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The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1892-01-30
Started by Stephen Cirard.


A characteristic story OF Stephen
Girard was that he induced a boy to
| work for him till he was 81 years old
by promising to give him a good start
in life afterward. When the time came
the young man applied for the promis-
ed reward. The eccentric III merchant
looked at him for a moment, and then
said, gruf1y.
'Go and learn a trade" '
Considerably cast down-he had ex-
| pected q very different start--the
young man turned away, but after
some reflection, knowing something of
the others peculiarities, he decided to
do as he had hidden and learned the
cooper's trade.
When he had mastered it, a year or
SO later, he presented himself again,
| and the old man gave him an order
for two barrels. He made them and
delivered them, and Mr.. Girard ex-
amined and praised them.
"Now,"h he said, "you have q capital
that you cannot lose, for you can al
ways fall back on your trade if you
meet with adversely" and then he adj
vanced his protege q considerable cap.
ital with which to start in business.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1892-01-30
The Coyote and the Crows.

Once on a time many crows lived
in the edge of some woods. A little
out into the plain stood a very large
tree with much sand under it. One
day acoyote was passing, and heard
the crowsssinging and dancing under
this tree, and came up to watch them.
They dancing in a circle, and
each crow had upon his back a large
bag.
"Crow-friends, what are you doing?''
asked the coyote, who was much in.
terested. .. r.
ooh, we are dancing with our moth.
ers," said the crows.
"How pretty! And will you let me
dance, too?" asked the coyote of the
too-whit-lah-widdeh crow. [captain Of
the dance]. .-.
ooh, yes" replied the crow. go
and put your mother in a bag, and
come to the dance"
The coyote went running home.
There his old mother was sitting in
the corner of the fireplace. The stu
pid coyote picked up a stick and
struck her on the head, and put her in
a bag, and hurried back to the dance
with her. ,s I
The crows were dancing merrily,
and singing:
"Ai mana, que-ee-rah."-"Alas
Mama! you are shaking, you are shak-
ingl"-The coyote joined the dance,
with the bag on his back, and sang as
the crows did:
"Ai mana, q%ue-ee-rah, qu~e-ee.rah."
[A mana is an exclamation always
used by mourners.
But at last the crows burst out
laughing, and said, "What do you
bring in your bag?"
my mother, as you told me-" re-
piled the coyote, showing them.
Then the crows emptied their bags,
which were filled with nothing but
sand, and leWup into the tree, laugh.
ing:
The coyote then saw that they had
played him a trick, and started home,
crying "Ai nana!" When he got home
he took his mother from the bag and
tried to set her up in the chimney-cor.
ner, always crying, "Ai mana, why
d%on;tyou sit up as before?" But she
could not, for she was dead. When he
found that she could not sit up any
more, he vowed to follow the crows
and eat them and eat them all the
rest OF his life; and from that day to
Warren sheaf., 1892-12-15
A REIGN OF TERROR.

Blood Flows Freely in the Elkborn Min
ing Region In West ylrginia-The Mur-
derer of an Officer Lynched.
WHEELING, w. Va, Dec. 12.-Blood
has been flowing down in the Elkhorn
mining region the last few days. AS
the record now stands two men have
been murdered, one lynched and a
faithful officer of the law lies mortally
wounded. The first victim of the MUIR
derers was Officer James Brooks, who
was killed at keystone, on the
Elkhorn river, in an attempt to sup.
press disorder growing out of the too
free indulgence by the miners in liquor
on pay day.
Officer Dillon and Constable Burton
attempted to regulate tough colored
man named Cornelius Coffee, when COT.
fee opened fire on them. Dillon was
shot through the right breast, near the
nipple, and died Burton received a
ball in the body but is expected to pull
through. This shooting, followed
so closely on the murder of
Officer James Brooks, stirred up
great excitement and a close search
was made for Coffee, who succeeded,
however, in boarding Chesapeake &
Ohio train and was soon over the line
into Virginia. Conductor Griffith rec
ognized Coffee on the train and tele-
graphed ahead to the officers at Poca.
hontas, who arrested him on the ar
rival of the train.
The West Virginia authorities were
notified and Detective Eugene Robin
son went to Pocahontas, secured his
man and started back to Elkhorn.
When Keystone, the scene OF
the tragedy, was reached mob
of determined men entered the
train, quietly relieved Robinson OF
his man, proceeded to a tree close by
the track, and Coffee was dangling
from a limb in few minutes, while
the mob riddled his body with hun.
dred bullets and then dispersed, leav.
ing the corpse hanging at the end of a
rope
Warren sheaf., 1892-12-15
YOUR HEALTH.

