On Monday, half a mile east of
Karnak, on the farm owned by Mrs. W. Kerber, the two little children of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Siegel were burned to death, the father terribly scorched and blistered in his efforts to effect their rescue, and the destruction of the farmhouse and furnishings valued at about $4,000. Mr. Siegel is a brother of Mrs. George Kraft of Luverne. Mr. Siegel was plowing half a mile from the house and Mrs. Siegel had gone to the barn to feed the stock. It is impossible to determine the origin of the fire, but it is believed to be either caused by a poor chimney, beside which the fire had long smouldered, or that the little boy, who was 3½ years old, had been playing with matches. The sympathy of all is extended to the bereaved parents.
The Hope Pioneer, 10/23/1919
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George Bar, the little son of A. E. Bar, who some time ago stumbled on a rock in such a way so as to break his shoulder bone, has so far recovered as to commence school again.
Bowbells Tribune, 10/16/1914
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USE OF SLINGSHOTS WILL BE STOPPED BY POLICE DEPARTMENT
Four boys made their first visit to the interior of the city jail this morning for the reckless use of slingshots in the city limits.
The police issue the warning that children using slingshots will be picked up and placed in jail as the four were this morning.
Youths of the city have been causing considerable annoyance, with the slingshots lately and the practice is to be stopped immediately, according to the police. A few days ago a woman was hit on the cheek and cut and bruised by a stone shot by a boy. Windows of residences and store buildings have also suffered.
Grand Forks Herald, 10/18/1919
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TERRIBLE TRAGEDY ON FARM
Divorced Husband of Woman Accused of Killing Two and Wounding Another.
Pitiful calls for help, so feeble that they were scarcely audible as far as the road, attracted H. H. Drake when he passed the farmyard of his neighbor, D. T. Dillon, residing near Ray. Blake {sp} discovered Dillon near the barn lying probably mortally wounded by rifle bullets.
The dead body of Mrs. Dillon was near and in a bedroom of the house another murder was revealed in the finding of Dillon's twelve-year-old daughter Leia.
The murderer, it is alleged, was C. L. Culbertson, divorced husband of Mrs. Dillon. He was arrested at Templeton, near Ray, on a train, an hour after he left that city soon after the shooting.
Culbertson, it is alleged, called at the Dillon home, where he had been directed by a neighbor, and asked for work. Mrs. Dillon recognized him as the man from whom she parted twelve years ago, but she dated not reveal to her husband the man's identity.
The new farmhand had supper with the family and immediately afterward went to the barn to help with the evening chores.
Upon entering the building Dillon leaned over a grain bin to procure some feed, evidence shows, when he was shot, the murderer apparently standing in the doorway of the barn. Two bullets entered his back, one struck his neck and another his face.
Mrs. Dillon heard the shots and probably divined what was occurring in the barn. She ran from the house toward the scene of the shooting; a bullet met her and she fell dead.
The murderer then went to the house, sought the bedroom of the daughter Leia, who was preparing to retire, shot the girl dead and fled from the farm.
Cleve M. Culbertson was bound over at Williston to district court without bail.
A "dying declaration" by Dillon, whose condition is so critical that physicians have but little hope for his recovery, was introduced by the prosecution. In his statement Dillon positively identifies Culbertson as the man who shot him and murdered his wife and daughter. No trouble proceeded the shooting, according to the statement.
The Oakes Times, 10/30/1913
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Wednesday evening Chief Day received a 'phone from Deputy Sheriff Hoffine of
Kenmare, asking him to detain a man and woman who were then on their way to Canada and driving on the highway toward this place. Pretty soon thereafter, however, the deputy appeared himself, and about the same time the people who were wanted drove in and were stopped by the chief. Deputy Hoffine took charge of the pair, as also of the conveyance in which they arrived, and with them returned to Kenmare, where it was charged the woman, a Mrs. Young, had left her husband and started to elope with the man who was arrested with her, one Harry Green, who had been working about the coal mines down there. She was accused of taking with her some $120 belonging to the husband whom she had deserted, but when searched no money could be located about her anywhere.
Bowbells Tribune, 9/28/1906
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BOILED TO DEATH IN BEET PULP CALDRON
Billings, Mont., Oct. 19.—H. W. Huber, 56, an old employe of the
Great Western Sugar company, met death instantly today when in attempting to unload a wheelbarrow containing beets, slipped and fell into a caldron of pulp. Life was extinct when the body was recovered four minutes later.
Grand Forks Herald, 10/19/1917
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