Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1900-09-25
THE CAKES SHOOTING.

THE oAKEs SHOOTING.
DETAILS OF THE LUNG ELLIS
ss3 WORTH sHO OOTING AT CAKES
&. HUSBAND. NEGLECTED. BY HIS
52 WIFE SAD DOMESTIC TRAGEDY
IN DICKEY COUNTY.
Oakes Republican: Another chapter
in the Lung Ellsworth feud was read
in public on the streets of Oakes last
night when Ellsworth and Lung met
on the crosswalk near the corner Of
Klien & Sutmar's store
An eyewitness to the affair states
that Ellsworth made a motion with his
hand hand toward his rear pocket as though
attempting to draw revolver, but
3L Lung was too quick for him and shot
before the doctor could get his out Of
his pocket. % %s 81
The shot took effect in the right
breast, passing through the lung and
lodging under the shoulder blade. At
this writing the doctor is resting easy,
and AM Dr. Boardman has hopes that he
will live through the difficulty.
Dan Lung Immediately gave himself
up, and is now in the hands Of Officer
Hunter. He has retained Attorney
Cady to defend him and will have his
examination as soon as the states att
torney arrives. Dan Lung, when seen
this morning, said that he had nothing
to say for publ ation, deeming it best
not to make a statement FL
The Lung Ellsworth trouble has been
before the public in one way and an
either for about a year. AT that time
Dan Lung lived with his wife and two
children in a neat cottage in the south
ern part of the city. Dan was an hon
est, sober, industrious man, and his
wife was neat hslsekeeper, quiet
neighbor, and their lives were without
any extraordinary event. About that
time Mrs. Lung had some dental work
done by Or. Ellsworth, and when she
returned home announced that she was
going inlto the Doctors office to learn
dentistry. Mr. Lung did not approve
OF this, but did not seriously object ait
the time.
Mrs. Lungs association with DR..
Ellsworth and neglect of her home du-.
ties soon became matter of common
talk. One OF the first instances that
brought their affairs more into public:
attention was runaway team. Mrs.
Lung and DR.. Ellsworth had been rid
ing until late into the evening, and
when they returned home there was a
runaway, and Mrs. Lung suffered from
a sprained ankle It was reported at
the time that when the doctor returned
with Mrs. Lung, Dan met them at the
gate and assaulted the doctor with a.
club, and it was in the personal en-
counter that the team was allowed to
get away. There was no witnesses
and whether there was a personal en-
counter at the time or whether the
team got away accidentally is not
known. 5}
Lung afterward went to Minneapolis
to enter a barber shop, leaving home
more on account Of the domestic
trouble than for want of employment
here. Meanwhile Mrs. Lung continued
her studies in the doctors Office, and
the busy gossips kept industriously at.
work telling the other gossips all they
knew and all they didn't know every
day.
Lung was ayerse to instituting pro-
|ceedings in court, preferring to exhaust
all measures to effect a separation be-
tween his wife and Ellsworth without.
legal proceedings or a public disturb
ance After learning the barber bus
iness he went 10 the northern part of
the state and opened up a business for
himself at Kenmare, and it was his In
tention to quietly move his family to-
that place EARLY in the summer he
came to oakes for this purpose, but
Mrs, Lung was not ready to go. He.
met the doctor at his own house when
he got home and there was q fight on
the street, in which the doctor got bad
|lys cut up, and In which Mrs. Lung took
the doctors part and fought her own
husband.
Shortly afterward Lung sent his two
children away TO live with relatives
About q month ago be made up his
mind that he would make his wife
leave town Il she was not ready 70 go