The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1884-02-29


thing could be known about the stand.
ing Of the firm.
William E. Finch, postmaster at FL
lendsle, hos been taken to Fargo
to answer the charge of robbing the mails
Of registered letters while in charge Of
the postofice Mt Glendale. The case
against him is reported conclusive.
The Episcopal mission at Santee agen-
cy was entirely destroyed by fire. Tho
loss included church, schools and resi-
dence Of W. NJ. Fowler.
Tower City has raised the necessary
bonds, and Baptist university board Of
locating have formally located the North
Dakota University at that point. The
building will he commenced in the
spring.
O. II. Cook of Miner county has been
lodged in the Mitchell Jail on the charge
of having two living wives. The charge
will he investigated. He is a meek-look-
ing man, and nearly sixty years old.
A stock company has been formed to
run pony o ;press from Deadwood to
Belfield, b, Ii ,gs comfy, OH the North
ern Pacific.
Diment br. thars of Columbia have
made an assign me 1t. Liabilities, ~, !, 500; /;
assets, 5000.
Beamer, the Norton, wheat thief, who
skipped his bull with team belonging
to his bondsmen, was captured in A[inne-
sofa and is now in custody.
A company has recently been organ.
lied in Bismarck, to be known as the
Bismarck To m and Trust company, and
it will commence business within few
weeks. The officers are Frank b. Allen
president; Marquis de Mores, vice. presi-
dent; r. 3. Mellon, treasurer, and
Frank LAVAL secretary. Capital, $780, )
OOO
I. P. Allison, who keeps cigar and
peanut stand at Fargo, was robbed on
the night of the 25th, He was on his way
home about IL o'clock, when two thugs
attacked him, threw him down, and re-
lieved him of $25.
II. j. Valentine Of Valley Springs
was lodged in the county jail on
the 18th inst, under $1,000 bonds,
for the shooting with the intent to kill
Henry Harvey OF that place.
'.Doc' McCumber, who was in Wal.-
peton some months ago, has been arrcs-
ted and returned to that city, charged
with bigamy, it being claimed that he
has three wives in that vicinity.
The new church ut Milbank was first
opened for religious service this month.
Rev. I. l.. Granger, of Bunker Hill, is
the new pastor.
Joe keenan, Of Casselton is fugitive
from justice, being wanted to assume
paternity of the child Of thirteen year
old girl whom he is charged with seduc-
ing.
The receipts of Minnehaha county
last year were $93, ,5O5. SO; expenditures,
$55, ,427 .36; leaving net surplus OF
$:s8, ,O76.47.
Sheriff Allentown has Just returned
to Mitchell, from Iowa, having in charge
C. H. Ernst, who was indicted ut
Mitchell for felony, but jumped Ills
bond, leaving o. H. Perry, his bonds
man, in default. The prisoner brought
plenty of money with him to secure
bonds.
Frank Beamer, who was found guilty
before Judge Lavayea ut Grand Forks,
on charge Of stealing seventy-five
bushels of wheat, and was bound over
in the sum of $500 bail, has skipped the
country.
Malcom McGeloran, charged with
manslaughter, was acquitted at Fargo
there not being evidence to convict.
The Daylight says one cGn stand on
the townsite of Briton, the new town
projected on the Tower City railroad,
in Day county, and see the smoke from
thousand claim shanties. The rail
road is expected to reach there in July.
A call has been issued for conven-
tion in favor Of the prohibition of the
liquor traffic, the meeting to he COM
posed of citizens of north Dakota, fo,
consultation as to the best means Of Sc
curing the object designated in the
meeting. The meeting will take place
in the Methodist church, Fargo, on
March 4.
The sensation of the day in LaMoure
and throughout the James river valley
is the arrest by United States detee.
tives of q number of persons who have
been fraudulently holding or seeking to
acquire title to government land.
Nearly fifty persons belonging to La.
Moure and Dickey counties have laid
themselves liable to prosecution, and
are in the tolls.
Indictments have been found against
eighty-three young men in Fargo,
charged with having in their possession
private keys to well-known gambling
establishment.
Officers were taking Je sse Pruden,
arrested for horse stealing to Deadwood.
Information was received there few
days ago that m attempt would be
made by cowboys to rescue James Pru-
den, arrested for horse stealing Mt Miles
City, and en- route for Deadwood. A
posse left Spearfish to assist the officers.
In an interview with Major Fleming,
of the Dakota grain commission, he
lie stated that from his observance in
both North and South Dakota during
his tour of investigation as an inspec-
ter, he is led to the conclusion that
there is much less wheat in the hands
Of the producers than is generally sup
posed.
Cashier Halliday, of the Northern
Pacific railway at Bismarck is reported
short several hundred dollars.
Revolving Crime In Wisconsin.
Lancaster, Wis, Herald: Thomas Bilder-
back Of Potosi was arrested aud brought before
H. b. Coons, Esq, on Tuesday last, charged
with robbing his two daughters Of their chas-
tity. He plead guilty, and was brought to the
Lancaster jail Wednesday the 10th inst by Ben
Elscamp and Edgar Saton. He has wife and
six children. His wife claims that three years
ago hcr husband by force accomplished the
ruin Of his two daughters, aged eleven and
seventeen wears, and that he had continued his