The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1884-05-30
DlKeTl IENS IvTEs.

MOUNTAIN non y playing hay0C with
stock IN the vicinity Of Steele.
Mike Wagner, one of the Oldest citi-
sens Of Pembina, has inherited 476, 900.
by the death Of his brother in Germany
LYMAN, Reid & schornbling will
build . fifty-barrel oat meal mill at
Parker, with Q capacity for $50, 900
bushels Of oats and 10000 bushels Of
sorn . year.
Watertown, is, for the present, to be
the terminus of the Western extension
Of the Minneapolis & st. Louis. 5
Twenty-Five dollars hassbeen expend-
ed on the Agricultural college building
At Brooking. s'
Silver J. Melhous Of Hillsboro commit.
ted suicide by hanging himself, because
Widow Olson, for whom be worked, re-
tused to marry him. 5s & :
Warren Whipple and Morgan Hazner
have been arrested at Mandan, and held
tothe grand jury on charge Of burglary.
A car. loaded with stock and emigrant
goods belonging to Mr.. Clifford, took
fire between Gladstone and Dickinson,
destroying five head of stock and come
household goods.
F. @. Gilman of Chamberlain has Sc
cured the contract for the erection of
twenty buildings for the government
for Drifting Goos's band, to be 1880,
all complete. The prics is $4,000.
Maj. John M. Bacon, seventh cavalry,
has been assigned to duty at Fort Tot
ten, and he will at once proceed thither
aud assume command of the post.
Gen. Besdle accepted an invitation to
deliver an address on the evening Of Ju-
" I, before the teachers of South Da-
..kota, who meet at Huron July 1 and
to organize teachers association.
Michael Hanley has brought suit
against the Northern Pacific Railway
st Mandan to recover $40, 900 damages
for being scalded by his engine being
thrown down an embankment.
The hardware store of Luke & Frahn,
Grand Forks. was entered by burglars
and considerable goods taken. The
police are ON the track of the perpetra-
tors.
Jack Sheridan, who was taken to
Fargo from Minneapolis on charge of
grand larceny, was bound over to the
district court in $500 in the former city,
in default Of which he went to Jail.
The returns of the Sphinx county as.
SCISSOR, just completed, show that there
are 402 ,08O acres of decided land in the
county. The total area of the country
is 967, $50 acres.
Gov. Ordway has appointed mill
tary staff as follows: Thomas Free, of
Sioux Falls, adjutsnt general; John b.
Dennis, Yankton, paymaster general;
William H. Parker, Deadwood, judge
advocate general; Alexander Griggs,
Grand Forks, engineer-in-chief. Aides
de camp. with rank Of colonel: Nm.
Tyner, Of Fargo, Wilbur F. Steele. Of
Steele, Capt. w. Lucas of Chamber
lain, Cincinnatns w. Richardson Of
Pierre, Frank J. Mead of Mandan,
Charles Richardson Of Valley. City.
Chamberlain Register: TIE banking
firm of Gale 4 Foote of Kimball have
got into serious trouble. On last Fri
day . warrant was issued by Judge Nor
row for the arrest of Mr.. Foote on the
charge of embezzlement. Officer Barnes
went to Kimball and arrested him,
brought him to the city, where he gave
bail in the sum of 81, 500. The amount
said to have been embezzled is 81, 600.
The suit was set for the 21st of May.
The house committee on public lands
has considered favorably Mr.. Reynolds
bill granting to Dakota Territory sec-
tion 16, in the county of Aurora, for the
purpose Of reform school, and grant
ing to the territory one section thereof
for school purposes. The section is to
be selected by the governor from any
of the public lands subject to private
sale or entry.
Nels Jensen died at Flandrau, from
injuries received week ago in q fight
with Soren Christiansen Jensen was a
Swede, and about fifty years old, and
Christensen is unmarried and forty
years of age.
Grand Forks has suffered from in.
cendiary fires.
Grand Commandery Knights Tenn
plar has been instituted for Dakota, with
the following officers: Grand COM
mander, Samuel Roy, Deadwood; depu-
y grand commander, William d.
Sites, Sioux Falls; grand generalissi-
mo. DR.. y. Frank Etter, Yankton
grand captain general, NJ. A. Brewer,
Farkos grand prelste, Rev. J. M. Nc
Bride, Sioux Falls; grand senior war
den, A. T.. BigeldW, Bismarck; grand
junior warden, Edward Porrett, Fargo
grand treasurer, u. ID. Farmer, Yank-
ton; grand recorder, Edwin E. Sage,
Sioux Falls; grand standard bearer, l..
B. French, Yankton; grand sword
bearer, r. G. Lake, Deadwood; grand
warden, L. B. Graves, Deadwood
6I0uu CHPCbu VI tu0 b 0hEO, William y.
Doolittle, Sioux Falls. ~
Hundreds of teams are engaged in
gathering buffalo bones near Bismarck
$s ton being paid for them. For the
present the bones are being shipped to
Philadelphia, where they are ground
and sold for fertilizing purposes.
Miss Hattie Taylor Of Canton. who
was seriously injured in a railroad &C.
cident last winter has received $4,000
damages from the Milwaukee railroad
company. "a
Mrs. Won Doren has surprised her
creditors in Bismarck by taking French
leave with three mortgaged horses.
In the case of William Ceilings at
Ashton, supposed to have been mur-
dered, the coroner's jury found that
Cullings came to his death by violent
means, and believed to be murdered by
some person to the jury unknown; but
from the testimony suspicion rested
strongly upon said James b. Thomas.
The stables of W. T. Greer of Acton