The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1888-11-29
JOTTINGS.

Inc Aberdeen Electric Light COM
pany will commence suit against tho
city for unpaid bills.
There | at present eighteen pris-
oners in the county jail at Grand
Forks.
The county seat struggle in Deuel.
county has been settled in favor OF
Gary.
It is rumored that q rival town is
to be plated a short distance south
of Onida.
Scalping railroad tickets is be-
coming a remunerate business in
Deadwood.
Four new Baptist churches will be
dedicated in south Dakota during.
the present month.
Alexandria thinks she would be all
right if she only had an artesian well
for protection against fire.
"Now for a new Courthouse is
the cry of the people of Hand coun-
ty. The building will be erected at
Miller.
The electric light works of Sioux
Falls now have acapacity of$15,O 900
incandescent and thirty-two arc
lights.
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A residence belonging to Thomas
Scarville was destroyed by fire at
Groton. Loss, about 5000; insur-
ance. $500.
Among the advantages held forth
to induce people to locate at Bis
marck is the opportunity to pure base
five bath tickets for 81.
Geo. R. Lanning has sold out the
Egan Express to Mrs. M. A. Foster &
Son, and retires from the newspaper
business owing to ill health.
It is reported the city council at
Sioux Falls will be asked to pass an
ordinance forbidding the hitching of
teams to tele graph and telephone
poles.
The Argus-Leader says that a
mammoth brush and broom. factory
is now an assured thing for South
Sioux Falls. Machinery will be in
operation by the LIST of June.
A Sioux Falls lady recently adver-
tised in Philadelphia for a nurse girl
"to go to Dakota" She received
twenty-eight applications for the sit
uation.
Children are children nowadays.
An Aurora county youth who took
his best girl to q show the other
night Indignantly spurned an offer to
go in at half rates, and insisted on
paying as much as thesbiggest man
in the house.
A wagonload of fireworks in the
parade at Deadwood recently by
some mysterious means became
ignited. The display was brief but
brilliant. Though rockets and ro-
man candles ere discharged in every
direction no one was hurt.
B. E. Pay, who helped to survey
this country, and was at one time
United States deputy marshal, now
living in the western part of Brook
ings county, lost his house and con-
tents by fire. Lost, $4,000; insur-
ance, $1,000.
Reports from prairie fires in the
northwestern townships Of Brown
county show that active fighting on
the part of settlers saved most of
the farm buildings in their course.
The burned district includes a large
area of sparsely settled land.
A warrant was issued at Garry for
the arrest of W. B. Enos, of the firm
of Enos & Ballet, as the incendiary
of the late fire in that place. Mr..
Enos moved out of town forth home
in Minnesota, and requisition papers
will be necessary to get him there for
trial.
The case of Pat Devannah v 8 the
city of Jamestown, in which the city
is sued for SIS, 900 damages alleged
to have been sustained by Devannah
by reason of fallinginto a ditch which
the city had dug, but not properly
bridged, has been settled by the city.
council for $500.
JIG. Carnchan, q gilly farmer who
has been on a debauch for some time,
attempted suicide in the Windsor ho-
tel at Grand Forks. He used strych-
nine, and was inspasms when noticed
by the hotel clerk. Medical assist
was called, the power of the
drug was overcome, and the man re-
covered. Financial troubles, togeth-
er with whisky, were the cause Of the
mans acts.
Charles Lucas, clerk of the town of
Sullivan, left Mcmillan on the 5th, to
go to Spaulding to attend the cleo.
ton next day, and has not since.
been seen. His hat and lantern have
been found, but q thorough search
revealed no trace Of the man. Lucas
is q fine scenic and portrait painter,
and being something Of a slave to
drink, went into the pine-tree region
a few years ago to get away from
temptation. Of late he has been