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Newspaper
Williston Graphic
Location
Williston, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1908
Page
6
W C Gilbreath announces prizes for largest and best grain and grass collection raised in North Dakota in 1908. First prize 200 dollars, second 125, third prize. Entries must reach Bismarck by August 20, shipped via express at department expense. Pack exhibits in light boxes with ample air to prevent dampness.
Reports from Fernie British Columbia and surrounding towns describe a massive wildfire that wiped Fernie from the map and cut off Hosmer Olean and Goarwood. Over 170 killed and thousands homeless as lines of rail and bridges are burned, with property losses estimated in the millions and wind fanning the flames across a 50 mile arc from Cranbrook to Alberta.
Chicago endures a record heat spell with a maximum 96 degrees from 4 to 6 pm. Health officials report 80 infants under one year died in July, plus nine adults and many prostrations as inspectors scramble to inform mothers on infant care amid mounting fatalities. List of adult deaths includes Charles Guokar and others, as temperatures rise through the morning.
In Bottineau on August 4, Little Rising Sun pleaded guilty to first degree murder for killing 16 year old Alexandra Seidel at Somber. Under plea Joe Peltier is said to have ordered the shot and Charley Peltier restrained the victim. The youth, 16, received a life sentence while the two older Peltier men were to be hanged at Bismarck on February 9. The case closes a brutal Indian massacre after the attackers fled into the woods.
In Boreman Montana Ag 1 Plato Brock and Robert Walsh were instantly killed while moving a hay derrick. The cable end swung up and touched a Madison Electric Power Co line carrying 40 000 volts. Both men held a chain attached to the derrick and perished instantly. Lightning Starts Fires in Hinckley Minnesota. A thunder shower struck two houses as lightning damaged a bed and wall, but fires were small and no major damage occurred.
Port William Ontario reports a Canadian Pacific express train struck sixty section men working on the Osco double track. Three men were killed and a fourth is fatally injured. The workers had stepped from the west bound track to let a freight train pass.
In St Peter Minnesota on Monday pedestrians passed within feet of the body of Christ Jake an early resident who ended his life by hanging in a narrow passage between two buildings. The body was not found until last night.
Minneapolis and South St Paul markets report commodity prices with grains including No 1 and No 2 northern wheats, durum, oats, barley, rye, corn and flux. Dairy butter prices and meat values for cattle hogs and sheep appear with bid ranges as of early August.
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