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The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1895-09-07
BEHIND YHE BARS
m. FRAKER IS TAKEN TO TOPE.
KA, KAN, AND JAILED.
srhe Svvindler Expfesses Himself ~
Pleased to Return Near to His
Home, but Objects to the
Case OF the Cu-
r1Ous.
HE TELLS OF HIS TRAVELS.
The Doctor Relates His Experience
From the Time Of His Sup.
posed DRowning.

Topeka, Kan, Sept. b.-Dr. George
w. Fraker, the Insurance swindler,
arrived here In charge of officers last
night and was Immediately jailed. A
curious throng met the party at the
depot. He expressed himself as thor
oughly glad to be near his old home
again, bue said he was anxious to
seek the solace OF . cell, beyond the
stare of the curious. Charges will be
preferred against him tomorrow.
To reporter the doctor talked free
" Of hic case. His answers to Ques-
tions, however, were given In an alb
sent minded way. 81 did fall into the
river the night we were fishing" he
said, "and came nearly being drowned.
However, there was driftwood float.
ing In the stream, and caught q
log and floated down the river for q
considerable distance. Finally l
found q place where could touch bot
tom and waded out on to land. I
laid there all that night and all the
next day. was in no condition to 60
back to the Springs, and, accordingly,
I went to Kansas City. Because Of
my appearance I went to cheap
rooming house on Grand avenue. I
staid there four days. On the follow
ing day I shaved on all my beard.
Then I went to Chicago. From Chi.
cago I went to Milwaukee and staid
most OF the fall Of that year. BY that
time the name Of Fraker had been
too much advertised and I told my
room mate I was from Denver and
my name was William Schnell. I
went by the name of Schnell aud have
lived In Minnesota and Wisconsin ever
since. I went from one place to an
other. No. won't tell you what
towns visited. had not decided to
stay away until the papers said all
kinds Of things about me; then knew
I was In disgrace and could not make
q living II came back. have start
ed back thousand times and came
near coming, but the disgrace and
what people were saying about me
kept me from doing so. This living
death Ii horrible. and I am glad now ]
am back" @
did your people know whore you
wereT'
"No. they did not. I did not com.
municate with them" -t
1T was telegraphed from Duluth
that you had share Of the insurance
money"
"That was not true. It was all to GO
to my heirs"
DR.. Fraker carefully avoided all
questions intended to reveal his
means of subsistence. Finally, when
the question "Who gave you away tC
the insurance companies and fur
nished the information that led to
your arrest?" was bluntly asked, the
doctor started suddenly and said:
81 think II was George Harrick, one
Of the men who went fishing with me
wrote him from Wisconsin last win
ter. I told him about q young mar
who won't mention who was very
kind to me when I was sick. told
him the young mans name, and
think he wrote to him and got my ad
dress after I moved to Minnesota"
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1895-09-07

Washington, Sept. 5. - To-day was
the day on which the boycott Of ma
tional bank notes Vas ordered by
President Sovereign, Of the knights
of Labor, in his proclamation two
months ago was to 20 into effect.
There was no evidence here, however,
that the knights of Labor were Ia
booing bank notes. The national
headquarters of the knights were de-
serted, save for an office boy, both
Mr.. Sovereign and Mr.. Hayes, the sec
retary, being out Of the city.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1895-09-07
Gold Reserve Protected.

New York. Sept. 5.-It was quite
evident to-day that the Morgan-Bel-
mont bond syndicate expected another
large drain on the subtreasury this
week. At the onening .of the business
It was announced that the Farmers
loan and Trust company had depos-
tied 100000 In the subtreasury. No
explanation Of the deposit was made,
but 1t was generally known that 1t
was for the account Of the syndicate,
and the belief was confirmed later BY
Washington advices.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1895-09-07
Thursday. Aur. 20.


