SAYS HE IS NOT A PIGGER.
Math Poos Writes the Intependent Saying the Article Stating he Was a Pigger Was not Ture {sp}
The Independent last week stated that Math Poos conducted a blind pig near Glenburn and when it stated this, it did so, believing this to have been a fact for no less than half a dozen of the influential citizens of Glenburn visited this office and requested this paper to make a statement. We are in receipt of a letter from Mr. Poos which denies the fact that he was a dispenser of the wet goods and taking his word for it, we make the retraction, not caring to go to the trouble of making further investigation. It was not the intention of the Independent to do Mr. Poos an injustice and it hopes that he is the good man he says he is.
Ward County Independent, 8/19/1903
Poos Has Narrow Escape
Math Poos, a coal hauler, came near being run over by the Soo train Saturday afternoon at the main street crossing. The passenger trains have been in the habit of pulling past the crossing at full speed, and the engineer does not even take the trouble to whistle. Many people have had very narrow escapes and we would not be surprised to have to chronicle at any time some horrible accident. Mr. Poos managed to stop his team, but the tongue of the wagon was broken.
Ward County Independent, 11/4/1903
Math Poos, who was nearly killed near the G. N. depot some weeks ago, informs the Independent that he will bring suit against the company for $5,000.
Ward County Independent, 2/15/1906
Math Poos, until a day or so ago, scavanger {sp} of the city of Minot, has gotten into a peck of trouble, all on account of his butting in proclivities. Math was cleaning the refuse from the alley back of Mrs. Dena Helgeson's millinery store, and chanced to find several boxes of hats and other millinery, which Mrs. Helgeson had just received from the east, but which she had not yet time to unpack. She informed Poos that the boxes contained freight, but he did not seem to understand, and when she was away, loaded them onto his wagon and hauled them to the dump. Up to this writing Mrs. Helgeson has not been able to find her millinery and it is supposed that it has been burned. She will no doubt take some action against Poos, as her loss is considerable.
Ward County Independent, 9/2/1909
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Two Italian laborers were fatally stabbed at Fargo Thursday night of last week. It is thought that it was the work of
the Black Hand.
Devils Lake Inter=Ocean, 9/6/1907
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Hold Up Artist Comes to Grief
Herman Borge, Clayton Little and Chris Jensen, members of the threshing crew on Phil Manseau's farm, were held up by a hobo named Martin J. Burns, about a mile from Grand Harbor Monday night. The hold up artist had been around the Harbor with these three men during the evening, and learning that they were going back to the farm and the route they were going to take, skipped along in advance and laid in wait for them. With a revolver he commanded them to hold up their hands in the true Jesse James order. The three travelers quickly complied with the request until Burns went through the pockets of two of them, from which he extracted $2.11 from one and 35 cents from the other. The third man, however, refused to be robbed so easily. Quick as a flash he knocked the revolver from Burns' hand and struck the robber a Bob Fitszimmons' blow that sent him to the grass. As he struck Burn's {sp} arm that held the revolver the weapon went off, and Borge says he can still hear the whiz of the bullet which passed dangerously close to his head. The three men, after nearly pounding the life out of Burns, took him back to the Harbor and lodged him in the caliboose {sp} for the night. The next morning Deputy Sheriff Stenseth brought him to the county jail, where he now repines waiting a chance to plead guilty in the district court. The penalty for highway robbery is from one year to life. Burns says he deserves about fifteen years, and Judge Cowan will see that he gets all that is coming to him.
Devils Lake Inter-Ocean, 9/14/1906
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Chief of Police Waller of Bismarck received the following mysterious note from a man who lives near the river: "Fifty Miles Below
Buford, July 1—I am shot by horse thieves, and am bleeding to death. Shot through the lungs. Sam Peterson." This was written on a ragged piece of brown wrapping paper, and on the opposite side was the instruction: "Send word to Ole Peterson, Stockholm, Sweden."
The Bad Lands Cow Boy, 8/20/1885
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Three men made an attack on Pete Gaffney this morning and with stones and fists were going to "do him up plenty." Mr. Gaffney got one of the men down and was doing a little landscape gardening on his physiognomy when the entire bunch was coralled
{sp} by the police. It is understood that one of the men testified in a case last spring in which Mr. Gaffney was interested and with the help of the others was going to do him up. He is also said to be one of the four men who last evening attempted to run in a bluff on Deputy Sheriff Hedrick of South Dakota. They met the deputy on the street and told him about an alleged "spotter" in town that they were going to "fix." When their bluff was "called" there was a scattering.
Jamestown Weekly Alert, 9/16/1897
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The new postoffice building now being erected in Moorhead, Minn., crumbled on the 18th inst., through the great weight of the material on top, and two men were buried in the debris. After fifteen minutes' lively digging the men were exhumed. One C. W. Hyper, is supposed to be but slightly injured; but the other, J. M. Nelson, is badly injured. He has a rib broken, and it is feared will die. The damage to the building is considerable.
Dickinson Press, 9/29/1883
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