The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1913-01-23


A man hired to tend stock on the
Mulligan farm near Marmarth and a
pal stole four head of horses and 9th.
er yaluables and skipped. The horses
we're recovered but the thieves escap-
ed.
North Dakota is developing some
fiction writer's who promise to vie
with Poet Laureate Foley in the lit
erary ornaments of the nation. The
latest to appear is Thomas F. McCue
Of Darlington who has published The
Conquest of 1nez Ripley.
X. Stefannson, publicly expelled
from the North Dakota U. in Feb.
1902. because he was said to have a
bad influence on the students, now
famous throughout the warld as an
artic explorer, gave an illustrated
ecture before the university that once
expelled him.
Oscar GilKey, advance man for the
Crows Theatrical Co., was found
rozen to death in haystack between
8rocket and Lawton. He was book
ng for the show, The Fighting Par
;on, and was last seen at Brocket on
Dec. 80, going across the country to
Iawton. There were no marks of vio-
ence on his body. His home is at
Syracuse, N. Y.
T. J. Hannigan of st. Paul, Mimi,
md Towner, N. D., accused of being
engaged in the white slave trade, was
lrraigned before Magistrate Elton at
-ethbridge, Alberta, and found guilty.
lie was sentenced to pay fine of $50
md costs, or serve three months i'm
)risonment in the provincial Jail.
While returning from Pekin. ILL.,,
where he attended the funeral of his
mother, Mrs. George Lehman, J. E.
4ohman of Grand Forks received word
It Minneapolis of the death of his Sis
;er, Miss Eva Lehman, she passing
away at Pekin, ILL.,, three days after
he death of her mother.
James Snyder, an employe of the
I. J. Brown blacksmith shop, at Den
loff, became involved in a scrap
With J. NJ. McVey, of that place, and
IS result the blacksmith was carved
lp in most artistic and convincing
manner. Snyder came to McClusky in
he evening and the slashes were
'atched up by DR.. Brown.
Papers were filed instituting a con-
est on the part of Ambrose citizens
gainst Crosby, claiming that the vote
N the county seat question which,
made Crosby the county seat of Di-
'ide county was irregular. The coun-
y seat fight has always caused a fight
between the two towns and with the
ling of new papers the battle is
gain renewed.
Word was received in Tioga that
John Bromley, residing on his farm
bout four miles north of Ray, mad
shot and killed himself Tuesday
morning at his home, using a revol-
yer, the bullet entering his head on
he right side above the ear, death
'esulting at once. Dependency is
bought to have been the motive of
he tragedy, the deceased having been
addicted to excessive use of liquor, so
t is said. He leaves a wife and two
,r three children.
Charles Johnson, farmer near
Jrary, is in a critical condition as the
'esult of being forced to run two
niles through the country clad only
n his underc1othes, in 80 degrees be-
ow zero weather. Early in the morn.
ng he awoke to fiDd his house ablaze
md before he could escape a gasoline
ank exploded, enveloping him in
lanes. He managed to get out of
loors and by rolling in the snow .ex.
inguished the flames.
With a vicious gunshot wound in his
head, some of his brains known to
nave been blown out, injuring the
speech center so that ne is unable
% utter word, Don Slyter lies in the
Merck Hospital at Devils Lake with
/ fighting chance of recovery. The
accident which occurred in the Turtle
Thursday afternoon, was
The result of endeavoring to take a
gun in rig, muzzle first. The victim,
who is about % years of age, was
riding in a hay rack twelve miles west
If st. John, carrying a shotgun in
MS lap. While endeavoring to place
he lock on safety" to prevent acct