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The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1888-10-25
From Foreign Lands.

Only O summary OF DR.. Mackenzie's book
Ia yet accessible to the public in Berlin, but
enough is known Of it's contents to arouse
savage Indignation in official circles. Putting
aside the medical dispute, the charges which
DR.. Mackenzie levels ut Prince Bismarck, OIL
melting the German doctors to entrap him
into O doubtful declaration as to the nature
of the Emperor's disease, are felt to be q
poisonous Islander upon the reputation of the
chancellor.
A dispatch to the London Chronicle from
Rome says: ''The interview between the
pope and Emperor William was acordial one.
The emperor assured the pope that he would
adhere to q conservative policy in politics
and social and religious affairs. The pope
many would gain much ii the liberty of the
Catholic church and the independence of the
papacy in Germany were more effectu.
ally guaranteed. He said also that it was
necessary in the interests of European civili-
zntion that the Roman question should be
settled satisfactorily. The pope was pleased
with Emperor Williams remarks.
The China mail, per the steamer City Of
Pekin from Hong Cong and Yokohama, re-
hsien. in the vicinity of Pekin. The night of
Aug. ID seven and q half inches of rain fell in
Pekin. and immense volumes of water col.
lected in the ravines about Lien-li-ho and
suddenly broke in upon twenty villages.
More than 10000 people were drowned and
a large number of draught animals. Villages
in the valleys neal Pekin are in danger every
season, as the hills are destitute of grass,
and the waters flow together in fearful tor
rents, u%nimpeded by the vegetation, News
of the catastrophe was brought by the mis-
sionaries who had been living near the scene
of the disaster.
A cable dispatch says: The Pacific mail
contract has been signed between the impe-
rial government and the Canadian Pacific
Railway Company. Tenders for three steam
ers will be received within q week. The stipu-
lated service is to commence in Is months,
the company receiving annually $4,000
the imperial government, in addition
to $4,000 from the Dominion government,
for monthly service for 10 years from Van-
couver, not only to Yokohama and Hong
Kong. as first intended, but also calling at
Shanghai. Increasing anxiety is felt to learn
the Dominion government realizes that
the whole efficiency of the Canadian route to
the East now depends on the Atlantic service.
If that equals that by New York, say IS.
knots, the Canadian route to Hong Kong
can easily compete with the Suez.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1888-10-25
Murder ut M0orhead.

A terrible tragedy vas enacted at More.
head, Mimi, in which one man was killed
and another fatally wounded. The police
have been on the track of a man who was
suspected of robbing the Manitoba house at
Fargo. He was traced to Moorhead, and
found at a dance. The officer from Fargo
called to his assistance Officer Pete Poull,
and they went to q hall to arrest
the suspect. They met him on the stairs,
n he Immediately pulled O revolver
n forced the officers to retreat to
the sidewalk, when Pete Pouil
attempted to arrest him. The man, who is
known by name as Murphy, shot Mt him,
sending q bullet through the officers heart,
killing him instantly. Officer Thompson
started after the murderer and was shot
at twice. He opened fire on Murphy, and a
well-directed bullet struck him in the neck,
him out. At present he is alive, but
there are no hopes of his recovery. Officer
was a married man, thirty years old.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1888-10-25
News Generalities.

