The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1886-12-09
TERRITORIAL NE rs

Election returns Indicate that cities
along the Missouri river have lost
voters in the last two years.
The snow blockade on the Devils
Lake division Of the Manitoba rail-
roads over.
The official canvass at Minnewau-
kan gives Campbell for district attor-
ney PA, Role 2O8. Role will contest.
The Menitoba extension from Camp
bell to Aberdeen is about completed,
the work OF laying iron now being ~
progress.
Diphtheria prevails to such an ex-
tent in Carroll county that the schools
are closed.
b. The city council of ,Yankton were
called hurriedly in special session
Prompt provision had to be made
against a threatened overflow Of The
creek flowing from the city artesian
we'll. Several business house cellars
have been flooded.
The Manitoba road has begun the
building of a observation-disclosures and
coal sheds at DEVILS Lake, and will
build machine shops in the spring sim
liar to those at GAINESVILLE.
A Minneapolis paper publishes 3
special from Valley City stating that
A. c. Wilmot,. proprietor of the kim
dred hotel, has gone away. Heis alleg-
ed to have various bills unsettled, ag-
~gregating about 81, 500. It is suppos-
ed that he and his family went Co
Minneapolis. Thehotel is now in the
pos session of the sheriff.
The vote OF the Fourteenth legisla.
tive district elects to the council r. j..
Washabaugh and s. P. Wells, and to
the house John Wolsemuth, John d
Patton and A. S. Stewart. The coun-
cil-men served in the. last legislature.
The old report that Fort A. Lincoln
vas about to be abandoned as a mill
tary post has been revived by some
Washington correspondent.
P. H. Trudell and wife are held for
the murder OF Joseph Connolly IN
Lawrence county. u
The graders OF the Milwaukee road
are within about six miles Of the
Faulk county line.
The elevator at Sheldon collapsed,
scattering $4,000. bushels of wheat
owe the ground. It is reported that
the elevators at Buttzville have both
started to split open in consequences
of the immense amount of wheat
stored there. e.
P. G. Cooley of Minnewaukan has
assigned. Liabilities, $4,000; assets,
about the same.
The secretary of Interior has allow
ed Joseph Slater to file a contest
against jeremiah HI. Murphy's entia
of the northwest quarter OF section 8,
township 113, range II, Huron land
district. This overrules the decision
of the commissioner. In rehearing
of the case the secretary adheres to
his former ruling in the case Of the
Hayden NJ. Thompson VS.. LANCE con>
test. N
Webster Williams, whose foot was
crushed by a switch engine q short
time ago died at Mitchell under the in-
auence of chloroform. He was appar-
entity improving when gangrens set in.
At DEVILS Lake, Right Rev. Martin
Marty, Catholic bishop of Dakota,
united in matrimony Thomas Cord
ner and Miss Marie Budde, daughter
of Charles Budde.
P. G. Cooley, of Minnewaukan, has
assigned to R. R. Wise for the benefit
of creditors without preference. Liza
bilities, $4,000; assets, about the,
same.
r. E. Wallace's handsome cottage,
situated on the shore of Spiritwood
lake, jamestown. with the furniture,
including elegant bric-a.brac, burned.
Loss, So, 700; insurance OH furniture
$4,000 in the Fire Association of Phil
adelphia and $3.50 on the house in
the Hartford.
Valley City was thrown into excite
ment by the discovery that A. G. VIII
mot, proprietor of the Kindred hotel,
had gone away. Heeis alleged to have;
various bills unsettled, ~aggregating
about 81, 500.
G. II. Shaw, landlord of the Alexan-
der Mitchellhotel, returned to Mitchell
from a two weeks stay in New York
city, where he had been in a vain
search of his brother-in-law, who dis
appeared mysteriously Nov. /. The
latter was a bookkeeper named Fox,
| who married Shaw's sister at Charles
city, Iowa, several years ago.
The railroad depot at Sanborn waa4
| burned. The loss on the building,
express and freight is several thou
sand dollars.
J. w. Ross, postal clerk between.
Calmar and Chamberlain on the Mil
waukee road, was discharged for
drunkenness, the immediate cause be-
ing his attempt to get into q sleeping
car berth occupied by a lady while in
toxicated. He left Mitchell after his
dismissal to walk to Alexandria, and
his body was found half way between
the two towns, with three bullet