The Dickinson press., 1916-01-08
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STATE NEWS NOTES
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ranchers near Chadwick and Selfridge
by wolves.
Tripping while at play, twisting his
spine and causing paralysis, Hans
Morris Skaug, aged eight years, is
dead at Minot.
The new telephone line extending
from New Leipzig to Pretty Rock
country has been completed and
many of the telephones are in service.
V. B. Semp, a prominent citizen of
| Leeds, was struck and almost in
stantly killed by Great Northern
train No. 10 within the city limits
about noon Christmas day.
Carl Anderson of Williston, while
driving in a snow storm ran off an
| embankment and down a 30-foot in
| cline, breaking his car into wreckage
but escaped without injury to himself.
Tower City is soon to have electric
lights. The engine has been shipped
and the people of that city are ex-
pecting to enjoy the convenience of
electricity soon after the first of the
year.
Arthur Delvin, age nine years,
skated to his death in the Red river
at Drayton. He fell through an air
hole in the ice and the current car
ried him under. The body was re-
covered.
F. Jensen, wanted in Sheridan
county, Montana, for stealing an
automobile, was recently arrested in
Williston, and the auto found in his
possession. The Montana sheriff
came in and took him to Plentywood,
where he will face trial.
Tom Doe, a farmer living some
four or five miles north of Marmarth,
was instantly killed Tuesday after
o 20 by the accidental discharge of
a shot gun which he had taken to
bed with him when he lay down on
the bed in a drunken stupor.
Two boy bandits, who robbed a
store at Barlow in Foster county,
December 20, were sentenced to
three years in prison by Judge J.
A. Coffey. The boys secured $113
from the proprietor, whom they held
up at the end Of an empty pistol.
Mrs. Charles Goodorow of Cannon
Ball, while making plans for the
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at Colorado Springs, Colorado, was
accidentally burned to death, and a
joint funeral was held, mother and
son being buried in the same grave.
LOCAL sportsmen at Devils Lake
have built a snow boat. New and
very unique plans, original with L.
D. Smell and w. K. Kimmo, have
been followed. All unnecessary
weight has been eliminated from
same and is designed to carry two
passengers.
William Ashwill of Bismarck, driver
for the Harry Clooten livery, is in the
Bismarck hospital, suffering from a
conclusion of the brain, as a result of
an accident Sunday nj light, when the
automobile he was driving was struck
by train No. 1 on the Northern Pa
cific tracks. He was thrown 100 feet
from the machine, which was demol-
ished. Ashwill was attempting to
cross the tracks and drove the car in
front of the approaching train. His
condition is considered serious.
Andrew Anderson plead guilty in
district court at Stanley to the
murder of Ole Halgrenson, a neigh
Dor, and was sentenced to serve
twenty-five years in the state peni-
tertiary. Halgrenson was slain by
Anderson after the latter had be-
come intoxicated, and while Halgren-
son was visiting at the Anderson
farm, having just invited him and his
family to spend Christmas day with
his family. The murder occurred
near Tagus, where both men resided.
When Bert Gilmore, a resident of
Leith for many years.. ended his life
with a shotgun, his wife was called
upon for the second time within five
years to mourn the violent death of
a husband. Frequently Gilmore had
asked his wife if she could get along
without him, fits of dependency
selling him while he was ill with
stomach trouble. Five years ago H.
J. Carter, to whom the woman was
then married, was drowned in the
Cannon Ball river, near the above
city.
The discovery Of a body frozen in
the ice in the Missouri river near
Williston, reveals the murder of Hans
j. B. Olson of Wildrose, Williams
county, who disappeared over a year
ago. The body is so badly decom-
posed that the manner of the murder
probably cannot be determined, but
an examination Of the contents of the
clothes on the body, reveals the
murder motive, as nothing can be
found of the hundred dollars Olson
withdrew from a bank a few days be-
for he dropped out Of sight.
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. NEIGHBORHOoD NOTES .
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The new school building at Fryburg
has been completed. 1t is a two room
structure, built according to the most
modern plans of school house con
struction.
F. A. and Joe Boltz of Fryburg re-
Gently shipped A head of cattle to
st. Paul. The Fryburg farmers are
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