The citadel Of life must be guarded
at two points. In the first place there
is the danger Of taking cold. We take
cold through the skin and this affects
the kidneys and the lungs. So inti-
mately are these organs connected,
that cold affects both. In order to
relieve the system, both should be
treated, or rather the whole system
should be regulated. This is done by
Reds German Cough and Kidney
Cure. 1t acts as stimulant and re-
stores the organs to action. The
other weak spot is the digestion.
When the food does not digest, it ac-
'cumulates and causes fever, sickness
and death. The Laxative Gum Drops
will remove all waste material from
the system and do it without pain or
gripping. Ask your druggist for these
remedies and see that he gives them
to you.
SYLVAN REMEDY CO., Peoria, Ill.
Warren sheaf., 1892-12-15
GARZA'S MEN IN A FIGHT.
They Attack Mexican Barracks-Several
Are Killed and They Burn the Build.

They Attack Mexican Isarracks-Several
Are Killed and They Burn the Build.
ing.
LAREDO, Tex, Dec. IA band OF
800 followers of Garza crossed the Ric
Grande at lgnacio Zapeta early Sunday
morning and attacked the Mexican
barracks, just over the border, in
the republic of Mexico. The Mexi-
can troopers came out to meet the
revolutionists, and at the first fire
several were killed and the soldiers
were driven back. The revolutionists
pushed on and captured the barracks
with its guns and supplies. After
stripping it entirely the place
was burned and all of the sol.
diers dispersed and the revolution.
lists then returned to their abode
on this side of the Rio Grande. The
invaders were under the direct leader.
ship of Entrigo Ramon, the right hand
man of Cara. Ramon was slightly
wounded. just after the fight the
Mexican authorities rushed out two
companies of cavalry from Nuevo Lare
do, south of here, but the barracks had
been burned and the revolutionists
fed The authorities on this side
sent several companies north anG
Uncle Sans men are now hnrryine
through the mesquite to head off the
returning insurgents. A courier from
west of here says that Cara can get
5000 men together at a call and that
Diaz has ordered Mexican troops
massed at the border.
Warren sheaf., 1892-12-15
FARM PRODUCTS.
Average Prices of Corn, Wheat, Oats an,
Other Grain.

