The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1889-04-25
DAKOTA MENTION.
Condensed Happenings Throughou,
Both North and South Dakota. .

Both North and South Dakota.
The Huronite says there has never
been q time when Huron contained
any vacant houses.
The Press says the tramp nuisance
is increasing in Sioux Falls to an
alarming extent
The acreage of wheat sown in the
region tributary to Yankton is esti-
mated at 80 per cent. greater than
that of last year.
This is the season of the big egg.
Onida enters one measuring 6 7-16
inches in circumference one way and
81 inches the other.
Twenty-Five original entries were
made in the Rapid City land office
onthe Sd, and it was the busiest day
the office has had in three years.
The Vermillion Republican hears OF
farmers who threaten to stack their
grain loose before paying extortion
ate prices for binding Irvine.
The recent census OF Lennox shows
a population of $50, "and STILL"
! says the Independent, 1--WE have no
organization for protection against
fire."
After two days. search the body of
Mrs. Snetzenger, who was drowned,
was found six miles from Grand
Forks. The bo6yhad been to the sur
face some time.
Yankton's electrice light sys-
tenn, says the Press and
Dakotian, is o%peratedby the
Philadelphia moon schedule
thatis, when the moon shines in Phil
adelphia the lights are put out in
Yankton.
The best advice the Press and d.
kotian can offer is for the people of
Yankton to hold themselves we'll in
hand and not give way to the seduc-
tive excitement of the boom period
now upon them.
An inquest over the remains of
Lars Larson, of La Grace, appeared
to have been murdered by nalvor
Halvorson, Ole Peterson, and Peder
Holden, his neighbor, resulted in a
verdict OF death by drink, and the
defendants were discharged.
A daily morning paper will be pub
lished in Devils Lake within two
weeks. All the material has been
shipped, the associated press fran
chise secured, and a sufficient num-
Der of subscribers and advertising
pledged to warrant SUCCESS to the
enterprise.
John A. Sigler, editor of the Har-
rold Sentinel, has been bound over
by Justice Pollock in the sum of $500
forhis appearance in the districtcourt
to answer the charge of criminal
libel preferred against him by H. G.
Beasancon, editor of the Harold
Star.
All the money necessary for the
building of the narrow gauge from
Sturgis to Deadwood has already
been subscribed and surveyors set to
work. Omaha parties have assured
the Sturgis people that it is the in
tentiOn to have reduction works built
in time to reduce the first carload of
ore hauled into Sturgis on the road.
Another teapot tempest was
stirred up at Sioux Falls
in the court house matter.
A gang of men began The work of re-
moving the building from the recent
ly selected court house site, when an
attorney for the kickers against loca-
ton appeared on the scene and war
rants served on all the men engaged
in the work for disturbing the peace
able possession of the tenant of the
building.
On the 9Th Sioux Falls experienced
the most hotlycontested city election
ever known. Party lines were
ignored. The contest was between
W. F.. Wiley and w. H. Holt for
mayor. Eighteen hundred and eigh-
teen votes were cast, which is the
largest vote ever polled. At a late
hour the vote had not been
fully canvassed, but Wiley election
is conceded by at least 200 majority.
At a special meeting Of the Farm
ers' Alliance of Ramsey County reso-
lutions we're passed censuring the
Irvine trust, resolving that the farm.
ers of that county discard the self
binders on their machines and sub
stitute platforms and bind by hand.
The alliance expressed a Willingness
to pay 20 cents per pound for Irvine
and no more. @''
Reports ofthe various sources are
corroborative of the rumor that
work will soon be begun at the tin
mines of the Harvey Peak company
upon an extensive scale. The Lon
don Mining Journal contains an"ad-
~vertisement for good assayers and
tin dressers to superintendf depart
ments of the concentrating works
which the company will soon con-
struct.
Mrs. Weinberg, living fourteen
miles south of Kimball met her death
- o.:n b. TIL 4LaA