The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-03-28
NORTH DAKOTA,

The National Red Cross association is act
lively engaged in securing aid Tor tho destitute
of North Dakota.
The advent Of triplsts In q North Dakota
family the other day absorbed the appella.
tons of Faith, Hope and Charity, as the
nomenclature.
Charles Wachter, German drayman, at
Bismarck, was seriously injured by jumping
from hay NOW onto a broken pitch:o
handle which entered his body about fifteen
inches. He pulled it out himself and walked
two blocks for help.
A terrible tragedy was enacted about four
miles from Fort Yates. Horn Cloud, a we'll
known Indian, killing No Water, a Devils
Lake Indian, and MORALLY wounding mixed
blood woman, Julia, daughter of Irish Mike
of Devils Lake, and then committing suicide
Jealousy was the cause.
On the Grandin farm in North Dakota fifty
men are employed in seeding in the spring,
and during tho six weeks Of harvest $50 ore
at work. Only ten men are required to look
after the property the balance of the year.
The farm contains 40, 900 acres, upon which
home.
Chicago Journal: The people ofNorth Da.
kota are entitled to something more than
empty credit for refusing the offer of the lot
terry sharks. 1t took considera BILE backb bone
to refuse the tender Of $3.50, 900 year and
free seed wheat when in many parts o! the
state people were actually starving and the
treasury was empty. Only man who when
fat broke, finds a big sum of money and
turns it over intact to the owner without
reward can appreciate the situation.
Commissioner Helgesen has received the
following letter from Lazarus SiIverman, a
Chicago banker, under date Of March 8, ad.
dressed to John W. Forbes of Lakota, Sec
rotary of Nelson county relief committee:
"At the solicitation Of Sam Thai, a farmer
living near Lakota, have consented to do
nate one car load (about one thousand hush
els) OF white oats, to be used for seed only,
and requested Jessy Bryson of Indianola,
Iowa, to FIJI the order on my account, to be
shipped to you. You will please distribute
the same in accordance with list to be hand
ed to you by Sam Thai
Tom Kirk, q farmer living three miles south
of Grand Forks, went to the house of Peter
HARRY, q neighbor, to give him a threshing
for some derogatory remarks Harry il al
legged to have said about Kirk sister. Harty
saw Kirk coming and waited his arrival with
a revolver in hand. Kirk told him he had
come to do him, and madea rush for Harty,
who, although q smaller man, grabbed Kirk
by the neck and threw him down on the bed,
after which he pounded his ace to ajelly with
his revolver, and then emptied one of the
chamb ers of his revolver in Kinks head. The
bullet entered his forehead just over the eye,
but glanced and came ont behind his ear
without inficting q serious wound. It is
thought Kirk will recover. Harry gave him
self up to the authorities.
When the resignation of tho seed wheat
committee was read in the senate, few days
before adjournment no action was taken up
on it. In moving the acceptance one of the
senators took occasion to make fowery
speech in which all the forms OF rhetoric were
used to d~plore the fact that the only means
of obtaining seed wheat by the needy far
mers had been destroyed and in depicting
the awful results which must follow. Mean
while there had been received by Gov. Miller