Average Prices of Corn, Wheat. Oats and
Other Gram.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 12.-The Decem-
Der statistical returns to the DEPART
ment of agriculture relate to farm
prices. The average value of corn is
1913 cents per bushel, depressed by
the surplus of the previous
crop and early distribution.
1t is 60 to 20 cents in the east
ern states, SO to go cents in the middle
states, ranging from AZ to 65 in the cot
ton states, 42 in Ohio, 40 in Indiana, 81
in Illinois, 36 in Missouri, 80 in Iowa.
81 in Kansas and 2s in Nebraska. This
is higher in Nebraska than for any
year since 1882 except in 1887 aud 1890,
and in Iowa in the same time the pres
ent average value has been exceeded
only IN the two years named.
The average price of wheat is 63. Q
cents. The next lowest price was 64. s
cents in 1884. In 1856, 1887 and 1890
the average was cent or two below 70.
Last year it was $50. Principal state
prices are: New York, IS; Pennsyl-
vania, 81; Virginia, Is; Georgia, 90;
Texas, IS; Kentucky, 81; Ohio, 6s;
Michigan, SO; Indiana, g.; Illinois,
81; Minnesota, 81; Iowa, 60: Missouri,
S.; Kansas, 50; Nebraska, SO; South
Dakota, 81; North Dakota, SO; Califor-
MIA, 70.
The average value of oats is 31.G
cents, nearly the same as last year.
Rye, 54.S cents Barley, ~ cents.
Buckwheat, 534 cents. Potatoes, 81. 8
cents per bushel, against 371 cents
last year. Hay, So. 40 per ton, nearly
the same as in 1891.
The condition of winter wheat the
first day of December averaged S7.4,
against s5S last year. In the Ohio val
ley the range is from 70 to 81, and is
low also in Kansas and Pennsylvania.
1t is high in New York, in the south
and on the Pacific coast. In the
southern states and on the Atlantic
coast germination was delayed by
drought, and the same cause delayed
both planting and growth in the Ohio
valley, and materially reduced condi.
ton of the crop. The condition of
winter rye is but little better, aver
aging 80. f.
Warren sheaf., 1892-12-15
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

FIRE destroyed the lunatic wing O
the poorhouse at Lamps, Finland, ant
seven of the inmates were cremated.
In the province of Catanza, Italy
three vessels in the harbor of SAINT,
Veners were wrecked during gale ant
ten persons were drowned
The death of DR.. Werner Siemens
the eminent electrician, occurred il
Berlin, aged rs years.
CHILAsI tribesmen attacked a Cash
mere guard near Chitral. India, ant
fifty of the former were killed.
A GERMAN named Schumann mur
dered Countess Wis Tonte and he,
maid in the countess villa at Valeria
Italy. Robbery was the motive.
8. In Lancashire, England, oyer 3O,OO'
cotton operators were said to be IN
starving condition.
Warren sheaf., 1892-12-15
WEST AND SOUTH.

NEAR Atlanta, Tex, tornado swept
houses and outbuildings and left death
and destruction in its path. The home
of Samuel McAdams was destroyed and
he and three children fatally hurt.
A FIRE swept away the entire bust.
ness portion of Alexandria, Ind.
The mercantile firm Of Wilczinski &
Nelson at Greenville, Miss, failed,
carrying down with it three other
firms, the total liabilities being $780,
900.
CHARLES r. KEYEs, assistant state
geologist, has discovered rich nickel
ores near Keokuk, la. This Is The
first discovsry Of the kind sysr M
nOunsel lrpm 1sWA
Warren sheaf., 1892-12-15

Mr. III. W. l.. CoUPERUs, who has
pent ten years in growing the coffee
'lant in Java and Japan, is now in
California trying to interest the people
here in cultivating the plant in the
southern part of the state. He claims
that the soil and climate of southern
California are suita BILE for the growth
'f coffee, and that machinery could be
1sed to counteract the advantage of
:heap labor in Java and Japan.
Warren sheaf., 1892-12-15

The list of comet calamities is grow
ing, though the returns are yet very
far from complete. A farmer at Nj
agara Falls went crazy because he had
given away all his money to his family
to spend, thinking the world was to
smash up and he would have no
further use for "flthy lucre;" farm
er's wife became insane and negro
boy was scared into idiocy by gang
of hoodlums. In Memphis frenzy
seized the negroes, and extraordinary
scenes were witnessed. This is an age
of boasted enlightenment, but super
stition and ignorance still have a
powerful hold upon mankind.
Warren sheaf., 1892-12-15

The woman of America will be very
much shocked to hear of little sign
which occupies place on the banks of
the Iuen-Fule river in Foochow: ''Do
Not Drown Female Infants Here. -
The sign is read by 100000 Foochow-
ans, causing no blush and no comment,
says the Kingston Freeman. The kill
ing of a girl baby in China is crime
never punished. The birth of fe-
male throws the whole family into
deepest grief, and the mother often
finds that the only way in which she
can retrieve herself is to dispose of the
infant quietly and effectively. Why
not try baby farming?
Warren sheaf., 1892-12-15

