The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1883-06-22


Dakota Terrific ial News.
Chamberlin, will become q pres
idential postofice July ,SsS
George H. Walsh Of Grand Forks has
cold 400 acres of land near Bismal ok,
for which he paid $25, 200 three weeks
ago, for 6l0O, 900.
Mr.. William McMartin, one Of the
earliest settlers on Park river, near
Grafton, died suddenly.
Ben Askelson's saw mill at Grafton
burned, together with seventy-five cords
of wood. Loss, IS, 500. s,5
Twenty-Five gamblers were arrested in
Sioux Falls, and held for appearance at
the next term Of court,
g. H. Van Epp was asphyxiated in a
we'll near Parker, His father-in-
law who descended TO rescue him, was
overcome by the foul air, but recovered.
Earnest, the ten-year-old son of John
Overlook, living northeast of Howard,
was thrown from horse and killed.
H. w. Sprague was arrested at Buxton,
for setting fire to an elevator, and
committed to jail. There was free
talk of lynching.
An East Grand Forks business man
named Parkhurst entered the house of
Richard Gibbons and, it is said, made
insulting proposals to Mrs. Gibbons.
The town was excited In consequence.
Five hundred people of Faulk county
have signed a petition to Gov. Ordway,
asking for organization.
G. A. r. posts are being established in
various parts of southern Dakota.
The Coddington county Jail has not
hadan inmate for over year. That of
Brown county is used as an oat bin.
Two steamers are in operation on
Devils Lake.
George G. Getchell of Valley City is
missing.
The old soldiers of Trail county will
have a reunion at Hillsboro on the 4th
of July.
A tenement house large enough for
ten families is being built at Jamestown.
The Pioneer Press, edited by Samuel
Treadwell, is shortly to make its ap-
pearance at Devils Lake City.
In regard to the discovery of gold at
lakewood, it is said that w. T. Henry, a
Wisconsin geologist, found it year ago,
but kept it secret to have his brother
get patent for the surrounding land.
1t is doubtful if gold is present in paying
quantities.
Forty-three acres have been purchased
half mile east of Bismarck, for the
site of the new penitentiary.
Ore carrying large percentage of tin
has been discovered In the Harvey dis
trict, Black Hills.
David Carlin will build three story
brick block in Jamestown, to cost $780,
600.
The artesian we'll at Bismarck is down
l ,l55 feet, but still does not flow suffi
cient water.
A$2,O00 school building will be erect.
ed at Devils Lake City, the money be-
ing raised by private subscription.
Chief Justice Edgerton granted John
NJ. Blaine of Alexandria a divorce from
his wife, on the grounds of habitual
drunkenness. This is the only case of
the kind on record in the Territory.
Mrs. Alice Chanssee of Jefferson was
adjudged insane and taken to the hospi.
tai at Yankton. During the Missouri
flood two years ago she was shut up in
the garrett of her house for several DAYS,
during which tima she was delivered OF
a child. Her mental malady has grown
steadily worse since that time.
The magnitude of emigration to Dako-
ia this spring over the Winona & St.
Peter is shown by the reports to Super
intendent Sanborn. During March,
April and May the number of cars ofim.
iigrants' moyables going west, past Sleepy
Eye, was 4,743. This was independent
of the immense regular passenger, lum-
Der and freight traffic of the road.
The official vote of Trail and Griggs
counties, Dakota, on division of said
counties. setting apart certain townships
from each county, to form the county OF
Steele, was returned to Gov. Ordway in
favor of division. He appointed Messrs
?. S. Mackay, Thomas Ward and R. w
Berry, county commissioners. The
county was organized June IA, and the
town of Hope was made the county seat
At a special term of the U. S. District
court at Mitchell, Judge Edgerton grant.
ed divorce to Edward A. Cleine against
Fannie G. Cleine, on the grounds of adj
ultery. The couple are from GAINESVILLE
Wis, and are of an aristocratic family
The allegation charged Mrs. Cleine in
September, 1881, with criminally coha.
lifting at the Grand Pacific hotel, Chica.
90, tor several days with one L. w
Blood. also with the same ofense al
Augusta, Kans., with one James Bent
ley, in August of the same year. The
couple were married at GAINESVILLE
June Z, 1877.
A vein of Ignite has been struck at
Mapleton.
An Appalling Panic.
A terrible calamity involving the death
of178 children; occurred in Sunderland,