Lewis Chandler the young teacher Of Jack
son county Wis.,, who was arrested some
time ago, accused of sending obscene lam
guage through the mails, went to Madison
for trial. The attorney general had been
petitioned to dismiss the case, but refused to
do it. The young nan pleaded guilty to the
charge, and was sent to the reform school
for one year.
The Manitoba house at Fargo was entered
by Il masked thief, who stole from the pro-
prictOr $3.50 in money, u valuab gold
watch and chain and a revolver, and from
two of the boarders O small sum of money.
The two boarders occupied the same room,
and the burglar after compelling them at the
point of q pistol to be quiet, too their cash
locked them in their room and departed,
taking the key with him.
1t is feared that the peace which was patched
up last night between the Chicago street car
company and it's employees will prove to DO
only temporary. According to agreement
the West side men returned to work on
Saturday and the cars ran us usual all day.
On the North side the imported men, under
police protection, ron q few cars over all the
lines, and although there were rumors of riots
and disturbances ut various times during the
day they all proved'to be %unfounded and the
new men were not molested.
Christina Louise Larsen. the 15-year-old
daughter ofPeter Larsen, who lives in Clark's
Hill, east of Joliet, ILL.,, disappeared from
her home recently and has not
since been seen. Her father says that she
was sent after the COWS in a pasture near
the new machine shops of the Belt line road.
There is quite q stretch of woods near there,
through which runs q stream of water.
Twenty-Five men spent all day searching for
the girl. There is great excitement over her
disappearance, and fears Of foul play or alb
duction TIRE entertained. Mr.. Larsen says
his daughter has no lover, nor had she ever
expressed O desire to leave her home. A gang
of hoodlums are known to nave infested the
woods near Larsen's home. and the father
fears they may be responsible for the girls
disappearance
The coal and wheat traffic of West Superior
Wis, this year is larger than that Of any
other city of the size in the world. Over
7OO,O 900 tons of coal will be the footings up
at the docks of the Lehigh, the Northwestern,
the St. Paul & Poetic and the Ohio COM
panies. Duluth docks will receive about
100000 tons. Up to date the elevators here
have shipped 5,573.4 16 bushels of grain, and
the Duluth elevators 6.627, 5S4 bushels. The
saw mills Of Peyton, Kimball & Barbour and
Jones 4 Murray have turned out 81 900, 900
feet of lumber 10.00O,0O O shingles and
100000 lath. Over one fifth Of the entire
tonnage passing through the Soc canal this
season is freight coming to or going from
West Superior. The Lehigh company fired
up fourteen of it's fifty coke ovens, and is
making the first coke manufactured on Lake
Superior.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1888-10-25
The Chicago Car Strike.

Notwithstanding the talk of the men who
failed to be reinstated or who were placed on
the "extra list" it is not likely that there will
be another strike on the North side. This
was decided at a meeting of the street car
men at which about 400 were present. The
subject of another strike was brought up as
soon as the meeting was called to order. but
was ended by the following communication
to Mayor Boldenweick, of Lake View:
To William Boldenweick, Mayor Of Lake
View: We, the drivers and conductors OF
the North Chicago Street Railway company,
most respectfully request you to act in con-
junction with the members of the common
council of Lake View, as a committee, to wait
on Mr.. Yerkes for the purpose of asking him
to reinstate all drivers and conductors in
their old positions. I
From the time the foregoing communication
was introduced and adopted there was no
further ~allusion to the strike. In vie " of the
Of Che new men employed
by the North Side company, for fiourishii,g
o revolver, Capt, Villiers gave orders to
search linen a 1.-THE Limits barn. Sergeant
Sprenglers and Edward Furthermann thee
pnny's attorney, accordingly went to the
barns and searched oil the new men,
one after another, as they came in.
o weapon of some description and the
result OF the search-about ae~yenty-6ye
revolvers, several steel knuckles and
clubs-were placed in the safe at the
police station. Mayor Boldenweick and his
committee Of Lake View citizens waited upon
President Yerkes md made a plea that the
company carry out the settlement as gener-
ally understood by giving the old men full
employment instead of three-ifths time
Mr.. Yerkes e~mphatically refused. Later an
indignation meeting Of residents ofthe North
side and Lakeyiew was held at she Sherman
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1888-10-25

Mrs. W. M. Dllls ofSpringield, Mo-,
is said to be the best judge of horse.
flesh in that valley. Mrs. Dills is q
southern woman, and comes from
the bluegrass region of Kentucky,
the state famed for it's horses, it's
pretty girls, and it's whisky. Mrs.
Dills has not neglected her household
duties for her stock-farm, and she
has reared an interesting family. II
is remarked by n who has made
some study of the subject that when
southern women are thrown upon
their resources they show an energy
that used to be attributed only to
the daughters Of New England.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1888-10-25
How They Trap Bears i'm Maine.
Mr.. Knapp, Veteran Hunter, in lewiston

