Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1906-04-25


jury disagreed in the first trial.
James Cooper has resigned his posi-
ton as U. S. internal revenue collector
and returned to his farm at Coucte-
nay. 1t is said he will seek renomina-
ton to the legislature. His mantle
has fallen upon George H. Piercy of
Pingree.
Jake Tomlinson, a we'll digger, was
killed by gas in we'll south of
Sawyer Monday morning. The we'll
is 80 feet deep and two feet in
diameter. A shaft broke fifty feet
down and he went down to fix it, was
overcome by gas and fell to the bot
tom. He is middle-aged and single.
Otto Boehler of Wahpeton has been
notified that he has been awarded a
congressional medal for conspicuous
| bravery, while member of Young's
scouts in the Filipino campaign.
Sixteen of Young's scouts surprised
and put to rout band of 600 Filipinos
and captured village occupied and
fortified by them. 81. ~
A man named Fuller, whose destina-
ton was Velva, was killed in a terri
BILE manner at the high bridge near
Harvey. The. emigrant train had
! stopped at the bridge, and Fuller sup
posing that a station had been
Preached, stepped out of the car into
eternity. The bridge spans gully
so feet deep at the place, and the
man met instant death below.
/ James Bell, son of Hugh Bell, living
at Toilette, Pembina county, was acct.
identally killed Friday night He was
driving a fourJhorse team attached to
4 a load of seed grain, which he had got
4 att Mr. Atchinson's place. As he
Il turned onto the grade the wagon was
I overturned, throwing the young man
under the heavily loaded wagon. It
was several hours before he was found
and by that time life was extinct.
I + = ~
/ VIM. Starback, who was arrested in
Fargo Saturday and taken to Grand
Forks by Sheriff Turner on the charge
of desertion of his wife, was given a
} hearing before Judge Church and
bound over to the grand jury of the
district court. His bond was fixed at
!, $500, which he was unable to furnish
: today but expressed the hope of his
, Fargo friends coming to his relief.
y Starback did not deny that he had two
wives living but denies the charge
: of non-support preferred by the first
; wife, claiming that he sent her money
: regularly and offered to take and sup
) port three of their children, but she
refused to accede to his request. 1t
, is probable that after the local au.
? liberties are through with him he will
: be arrested on the charge of bigamy
= Mr.. and Mrs. Patrick O'Connor, liv.
ing southwest of Hallson, narrowly
escaped death from eating wild
, parsnip, which they took to be wild
b carrots. Some hours after eating the
s. root they both were taken violently
: ill. Mr.. O'Connor becoming uncon.
2 scious. Mrs. O'Conror went to Dan
5 o'Connor's for help. On returning
' Mrs. O'Connor lost the power OF
: locomotion and sank down in the field
) some distance from home, where some
f time afterward she was found by
l neighbours. Mr.. O'Connor was found
: lying in the barnyard in an unconsci
/ Gus condition. DR.. Walker was called
8 and had hard work to save Mr.. O'Con
nor, but two days later he regained
: consciousness. Both are out of dan
/, ger now, but they had narrow
! escape.
= Inc appllcatlon for a writ OF
habeas corpus by the attorneys fol
Nathan Birnstein was denied by
Judge Amidon in the federal court a,
8 Fargo Monday morning. The appli
: cation for the writ was made on the
e ground that the complaint Of tbs
T Canadian government did not state
D facts sufficient to constitute larceny
! Birnstein, was originally arrested b,
? 1.-THE federal authorities on charge 8.
smuggling horses from Canada. Soor
after his arrest a complaint was FLED
+ against him by the Canadian govern
ment charging him with grand
larceny. 1t appears that the horses
] (which Blrnstein was accused OF Snug
giing had not been paid for. The con
q ttention Of W. H. Barnett. who ap
: peared for Birnstein this morning,
{ was that the accused had given 81
4 II so,