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Newspaper
Devils Lake Inter Ocean
Location
Devils Lake, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1902
Page
2
Meeting program for North Dakota Federation of Women's Clubs in September. Includes officers names from Cando Lisbon Fargo Valley City Wahpeton and other towns, committee appointments, invocations, musical selections, and reports on credentials and household economics.
James O'Brien, inmate awaiting district court for the Fritz Phillipp murder, broke two bars in the jail south east window and fled yesterday afternoon. He used hanging trousers to hide the work and vanished into the area. Deputies and posses pursued eastward. outside help and Davis, also jailed, may have aided the escape. A $200 reward was offered for his capture.
Brakeman Stevens, struck by a Black assailant last week on his train from Bismarck, died late Tuesday at Brainerd hospital. The assailant Griffin was arrested and held to answer the charge of a serious case, bound over to district court in $10,000.
Elijah Chapman of Cando North Dakota died August 12 1902 after a brief illness. Born in Tioga County New York in 1831 he married Romelia Osborn in 1853 and moved west in 1853 arriving in North Dakota in 1884. A respected Towner County resident for thirteen years he was a devoted husband and father leaving a wife and seven children six daughters and one son R A Chapman of Bisbee North Dakota among the survivors.
Funeral services were held August 13 at the Congregational church for residents including Mrs. P. Obs tead of Cando and Mrs. Riley of White Hall Michigan. Burial followed in Cando cemetery as relatives and friends extend community sympathy.
A brief notice announces lands bought and sold and promotes services with insurance, loans, and favorable rates. Goer and Holm iberg are named as the dealing agents offering funds at rates lower than competitors.
Delegates of the Knights of Pythias in San Francisco elevated Tracy R. Bangs of Grand Forks North Dakota to supreme chancellorship and Charess E. Shriveley of Indiana to supreme vice chancellorship. Charles A. Barnes of Illinois declined the nomination. George E. Charen of California won the post of supreme prelate against incumbent C. F. Easley of New Mexico. Simmons of Delaware placed strong second.
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