Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1909-05-14
WIBAUX

W1DAOA
From the Pioneer, May 6th.-
Mr.. and Mrs. D. G. McAtee mourn
the loss Of their little nine-year old
daughter, who died on Monday,
May 3 of heart failure. The
family have the sympathy Of all in
their bereavement.
Mrs. VIM. Pickering and daugh-
ter Gladys, departed on Thursday
evening for Los Angeles, Cal. where
she was called by the serious ILL.,
ness Of Mrs. chickering's mother,
Mrs. G. D. Hull.
Con. Collins of Lennox, S. d.,
has been looking over the land in
this vicinity and this week he pur-
chased half section southeast of
here, near Yates, paying $22 per
acre.
Born, on Friday, April 10Th, to
Mr.. and Mrs. Brookfeld, son.
Mother and child are both doing
nicely.
Last Monday seemed to be
somewhat unfornate day in Wibaux
and vicinity as an unusual number
of accidents, such as fires and run
aways, occurred. all happened
about the same hour Of the after
noon, and among the most serious
ones was four horse runaway,
with a disc near Yates, in which
Lester Adams narrowly escaped
death. The victim of the awful
tradegy is a grandson of Mr.. and
Mrs. j. A. Palmer, who reside
about a half mile west of Yates.
Mr.. Adams was discing with
four horse team when the horses
became frightened by passing
cloud of smoke from a prairie
fire. and started to run. The
driver, thinking he could soon get
the team under control chung to
the reins until the very last, but
the team had gone not far
when he was thrown in front of
the disc, which passed over him,
cutting his body severity. The disc
was thot to have been partly doubl-
ed up, as it cut but one deep cash
in the young mans side. The
team ran a short distance after
loosing the driver when one of the
horses broke it's leg, falling, and
causing the others to pile up on
him. The injured horse was shot
right where it had fallen. DR..
Gains was taken to the injured
mans relief as quickly as possible,
and, although it was thought for
a time that he could not live, the
doctor carefully stitched the sew
eral parts together and the patient
is, at the present writing, reported
to be doing nicely. Mr.. Adams
is only in his eighteenth year and
is dependent upon his grand
parents for livelihood.
Wibaux was the scene Of unusual
activity on Monday, when two fires
broke out in the east portion of
town, and, at which time the VOL
unteer fire department was given
an opportunity to demonstrate it's
skill, and although the two fires
were Immediately following each
other, the boys were "there" to
deliver the goods, at all times.
The first fire broke out opposite the
Midland Coal and Lumber Co., but
fortunately it had not gone far
enought to do any damage until it
was extinguished. The fire bril-
gade then returned to the fire hall
where they commenced putting
their engine and hose in order,
but before everything had been
properly arranged for another fire
the second alarm was turned in.
This time the fire originated at the
stockyards, and due to the dry
condition of the timber, and the
strong gale blowing from the west
the fire had gotten a fairly good
start before the water had reached
it. However, the engine being in
excellent working order. it was
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