The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1888-02-09
DAKOTA NEWS ITEMS.

four prisoners from Nebraska were
placed in the United States penitenti-
airy at Sioux Falls. Their names and
offenses are as follows; William Bar.
ada, granddaughter, till July, 1889;
Charles Wassaman, perjury, till March
1889; James sso Gross, perjury, till Sep
fraudulently obtaining letters from
the p%ostofice, till July, 1888. This
makes fifteen prisoners now in charge
OF Maj. Fluenwider.
The following Dakota postmasters
have been appointed: John w. Daley
Harter, Cass county, vice Alexander
T. Candle, absconded; Herman O.
Steel, Sanborn. Barnes county, vice
Louis L. Lehman, resigned. The
p%ostofice at Gustins, Potter county,
Dak., was discontinued.
EFF. Bond, proprietor OF the San.
born house, at Mitchell, died of blood
poisoning. His remains were taken
to Milton, Wis.,, for burial.
The first annual ball OF the Brock.
enridge Division, Brotherhood of
Locomotive Engineers No. 356, took
|. place at Wapheton. Thirty of the
brotherhood were present and $50
tickets were sold. 1t was the finest
social event ever known in Wahpe-
ton. ~
Joseph K. Brown, an octogenarian,
father of Col. w. H. Brown, died at
his sons home in Grand Forks. He
where he spent several years of his
life. He leaves q wife of about the
same age.
Smallpox has broken out in Man.
dan. It is supposed to come from
Spokane Falls. Three cases are re-
ported. Local authorities are doing
all possible to keep it from spreading.
At Deadwood. Edwin T. Smith, for
the murder OF Jerry Chancey, was
sentenced to eight years. hard labor
in the Sioux Falls p~enitentiary by
Judge Thomas in the district court.
The controller OF the currency has
approved the Aberdeen National bank
and the Citizens National Bank at
Fargo.
At Highmore, the county commits.
%sioners, at the direction ofCounty At
torney A. N. Vancamp, signed with
him a complaint charging Homer
James, ex-treasurer with embezzling
e 000 NJ on,,ptx, f,1r1c
A car load of corn has gone to the
Kansas sufferers, the gift of the HUI
ron board of trade.
The bodies of the Hutchinson boys
were found near Gary. They wander
ed four miles south of home. Becom-
ing exhausted they laid down and
went to sleep. Their bodies had not
been mutilated by wolves, and when
found they were both in each others
arms.
The county commissioners met at
Brookings to make a settlement with
ex.Treasurer Nichols. When the
books were examined last fall there
vas 49, 700 for which there were no
vouchers to show that the money had
been paid as shown by the ledger.
Mr.. Nichols has visited every town
treasurer in the county, and claims
that no has secured receipts enough
to not only the deficiency but
leave the county in debt to him.
Rev. M. Borge, the Lutheran minister
who has charge of the circuit of which
Brookings is one of the stations, has
received g. call to take charge Of the
church of that denomination at La
Crosse, Wis. He has decided to re.
main at Brookings.
A Vermillion dispatch dated Jan.
10 stated that a gentleman whose
word could be relied on had
just returned from Lake county, and
said that thirty persons were frozen
to death in that vicinity, but that the
local authorities were suppressing the
news. The gentleman whose word
can be relied on lied and relied several
times in his narration. But one citi-
zen of Lake county persisted IN the
storm, and he was fishing on the lake
when the storm struck, lost his way
and was frozen to death.
Hon. James E. Teller, Mayor of HUI.
ron, publishes the following vigorous
denial OF some of the Blizzard yarns:
"Indian Agent Kinney 8 statements as
to the loss Of lite in Dakota by the re-
cent blizzard aregrossly false, and the
Chicago Tribune was promptly SO in
formed, but refused. to correct the
falsehoods to which it gave currency.
The scene Kinney described never oc-
CURED. and the names mentioned are
largely fictitious. No foundation
whatever existed for the story of the
babies dying on the cars; only three
persons persisted in this country, and
the loss Of stock did not exceed 100
head. The total death list in the ter
ritory will fall below 200, There was
no suffering or loss of life, except to
persons wandering on the prairies
without shelter from the storm, which
lasted but fifteen hours, during which
the mercury was only 23 deg. below
zero. His falsehoods widely circu-
lated, has caused great uneasiness
among people having friends in Dako-
a. and will seriously injure this SO c.
ion.
News Of the appointment Of Maj.
Rowley as register Of the land Office
at Mitchell gives general satisfaction
regardless Of party lines. Rowley was
the locator OF the town site Of
Mitchell, and has a handsome resi-
dence on the site OF his original home
stead.