The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1888-08-02
DAKOTA NEWS NOTES,

threatens to make IL expensive LOT
parties who neglect to keep their
premises in good condition.
Two specimens of axolotl were cap-
tured recently in Pelican lake near
Watertown. They are said to be
equal to the festive eel as an article
of food. The specimens captured
were about four inches long.
Last April G. H. Hunt of Pittsfeld,
Mass, shipped a car load of mules,
twenty sets of harness and two wag-
ons from St. Louis, Mo-, to Drayton,;
Dakota, in charge Of William Wal
lace of Pembina, to dispose to best
advantage and remit the proceeds to
Hunt. Wallace disposed of the OUT
fit, turned over only 5000, gave his
wife 500 and is now in Manitoba.
A telegram from Mr.. Hunt to the
chief of police at Winnipeg was too
late to catch him there.
Aberdeen has a footpad and he was
rash enough to hold up the secretary
of the Y. M. C. A. ofthat place. He
didn't get money, but received a
thump on the head from the cane OF
the secretary.
United States Marshal D. Maratta
brought to Yankton E. H. and s. w.
Jacobs, president and cashier respec-
lively of the National Bank of Madi-
son, Lake county, who We're arrested,
on a charge of classifying accounts
with intent to defraud deposit
tors. The defendants waived ex-
animation before the commissioners,
and were held to answer in $4,000.
bonds, which were furnished. Their
bank was closed sometime ago by
the public examiner, who is said to
have found evidences of large crook
edness.
The news ofthe passage bycongress
of the bill dividing the Fifth judicial
district and giving two judges with
seats at Aberdeen and Huron, was
received with great satisfaction, as
business and private interests have
suffered greatly from lack ofadequate
courts.
At the recent meeting of the board
of county commissioners at Milbank
q very large petition was presented
asking to have the question Of the
sale of Intoxicating liquors submit
ted to avote next fall, and the board
granted the prayer.
The hail storm which passed over
Sioux Falls covered only-a narrow
belt of country. 1t did not extend
beyond the western limits of the city,
and was only about a quarter ofa
mile wide. The Baptist college, q
f~our-story building, suffered the de-
struction of every light of glass on
the north side. Other buildings in
in the track of the > hail sustained
similar losses.
Barney Finnegan, sixty years
was found dead in the bushes Isse
the James river at Jamestown.
Intoxication, exposure and starry
alton are thought to have caused his
death.
A young man named Oliver Bab-S
cock attempted suicide at Lakota by
stabbing himself in the neck and
breast with ajack knife. Thewounds
are not fatal. The authorities have
telegraphed to his relatives in Maus-
ton, Wis.
DR.. s. j. Hill, of Fargo, recovered
his valuable dental instruments that
We're stolen from his office some
weeks ago. They had been sold to
the Minneapolis Dental Manufact-
uring company by a man. who
claimed to have just retired from
practice in town. A member or the
firm being in the city, and having
learned of DR.. Hills loss called UPON
him, and the instruments we're easily
identified.
The report that pleuro-pneumonia
had broken out among the cattle in
the vicinity of Sioux Falls is contra
dicted by w. D. Stiles, clerk Of the
district court, upon whose alleged
authority the report was based.
D. Alloway, territorial veterinarian,
declared that pleuro-pneumonia
never existed in Dakota.
Over three thousand Indians are at
Cheyenne agency, Fort Bennett, pur-
suant to the orders of the Indian
agent, waiting the arrival of the
Sioux Indian commission. It is not
known definitely when the commits
sion will arrive. The Indians NAV
remain in camp at Fort Bennett from
now until negotiations are over. The
disposition among the Indiansnowi is
not to sign a treaty, but bestinform-
ed men say it is o ruse of the Indians
to create an expression ofhostilityto
q measure that they may extract
presents, feasts, etc, after which thew
will all sign to a man.
A meeting Of millers was held at
Fargo to organize a millers' associa-
ton. The following cities andtoWns
were represented: Fargo, Grand
Forks, Devils Lake, Mimic, Mayvi1le,
Oriska, Valley City, Bismarck and
and Moorhead and Fergus
Falls, Mimi. it was decided to orr
ganize an association to be known
as the North Dakota Millers and to
be governed as far as practicable ~
the rules governing the national mill
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