The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1888-05-03
Dlk0Tl NEWS NOTES.

Dlk0Tl NEWS NOTES.
From all over the Territory come
reports OF farmers returning IN
Washington and Oregon.
The farmers elevator at Grandin
was destroyed by FIRE. Loss, $4,000;
lully co vered.
The Sioux Falls Argus says that
there is talk OF establishing q morn.
ing republican newspaper In that
city.
A number of Turner county farmers
are sowing patches of alfalfa this
spring and propose to give this valu.
able crop a fair test.
The programme Of the fourteenth
annual meeting OF the Dakota Sum
day school association is nearly COM
pleted. The convention will be held
at Mitchell July 10, IL and IL.
At the head Of a gilded palace Of sin
at Deadwood is the widow OF a dis
tinguished union officer during the re-
bellion. -~.s.-
DR.. Emmons. an expert from the
mines OF Cornwall, England, has made
a careful examination OF the Black
Hills ore. He expressed himself as
satisfied that q great future was in
store for the tin interests of the Black
Hills, and declared that this must be-
come a great tin producing country.
Sioux Falls is to have the Norwe
yian Lutheran college.
There is talk of a Y. NJ. G. A. build.
ing at Watertown. :
The military fair given by the la
dies OF Watertown for the benefit. Of
Company II, lasting three days, was
q decided success. The boys cleared
about $500 to help them on their
trip to Nashville.
Attorney General Garland told a
correspondent at Washington that
Judge Francis case remained in the
same condition without change. His
resignation has not again been de-
manded, and while he could make no
certain statement, the attorney gener-
al conveyed the impression that Fran
els would hold on until the end of his
term. It is generally believed that the
president has decided upon Miller of
Fargo Us the man for the place when
Francis gets out of the way. I
Yankton county farmers generally
have finished planting small grain
and blowing for corn has begun. The
soil along the Missouri river counties
is in the best condition OF any spring
for five years, and the pralries and
lawns r already covered with grass
Of a length sufficient to be cropped
by live stock. The trees are rapidly
Ieaing out and spring improvements
are in full blast. The Yankton street
railway company, with a capital
stock of $40, 1000, will begin building
within two weeks. The electric light
plant is we'll under construction.
Judge Francis was in Jamestown
the other day en- route to Darlington
toshold Foster county's first term of
court. AS an indication of the good
order prevailing throughout his dis
trict he stated that there is at present
not q single prisoner in the Bismarck
Jail but one or two in the jamestown
jail, which is usually empty, and in
the entire district not more than a
dozen criminals are now confined.
The extent of country embraced in
Judge Francis district is larger in
area than the State of New York and
has over SO, 900 people.
Senator Davis introduced in the
senate a bill to allow the city ofAber-
deem to purchase from the general
government the southeast quarter
section Ia, town 1913, range so, with
in sixty days after the passage of the
act. This tract Of land is the we'll
known Dayton claim in that city,
ver which there has been SO much
controversy.
John Stukey, a butcher at Gettys-
burg, committed suicide. VII isky is
the aus
Plankinton is trying to solve the
liquor question by application OF the
law in a vigorous way.
Citizens OF Pierre are highly incensed
over the action OF the Chicago &.
Northwestern railroad. The ferry
boat is owned by that corporation
and because it does not pay a large
per cent the company has ordered
that it be laid up until further orders.
Petitions. signed by 1.-THE merchants,
have been sent to President Hughitt,
protesting against the act. Private
individuals are anxious to put on O.
new boat, but are frightened away by
the Chicago e. Northwestern road
threatening to run their boat.
During a strong gale of wind, a
spark from the Illinois Central loco-
motive set FIRE to the horse sheds Of
w. o. johnson, railroad contractor,
located on the river bank at Sioux
Falls. The sheds, which contained
125 head OF horses and mules, wers
ablaze in an instant. The men rush.
ed in and cut che halters OF nearly a
hundred but the rest were burned.
Some of the burning animals broke
their halters, rushed to the river and
jumped in and were carried over the
Fails. Eighteen carcasses remain in
the ruins. Five were so badly burned
that they had to be shot. "A large
quantity OF harness vas also burned
in the sheds.