How They Trap Bears in Name.
Mr.. Knapp, Veteran Hunter, in Lewiston
Journal.
! usually build a cubby-house in the
woods out Of old stumps and decayed
branches. I sorter pile 'em around,
you Know, and leave a little opening
for the bear toe o in, after he sees the
consarn and his curiosity is excited. !
catch some suckers or other kind Of
fish in the river and hang ,,em up in
this cubby. Then | try to fix the trap
SO that the bear win have to step on
the trencher if he gets the nish. "A
bear never steps on a log in his path,
but always steps over it. usually fix
the trap on tother side of log or
branch SO that he will be pretty sure
to step over the log and into the trap.
A knowing old bear won't 60 into one
OF these cubbies. Sometimes asCer
trying to catch an old sheep thief in
this way and not getting him, ! have
caught the old fellow by hanging a
string of fish in q careless way
on some tree, as if left there
accidentally by some sportsman,
and putting a strap underneath.
Sometimes / find a track where q
bear had q habit of fording q brook.
take away the stone in the brook
which the bear steps on when he
crosses, and put the trap in it's place.
When the bear feels after the old and
familiar stone, his fore-paw is caught
in the trap.
Some bears have learned to smell d
trap, SO we have to kill the smell.
We do that by daubing it over with
lard and beeswax. / have twelve
traps and visit 'em twice a week. The
bear is usually caught by the fore-paw.
He does MT live more than twenty
four hours after the jaw closes on him,
as a general thing. In warm weather
the pelt would soon spoil if l did not
get it pretty quick after the critter
died. The fur is in the best condition
when the bears are housing, lateinthe
fall. Then it is as nice as a Merino
sleeps wool. Iget So to $15a piece
for my pelts. The bears spend the
winter in the lodges about here and
under the stumps. Since We had that
hurricane that blew down so many
trees, there have been a lot of cosy
places for bears around here.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1888-10-25
A Woman and q Telegram.

The other day, says the Cincinnati
Sun, a young housewife left her homo
in this city to spend a few days with
several lady friends in Hamilton. Be
fore going she provided a good supply
of cold edibles for her husband, and
told him that he could help himself
whenever he was hungry. He took
lunch downtown and went homaiHtfm
evening for dinner.
AS he tells the story he found cold
chicken, cold butter, cold pie, cold
milk, cold salt, coldmustard, md sew
eral other cold dishes, but with all
that he was not entirely satisfied, and
hunted high and low for something
else. Atfirst he did not know what it
was, but finally concluded that ha
wanted bread. He knew there
was some in the house. but he
could not find it. Finally he conclud-
ed to telegraph his wife, for he could
not live without bread. Accordingly
Q telegram asking "Where is the
hread?" was dispatched.
The wife received it in the midst Of
of q number of ladies, and it frighten-
ed her nearly to death. With the cry,
II know it is bad news; I know Mr.
BIS killed." she fell in q FAINT.
The ladies present cried from SYM;
pathy, and a most lugubriousIHcena
presented itself when the man. al tina.
house happened in. "What's&hema h
ter here?" he asked. "Mrs.IB.sa hns.
band has been killed andahhe hast nt-
ed was the reply. I.How do Won
knowS' ne asked. "Oh, she got 8
teleeram.0 where IS issn eve
havn't opened it yet"
Imagine thescene when the sym-
pathetic creatures read the message.
In about an hour the reply was sent
back him: "You mean thing. It's
IN the bread-box, under the piano.
where ! hid it from the cook.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1888-10-25

Jack Wells, a hunter ofLivingston,
Mont, while shooting in the Crazy
Mountains the other day, ran on
three silver tip bears. He turned
loose his repeating rife and killed two
in their tracks. The other was
wounded, and at that moment the
main spring Of his rife broke. He
tried to defend himself with the gun
as a club, but was fatally hurt.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1888-10-25