In speaking of the scene on the steam
ship Spree at the time it was disabled
and drifting at sea Gen. o. o. Howard
said he never saw more heroic or more
considerate men and women than those
on board. 'lt was an experience that
brought out as nothing else could the
common brotherhood Of man, says the
general This is no doubt largely true
of the human race where civilization
has had its influence. Men are, as a
rule, more conslderate of each other in
distress than happiness, in disaster
than in success, and when they are face
to face with death they drop the little
nesses that surround them in life
Warren sheaf., 1892-12-15

NINE. MoDJEsKA plays Chopin, speaks
half dozen different languages and
reads the best literature in them all.
Albani cultivates the domestic arts and
writes most entertaining letters. Patti
is proud of her needlework, especially
Of her darning. Harriet Prescott
Spoford is fond of the womanly en-
ployment of knitting, and says of it.:
You sit and think your own thoughts
and nothing hinders; you are infinitely
lazy, and yet you are accomplishing a
rood dea1',
Warren sheaf., 1892-12-15

Throw bits of nails or small pieces of
nrusted iron into the inllstand. The
corrosive action of any acid contained
IN the ink will expend itself on the iron
md not on the pen. After steel pen
has been used for time in plain ink a
rusty substance is formed. This is
prevented by the presence of iron in
!, ;,1-
Warren sheaf., 1892-12-15

The old-time forty-days' fast, which
DR.. Tanner has shown can be repeated
in our own day, is to be improved upon.
Arthur Wiullmeau has undertaken to
fast fifty days at Cleveland. If the
gentleman had gone to famine-stricken
Russia last winter, says the Chicago
Tribune, and there showed the poor
peasantry how to do without food for
nearly two months at a time he would
have been real benefactor. Under
present conditions it is hard to see what
good can result from the essay. But
that does not ways enter into the con.
sideyRtiuh OF pssuniasy vnlNs 70 those
~Au pA1 thu gapss ipr pssssssaanss,
Warren sheaf., 1892-12-15

THE only woman who carried the
United States flag in battle during the
ate war died at the Garfield hospital
n Washington recently. Mrs. Eliza
Cutler was at Fort Donelson, and, as
,er husbands regiment was fighting
desperately against terrible odds, she
appeared in the field, sword in hand,
bearing the regimental colors aloft,
md remained on the field until ordered
aboard a steamboat by the colonel.
Warren sheaf., 1892-12-15
THE EAST.

In Philadelphia the handsome build
ing of the Public Ledger, owned by
George w. Childs, was partially gutted
by fire, entailing a loss of about 1925, 900.
HE number of men out of employ
nent in the iron and steel business in
Pittsburgh, Pa, is estimated at 10000.
JAY GoULD's will disposes of property
valued at 500, 900, 900, all of which goes
to his six children except $4,000 to
each OF his two sisters and one brother.
AT Homestead, Pa, the relief COM
mittee is caring for seventy-fve fami-
lies which are destitute as a result of
the strike.
A YOUNG woman was fatally injured
and ten other persons were badly
bruised in railway collision on the
Central road in Jersey City, N. j.
AT the recent election the official
vote of Massachusetts was: Harrison,
202, ,s14; Cleveland, 176, S13, republican
plurality of rs, OO1. Russell's plurality
for governor over Halle is 1854. The
article of amendment to the constitu-
tion abolishing property qualification
for the office OF governor was adopted
by 141, Sa1 yeas to 6s, ,04s nays
In Greencastle, Pa, Jacob B. Crowell
was buncoed out of SIS, 900 in the usual
way by man who wanted to buy q
farm"
FLAMES swept away the jefferson
woolen mills at Jeffersonville, Mass,
the loss being 100000.
The death of Prof. John Strong New
bury, one of the most eminent geolo-
gists in the United States. occurred in
New Haven. Conn.,, aged 70 years.
HOLLY FRIscH. who, in 1859, was In
dicted in Genesee county, N. Y, for
killing her husband and two children
by poisoning them and sentenced to
life Imprisonment, has been pardoned
by the governor
Warren sheaf., 1892-12-15

