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Newspaper
The Bowbells Tribune
Location
Bowbells, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1913
Page
2
A county seat dispute is scheduled for trial this afternoon before Judge Buttz at a special term of the district court. The hearing will raise several legal points and a decision is expected on the contested designation.
A special term of district court opens in Bowbells to hear the Sam Dimond county seat contest from 1910. Lignite claims the more votes were cast there, but illegal polling places led to Bowbells being named county seat. The case will test law, with appeals likely to reach the state supreme court. judges Bangs and Gow an lead opposing sides.
Fargo reports the attorney general views Right Out Tobacco as a substitute for snuff and thus illegal. Commissioner Ladd pursues a legal ban on the substitute and all similar products, arguing they are sold in snuff-like containers and treated as snuff. He vows a nationwide court challenge if needed.
Grover Bahr, 24, of New Salem New York, was shot in the face with a .22 rifle while handling the weapon in a wagon. He drove three miles home, washed up, and received initial care late. In a Bismarck hospital he lies unconscious. doctors fear he will not survive. The rifle discharged as he attempted to remove it, with bullets lodged in his cheekbone and back of the head. Second-hand Deering binder for sale. W Moore of Bowbells, North Dakota.
About a score of Bowhells ladies gathered at Rev and Mrs D Samson home last Saturday to welcome the newly weds back from their honeymoon. Guests brought ice cream and cake and a leather rocker gift accompanied by congratulations and best wishes.
Postmaster General Burleson authorized a rate reduction effective August 15 for parcel post within the first and second zones. Parcel weight limits rise from eleven to twenty pounds, with 5 cents for the first pound and 1 cent for each additional two pounds or fraction for local delivery and similar for other offices. The tiered rate reaches 24 cents at twenty pounds.
Minot North Dakota July 31 There are prospects of Minot becoming the division point for the Soo Line. The company plans to locate a superintendent dispatchers office men stenographers and book-keepers here with at least six freight solicitors. The Soo would strengthen its presence in the region, building a large new round house and shops on land it owns east of town.
Grand Forks North Dakota July 31 report states Harry Fresse of Edmore died from poisoning and a head blow. Of the two men held, Richard Behnke and George Moriarty, allied with Cash Carnival Co, a preliminary hearing is expected next week. The victim was at Lawton carnival and ball game July 11, suffered brain concussion, and robbery is suspected as motive. A separate note mentions a white bearskin coat found near Bond Bells.
Minot North Dakota July 29 John Staff who killed his wife north of here weeks ago was taken to Towner for trial. He rode to the depot on a dray with the barrel containing his wife. He smoked a cigar and seemed to show little remorse. "She got what she deserved" was among early trial remarks attributed to him.
Washburn North Carolina July 31. Andrew E Sauer a McLean county farmer found a full grown deer in his wheat field less than a mile from his house while driving home. The deer seemed frightened by the team then fed on the grain after moving a short distance.
John McClellan of Bismarck was killed by a freak incident after trading horses with a team driver. He was shaken from the sidewalk by a broncho, struck his head on the cement edge, and died at Beach hospital Tuesday morning after the overland party camped nearby.
Brinsmade North Dakota July 31 Andrew Kinneberg was fatally injured while punishing an unruly horse. He struck the animal with a strap, the horse reared and kicked, delivering a blow to Kinneberg's stomach that proved fatal.
In Forman North Dakota Mrs. Hamilton McQuay of Vivian Township faced a justice court for assault and battery against her husband and obscene language. She pled guilty to both charges, received fines of 20 dollars and 15 dollars respectively, with sentences suspended. The husband contemplates divorce, a reversal of common headlines of the era.
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