Marion Hodge Of Jamestown gets q
position as agent as result of re-
cent civil service examination. H
Mrs. Ralph Hall will probably be
appointed postmaster at Fort Totten
and the office re-established. A
r. r. Simonds of Simonds and Sher-
man at Fargo forged a number Of
checks and skipped town. 8
The safe in the store Of 8. r. Da.es,
at Guelh, Dickey county, was blown
open and about $500 taken.
The hunter has made his appear
ance and incidentally the prairie
chicken has disappeared.
The losses Of the Alliance Hail As
sociation for the storm of July 26 were
$4,000. s
Rev. Harbaugh Of Devils Lake has
been sued for divorce by his wife,
and will fight the case. He says she
has been very naughty.
Two men, Adams and Mccormick,
were arrested at Grand Forks OH the
charge of calling for John Walsh's
mail and abstracting SIS therefrom.
George Gray and his twenty-year-old
wife had scrap at the Forks over
some money and George took shot
at a policeman who attempted to act
as peacemaker.
A fire which destroyed all the barns,
sheds, ETC., together with wagons, ma
chinery. grain and some stock on the
Clarey ranch near Blunt, is supposed
to have been set by tramps.
An Glendale special reports two
hobos having attempted to hold up a
Dickey county man. He was injured
by a wire fence while trying to get
away. -
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1895-09-07

st. Paul, Sept. 5.-The population Of
st. raul rs shown by the Official
nCures Of the state census Of 1895, 10
14O.292. The federal census Of 1880
rave st. Paul . population Of 133, ,156.
a comparison Of the figures gives the
city an increase In population during
the past ave years Of 7,135 souls, .
gain at the rate Of 500 per cent
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1895-09-07
Acaualmey burned.

Parsans. Kan, Sept. 5.-St. Ana's
academy at st. Paul. <ourteen miles
from here. was destroyed by 6re to-
day. The academy was one Of the
Oldest Catholic schools In Kansas.
The loss foots up into the thousands,
with partial insurance.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1895-09-07
A..irned at Duluth.

Duluth, Mimi, Sept. 5.-The Duluth
Cash Grocery company, one OF the
leading concerns Of Its kind IN the
city, assigned this morning to A. A.
Warfield.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1895-09-07
Tuesday, Sept. 8.

Dobmeier's brewery at Grand Forks
Is running again.
A blind piggers has just been ar
rested for the fourth time at Churches
Ferry.
Mrs. Mary Lyons Of Fargo has dis
appeared mysteriously and the police
are Investigating.
Rev. +. r. Nash, one Of the best
known ministers Of the Episcopal
faith in the state, has resigned from
the church, and goes to Ohio.
w. C. Leistekow, state Democratic
national committeeman, was held up
by highwaymen at Grafton, but -four
ished knife and scared 'em away.
On the Grandin farm in Traill coun-
ty 14,241 bushels of wheat were
threshed in one day. Five machines
were in operation and two Of them av-
eraged 3.01O bushels.
The enormous growth of Vegetation
this year will afford fuel for sweep
ing prairie fires this fall. The farmer
should bear this in mind and make
ample preparation against this annual
MISUNDERSTANDING visitor.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1895-09-07
The Casualty Record.

Eight PERSONS were seriously wound
ed by careless sportsman at a pig
con shoot at Nyack, y. Y.
Three buildings OH Second street,
Cincinnati and $25O,t|) worth Of goods
were destroyed by fire.
Six firelnen were overcome while
fighting q fire at Dcs Moines, Iowa,
and they were rescued with difficulty.
Two children were drowned near
Bloomington, ILL.,, during a terrific
rainstOrm.
Elmer J. Schlink and Jacob Altweis,
both aged 10, were caught by belt
in a flour mill at New Riegel, Ohio,
and had their brains dashed out.
r. H. King, president "f the Cash
Insurance company If Pirtsbnrg. one
Of the wealthiest men in the country,
was killed by falling down stairs.
Three tramps are believed to have
been killed In freight train wreck
on the Cleveland, Akron & Columbus
road near Millersburg, Ohio.
The Great Northern overland pas
senger ran into landslide near Rich
lnond Beach, Wash. Engineer Neal
Mckinley sacrificed his life to save
those of the passengers.
David Mitchell, Jr., experimenting
architect. was fatally Injured In one
Of the buildings at One Hundred and
Seventeenth street mi the E!r'evard,
New York City, which are tcing re-
modelled for Columbia college. He fell
twenty-five feet 10 the basement in
Il pile OF twisted pipes and locks.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1895-09-07
Sunday, Sept. 1.

