The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1886-11-25
DAKOTA TERRITORIAL NEWS
Rev. o. P. Miller of Steele county

Rev. O. p. Miller of Steele county
is dead.
G. Kellard was bound over at Cas-
SETON for attempting an assault on the
person of Miss Nettie Hansen.
John Crawford was arrested at Des
Moines charged with burglarizing Hen,
bricks store at Fargo.
George Hillock, of Dickey county,
OAK, who was shot some days ago,
died from his wounds.
Mrs. Sellers, living near Fort Mead,
has given birth to seven children dur.
ing the past four years-four twins
and triplets.
Edward Powers was sentenced q,
Bismarck to ten years at hard labor
and fined $1,000 and costs for man.
slaughter.
A railroad artesian we'll at Aberdeen,
closed some time ago, commenced flow.
ing, throwing mud and a large mum.
bur of fish.
Bishop Walker is at Dunseith, try
ing to persuade the Chippewa Indians
to remove to tine White Earth reser.
walton.
The store of M. Livingston, at Sioux
Falls, was closed by the sheriff on a
$4,000 mortgage.
The North Dakota synod will meet
at jamestown, Oct. 8.
The county treasurer at Bismarck,
at the October sale, will sell the so.
called railroad lands on which taxes
have not been paid, in order that the
courts may pass on the question.
A young Russian named Albert
Kraus, who does not speak English,
has lately disappeared from about
Valley City, and it is believed he has
been foully dealt with, as he had not
drawn his wages and left his property.
Gerald Pierce, o OF the governor,
has resigned as deputy territorial
treasurer.
The corner stone of the new Dick.
enson county court house was laid
a few days ago.
The yield of flax in Lincoln county
is fifteen to twenty bushels per acre.
The number of women who have OBJ
tanned one or two manifestations of
16O acres each in Dakota is very large.
Many school-teachers, dressmakers,
saleswomen, and girls at service, and
others more or less dependent on some
male relative for support, have judi
ciously saved, invested their earnings
and acquired property in this way and
are now Independently we'll off with a
fair prospect of becoming rich.
The store OF D. Brownlee, at Maple
ton, was burgarlized and a large lot of
harness and other goods taken.
Lisbon was shocked at the sudden
death of the wife of A. H. Laughlin,
register of deeds, one of the most
prominent ladies of the place.
Sheriff Hawks, on trial at Pembina
for the murder of William Stevens,
was convicted Of manslaughter and
sentenced to six years and three
months in the ~penitentiary. He vas
attempting to seize Stevens team on
a mortgage. Stevens resisted, when
Hawks shot HIM, as he claimed, in
self defence.
The corner stone of the new Congre-
gational church, which was destroyed
by a wind storm Aug. 18, was laid
with appropriate services by the resi-.
dent pastor, Rev. William Edwards.
Robert Hillock of Glendale, who
received a bullet in the brain from a
shot fired by the sherif's posse on the
9th inst, died on the 10th. It is not
known what action the county will
take in the matter, but the sheriff
and his posse are exonerated from all
blame. Hillock's own rashncss in fir
ing upon the officers while he was in
ambush caused his death.
The Watertown Fire Insurance COM
pany filed articles of incorporation
with the territorial auditor, the fol-
lowing named gentlemen being incor-
porators: III. D. Walrath. NJ. w. Sheaf,
w. r. Thomas, A. G. Millett, John j.
Marks, E. G. Fahnestock, E. C.. Rice,
r. B. Spicer and c. G. Whistler. Wa
tertown is named as the principal
place of business.
Charles Carson, the noted Black
Hills highwayman, was caught at
Chamberlain. ~. ~
Aman named Seymour at Ipswich
killed himself by hanging. Cause, tenn
porary insanity.
The secretary of the interior has
affirmed a decision OF the land com.
missioner in the appeal OF W. P. Sim.
mons, rendered June 81, 1885, reject
ing the communication proof for lots 8
and A, and the southeast quarter Of
the northwest quarter, section 2,
township 116 north, range 661, in
the Huron Oak. land district. In
the case of l.. f. Havigon, an appeal
Of May 1S, 1885, involving the south.
west quarter, section 2, township ILL
north, range Is, in the Huron district,
the secretary sustains the commits:
ros,rsc rasoo%;or III - communicable