The Bottineau pioneer., 1888-08-16
Miscellaneous News Items.

The drug store of Henry Pfeiffer at Cedar
Falls, Iowa, was visited by the sheriff and
about 81 500 worth of liquors taken, among
which were forty barrels of beer. Pfeiffer was
selling under permit and was doing whole
sale as well as q retail business. He proposes
to resist the confscation of the liquor in the
courts, and will, it is said, plead the right to
sell in original packages.
Agent Shehan of the White Earth reservation
has made a tour of the region where the In
dians are now picking berries, which extends
from Wadena to hall way from this place to
Duluth, more than 100 miles, and says all is
going exceedingly well, with hardly a COM
over 5000 Indians gathering the berry crop,
which will bring them this year about $780,
900. Marshall Campbell arrested O man
named Crowley and took him to Moorhead
for examination for selling whiskey to the
Indians.
The indication after the arguments in be-
halfof Maxwell before Gov. Morehouse of
Friday. large share of the speech of A. J.
G. Garesche, one of Maxwell's attorneys, was
devoted to the subject of International cour-
tesy, and evidently it made good impress
sion The governor said he would not grant
q respite ON any other grounds than the re-
quest ofthe British government for ample
time to make such inquiry as may be deemed
necessary, and there is little doubt that he
will accede to the request.
In few days about $4,000 will be paid
to the Winnebago Indians at Black River
Falls. MINI. Some of the tribe have been
paid 5000 at Eland Junction, and about
$1,000 is now being distributed at Tomah.
One thousand three hundred and sixty-six
Indians are now on the pay roll, these in.
than this receives anything. Three Thousand
dollars will be extended next year by the
government to assist them on their farms,
and $41 900 in cash has been appropriated,
which will give them over $50 each.
Chief Engineer Latcha, ofthe Duluth, South
Shore & Atlantic railway, has just received
instructions from Vice-President Calvin s.
build the road into Duluth. The road now
connects with the Northern Pacfc at Iron
river and it had been the intention of the
South Shore to use the line into Duluth.
The recent change in tho management of the
Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic hos caused
the Northern Pacific people to not feel inclined
to put themselves out to accommodate the
new manager. The work OF completing the
line to Duluth will be pushed as fast as pos.
sible. s.
Immediately after Mrs. Rawson, the Chicago
bankers wife, of divorce and shooting
notoriety, secured her release from the coun-
ty jail a few weeks ago, she was taken by
her friends TO q Wisconsin watering place.
But her stay at the summer resort was short,
as paralytic affection of the hands and feet
began to develop itself, and her immediate
removal to Chicago became necessary Par
tial paralysis of both hands and feet has
now set in and the unfortunate woman can
not use her hands even to sign legal docu-
ments. The attendant physicians fear she
may lose the use Of her feet and hands per
| manently. Her condition is attributed to
her. imprisonment and the damp condition
of the jail. sE .s ~ &lrssss5 { y. > r. = E.
Two prospectors come it to Livingston, M.
T., from the Boulder country, bringing with
| them a buckskin bag containing over 81, 900
in gold, which they had pounded out with
sledge hammers on fat rocks. They also
brought the richest specimen ofquartz prob
ably ever seen in the territory. The speci.
men was about the size Of an ordinary cocoa
NUT SO soft that it could be pounded with q
hammer, and was full of fine wire gold,
plainly visible to the naked eye The Boulder
district has, until within q comparatively
reservation, but it Is now open to settlement.
The prospectors say it promises to be one OF
the richest natural mineral districts In this
part of the country. a2
A man about thirty-two was picked up on
the street at Washington City BY the police
and was taken to the hospital, where he
died soon after. Death was caused by the
severe heat. 1t appears that he was for
years connected with the United States
army, and that he was discharged last
January under the name Of Frederick Nc
Cullock. 1t also appears that his real
name was Philip Irving Thurber, and that
he was member of q prominent Detroit
because Of his having killed q man in st.
Louis. A remarkable popularity Of the de-
ceased was that he would neither receive nor
write letters. If letters were handed to
him he would tear them up without perusal.
These facts about the dead man were told
by q member Of the Third artillery, now sta.
toned at the Washington arsenal.