Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-12-09
MEDORA

COMMISSIONERS " heeIe, huCHeI
mar and Egan, OF Golden Vale.
Valley county, me. in joint session
with the commissioners OF this coun
ty Tuesday, at Medora.
The 500 club met at the home o
Mrs. J. o. Gray wednesday. and tn
afternoon was spent at cards, INT
house was ~tastefully decorated in rec
and white; a lunch was served.
Sheriff elects r. Y. Porter OF neal
Belield, was In Madora Monday, u
quest OF a residence wherein he coulf
live during his term Of office. He sue
ceeded in renting part OF the ). A
McGregor house.
The county commissioners were tc
have met Monday, but only one, Mr
Tester, appeared. Mr.. Peck came ina
evening and they convened TUESDAY
morning. Mr.. Hanson was threshins
and was unable to be present. -.
Paul Lebo let the contract TINS
week for the erection OF a 14x2O ADJ
ton to his house, at the east edge OF
town. Dave McCallum has the work
and will begin the erection at once,
material is being placed on the ground
nov
1t is said that it will be necessary
for John Leakey to have the lee
which was broken in a horse accident
some time ago, rebroken and reset
The first setting was not properl!
done, it is said, and the injury being
to that part of the leg that is be
low the knee, II bone has united
properly, but there is space between
the ends Of the other, and 1t viii not
knit.
Being broken out in an
rash this week, Paul Lebo summon
ed DR.. Bowen of Dickinson Wednes
day, who at once pronounced the MAJ
adv smallpox. The house was guar
antined and DR.. Bowen promised &c
return Thursday and vaccinate those
wishing the probable immunity. rms
Is the first case In MedOra and wa
probably contracted at Dickinson.
Former Superintendent kltchei
was in Medora Monday AID TUESDAY
awaiting the appearance OF MISS Ach
erman, the new incumben5, WIN /.
view to starting her of with the rlgh'
foot foremost, in the discharge OF the
duties Of the Office. Miss Ackermal
came Tuesday, and qualified for the
nnexpired term, and will hold for the
two wears for which she was elected
Last week G. u. Burgess made q
purchase of about a section o ia,u
near Rosebud, on the Yellowstone nv
er. The land is unimproved excep'
for a small portion under cultivation
and the irrigation possibilities. Inc
tract Is said to be a select one, near?
every acre being susceptible OF cul
tiyation. Mr.. Burgess has not yet DE
cided whether or when he Will move
to his new location.
"A telegram was received Monda!
from the superintendent of the insane
asylum at jamestown, stating thai
Charles Lee was dead, Lee was sem
there in September, 1911, after a sc
ries of stormy transactions will
neighbors and county officials, and had
been dreaded as a bad man. 1t was
once reported that had been shot II
self-defense by a guard OF the instl'
tuition, but that was found to be an er
rQr; even at that time he was nearl.
helpless from paralysis, the ailnent
from which he died.
After dark on the night before
Thanksgiving, Herman Meyers. in jai
here awaiting trial on a charge 0.
~bOotlegging at Beach, made a break
for liberty while returning from some
service that Sheriff Nichols was re
quiring Of him at the house. He was
retaken and lodged in Jail before day
light next morning. Mr.. Nichols had
a horse that was sick, and requiring
some assistance in raising him, he
got the prisoners to help. They were
in care Of a deputy for return to the
Jail; when they came to the Jail there
was one mar short of the number and
his rearrest was at once undertaken
II was of no use to seek a man in
the badlands in, the dark, SO the sher.
III boarded a train for Belfield and ar
rested the mans wife. Reason fol
this was in the fact that she had been
attempting to pass tools and weapons
into the jail at different times and Sc
cret ways, with a view to a general
Jail delivery. She was brought to Me
dora before Meyers had arrived at Bel
field; soon Nichols received a tele
gram that the town officers had the
man surrounded In a cellar at Bel
field. As the man had made extrava.
CANT threats and was reputed to be a
very bad citizen and said to have
killed a man in Montana, they would
not 90 into the cellar for him. When
Nichols arrived at Belfield the mar
was still In the cellar, he obtained 8
lantern and rafsing the trapdool
quickly, he set the light on the third
step and stepped back to see what
would happen to 1t. As there was
nothing doing, Nichols leaped to the
cellar bottom and turned quickly
Meyers rose Immediately behind him
Having q "A with him, Nichols strucA
the surprised mar over the head ant
the chase was done. They brought
tie recaptured man to Medora; excep,
tn j scalp wound and some blood ant
diSsiness he was all right. He is per
fectly willing to forget being the lont
tAd man, and cannot be driven aWaJ
ffom the Jail until Nichols promises
not ~ pursue hin. No prisoners have
escaped this year.
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