The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1888-06-14

Mrs. Meckie L. Rawson, of Chicago, has,
from appearances at least. thoroughly re-
covered from her slight indisposition. She
has been informed that Attorney Henry C.
Whitney was not fatally wounded and her
condition has correspondingly improved.
However, she still refuses to see any one
until she has consulted fully with her at
torneys. Mr.. Whitney's condition was
greatly improved, and strong hopes are
entertained that he will be out Ind around
as usual in q few days.
Aaron Pennock, q young Mennonite, be.
came respondent at,being pressed to pay
u note due to @ machine agent and hanged
himself at Winnipeg.
Jefferson City Missouri Chief justice Nor.
ton fixed the day. for the execution OF Hugh
NJ. Brooks, alias Maxwell, murderer OF c.
ARTHUR Preller, for the 18th day OF July.
Executive clemency is all that can be hoped
for by the doomed mans friends. Popular
feeling is much opposed to executive elem.
ency.
Forest fires are doing terrible havoc on
the Omaha line about fourteen miles from
Ashland. At Thirty mile Siding the post.
office was destroyed. together with three
houses, and that number of families are
rendered homeless. Thirty cars. 5000
ties and 5000 posts were also consum-
ed. The evening passenger train from st.
Paul was delayed two hours. The passen.
gers and crew aided in saving property
and did effective work. Fears are
entertained for other towns on the line,
and it is thought hat two or three work.
men lost their lives.
The biggest scheme for furnishing ship.
pers with a low rate has just been discov.
cred in New York. The plan. is to induce
shippers on transcontinental lines to ship
by lake instead of by rail, which makes q
difference of 10 to Is per cent in rates.
The cheapest route being urged to shippers
is by lake and rail to Duluth, thence via
st. Paul, by which route q rate OF 60 cents
is given. which, added to the local rate OF
through rate of $40 to San Francisco.
The all rail rate is 81 per 100 pounds, 81
| OF which goes to lines East of Chicago on
dry goods to San Francisco. A number
OF large houses are already shipping in tn is
way and San Francisco merchants are
beginning to inquire earnest into the mat
ter. ~. ... ~ "<
White Swan, chief of the Two Kettle
band of Sioux, was in Pierre D. T., and
expressed great satisfaction with the white
father over the terms OF the Dawes bill,
and guarantees that every Indian on the
reservation will sign the treaty. He was
also well pleased with the prospect OF hav.
ing the Indian school at Pierre, and says
thatCarlisle is too far of, and that some
teachers employed there do not know
more than his son. e.
The Minnesota committee of the Ancient
Order of Hibernians held it's annual SEES
sion at st. Cloud with a large number oil
delegates present.
Isaac Orm, OF Chippewa Falls. Wis, was
sentenced by Judge Hoyt to one year in
l yNos,~,,n A fnuy II rn Ioeoro ha nnfonol n
saloon, and being refused drinks, as he was
already drunk, he fred several shots
which were intended for Thomas Dugan,
but which took effect in the different parts
OF the room.
Slim Jim. alias James Perkins, alias T.
B. Mcintyre and Burns Azure were SEN
! fenced to terms OF five years in the pen
by Judge McIlree+a at Maple Creek, N. w. T.,
for stealing horses near Fort Shaw and
Fort Benton, Mont.
Max Hoppe, who murdered Adams neal
Fort Conrad, Montana, May 20, was cap.
tured by Deputy Sheriff Crawford, after a
long and .circuitous chase. near Sweet
Grass Hills, about $50 miles north and
across British lines. He is held by mount.
cd police pending e~xtradition proceedings.
Hoppe claims he acted in seltdeiense.
A farmer named Knudt Gullickson, rs
siding about twenty miles southeast OF La
Grace. DIT, accompanied by a consta BILE
drove into town in search OF his daughter
who had been enticed from her home by r
Larson, amarried man and neighbour. The
girl WAS under fifteen years Of age a war
rant was soon procured for the arrest o.
Larson. Larson and his victim are sup
posed to have passed through town durinl
the night som two or three hours in ad,
vance Of Gullickson and the constable. II
is thought that Larson went to Washing
ton Territory.
The body Of John Olson Hague waf
found near his home in Grow, six miles
from Anoka, MINI, at the foot Of q small
oak tree, with a rope around his neck. He
was in a sitting posture, with his hands
touching the ground, and leaning forward,
with his head not two feet from the earth,
Olson was forty years old, and leaves q
wife and eight children. He recently lost
hts farm through drink, and his financial