Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1900-09-28

any extraordinary event. About that
time Mrs. Lung had some dental work
done by DR.. Ellsworth, and when she
returned home announced that she was
going into 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
and Mrs. Lung suffered from
a sprained ankle. 1t 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.
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 averse to instituting pro-
ceedings in court, preferring to exhaust
all measures to effect separation be-
tween his wife and Ellsworth without
legal proceedings or public disturb
ance. After learning the barber bus
mess he went to the northern part of
the state and opened up 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 a fight on
the street, in which the doctor got bad
ly 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 a month ago he made up his
mind that he would make his wife
leave town if she was not ready to go
otherwise. He came home, and stayed
all night, a reconciliation apparently
followed, until Mrs. Lung came down
town Immediately after dinner. She
was to return in a short time, but
about o'clock she had not returned
and Dan went to look for her. He did
not find her until about O'Clock, when
he found her at Mrs. Schills house,
where she had arranged to spend the
night. Dan undertook to take her
home forcibly, and created scene on
the street, which lasted an hour and
was witnessed by perhaps hundred
people.
The scene created on the street made
a number of citizens indignant, and
they called upon DR.. Ellsworth and
gave him until next morning to leave
town and intimated that in case of his
failure to comply with this request they
would use ropes, tar, feathers, tele-
phone poles, and issue invitations for
a funeral. Next morning the only
person in attendance at the much ad-
vertised festivities was the doctor him
self, and as he positively refused to
commit anything so dangerous as
suicide, the tragedy was indefinitely
postponed.
A week ago Monday night Dan went
home and found some one there ahead
of him waiting. Whoever it was took
a shot at him. but without effect, the
bullet merely cutting some branches
off the trees An eye witness was
heard to say that Ellsworth was seen
to jump the fence and hurriedly leave
the place. This affair was not gener-
ally known until after the tragedy oc-
CURED on the street.
General public sympathy is with
Lung. BY some he is blamed for not
taking active measures sooner, instead
of letting matters run for over a year.
He has undoubtedly done his best, and
feels that he has exhausted all peace
abl means to restore his family.
There are also rumors that Ellsworth
is not the only man who was influen-
tial in causing the woman to leave
home, and there are rumors that be-
fore the matter is finished there will be
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