Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-12-28

ST. PAUL, Dec. 27.-Charles Steward.
of Dyesville, o., passed through st
Paul on his way to Walsh county.
North Dakota, to identify, if possible.
the remains of missing daughter:
whom he believes was spirited away
and died under suspicious circum
stances.
When seen at the Union depot fev
minutes before taking the train, he
told a sad story.
The Fathers Story.
It seems that Mr. Steward moved tc
Dyesville soon after the war, and has
lived there with his family ever since,
holding various positions of trust in
the town, and is at present postmaster
at that place. He had two daughters,
after the birth of the last Of whom the
mother died. After several years
when the elder Of this two girls was IL
years Of age, he married again.
Soon after his second marriage, Mr..
Steward says, neighbor, living about
10 miles from his home in Dyesville, in
the town of Rutland, Meigs county, by
name Nile Holt, and reputed to be a.
wealthy man in those parts, re.
quested Mr.. Steward to allow his
elder daughter to become a member Of
Hollis family, as a companion to his
wife, and promising her all the ad.
vantages OF education and culture that
her father at that time was not able tG
give her. This arrangement was con-
sented to, and for the last nine years
the girl has lived as member of the
Holt household, all the time, however,
keeping on the most intimate terms
with her father and the members of
his family. She frequently visited
him, and it was while on such a visit
last September that she announced her
determination to accept an invitation
to visit another relative who lived at
some distance in the country, and
whom she had not seen for nearly 10
years. She took the train in accord
ance with her determination, and
that was the last that her friends have
ever seen of the girl.
Completely Disappeared.
After the lapse Of some two weeks
Mrs. Holt, with whom she had been
living, became alarmed lest the girl
might be sick, and wrote to her father
to know if such was the case, stating
that she had not heard from her since
she started for her fathers home. Mr..
Steward became alarmed and drove at
once to the house Of the relative to
whom his daughter had said she was
going. She was traced to Athens, O.,
where she completely disappeared.
Neighbors assisted in the search and
began to inquire into the Holt family
history. They discovered that Holt's
nephew had married some years ago
one Miss Oakes, who was the daughter
of a notorious woman doctor, Clarissa
Oakes, who had formerly lived in
Athens, but who had emigrated to
Park River, N. D.
Was Intimate With the Holts.
This woman, Mr.. Steward says, he dis
covered had often visited at the house
Of Holt, and that the nephew, who had
gone to North Dakota with Mrs. Oakes
some years ago when she moved there,
had returned and was on intimate
terms with his uncle and his mother
in-law. at the earnest solicitation Of
his friends Mr.. Steward opened COM
munication with the postmaster at
Park River, stating the circumstances
Of the disappe Of his daughter
and his suspicious that she might have
been spirited away and taken to that
locality. It was found that on Sept.
% girl answering the description Of
Stewards daughter had arrived at
Park River and had gone to the house
of Mrs. Oakes.
Died Soon Afterward.
From that time she has never been
seen by any one alive outside OF the
Oakes household. On Oct. II Mrs.
Oakes procured an undertaken from
town and certificate Of burial from
the proper authorities, stating that the
young lady who had been visiting her
from the East had died the day pre-.
.vious Of typhoid fever. That by reason
Of having been formerly physician
she had undertaken the treatment of
the case herself, not thinking it neces-.
sary to call in stutside aid, as she had