Sunday, Sept. 1.
Cavalier wants another bank and a
tow mill-wants them bad.
w. G. I4eistikow, of the Grafton
roller mills, was held up by robbers
ut Mapleton, but he frightened them
away with a knife.
Sheriff Barton pulled Devils Lakes
six blind pigs and closed them all up.
The complaints were made by A. r..
Carpenter and Severt Severson.
Hon. L. B. Ray of Nelson county,
one of the members of the last house,
threshed out barley on his farm that
went fifty-five bushels to the acre.
George Ashley, six-year-old con-
vict, who escaped from the Colorado
penitentiary, is in limbo in James
town, having been located while cook
Ing for q threshing crew near there.
Mrs. L. c. Taylor Of Rolla was ar
rested and sentenced to ten days I'M
prisonment for cruelty beating her
five-year-old stepson. She is only nine
teen years old and seems to be reg
ular virago.
John Grippe was held up by high
waymen near Glendale. and several
shots fired ut him. His horse ran into
barbed wire fence and threw him
to the ground where he lay all night
unconscious. The highwayman es-
capped.
Leander Jackson, young Finlander
working as farm hand for one Erick-
son, in Moore township, near Lisbon.
has been arrested on a warrant issued
by Justice w. X. Smith, on informa-
tion made by Thorval Johnson, accus-
Ing him OF an assault with a knife and
doing him bodily injury. The pris-
oner claims that q whole family Of
Norwegians, who, he says, were mer-
~ with prohibition bug Juice. set upon
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1895-09-07
Collision n Chfoarc

Collision in Chtcago.
Chicago, Sept. 6.--A Lake Shore u
Michigan Southern suburban train
collided with Z freight train ct State
street to-day. Three men were Seri-
ously injured.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1895-09-07
Wednesday, Sept. 4.

At the present time over 5000 head
of cattle pass through Grand Forks
daily billed for the Eastern market.
A threshing engine blew up near
Ardock, on the place Of E. G. Bates,
instantly killing Engineer Patterson.
George Ashley, six-year convice,
who escaped from the Colorado peni-
tentiary, is in limbo at Jamestown.
having been located while cooking
for a threshing crew near there.
The water in the Jim river has not
been so low in several years and fears
are expressed that the Jamestown ice
crop for 1896 will be short on ac-
count of the difficulty Of finding any
place deep enough to furnish ice fit to
use.
Leander Jackson, the. Finlander
charged with assaulting Thorval john
ston at Lisbon with knife, has been
discharged by Justice Smith on motion
of States Attorney Mitchell. The
complaining witness and the prisoner
buried the knife, and, consequently,
Finland and Norway have declared
peace. ..s-
A very peculiar accident occurred
on G. B. Webster's farm, north OF
Wahpeton. While threshing crew
were at work sparks from the engine
set one of the loads Of bundles on fire.
The team became frightened and were
caught between two haystacks, which
were destroyed. with the wagon and
load of wheat. The team had to be
killed. .,t.t
President OF Cuba.
London, Sept. ga Havana dispatch
to the Times says that a meeting Of
insyrgent delegates at Najasa pro-
claimed constitution for the republic
on q federal basis Of Ave states. They
also elected tie Marquis Of Santa
Lucia president and appointed various
officers.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1895-09-07
Friday, Aug. 30.

The state association Of Congrega-
fional churches will meet in annual
session at Fargo Sept. II and 13.
Heavy rains have greatly retarded
threshing around Forman during the
past ten days.
The treasurer Of Billings county has
attached the horses of State Senator
McGillivay for taxes for the years
1892, 1893. McGilliyay lives in Stark
county, but has his ranch IN Billings.
r. r. Simmonds, erstwhile a MEM
ber of the firm of Simmonds & Sher-
man, Metrcpole tailors Of Fargo, who
passed nrmber of forged checks,
was captured at Winnipeg by Deputy
Marshal Daggett Simmonds was
made to disgorge all his i'll gotten
aims, but thinks he prefers continu-
ing his residence on the other side Of
the boundary line to returning to Far
20 again.
There will be trouble at Wahpeton
and the Northern Pacific offices at st.
Paul when it is learned that applica-
ion was rendered by B. Il. Aschelman
for the southeast quarter Of section I.
township 1871. range Al, and by J. II.
Gibson on the north half of the same
section. Each piece of land applied
for is part of the townsite Of Wah-
peton, and originally in the land grant
to the Northern Pacific. The applica-
ions were rejected by Register Sun
(erhauf because they contiicted with
, former selection made by the North
,rn Pacific in 1873. The applicants
will appeal from the decision of the
and office officials and claim that ow-
'ng to the fact that the fact was cov-
cred by a declaratory statement long
prior to the selection made by the
railroad company. and never was sub
ject to any such selection, following
the case Of Whitney VS.. Taylor, re-
Gently decided by the United States
supreme court N. Davis, formerly
'eceiver Of the land office, acts as at
torney for the applicants, and Is said
70 have furnished information Of the
alleged defect in the title. While the
applications were rejected, the men
IRE said to have a good fighting
nance. The townsite Of Mayville Is
aid to be In the. same position. and
lenders on that land will probably be
made.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1895-09-07