AFTER a separation of twenty two
rears j. D. Hallocll, of Chillicothe, Mo-,
md Mrs. Martha Stafford, of Leadville.
Col, were married in Chillicothe. They
we're married thirty-two years ago,
aved together nine years and were di.
forced Since that time both have
been married again, aad, their compan-
ons having died, a CORES pondence was
truck up which eliminated in mar
Warren sheaf., 1892-12-15

The health officer of New York de-
slares that the present regulations in
regard to immigration will not keep
The cholera out of the country next sum-
ner; that the only effective way is the
ibsolnte prohibition of immigrants
Besides, if this is not done foreign visit
ors to the worlds fair will stay at home
'ather than run the risk of quarantine
which will have to be enforced on all
7essels with immigrants on board.
Warren sheaf., 1892-12-15
LATER NEWS.

A WILL containing 5000 words and
disposing of $72, 100000 worth Of prop
erty was fled for probate in Surrogate
Ransom's court, New York city, the
12th, by Judge John F. Dillon. 1t was
that of the late Jay Gould
GEO. I. BAGLEY, the messenger who
stole 100000 from the United States
Express company, Nov. 1s, was sem
fenced to two and one-half years in the
penitentiary, the 18th, at Davenport,
Ia. Bagley pleaded guilty. Judge
Waterman gave as his reason for impos-
ing light sentence the prisoners pre-
vious good character and his prompt
action in restoring the stolen money.
A NEGRO woman of Edgefeld county,
IS. c., has been arrested for most
fendish crime. She is accused of muir
dering her 2-year-old babe and then
serving it cooked to her friends at a
quilting party. 1t is said she repre-
sented to those who partook of the
awful repast that it was roast sucking
pig. It is probable that she will be
llynched.
The Washburn anti-option bill came
up in the senate the 18th, but was laid
over.
The presbytery of Cincinnati. o., has
found Prof. Henry P. Smith, Of Lane
seminary, guilty of heresy.
T. D. ARMOUR, the millionaire packer
of Chicago, left for Europe, the 18th.
He left behind him as gift over 81 ,5OO.-
600 to the city of Chicago. Already a
five story building, to be known as the
Armour institute, is ready for occu-
pancy. In addition to, it, and for it's
support, Mr.. Armour gives ST., 400, 900.
All that money and brains can do will
be done toward making it the greatest
institute for manual training and
science in the country.
MAY wheat in Chicago, the 18th,
closed at 78Ac.
The agent at the Belknap agency,
Montana. telegraphed Gov. eToole to
send troops. Several Indian soldier
had been wounded and one killed.
AS a result of political feeling at
Sparta, Ca, DR.. Gilmore, newspaper
correspondent was killed and three
men were wounded.
IT is said by members of the Worlds
Fair committee that there was proba-
bility Of w. E. Gladstone Of England
being induced to open the exposition.
The comptroller Of the currency has
called for a report of the condition Of
all national banks at the close OF busi-
ness, Friday, Dec. 9, 1892.
IHE striking operators Of the Rock!
IslHnd railroad have established n free
hotel g OmahA Tor the benefit ot shs
Warren sheaf., 1892-12-15

BLoND1N, who crossed Niagara on a
light rope, is still alive, and although
ne is sixty-eight years of age gives oc-
.asional exhibitions of tight-rope walk
ng He was the son of a gymnast, and
began his rope walking when only five
Vears old. He has crossed Niagara
ihree hundred times,
Warren sheaf., 1892-12-15

Syrup

JUDGE J.. B. HILL, Of the Superior
Court, Walker county, Georgia,
thinks enough of German Syrup to
send us voluntarily a strong letter
endorsing it. When men of rank
and education thus use and recon-
mend an article, what they say is
worth the attention of the public.
It is above suspicion. II have used
your German Syrup" he says, for
my Coughs and Colds on the Throat
and Lungs. / can recommend it for
them as a~frst-class medicine. p
Take no substitute. %
Warren sheaf., 1892-12-15

AN inmate of an Armenian convent
has recently died after being there
linety-eight years without once going
outside the convent walls. Her re-
corded age was 115 years. Think of a
woman who never asked if her bonnet
vas on straight.
Warren sheaf., 1892-12-15
FROM WASHINGTON.

