The Dickinson press., 1897-07-31

luller that MS lack OF hearing
was due to a "luxation of the in
terior maxillary," or in the COM
mon language that his jaw is out
of joint.
A number of Wahpeton men
have secured an option on the
purchase of the state right for
North and South Dakota to manu-
facture and sell the Olson patent,
Acetylene Gas Generator, for illu-
minating and other purposes. 1t
is said to work very successfully.
A meeting of Stutsman county
taxpayers was held last Saturday
in Jamestown to consider the of
fer of the N. P. in regard to SET
tlement of its taxes. The amount
due the county aggregated about
s72,o 900 and the railroad company
offers to settle on basis of about
$4,000, with the provision that
the assessment of the company's
land be reduced in the future
from S2.71 to "a 6-1o per acre.
After considerable discussion the
offer was rejected.
Speaking of August Normand's
life sentence, the Casselton re-
porter says: "While this DISPOSE
ton of the internal scoundref was
not satisfactory to the people, it
is the logical outcome Of the re-
suits of the first: trial, when the,
death penalty was set aside and
Imprisonment for life substituted.
The fact that conviction has taken;
place seems to leave no chance
for a second trial. At the close
of the recent trial, Judge FISK
ruled that a second trial should
come on without delay, but on
Monday he reversed his decision,
and ordered the commitment of
the prisoner to Bismarck, stating
that this was done after serious
deliberation in which he had
reached the conclusion that an
other trial would only impose
serious burdens on the commun-
ity and serve no good end-as
mnch as to intimate that it was
decidedly probable that a death
sentence would be set aside by
the higher court, if a jury i'm
posed it,"
August Normand is the 18th
lifer in the penitentiary for MUIR
der, and aside from Kent, will
probably be the mostdistinguished
one, for the horror Of his crime.
It's further impressed upon the
observer as shea'i is incarcerated in
the pen, that there has not yet
been in the state Of North Dakota
man convicted by a jury and
sentenced to death for murder.
The only execution that has been
was that of Bomberger, and he
plead guilty. Of the men at the
pen under life sentence, there are
several who would have graced a
scafold. The number includes
Joe Remington, convicted for the
cold blooded murder of an eleva-
tor agent in Cass county, and who
is now the oldest lifer in the insti-
tuition. Then there are Kent and
Swindensky, whose crime is too
we'll known to need mention; Jos,
Till, who killed the husband oi
a woman he is supposed to have
loved, up in Pembina county
Peterson, who. deliberately shot
his wife, in the same county
watched her sufferings for nearly
an hour, refused to allow her littl,
daughters to give her the waite
for which she begged in her agon,
and then shot her again, killing
her; Kalinsky, who also murdered
his wife at Bottineau;. Emil Wend
lund, who murdered a comrade i,
Cass county; Barrett and Camp
bell, recently sent from Dicke,,
county for robbery and murder Q
an old man; Kelly and Lowe, VIII
killed policeman at Mayvillt
Normand just rounds out tn
dozen of murderers. i
; More human lives were lost o
account orathe excessive heat
the city of Chicago in one da
Z last week than have been lost i
3 Dakota Billiards since the orgar
! ization Of the territory. Yer
5 1little space is devoted by tn
. great metropolitan dailies to
0 death by heat in Chicago, a
3 though columns and pages ar
given to describing the agonie
suffered by a victim of a Dakot
blizzard-all of which goes to tu
!. ther emphasize the fact that h,
!. man life is regarded as having f;
n more importance in the Dakota
d than in Chicago.