Cubans Said to Have Dou1ht .
Death-Dealing Instrument.
Hartford, Conn. Sept. 5. - Samuel
Andrews, q machinist Of this city,
claims to have perfected a war bal
loon which he has sold to q syndicate
Of New York Cuban insurgents. The
balloon has been thoroughly tested In
the fields Of New Jersey and is said
to work perfectly. Instead Of the or
dinary car 1t ID fitted with an armored
box from which q number Of bombs
are suspended. The bombs are ig-
nited and released by automatic ma
chinery I'm the box. and after all are
discharged the hox explodes destroy
Ing the balloon and the secret mechan-
ism. The machinery Is worked by a
steel spring. Andrews claims to have
device by which he can control the
direction Of the balloon.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1895-09-07
NORTH DAKOTA NEWS
CTERESTIEG NEWS FROM All
PARTS OF THE STATE.

4 Condemned Record Of the lmpors
fant happenings OF the Week In
North Dakota. Arranged for Nnpi1
Reading.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1895-09-07
TO the Land of spirits.

Waubay, s. D., Sept. 5. - Thomas
Two-Stars, an Indian twenty-five
years old living at Big cooley, while
enjoying a big drunk, drank 30 much
whisky that he became unconscious
and died In q few hours.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1895-09-07
Aeain Exhumed.

Philadelphia. Sept. 5.-The decapi-
tated body OF r. #. Pietzel, one of
the supposed victims of FL. III. Holmes,
was again exhumed to-day by the cor.
o1er's physicians. The coffin with it's
chastity burden was carried into the
tool shed OF the cemetery, but the ut
most vigilance was maintained to
keep the object Of the exhumation .
aecret. 1t was subsequently learned
that one Of the bones OF the leg had
been removed and the body reinterred.
The dead mans skull was severed
from the decomposed body last Sat
nrday, under orders from the district
attorneys ONCE.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1895-09-07
Monday, Sept. 2.


Y Eleven German families settled in
Cavalier county last week.
Y Cavalier county citizens want
chance to show their good things at a
county fair.
] Some tough thieves were arrested at
Valley City. They had broken open
Northern Pacific cars.
Bismarck. Devils Lake, Crary and
other points have had visitations Of
enforcement leagues and the b. p's are
caught.
; The pot Game at Minnewaukan live
on porterhouse steak and swipe shirts
from the clothes line. A vigilance
comittee is being organized.
tom Leikval is in Jail at Devils
Lake charged with stealing a wagon
and other articles from e. Cole at
Bartlett.
The iniunctions on the blind piggers
at Devils Lake was caused by a de-
tective in the employ Of the state en-
forcement league.
q
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1895-09-07
Criminal DOinHs.

d. w. Knoll, travelling insurance
agent, cut his throat at the home Of
Il friend in Cleveland, Ohio.
d. J. Mcleod, a carpenter, shot his
divorced wife at Maiden. Mass, and
killed bimself. She will recover.
A masked mob Invaded the home Of
William Shull at Burnettsville, Ind,
aud tarred and feathered him and his
wife.
c. C. Rhodes killed himself in At
Of despondency at Denver, Col. He
made a fortune as miner and leaves
$4,000. sa#
An attempt was made to wreck the
eastbound night express on the Nickel
Plate read near McComb, Ohio. Ties
were placed on the track and had the
train not been late 1t would have
plunged into the obstruction.
An unknown tramp about twenty
eight years old was murdered in
box car on the Pennsylvania road at
Mansfield. Ohio. Officers at Ashland
arrested five other tramps supposed
to have committed the crime after q
desperate fight.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1895-09-07
lt!m. and that he did all In sei- de-
frrsa ard honor Of the courageous
sHns Of Finland. A preliminary hear
Ing Is pending before Justice Smith.
Sunday, Sept. I.