IT is shown by the annual report
of the civil service commission that
from July 1, 1891, to June 80, 1899. the
whole number of applicants examined
for the five branches of the classi-
fed service was 19, 46O. of whom -, 100
passed and 1900 failed to pass. The
whole number appointed in the year
was 3,961, a decrease of 1,434 over the
previous year.
SUPERINTENDENT WHITE, of the rail-
way mail service, in his annual report
shows that for the year ended June 80
last the service handled the enormous
total of 9,5S5, S62, $50 pieces of mail
matter.
SECRETARY FOSTER, of the treasury
department, in his annual eport shows
that the government revenues from all
sources during the past fiscal year were
$425, S6S, 26O, and the total expendi-
lures S4l5, 953, 500, leaving surplus Of
50, ola, 453. For the present fiscal year
the revenues are estimated at $463 336, :
$50 and the expenditures at $461, 336, $50,
leaving an estimated surplus for the
year of S2,0OO,OOO The availa BILE
cash balance in the treasury at the end
of the present fiscal year was $780,
992,S77.
The postmaster general has issued an
order to go into effect January 1, 1898,
reducing the fee for each piece of reg
istered mail matter from ten cents to
eight cents.
In his annual report to congress At
torney General Miller says that during
the fiscal year 1892 the expenses of his
department aggregated 3,74s, 239. OS,
and 1000 civil suits and 1S, ,724 criminal
prosecutions were terminated. The at
torney general says that the increase
in the number OF southern war claims
(now aggregating $400, 900. .Oo0) is sub
ject that demands the immediate at
tention of congress. The mum Der of
convicts pardoned by the president dur
ing the year was II out of sos applica-
tiops. Sentences were commuted in 81
cases.
AN order was sent by Postmaster
General Wanamaker to New York for
5000, 600, 900 Colum bian postage stamps,
to be delivered in 1895.
THE leading clearing houses in the
United States reported exchanges of
1,45O, 562, S72, during the seven days
ended on the 9th, against 81, ss2. 996. 1856,
the previous seven days. AS compared
with the corresponding week of 1891
the increase was 1873.
The business failures in the United
States during the seven days ended on
the 9th numbered 297, against 269 the
preceding week and 80 for the COR
responding time last year.
On the subject of restriction of immi-
grafton a poll of both branches of con.
gress shows that sixty-three senators
and 1856 representatives favor restric-
ton, while sixteen senators were non
committal.
Warren sheaf., 1892-12-15

MIR. SAM LANCASTER, of Knoxville.
Tenn, bet that he could drink six beer
glasses of whisky in rapid succession.
MIR. Lancaster won his bet, but dropped
lead before he could collect it,
Warren sheaf., 1892-12-15

WHEN an aerolite falls to the earth
md imbeds itself in the land it be-
zones the property of the owner of the
soil and not the property of the finder.
This is the dictum of a recent legal de-
Warren sheaf., 1892-12-15

By her sixth marriage a Connecticut
woman becomes the step-mother of
.orty-seven children, the step-grand-
mother of fifty-two, the step-great-
grandmother of eleven and the STEP
yreat-great- -grandmother of four.
Warren sheaf., 1892-12-15

SOME one who has numbered the
hairs of the head" says that on the
head of the average man there are
lbout 12O, 900 hairs.
Warren sheaf., 1892-12-15

MANKIND is a rather healthy animal.
len days per annum is the average
amount of sickness in human life.