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The police department of Mandan issued an order to arrest all "silent cop assailants" on the charge of malicious mischief. The silent cops have been dressed up in fresh paint and Sunday night a half dozen were tipped over and a couple broken, which resulted in the order for arrests.
Jamestown Weekly Alert, 4/7/1921
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ALCOHOL A8LAZE FROM FLATIRON
Kintyre, Woman Quite Badly Burled When Flame From Iron Ignited Fluid.
Kintyre, N. D., Sept. 10.—While ironing with an alcohol flat iron recently Mrs. H. Sundahl, residing here, met with a painful, but it is not thought necessarily fatal, accident, when her clothing caught fire from the alcohol, ignited from the flat iron and she was severely burned about the wrist and lower limbs.
She was engaged in her work near the kitchen door, which was closed and the baby, suddenly opening it, permitted a draft to whip the flame from the iron into the can of alcohol nearby. Mrs. Sundahl's clothing was almost instantly a mass of flames and she ran to the yard, screaming for help and in great agony. The men had returned from the field and came to her assistance, her clothing being hurriedly cut from her and the flames extinguished. She was taken to the hospital where she is reported to be doing as well as could be expected.
Bismarck Tribune, 9/11/1914
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Hangs Herself in Car.
Mrs. Brayton, wife of a Northern Pacific engineer, committed suicide at Buffalo, where her husband was employed on a work train. They were living in a car and she hanged herself while alone. There are several stories of the cause of the act, the most generally accepted one being that she was jealous.
Langdon Courier Democrat, 7/23/1908
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Sam Stilling of Valley City, after having disappeared for a couple of weeks, returned with the story that he had been abducted by a couple of men to force him to stop keeping company with a young lady. The police believe the story is hot air.
Bismarck Tribune, 8/6/1901
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Foxholm Boy Disappears Mysteriously
Henry Nefzer, a farmer residing three miles east of Foxholm, along the Mouse river arrived in Minot late this afternoon, looking for his 12-year-old son, who disappeared at 7:30 o'clock last evening. Mr. Nefzer was at Phil Stammen's place working and his wife sent the boy out to a coulee to gather some kindling with whic {sp} to prepare the evening meal. The boy did not come back. When the father returned, he became alarmed and a search was made for the boy. All day today, scores have been searching the woods along the river, fearing the boy may have cut an artery with the ax he carried, or some other accident may have occurred. The boy was in the habit of going to the river alone to swim and it is feared that he may have drowned.
Not a trace of the lad has been found. The father accompanied by Phil Stammen came to Minot and asked the police to keep a lookout for the boy, who is described as being 4 feet and 6 inches tall, weight 70 pounds and light complexioned. He wore a blue overall suit, dark cap, tan shirt and black lace shoes.
Ward County Independent, 6/5/1919
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A BAD FIRE.
Last Sunday afternoon Mr. William Russell, living about two miles northwest of town, discovered his roof on fire, caused from the stove pope, which was, as he thought, completely extinguished. Mr. Russell attended services in Bottineau Sunday evening, and on his return home from church found everything apparently all right. The family retired at the usual bed time, but before doing so Mr. Russell says he made a thorough examination and found everything to his satisfaction apparently safe. About midnight he was awakened by a cracking sound which he took to be rain or small hail, and on getting up found the house on fire, which had gained considerable headway. His first act was to awaken the boys who were sleeping up-stairs. After doing this he found the fire had gained such headway that it was impossible to save anything except a few household articles, and his own clothing. The young men who were asleep in the second story lost all of their clothing and the bed-room furnishings, Mr. Clark Russell losing about $20 in paper money. The barns, granaries and other buildings were not burned. The burned building was a log home, with a pole-thatched roof. Mr. Russell says as soon as harvest is over he will erect a better residence than the one burned but in the meantime he will be compelled to live in a tent, as he has not the time to spare from harvest to attend to building.
Bottineau Courant, 8/8/1896
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