Sunday, Sept. 1.
Superintendent of Public instruction
Bates is after chart fiends.
Trilby heart parties are the go in
Grand Forks.
i A prisoner in the jamestown Jail
sVerpowered the jailor and fed, but
Sas recaptured.
Darlington blind piggers closed up
shop last week when, they learned in
junction papers were to be issued.
A Grand Forks man arrested for
killing more than twenty-five chick
ems this year, which the law allows
each hunter, was fined for lying.
The arguments on the motion for a
new trial in the Kent case were
opened yesterday before Judge Nc
Connell at Fargo.
Sam Simons, an old character who
has been in Fargo for a long time,
twas found dead in his shanty. with
his head badly cut and injured. 1t
Is thought there may be foul play.
The United States court at Fargo is
to decide Oct. 7, or thereabouts,
whether Ed Hughes electric light
poles shall continue to stand in Bis
smarck or be taken down.
h Samuel Vinson and William Stod-
'sdard were captured near Nicholson by
Sheriff OShea of Lincoln, Neb., where
they are wanted for hog stealing. Vim
son has already served a seven-year
term in the Nebraska pepitentiary fo1
the same offense, and both men were
travelling under assumed names. They
will return to Lincoln without requici
tlon papers.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-05-09
Train-Iyreckers at Work.

Marshalltown, Iowa, May 3.-The
northbound passenger train on the Chi
cago & Great Western railroad was
wrecked between Green Mountain and
Gladbrook last night by striking a tie.
1t is learned that the tie was placed on
the track by miscreants. The engine
and three coaches were thrown down a
five-foot embankment and are now ly-
ing in the ditch. The track was not
cleared until this forenoon. The bag
gageman and a brakeman were slightly
injured, but the remainder Of the crew
and the passengers escaped unhurt.
In raid on 'moonshiners' near
Huntington, w. Va, Lee Ward was
killed and 100, including twenty women
were arrested.
Postmaster Gooding shot and killed
a Choctaw at Grant, l. t. The Choc-
law had tried to kill a negro and then
Gooding when the latter interfered.
Archibald Dixon Brown, son OF the
governor of Kentucky, and Mrs. Nellie
Bush Gordon, were shot and killed at
Louisville, KY. by Fulton Gordon, hus-
band Of the woman. He found them
together at disreputable resort.
James Young shot and killed his wife
in the presence of her parents, at
Hoosierville, Ind, and then committed
suicide.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-05-09
AN IMPORTANT CASE.
1T COMES UP BEFORE THE
UNITED STATES COURT.

Suit for an EstoppeI---The Eureka
Chemical Company, of La Crosse, Make
the Trouble.
Papers have been filed in the United
States court of the western district of
Wisconsin, by Tarrant & Kronshage,
attorneys for the Sterling Remedy com
pany, of Chicago and New York, in a
suit for estoppel and damages against
an imitation of No-to-bac, the tobacco
habit cure. The action is brought
against concern called the Eureka
Chemical company, of La Crosse, Wis.
The principles involved in these pro-
ceedings are of the utmost Importance
to the proprietary interests of America
in general, and form in many respects,
a test case, the outcome of which will
be carefully watched by the many
other important manufacturing con-
Germs similarly initiated. Not only the
question of imitation of name, trade
mark, form of preparation and pack
age, enter inIo the case, but also the
proposition whether the actual adver-
tising literature used in establishing
the publicity of a preparation can be
stolen with impunity, word for word,
by an imitator. The decision in this
case will settle one of the vital points
in United States trademark and copy
right law Madison (Wis) Democrat.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-05-09
IOWA PATENT OFFICE REPORT.

DIES MONIES, April 30, 1s95.-A patent
has been allowed to William Britton,
of Boone, for diaphragm for locomo-
tive boilers, simple and durable
device placed in locomotive cylinder
in advance of the boiler sheet by which
the heat is retained within the fues
just long enough to radiate maximum
of heat therefrom without interfering
with the draft. 1t also prevents live
sparks from escaping through the stack
and ashes from gathering in the lower
fues. Two of the five claims allowed
were won on appeal to the board of
eXaminers-in-chief. Five United States
patents were issued to Iowa inventors
last week as follows: ToA. w. Haines,
of Des Moines, for sectional wagon
box; to A. Kile, of Mount Auburn, for
a wire-splicing clamp; to G. w. lake
and c. III. Rastede, of Monticello, for
weather strip; to f. j. Marolf, of Rock
Rapids for an oil can; to Z. S. Osborne,
of Muscatine, for spring bed bottom.
THOMAS G. AND j. RALPH ORwIG,
Solicitors of Patents.