The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1889-07-04
DAKOTA MENTION.
Condensed Happenings Throughout
Both North and South Dakota.

condensed Happenings Throughout
Both North and South Dakota.
The Central Dakota Veterans as
ISOLATION will hold their fourth an
nual camp fire and reunion at
Brookings July 3, 4, and S.
/ The Chamberlain Democrat is is
suing a reservation bulletin, giving
the daily proceedings of the Sioux
commissioners.
South Dakota prohibitionists have
arranged for publication of cam
paign papers at Yankton, Sioux
Falls, Mitchell, Pierre and Aberdeen.
AKimball man, a little the worse for
anight's indulgences, picketed himself
out of the prairie the next morning
and LETT his cow in the barn.
Many of the cities and towns in
South Dakota are trying the expert
ment of setting one day in each
month apart as market day."
Allow of water was struck at the
artesian we'll at Devils Lake the 9Th
inst, in %aquantity equal to 800 bar
rels a day. The water is excellent
and clear as crystal.
Dell Rapids claim to have tho
largest butter trade in South Da-
kota. One dealer handles $500
pounds per day, aside from the pro-
duct of a large creamery.
The City council of Columbia has
adopted an ordinance compelling the
saloons to take down all curtains
and blinds on Sundays and after
closing hours at night.
L. Van Dervor, president of the
Whapeton bank that failed recently,
says he will pay every dollar of the
liabilities of the bank and have lots
Of money left.
Rapid City offers as a new depart
ure in Fourth of July sports a genu-
inc, full blooded Sioux Indian hub
and hub race, two teams from Pine
Ridge Offering to run for a purse.
A lodge of the order of the White
Cross has recently been established
in Aberdeen with a membership of
twenty. The organization is COM
posed entirely of Norwegian citizens
and ia CrOwinU stea6i1v
Wordhas been received that DR.. A.
H. Webster died recently at Benguil-
la on the west coast of Africa. He
was a young married man who left
Grand Forks in February, 1887, as
a missionary to Africa.
D. L.. Mckinney, of Sioux Falls, a
director of the Sioux City National
bank, and a brother of C. F.. McKin-
ney, president OF the bank, is believed
to have been lost in the Johnstown
calamity.
The prohibition party, to raise
funds to carry on the campaign this
fall, are selling medals among their
adherents, one Of silver and one OF
gold plate, with the territorial coat
of arms on one side and Huron ar
tesian we'll upon the opposite.
A 5-year-old daughter of Ben Mil
Ter, of Charles Mix county, was in
stantly killed. The hired man had
been rolling corn with a heavy iron
roller, and the child asked to ride.
A sudden Jolt threw her off and the
roller crushed her head in q terrible
manner.
The largest fire Grafton ever had
occurred while the fire department
Of that town was attending the fire.
mems tournament at Fargo. The
fire started in the Merchants hotel
and not until over 81, 900 worth of
property was destroyed was it ex-
tinguished.
The report of the Fargo land Of
fee for the week ending June s shows
that 20 final homestead proofs and
3 cash final proofs were made.
There were also 14homestead entries.
10 d~eclaratory statements and Z
timber claim entries made. The fees
and commissions amounted to ST.
334.67.
George Brown, twenty-three years
of age, committed suicide on the
farm Of Il. Price, by shooting with a
rife. The cause of the act is suppos-
ed to have been an unfortunate love
affair, as he left a letter directing his
valuables to be forwarded to q young
lady in Wisconsin. .0... :,
An emigrant named A. L. Hull,
camping in the city of Pierre had his
horse valued at $500, a sixshooter
and $40 in cash stolen by his hired
man named S. Dalton. The thiefhas
been tracked to the Indian reserva-
ton, and the officers are in close
pursuit, spurred on by the 800 re-
ward.
A man by the name of Bowles, liv-
ing alone on Chicago creek, thirty
five miles from Sundance, was found
dead in his cabin with a bullet hole
through his head and a revolver
with one chamber empty lying close
by. He was found on the floor with
a sheet thrown over him, and wheth-
er it was murder ar suicide could not
be determined by the discoveries.
Clifton Watchman: Cora Belle
Fellows-Chaska, with her hubby,
Chaska, and their sweet little boy
papoose, Chaska, jr., have returned
from the East, where the metropoli-
tan gentry and verdant pumkin-roll-
era have been gazing uDOn the rova1