The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1883-10-12
scarcely believe that from this cause
|algpe they were htndered from dis.
charging their official duties and keep.
Ing faith with the public.
Dakota News.
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The Scotland Odd Fellows willsor-
ganize.
Deadwood sold her school bonds at
90 cents.
i Dakota captured the prize at the Mime
apolis Fair. s
Deadwood is putting in the electric
light. twill be running Oct. Is.
! Afire at Fort Lincoln last week caused
a loss of$2 900 to the government.
| Alex. Mckenzie has organized a cattle
syndicate at Bismarck with $3.50, 900 CAPT
tai. ~
4 The Black Hills telephone system has
been sold to an Eastern syndicate for $S2,-
500.
| Charles Borchess, saloon keeper, cut
his throat lately at Deadwood, with a
cheese knife.
Twenty-one hundred and sixty-one
homesteads were entered in Dakota in
the last fiscal year.
A Mitchell Baptist minister offers to
turn his marriage fees in toward a pipe
organ for his church.
Twenty-Five Dakota prisoners were
lately brought from Detroit, Mich, to the
Sioux Falls penetentiary.
Five horses were burned to death in
the livery stable ofsDearduff & Morris
near Deadwood yesterday. The loss was
1000.
Last week George Miller, living near
Tower City, lost his house, barn, farm
machinery and, grain to the amount of
s., 900 by a prairie fire.
Fargo Republican:-Hope will have
dancing club this winter. A dancing
club is very nice thing-with girls
father at the other end of it.
The Detroit Evening Journal says that
when teacher Is engaged in Dakota, the
first question asked the applicant is
(which do you teach is the capital, Yank-
ton or Bismarck.
On:.ruesday of last week Judge Kidder,
associate Judge of the supreme court
of Dakota, died in st. Paul from the effects
of surgical operation. His death is
deeply deplored all over the Terri
tory.
The corner stone of the North Dakota
University was laid on Tuesday of last
week with imposing ceremonies. Cover
nor Ordway, General Beadle,, the regents
and other distinguished gentlemen being
present. d
The new Jail at Grand Forks is finished.
Its,complection was celebrated by huge
joke perpetrated by the jailor on several
of the county officials who were inspecting
hecells. He turned the keys on them
and then sent some newspaper boys
around tosee them. ;.
James Durun, of Stuttsman county, lost
some valuable farm buildings, machinery,
and ten stacks ofgrain by recent prairie
fire. Farmers will learn, after a while,
that innocent looking dead grass is capa-
bic of doing great deal of mischief I'M
der certain conditions.
Willis Marks, living five miles north of
Mapleton, had five stacks and fifteen acres
of wheat burned by prairie fire. He
places the amount of grain destroyed at
about 1000 bushels. The fire originated
by a neighbor burning straw pile, the
fire running through the stubble.
The Elk Valley company have finished
threshing on the. home farm and got a
yield of twenty-five bushels per acre
strong for the ground in wheat. Their
land rented out yielded from twelve to
feighteen bushels-the difference being
attributable to good farming on the home
place. Mr.. Booth says they expect
thirty bushels next year, on account of
the extra depth they are blowing this
fall.
The ceremony of receiving Sitting Bull.
the great Indian chief, into the Catholic
church, it was anticipated, would take
place last week at Fort Yates, but has
been indefinitely postponed because Sit
ting Bull cannot make up his mind which
| OF his two wives he will leave. The
forms of the church forbid a communi.
cant to have more than one. Bishor
Marty has had him under his care 70,
several months and his instructions were
being rapidly absorbed by the chief, bu,
separation from his wives proved too
much and he will probably return tc
, heathenism.
Huron Times:-A prairie fire has been
raging for some time over the vast cattle
ranges between the Black Hills and the
i Northern Pacific, and it is feared tina,
the 100000 cattle on ranges will be in
danger of starvation from lack of grass.
The fire originated from spark emitted
; by locomotive on the Northern Pacific
railroad about sixty miles below Dicker.
son, station between Miles City and
Bismarck, east of the Little Missouri. and
since then it has spread and burned owe,
an immense scope of country. A strong
west wind for severalsdays sent it dow,
to Grand river, and from there it is going
on east. 1t backed up all along the Little
Missouri, cleaning up, everything as ii
went, and at last accounts it was in til.
short Pine hills working west ana
South.
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