The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1884-03-14
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Brown county receives el0O 900 per
annum from saloon licenses.
There is not . Baptist church In the
Black Hills.
Finch, the Glendale postmaster, goes
up two years and three months.
Large improvements will be made
this season in most Of Dakota towns ON
railroad lines.
There are 800 900 head of cattle and
horses in the Black Hills, worth 4S,
900 900. 3.s
Mr.. H. j. Wallace has been appointed
surveyor Of Jerauld county.
Upward Of twenty Ave new Methodist
Episcopal churches will he put under
contract for erection in the early spring
in South Dakota.
Miss Rebecca Hobbs, ,natron in the
government school at Santee agency,
was married recently to young red
skin.
The wife of DIR. w. E. Crane, of
Woodsock died the 9Th inst, and the
body was shipped from Mitchell to
Cambridge, Wis, for interment.
Since its organization the Homestead
company has paid s23, ,92 600 in divi
dends; the Deadwood Terra, 81, $50 900 {;
the De Smet, a720, 1000.
Mr.. John McKelvey, president of the
First National bank of Grand Forks,
has sold to Mr.. W. H. Hackncw his
l 200 acre farm. with all his stock and
farming implements, for $77 900.
Rev. B. 7. Humphrey of Kimball, has
received a call to the Baptist church at
Huron, and will accept.
A petition is being circulated in Cen.
trail Dakota asking congress to set aside
Pease Island, near Chamberlain, as o
small national park for the use of re-
ligious and literary societies.
Erick Peterson committed suicide six
miles west of Caaova, by attaching a
rope fused for a l,alter) to his neck and
jumping of manger in the stable. He
was forty-two years of age and has been
a lunatic for two years.
The Territorial Medical association
convention will meet at Mitchell, in May.
DIR. Van velser of Ysnkton is president
andDr. W. e. Crane of Mitchell, secre.
tary.
Forest Ross, ugcd forty, living near
Blunt, Hughes county, became intoxi.
Gated, and was found next morning,
outside of his shanty, frozen to death.
James Burns and j. P. NeAf of Mill
bank have been arrested and held to
the district court in 1900 each, for keep
ing gambling rooms.
Mason Brothers of Pierre have made
an assignment, with liabilities of $15,-
600.
Jennie, the simple e-minded daughter
of Michael Meelan of Grafton, perished
in recent blizzard.
George Stickney of Elk Point will
open bank at Grand View, Douglass
county.
A steam Touring mill will be built al
Canova this year. .
Gladstone is to havea u $4,000 -four.
ing mill.
Dakota has $50 newspapers.
The celebrated Sanborn county seat
contest case will como up before Chief
Justice Edgerton at the present term at
Mitchell. Eminent counsel are engaged
on both sides, and the case has aroused
much feeling in that county, as we'll aa
general interest to the people.
Fifty thousand dollars has been sub.
scribed to build @ 200 barrel Touring
mill at Mandan.
Tho granary of Robert Kerk, near
Springfield, burned with its contents.
Loss, - 900.
A board of officers to consist of Lieut..
Col. Nelson B. Sweitzer, Eight cavalry
Capt. Samuel T. Hamilton, Second cav
airy, and Capt. George E. Pond, assis-
tant quartermsster, quartermaster oi
the board has been appointed by Gen.
Schofield to inspect and purchase 100
cavalry and 6 artillery horses for the de-
partment of Dakota.
There is general satisfaction over the
appointment of Judge Palmer, and the
spring term of court, which opens April
!, will bring him into exceedingly &C.
tive service to dispose of the very large
docket of cases, both new and carried
over from the fall term.
Matt. Miller, the man who attempted
the double murder of Finlay, has been
captured at Star Corners, Clay county.
He had hired to man to work by the
month. He was taken to Hurley, and
delivered to the sheriff, who started With
him to Sioux Falls.
Huron journalists and few others
have called meeting Of editors of the
counties of Beadle, Sphinx, Faulk,
Hand, Hyde. Hughes, Potter and Sully
Dak,, to meet at Huron, March l3, to
form an editorial association.
A correspondent of the Freeman's
journal says: "It is r,lmored that the
vicariate of Dakota is to be divided into
two vicariates North and South Dako.
ta), and name heard mentioned sew
eral times as probable future inc,lm-
bent of the new Episcopal see is that Of
the Right Rev. A. Edelbrock, O. s. b.,
of st. Johns Abbey, Minnesota.
William E. Finch, late postmaster al
Glendale, Dak., was few days since
convicted in the district court at Fargo
of tampering with the mails. He was
brought up for sentence. The Judge,
after celebrating on the enormity Of hia
crime, which consisted of opening q
registered package and converting the
proceeds to his own use, sentenced the
prisoner TO two years and three months
in the Detroit house of correction, to
which point he will be taken in . day or
two.
Erick Peterson, Swede forty years