Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1908-05-08
Marn,arth


and the building enlarged all around.
The C. M. & St. Paul railroad intend to
build branch line from Mcintosh, S. d.,
across to Dickinson. This will compete
with the N. P. for the immense stock trade
which this country affords.
1t is reported on excellent authority that
beginning with the 10th ofthe month there
will be two more passenger trains added to
the present train service. They will be
through trains and will run between the
Twin Cities and Miles City, Montana.
This week the first rain of the season
fell in quantities sufficient to raise up be-
fore the eyes Of the settlers golden visions
of bounteous yields of grain this fall. For
two days and night more or less rain fell
and as result the hills and prairies are
verdant with grass and trees.
AT the last meeting of the business men
DR.. Bordwell was selected as justice of
the peace upon the resignation of NJ f.
Woods who had accepted the Office of dep
uty sheriff. A petition was forwarded
to the county commissioners praying for
the formers appointment to the position
of justice. Later the doctor was undecid
ed as to whether his time would allow him
to hold the Office and smother petition was
drafted for the appointmentof H. l.. Kelly.
A somewhat serious accident occurred
on engine $50 in charge of engineer Merri-
field and fireman Novak while going west
from here last week. When the train had
travelled about three miles out of town a
flue burst in the engine scattering fire and
hot water out of the frebox door. The
engineer jumped out of the cab window
and escaped unhurt except for the bruises
incidental to falling. But fireman Novak
was badly scalded and burned about the
face and on the hands and feet before he
could jump. With the assistance of his
comrades Novak was assisted to town, walk
ing all the way back, and placed in the
hospital where he will probably remain
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befell engine 4S7 in charge of engineer
Douglass and fireman Lincoln. An arch
tube burst while about mile and half
from town but both men we're expecting
repetition of the occurrence on engine $50
and neither were seriously injured, al
though fireman Lincoln was burned little
| no A,,o f>,,rc
the fire box door flew open Lincoln was
standing on the floor of the cab and lost no
time in climbing up onto the tender and
dropping off to the ground. 1t is thought
that some kind of settling reservoir will
have to be erected here to better the con-
ditions of the water and guard against flu
ture occurrences of this nature.
4 Deputy sheriff NJ. F. Woods took Messrs.
Way and Ratchford to Medora Sunday.
They were arraigned before Justice ]. Z.
Gardner of Sentinel Butte Monday morn
ing. They waived examination and were
bound over to the next term of the district
court under $500 bonds. All three re-
turned to Marmarth Tuesday
The latter part of last week the foreman
of the coal shu1e at Mobridge suffered the
loss of both legs and finally died from loss
of blood He started to cross the tracks
and in doing SO crawled under train OF
box cars The train suddenly started and
caught him. cutting off his legs close to his
body, the loss of blood being so great as to
cause death in three hours.
The other day bucking horse was
brought into town and for while had
everyone who pretended to be horseman
bufaloed. Finally one of the employees OF
the Johnson & Divine livery barn offered
to ride him for ten dollars which was col
lected among the crowd. The cowboy had
some difficulty in mounting him but afte,
he got into the saddle it was easy money.
The most exciting feature of the perfor-
nance was the attempt of the broncho tc
. upend the sleeping tent Of Steve Litke
From this instant Steve was the whole at
, traction, going about paving the air anc
filling the atmosphere with cries for dam
ages. Such is life in the far west.
The Meinecke Building Co. have started
the erection of their buildings near the
track on the south side. Mr.Meinecke in
forms us that the main building will be 81
xSo and the cement shed will be 14x32
A carload of cement is alreadyo on the tract
and the work of constructing the blocks vii
commence soon. When the plant is in full