Hanson Craig; of Kentucky prob
ably the heaviest man in the world,
His weight is given at 792 pounds,
and it requires thirty-seven yards OF
cloth to make him a suit. He is six
feet four and a half inches in height,
is 81 years old, and weighed eleven
pounds at birth. When 2 years old
he took a $1,000 prize at the baby
show in New York, tipping the beam
at 206 pounds at that time. His fa-
ther weighed 115 pounds and his
mother 1872.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1888-10-25


crowd, but above their hsada. IN an instant
q half dozen shots or more came from the
crowd, and Wnrdell dropped hfslsss.
An extensive mail robbery was perpctrnted
ut Buffalo, New York. The robbery was
general in character and covered lettera from
East, West, North and South. There were
found checks, drafts, mercantile orders am
tho usual miscellany. There was a check
found In which its amount, 1880.
alone remained intact. Bank drafts.
q letter notifying the Enclosure OF a draft
for $1,464.24, the draft being miss
ing, and numerous letters notifying of ths
Enclosure of cash, were also found. They
were torn SO the signatures were indistin.
g%uishable. The thieves had evidently disre.
garded everything but cash. Soon after the
banks openeSa man named John Shields, Il
night stamping clerk at one of the banks, and
upon the request to identity himself establish.
ing his connection with the postofice. He
was promptly handed over to the police.
Shields did not attempt to deny the charge
OF robbing the mail, and is now in custody.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1888-10-25
McGarigle Not . Boodler.

McGarigle, the Chicago official who now
lives in Northeast British America, was at
Winnipeg the other day, and in an interview
said: If anybody can show that l got one
dollar of county money, city money or any
body's else money that I did not honestly
will not only not object to being called a
"boodler," but will allow anybody to take
me back to Chicago. / have lost instead OF
having gained anythingtrom connection with
politics, therefore ! naturally feel sore at being
styled by the press, here and elsewhere, q
"boodler." With this exception | have nothing
to find fault with in the treatment I have re-
ceived here. In view Of what has tranapired
| sometimes think 1t was q mistake that /
did not ~"boodle," seeing that have just as
much notoriety as If ] had; but as it is, /
defy the whole world to show that I ever in
my life got a single dollar dishonesty from
anybody. The only mistake / ever made was
interfering too much in politics; but, while
there was nothing dishonest in my connec-
ton Herewith, some of the men with whom 1
had had dealings were dishonest, but it was
O matter over which / had no more control
than you had. ] am not guilty even Of the
charge Of general conspiracy. / have US
many friends as ever, and have received
many kind letters from old friends in Chicago
and neighborhood, who would be only too
glad to see me back there, even as / should
be to get back. / will go back when matters
are. Strengthened out as | wan them, probably
this winter. have done nothing for which /
should be troubled. / am straighter than
those who made trouble for me. ] fought
impossible to fight il my longer left.
When the excitement hascooledo f and other
cases disposed q, then will ask them to
consider my matter, but not before. 1t viii
be only q question or time.
MpGariele asked that the Canadian press
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1888-10-25

The twenty-four men who composed
the petit juryfor the September term
ofthe Buchanan county court, in
Missouri, weighed 5,63s pounds,
IN average of 535 pounds. The
lightest man on the jury tipped the
beam at 2OOpounds, while the heavi-
est weighed 265.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1888-10-25

The London railways have just dis.
covered Il trick which their partons
have practiced for a long time. A
man would buy a number of third
class tickets and one second class
ticket. The latter he would show to the
inspector on the train, and one ofthe
former he would give up at the exit.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1888-10-25

A New Jersey man has invented a
process by which iron is made to
absorb carbon, thus converting it
into steel. This is but reviving the
practice of the ancients, who buried
the iron and applied slow fire. But
Under the new process nc fire is used.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1888-10-25

A California paper states that q
petrified tooth of a shark was picked
out of solid rock at a depth of thir.
teen feet while dlgginga well at Nipo.
mo a short time ago. The tooth has
retained it's enamel and is highly
polished.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1888-10-25

The Marquis de Mores left Paris
for China, where he is said to have
succeeded in charmingfr from the Celes-
tails larger and moro substantial
railway concessions than Count
Mitkiewiez.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1888-10-25

The empress of Germany nurses
her baby. AS the little one has been
made q Colonel in a German regi-
ment and already belongs to vari-
GUS Orders OF Knighthood, he il
worthy of his honor.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1888-10-25

Harriet Beecher Stowe, though by
no means we'll, is in much better con-
dition than she was before her recent
serious illness. Her recovery has as
tonished her physicians.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1888-10-25

Alaska cost the United States ST.
100000, and the fur seal company
has already paid the government
over $s, ooO, 900 for the privileges it
enjoys of taking seals from the terri
torial waters.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1888-10-25
Personal Talk,

John II. Knapp, pr esident of the great
lumber firm If the Knapp, Stout G Co. com-
pany, died at Menominee, Wis.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1888-10-25
IllegaI Railroad Tariff.

