Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1904-05-19
.O|TCH|NG MACHINE TRIAL


DIGS AT RATE OF SEVENTY
FEET PER HOUR-EQUAL
TWENTY MEN.
The Buckeye Traction Ditcher
which was sent to the city on trial
was set to work yesterday afternoon.
1t broke through the shell over the
sewer main which seems to have be-
come undermined and dangerous. 1t
looked as if the machine was laid up
for some time as it sunk deep on one
side and careened but the gears were
shifted, the machine righted and
went on its way without apparent
strain. 1t excavated ditch 6 IL
feet deep by 81 inhes wide at the rate
of fourteen inches per minute,
seventy feet per hour or twice as
much per hour as the average laborer
will dig in a ten hour day.
1t did the work of twenty men,
and it is claimed, is success. The
ditcher will no doubt be improved in
several parts but the main work of
the machine appeared to be all right.
MURDER WILLFULLY DONE.
The account of another killing
comes from the slope country with a
coroner's Jury finding of murder will
fully done This time it is Ole liner,
a well-to-do ranchman living near
Dickinson who is shot and killed by
B. X. Clinic to whom the former
had but recently sold his ranch and
it is said to have grown out of an al
tercation over the wintering of some
cattle and Clinics having gone to
court about the matter.
The investigation by the coroner's
Jury has not been completed and it
is possible that Chas. Hartell and
Harold Brown will be held as acces-
sories. The Bismark Tribune says:
According to the statements made
Sheriff Goodall had been at the Ziner
ranch. Sunday morning and left there,
passing the Clinic place which is
about four miles distant. He men,
toned to Clinic in passing that he
had come from the Ziner ranch and
that liner was up there and wanted
CLINE to keep away from the place,
and leave liner alone, threats having
been passed by Clinic against Ziner.
according to Mr.. Simpsons sCate
ment. The sheriff had not left the
Clinic place more than little while
when Clinic left his own place and
rode over to ZIner's. liner was in
the field planting onions when they
arrived, and his body was found lying
partly under a wire fence. where he
had apparently crawled in the direc
tion of the house. Three shots were
fred at him according 10 the evidence
taken. The second shot passed
through his neck breaking it and kill
ing him instantly. Another shot
had been fired, passing in near the
ear and nearly blowing the top of the
head of.
A gun was found some distance
from where liner lad been standing
but it is claimed this was put there
afterward, or at the time of the
shooting. It IS also stated there were
persons in the Ziner house who sa "
the shooting.
This is the fourth murder case that
has occurred in that judicial district
in the past few weeks. Art Van de
VOrste is in Jail in EmmOns county
charged with the murder OF his
daughter and her illegitimate child.
John Brown is under arrest at Rich
ardton charged with the murder OF
his y year old son. In Mercer coun-
ty last week W. z. Klotz was shot
and killed by Joseph Hauser This
last murder is the fourth to occur
within a few weeks
Speaking editorially, the Tribune
saws further that: Whether crime
runs in cycles and whether certain
ordinations Of the planets or Of
atmosphere or electrical influences
produce bloodshedding effects upon
individuals is question that has
furnished material for interesting
discuss ions. Just dt present there
seems to be cycle OF crime about
this section. No less than four
murders have occurred in the past
few weeks in the counties Immediately
adjoining this one. In one or two of
the cases, self defense seems pretty
well established. This. however,
would not argue against the possi-
bility Of blood letting influences being
manifested. There seems at any
rate, to have been baleful infuene
afoot that leads men into savage
and murderous quarrels.