Killing at Edmore Blind Pig Leaves One Dead
In Edmore, 25 miles northeast of town, a Monday shooting at Peltiere’s blind pig left Carl Okelsen alive with a neck wound and another man fatally shot. Deputy Hanson and Constable Johnson arrested Peltiere who drew a pistol. Hanson fired, Peltiere died two hours later. Okelsen, 65, a Walsh county farmer, survived after doctors treated his wound. Peltiere, known as Frenchy, had a hard local reputation and left no relatives here.
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Edmore
George Hanson
Frank Peltiere
Carl Okelsen
Walsh County
Peltiere
O'Kelsen
Hanson
Johnson
Ole Ramberg
Petiere
Levin Thompson
Anderson
Nimmo
Frenchy
Okelsen
Deaconness
Grand Forks
Tracey Hunt Over
Harry Tracey a notorious Oregon outlaw who helped kill three guards during a 1889 escape and was wounded by a posse near Fellowes Washington Central railroad seventy miles from Spokane. He shot himself in a wheat field after a running battle leaving his body found at daybreak the next morning.
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Harry Tracey
David Merrill
Oregon
Salem
Tracey
Fellowes
Washington Central
Spokane
Davenport
Gardner
Creston
Flax Prospects Bright in North Dakota Yield Potential Seen
George Heising of the Minneapolis chamber of commerce reports favorable flax conditions across North Dakota. About 85 percent of acreage sown on time shows strong potential, with 42 percent in near-certain yield, 15 percent late and at risk from frost, and overall expectations to break records with possible North Dakota output around 25 million bushels. Heising declines exact national estimates until maturity nears.
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George Heising
Minneapolis Chamber of Commerce
North Dakota
Heising
Mr.Heising
Strange Romance Ends in Divorce Suit at Jamestown
Laula M Bartholemew sues Carroll S Bartholemew in district court at Jamestown for divorce after elopement and a Valley City wedding a year ago. She, formerly Laula M Plowe, taught in Jamestown summer school. he is a Pingree youth. The couple parted at the altar and her mother-in-law later announced the wedding. The board of equalization in Bismarck plans to tax express and telegraph companies similarly to last year, with potential adjustments to railroad property.
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Laula M. Bartholomew
Carroll S. Bartholomew
Jamestown
Valley City
Laula M. Plowe
Bartholomew
State Board of Equalization
Bismack
I. McMichael
The
Western Union
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D. W. Ensien
H. E. Bargo
Devils Lake
Shakopee
St. Paul
Adams Bros
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