The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1889-10-17

bef. II j. thought this may hare something
to do with the crime.
Myron =. Billings was taken to the peni.
t~entiary from Waterloo, Iowa. by Sheriff
Hoxie. The supreme court refused his APP
plication for . writ Of habeas corpus and he
will be confined in the ~penitentiary pending
his appeal to the supreme court. When he
was taken away he did not offer any objec-
lions and submitted to being handcu5ed
without . word. He says he 10 confident OF
getting . new trial and ultimately astting
clear. The case against Mrs. Billings tor
OF her husband has been dismissed. The
costs. q 1.-THE Billings trial here figure up
3s.A hot skirmish occurred near Mount Yer.
non, skagit county, Washington, that re-
suited in the death Of one Indian and the
serious wounding Of another: The fight was
on the farm OF Henry Kimble, who, With
George Lester, was one of the parties to the
ARRAY. The Indian met q youngson Of Kim.
BILE, who was taking to market half a dozen
pheasants. The Indian attacked the boy,
and took the pheasants away from him.
The cries of the boy were heard by the father,
who cam0 to the rescue, and gave the In.
dian q SOUND thrashing. The Indian then
left, but returned about midnight with q
party of Indians. They Immediately opened
fire on Kimble's house. Kimble, with his
friend Lester, SO we'll defended his place that
one Indian was killed and another wounded.
The other Indians are now under arrest.
Quite an interesting chase has been in pro-
gress in Port Arthur and Suburbs for the
past few days, the pursuer being Sheriff Nc
Carly af Negaunee, Mich, and the pursued
one Lamb, alias Frank Davis, On escaped
prisoner from Negaunee. The sheriff arrived
from Duluth on Monday on the steamer, Dix
on in search of Lamb and Mclaughlin. two
escaped prisoners, who were in jail awaiting
trial on charges of highway robbery. Lamb
has been working for the past six weeks as
night switchman OF the Fort William yard
Arthur early Monday morning, arriving just
before the DIXON reached the dock While
eating breakfast in a South Water. street
restaurant Lamb saw the sheriff just az the
latter came. from the dock, and, we'll know
ing the sherif's business. hid, and later in the
day fed to the woods and has not been
seen since. Mclaughlin is supposed to be
trict. The sherif's chances Of capturing
either are slim. @''' - ,
Charles Miller, a gambler, died at Port
Townsend, W. T., Of lung fever. He wa &C.
companied during his last intervals by a
handsome woman, introduced and known
as his wife. frequently during delirious mo-
ments, in the presence Of visitors, he would,
in the most pathetic terms, ask forgiveness
from some women whom he called Blanche.
and referred to a child. Nothing was thought
of the circumstances until after his death,
when Sheriff Delanty received q telegram
from Duluth, MIMI, sighned Blanche Miller,
asking for particulars concerning her hus-
bands death. An old acquaintance of MilIer's
says that a few years ago Miller was o hard
working industries man employed in Duluth,
and became infatuated with q young woman
of good family, whom he betrayed and was
compelled to marry. Leaving Duluth on the
day Of the marriage, he came West, plunged
into reckless debauchery, which ended by
some one shooting his arm of. Several
months ago he married a respectable girl Of
Tacoma. who was unaware of his gambling
profession. Miller was q handsome man, Of
good family and we'll known throughout the
Northwest. '' DE