Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-12-26
In Which Broken Noses, Cracked
Skulls and Gouged Eyes
We're the Features.
Two COmbatiye Bismarck French
men Have q Lively Set-to
on Main Street.
Latest Movements Of the $500" Road
Other Local News of
Interest.
The Fracas at Dawson.

Attorney Cochrane and Auditor Clark,
who were up from Steele yesterday, gave
to a TRIBUNE representative the particu-
lars of the unfortunate affair at Dawson
on Friday afternoon. The trouble seems
TO have grown out of the v~irulent attacks
made by Editor Hi Raymond through his
paper, the Dawson Times. Mr.. Cochrane
was at Dawson at the time of the conflict.
1t was a serious factional fight, terminal
ing in several cracked craniums and
broken noses. Hi Raymond is a large,
powerful man, with but one arm, and it is
said he frequently takes advantage of his
crippled condition to say things he would
not utter under other circumstances. His
attack upon the corpse of poor Frank
Corwin is still fresh in the memory of the
latter's friends, and left Raymond with
very many bitter enemies. He has from
time to time made some very bad state
ments regarding some of the leading citi-
zens of both Steele and Dawson. Several
times Raymond has come in personal con-
tact with the indignant citizens, but until
Friday he had escaped without sustaining
bodily harm. Raymond, who is sup
possibly a man of considerable means, runs
his small weekly paper SIM.
ply for the fun of the thing
and had something in regarding the pri-
vate lite of Treasurer-elecG Roberts and
cast reflections on n of the lady visitors.
Roberts approached Raymond and de-
manded a retraction. The latter laughed
in his face. There were angry words be-
twoon tho tUo and finally rpcultQN in
blows. The men grappled. Roberts was.
getting the best of it, when Raymond's
brother Ed. andja man named Reynolds
joined in the melee, taking, Raymond's
part Raymond hit Roberts with an iron
castor, cutting a cash in his scalp: It is
Raymond got Roberts to the ground, while
Hi Raymond amused himself by kicking
him with his heavy boot. Roberts was
pounded numerically by the two men,
and when friends broke up the fracas he
presented a sorry appearance.
Later In the day, while the affair was
being discussed on the street, Joseph Coul-
ter branded it as a cowardly act for three
big men to pounce on one little man. Ed.
Raymond took it up and he and
Coulter had a bloody fight. Coulter's
nose was broken and he will
probably lose his left eye. which is said
was nearly goqged out BY, Raymond. The
A0CtcI was Dhuly OIulocu uP. "A Rcltldl
combat between, the two factions seemed
imminent when Deputy Sheriff Pettibone,
a man of nerve, appeared on the scene
with a gun and succeeded In restoring
order. While the excitement was at fever
heat one man came running wildly up
the street and shouted to Attorney Coch-
rane, "Go get a gun, we'll clean out the
id this time" But Coch-
rane deemed discretion the better part of
valOr and steered clear of the trouble. The
W. towns are badly torn up over the
affair and it will be some time. doubtless,
before peace Is patched up. No arrests so
far. Trouble has been brewing in Kidder
county since the late election and the out
come Friday was no surprise.