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SHOOTING AFFAIR IN BOWMAN COUNTY
When Phil Olrick refused to leave the farm of Vernie Ostrander, in Bowman county, at Ostrander's command, the latter fired at him with a shotgun and seriously wounded him about the face and destroyed the sight in the right eye. Past differences are responsible for the trouble, it is said, but on this particular occasion Olrick's sister was in need of some yeast and sent him to the Ostrander farm to borrow the needed article. He was ordered from the place at this time but later returned when Ostrander opened the door and fired the shot, and then hitched up and took the wounded man where he could receive medical attention. It is said that the state's attorney refused to issue a warrant for the arrest of Ostrander.
Dickinson Press, 2/10/1917
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Noltimier.
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Meldahl, who were recently married at Freeport, Ill., have returned from their wedding trip and spent a few days at the home of the bride's Uncle Chas. Noltimier, from which place they were transferred by automobile to the home of the groom's parents, Theo. Meldahl.
The automobile failed to have springs or rubber tires on it which was nor necessary owning to the smoothness of the road, and as it was propelled by two large draft horses it did not travel at a very high rate of speed. Peter, the coachman, was not in a hurry so he did not urge them along. Their trunk served them as a seat, just room for the two comfortably.
The young couple will make their home on the old home farm.
Valley City Times-Record, 3/27/1913
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MURDER LAID TO FARM HAND.
Paul Jones Accused of Halverson's Death.
Paul Jones, who was employed on the farm of Walter Rand, about twelve miles southwest of Leeds, was arrested on a charge of murdering Hans Halverson, a farmer residing near the Rand farm.
The murder of Halverson was committed some time last Thursday afternoon and was particularly brutal. He was shot three times in the back with a twelve-gauge shotgun. The fourth charge tore away the top of the head. Death occurred instantly. The murderer evidently shot Halverson in the back first and then dragged the body around to the other side of a stack, where he would be less likely to be seen. There he fired the shot which tore away the top of Halverson's head.
Neighbors found the body by the side of the stack Thursday night. They drove to Leeds and about midnight Thursday night a warrant charging an unknown person with the murder was issued. Sunday the authorities placed Jones under arrest. It is claimed that there is a strong case against Jones. He had been inquiring whether Halverson and others in the neighborhood had money and if they kept it in their rooms or on their persons. It was common talk in the neighborhood that Halverson, who was a wealthy bachelor, kept large sums of money on his person or secreted in his residence. Jones had been unable to satisfactorily explain his whereabouts at the time the murder is believed to have been committed.
Coroner Meadows of Maddock held an inquest at the home of the deceased and a verdict charging Jones with the murder was found. The authorities believe that no money was secured by the slayer.
Wahpeton Times, 3/26/1908
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WRITES FOR A BRIDE
Winnipeg, Man., March 8.—Louis Carter lives at Sioux Falls, Minnehaha county, South Dakota, but he wants to live in Manitoba.
He wants to get a wife in Manitoba and he wants to make her happy, despite what Nazimova says about war brides during these times in Canada.
With this object in view, he today wrote Louis Kon, superintendent of colonization for "a young lady or widow."
He says he wants a chance at the good land to be found in Manitoba, but thinks a wife is one of the first essentials.
Bismarck Tribune, 3/8/1917
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The case against Dr. Depuy of Jamestown, charged with ravishing Miss Maggie Robertson, is on trial at Jamestown. The complaining witness alleges that she was ravished and is now enciente, the doctor taking advantage of her unconscious condition while attending her as her physician.
Cooperstown Courier, 1/4/1884
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George Reynolds from out near Baden skipped out the other day after he had been arrested for beating his wife, it is stated that he intimated before going that he was afraid of being committed to the insane asylum for being cruel to his family.
Ward County Independent, 3/21/1907
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