New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-03-26
NORTH DAKOTA,

The National Red Cross association is act
lively engaged in securing aid for the destitute
of North Dakota.
The advent Of triplets in 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 pitchfork
handle which entered his body about fifteen
inches. He pulled it out himself and walked
two blocks for help.
terrible tragedy was enacted about four
N lies from Fort Yates. Horn Cloud, we'll
known Indian, killing No Water, Devils
Lake Indian, and mortally 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 the six weeks of harvest $50 are
at work, Only ten men are required to look
after the property the balance of the year
The farm contains 10000 acres, upon which
not one single family finds permanent
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. It took considera BILE backb bone
to refuse the tender of $15O,OOO year and
free seed wheat when in many parts OF the
state people were actually starving and the
treasury was empty. Only a man who, when
fat broke, finds q big sum of money and
turns it over intact to the owner without
!, o;+ u q
Commissioner Helgesen has received the
following letter from Lazarus Silverlnan, a
Chicago banker, under date of March 8, ad.
dressed to John W. Forbes of Lakota. Sec
rotary of Nelson county relief committee:
CAT the solicitation of Sam Thai, farmer
living near Lakota, have consented to do
nate one ear load (about one thousand bush
els) of white oats, to be used for seed only,
and requested Jessy Bryson Of Indianola,
Iowa, to fill 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, a farmer living three miles south
of Grand Forks, went to the house of Peter
Harty, neighbor, to give him threshing
for some derogatory remarks Harty is al
legged to have said about Kirk sister Harty
saw Kirk coming and waited his arrival with
revolver in hand. Kirk told him he had
come to do him, and made rush for Harty.
who, although smaller man. grabbed Kirk
by the neck and threw him down on the bed
after which he pounded his face to ajelly with
his revolver, and then emptied one of the
chambers of his revolver in Kirk s head. The
bullet entered his forehead just over the eve.
but glanced and came out behind his ear
without INJECTING q serious wound. 1t is
thought Kirk will recover. Harty gave him
self up to the authorities.
When the resignation of the 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
senator's took occasion to make howery
speech in which all the forms of rhetoric were
used to deplore the fact that the only means
of obtaining seed wheat by the needy far
mers had been destroyed and i'll depicting
the awful results which must follow. Mean
while there had been received by Gov. Miller