Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-09-11
No Glue
The Mystery Surrounding the
disappearance Of 0. II.
BeaI lInpIenetrable
Woods and Timber We're
Searched With Blood.
hounds Without Avail

5abouts of o. H. Beal. 81
The hardware man is still as much
a minus quantity as he was Mon
day and reward will be offered to-
day for information of him. #
The bloodhounds from the peniten-
tiary were secured yesterday after
noon and with them the woods and
brush on the bottom lands were thor
oughly searched for several miles up
and down the river without avail.
While it was hardly expected that the
hounds would be able to take up SO
old a scent there was chance that
they might find Beals body in the
brush in case he had wandered and
fallen or had met with foul play and
had been hid there.
Inquiries have been sent up and
down the line of railroads in the hope
that some tidings of the missing man
4 might be cleaned from railroad men
Tor others, but up to the time OF going
to press no word had been received
| John Bea1 at Long Beach, Cal, was
! wired yesterday of his brothers dis
/ appearance, as was also the other
brother who is in Maine, but no re-
1 plies have been had from them.
Yesterday the cash drawer in the
safe in common use by Beal and J. C.
! SWEET was broken open in the hope
4 that some clue might be found there.
j In the drawer were some business
papers and $47.35 in cash and checks,
/ but nothing which would throw any
| light on the mysterious disappearance
of their owner, save that it added to
the strangeness of Beal's going away
4 without taking the money with him
i His bedroom over the store showed
: that the bed had not been slept in
Sunday night and all his clothes were
y there, including his overcoat, showing
Il he left with only the clothes On hls
back. '.
7 Sunday evening at o'clock FRIEND
talked with him in. front of the store
which was the last seen of him. HI
then wore a straw hat, but Monda!
. morning the straw hat was found il
the store and his black felt hat take1
in it's place. -
/ When last seen Beal seemed to be
in his usual health and frame of MIND
and the friend noticed nothing strange
in his manner. Public opinion is di
vided as to what has become of him
some thinking he is at the bottom
of the river, others that he became
: suddenly mentally unbalanced ane
left the town by some means On thu
spur of the moment and that sosr
he will be located wandering about
Others again think he has met fou
play He never carried any money
about with him to speak of and seldom
, he left the store, even for. a few mo
ments, without telling where he was
going.
: His friends will today offer reward
of $50 or SIS for Information regard
ing his whereabouts and cards will be
sent broadcast in an endeavor to 10
cate him.
Mr. Beal owns the building occu
pied by his and the J. C. SWEET store
and is said to have respectable cash
balance in the bank. which he did moi
touch before leaving, and is estimated
to be worth probably $4,000.
He came to Bismarck from Maine
in 1875 and for years had a little CUR
store which afterwards developed into
the small hardware business he was
running at the time of his disappear
, ance. He is 63 years old, square
built, has iron gray hair and mustache
weighs probably $50 pounds, and has
very little to say to anybody.
. His disappearance is the greatest
mystery which has struck Bismarct
for many a day. ss .a51. r.sz -. ~