The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1888-05-24
DAKOTA NEWS NOTES.

DlkUIA NEWS MOIESs
Dan Davidson, Of Buffalo Gan Ian
cuisines III the Custer City JAIL charged
with killing ~Stansbury Arthur at that
place some months ago.
The constitutionality of the city
charter OF Bismarck will be attacked
in a Forthcoming suit in the district
court. It arises on q sidewalk tax
case.
9. M. Wagner, of the Dunseith Her
aid was arrested charged with forgery,
and when brought before the justice
ackno wledged the crime and was
remanded to the care of the consta-
bic. During the night he made his
escape, and is now being followed.
he is q young man, the son OF a New
York minister, and was quite promi.
nent In local political circles. It is
thought he went vest, and his father
nad refused to give him any assist
ance, as he had been in other troubles
before.
A petrified monster about the size
of a barrel in diameter and from
twenty to forty feet in length has
been discovered neal Medicine Bluff
on the south side of the Missouri
river. Several soldiers from Fort
Randall are engaged in digging out
the stone and sections of It will be
sen east to be examined by experts.
One cablegram costing $57 for
transmission went from. Yankton
recently to England. 1t covered two
pages OF cap, and the words were
written closely together.
A young gentleman at Bismarck,
Weldon Webster, has invented a type
writer that double discounts the ma
chimes in use as far as speed is con-
cerned. 1t should make eighty words
a minute in the hands OF q fair writer.
Mr.. Webster has been, working on it
Tor a year and filed a cayeat in the
patent officeto protect his revolution.
The old-time spirit oflawlessness has
been revived at Sturgis. One night at
the half way house between the town
and the. fort, a colored damsel carved
q soldier OF the same hue as herself.
With n fell swoop she hewed him
from collar bone to hip. He was not
killed and no arrest was made. It is
said that two men were shot in the
same row.
The Buckeye Cattle company of
Rapid City sold it's horses and horse
brands to Bolard & Gould, of this
place. The price paid was $50 per
head. The number sold is not known
get as the count has not been made.
The sale is one of the largest stock
transactions made here this year.
Recently Warden Fullenweider, OF
the United States ~penitentiary at
Sioux Falls, received a pardon from
President Cleveland for Herman Gun
Their, who was a soldier in the United
States army and a sentenced from
Bismarck to sixty.tive days in the
penltentiary and to pay q fine of
$1,000 for mayhem.
The Sioux Falls high school has
been presented with over sixty maps
and charts by the, interior depart
ment. The collection is highly priced,
and will be of much benefit to pupils
who are posting themselves on the
United States. NNN~
Fire destroyed eleven business
places in Blunt %aggregating in value
$4,000 with only 1000 insurance.
Several people mario WY escaped with
their lives. Some OF the business men
are nearly destitute, but all will re-
sumo. The Hughes County Bank, q
millinery store, two butcher shops, q
confectionery, livery stable and a law
office are among the buildings destroy
ed. 49, -
Planting the first tree in q new
country is not usually made an event
of much Importance, but the New
Englanders OF Hettinger county have
thought it worth while to record the
fact that the first tree was planted
on the 19thso OF April.
Mrs. Richard Higgins, who was al
ficted by the death OF her husband in
Aberdeen during the last days Of
April, and then again by the death ola
young son a week or SO later, received
q letter Monday night bearing the sad
intelligence of the death OF her father
and mother, Mr.. and Mrs, R. s. Raw.
don. on the same day at their home
in Darlington, Lafayette county, Wis.
Minot has a citizen. John Hyatt by
name, a man OF SOME 10 years of age,
who has never had a tooth. none ever
having grown. But has q set Of gums
that are almost as hard as a stone.
He says that he al eat anything, and
while in the army he had no difficulty
in getting away with the bareback.
The Sioux Falls vinegar and pick.
ling works have secured cucumber
seeds and these they are going to dis
tribute among the farmers and then
enter into contract with them for GU
cumbers. 1t is the intention to put up
several hundred barrels Of pickles
this fall, and the price to be paid for
cucumbers will make it a big induce
ment Tor farmers to engage in this
business.
A Finkiestein, who formerly kept a
clothing store in Black River Falls,
recently shipped about $500 worth Of