed Elliott, scoured the country south of Doyon early today. The man was brought to Devils Lake this evening.
Ulick came to North Dakota from Long Prairie, Minn. For 12 years he has lived in the country northeast of Hamar, working the Jess Kelley farm, which is in Odessa township. The Wessels' farm is just across the line in Nelson county. According to what can be learned Ulick has directed attention to Miss Wessels for some time. The mother objected to his coming to the place and a hatred between them was engendered.
Valley City Weekly Times-Record, 4/1/1915
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Telegrams from Miles City state that Deputy Sheriff King and posse have returned from the Upper Rosebud and brought with them thirteen Cheyenne Indians who were participants in the burning of Alderson's ranch. The facts in the case are as follows: A drunken cow-boy, named Henry Talford, thought it would be extremely funny to shoot a hole through the hat of Black Wolf, a Cheyenne chief. The result was an ugly wound in the head. Returning to his camp Black Wolf's warriors, of course, wanted revenge and started for Alderson's ranch, where Talford was working. When the Indians arrived he had skipped the country and no one being at the ranch they vented their rage on the buildings. In connection with these facts it should be known that these Indians have been peaceful, that they were on their reservation and supposed to be supported by the government, when they were nearly starving to death not receiving one-fifth rations, and the attention of the secretary of the interior had to be called to their deplorable condition by the recent meeting of stockmen at Miles City. Also that Black Wolf is one of the best of Indians and that the attack on him was entirely unprovoked.
We must confess that we have no consuming love for Indians, but justice is justice the world over and any infraction we believe should be punished. The Indians knew as well as any of our readers that they would not have obtained justice by recourse to law and they took the only means obtainable to get revenge. Reverse the circumstances and let the unprovoked attack come from an Indian and the matter would never have ended with the burning of a few buildings. Talford tacitly acknowledged his guilt by skipping the country, and he is the man who should have been pursued and brought back for punishment. Because a man is an Indian it does not mean that he has no rights that a white man is bound to respect. Get at the facts in the matter and let punishment fall on the guilty alone.
The Bad Lands Cow Boy, 4/3/1884
Another Account of this story from the posse.
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Nick Biel of Dickinson has learned a good lesson. He had just walked in the post office and ppaid {sp} $50 for a bill of goods to Sears Roebuck & Co., and laid his pocket book containing $202.92 on the desk. While he was sealing the envelope, someone took the money and for a time the man thot {sp} it was lost. The money was taken by a joker who afterwards returned it to the man.
Ward County Independent, 11/26/1908
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