Chairman Leeds, ofths Transcontinental
association, telegraphed from Washington
That the tnri1s, against which Chicago mer
ahants have made no much complaint, we're
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1888-10-25

One Of the natural curiosities at
Antelope creek, in Butte Creek valley,
about q mile from the residence Of
w, j Bray, is q cave which contains
superior ice all the year round.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1888-10-25

~ OSSOuCg 6AlO AACISiy pEES0AUS Il0E
cheek TOT bandso young fellow who
PUSHES forward to meet her. He looks
decidedly Disconnected, as though he
would have preferred q SALVATION
Of the sort which other girls
are so plentifully hestowing. His rue
ful look doesn't escape notice. aud IN
stantly speculation is set at work to
account for him. The general suppo-
sition is that he is engaged to the girl,
that she doesn't care much for him.
bnt has resolvedto try matrimony as
offering q possible escape from ennui.
He doesn't get much sympathy.
When the woods are fullof genuine
Warm-hearted girls, he ought to have.
made a wiser choice,
One notices that great deal ofklss-
ing and embracing between women
goes on and it is done with q degree Of
warmth and vigor which allows no
show Tor the cynics suggestion that
they do it melrey because it is custom
airy, though on other occasions it does
often look that way.
A goor deal Of hugging and kissing il
INDUCED in by. men. but these men
w all foreigners or Of foreign extrac-
ton, although some Of them are III
other respectss 80 thoroughly American.
lied that it takes q sharp glance to de-
terinine their extraction, The phlep-
matte Anglo-Saxon looks at these per
f0rrnances with Observation-Disclosures
indifference. Nothingcan convince him
that there isn't always a great deal
more ge~nlinefeeling shownbya hearty
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1888-04-06
Faith Cure for Warts,

AJoang lady in town has been very
much troubled over a numbsr of large
warts on her hands. She has tried
every remedy she ever heard of with the
exception OF having them removed with
the knife. And all to no effect. until a
last novel remedy has done it's work.
She claims to have got it from a gypsy
woman. She cuts pieces of paper in
squares and large enough to cover a
Wart. After wetting them she plastered
one of them on each wart. When the
pieces of paper had dried she took them
in the full of the moon and placed them
upon the ground beneath the caves OF a
building, where the water would drip
upon them. After they had been thor
oughiy wet she placed them in an oven
to dry, and finally she placed them in
the shape OF triangle upon her hand
and then thrust her hand out of third
story window and blew them off to the
winds. In three days the warts had
disappeared. She is so confident OF the
cure that she recommends it to all her
friends
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1888-04-06
Keep Farm Records.

Every farmer is to great extent a
manufacturer, and ought to keep n
record of his operations. This is the
key to success in any busnes But
the soil-tiller should attend to some
other matter in connection with HE &C
counts. a map of his farm, with each
field numbered, and it's size, quality of
soil, etc, specified, will be a great aid
IN keeping track of the years trausac-
tions. How many farmers have such
guide and conveDince And how
many kept such memoranda in 1887 as
will enable them TO tell the expense OF
each crop grown ? And how about the
domestic animals If you keep cows
what have they paid you per head in the
aggregate And what of the sheep.
swine, and even the chickens {? How
much did each contribute to YOUR in
come, and which was the most profta.
ble Those who can answer these per
tinent questions must be we'll advised
IN regard 10 their financial position. and
need no admonttion but-we fear many
are utterly unable to givs any detailed
account OF their farming operations, or
whether the balance is on the right or
wrong side Of the ledger. 1t is needless
to say that such management would
soon wreck almost any commercial en-
terprlse. and hence the frequent com.
plant that farming don't pay'' is no,
surprising. What we write is intended
tobe suggestive rather than admonitory.
Keep an accurate account OF your do
ings, aud you will not only be wiser but
ere long richer in consequence. In fact
resolve that you will know how you
stand at the close OF 1883, whoever nav
meantime have been elected President
OF the Republic OF Governor of your
Common wealth.