The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1885-05-22

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Gently appointed postmaster at CHICAGO.
is leading merchant at Fargo. Il is
understood that the son is candidate
for the Fargo Office.
Fargo Special: About half of q olo.
ony Of $50 Roumanians sent out by emf.
grafton agents to settle on the Cana.
dian Pactc, nsar the scene of the Riel
trouble, reached Fargo, on their way
to locate in Foster county. They are
thoroughly disgusted with Manitoba
and their treatment there. They only
stopped one day. At Qu'Appelfe and
full 0f soldiers and Indians, and every
one going for their money, Part Of
the party stopped at Winnipeg from
lack of means, but will follow, and
many moro will settle in Dakota,
Judge Francis pronounces the oct Of
the legislature unconstitutional provid.
ing . way for him to admit young
Magill b bail. He was tried for shoot
ing . man and the jury disagreed.
About Blunt in Hughes county, there
is third moro land in wheat than last
year. It's the increase in new sections
that will make up for the shortage in
the older settled sections.
A camp meeting on q large scale is
being arranged for in Lincoln county
in June.
A farmer in Lincoln county claim.
to have discovered thot fax seed eaten
by stock is fatal to them.
The Daily News at Devils Lake has
retired for year, leaving the field to
the Inter Ocean. Il will continue as a
weekly.
The past year 101 final proofs were
made in Yankton county. Probably
most of them we're tree claims, as it is
one of the Oldest counties.
G. NJ Clark, "Chet, /" as called, who
died at Caledonia recently. was char:
acter Of considerable note IN Traill
county, ofwhich he was the first sheriff
and about the first settler, having gone
there in 1870. He was very large
land holder.
Miss Stevens, . Devils Lake belle,
hes returned to her claim with the
means to prove up, earned on the Vaude.
vile boards during the winter.
Members of the bar at Wahpcton ex.
press themselves highly pleased with tho
appointment of W. B. Mcconnell TO
succeed Judge Htdsoa.
Two hundred and fifty immigrants
settled in Edmunds county recently.
Mayor Stow of Desdwood was re-
elected by an almost unanimous vote.
Grant county claims !. population OF
over {, 600 and the value of its property
is estimated at $3,OOO,OOO. The county
produced over Q million bushels Of
wheat in 1884.
Fargo has suspended Chief Of Police
Wood, and = conflict with the ceuneil
is looked for.
President Cleveland signed the com.
mission, o. William B. Mcconnell Of
Fargo, TO be associate justice of thu ter
ritorial supreme court.
-Four burglar1es were committed at
Yankton, making ten or twelve in ten
days. The people are stirred up great
ly.
The G.. A. r. territorial reunion will
be held in Aberdeen the second week
in September.
Farmers in tke vicinity of Frederick
have planted 100, 900 trees this spring.
Several parties living in the neigh
borhood of the Washington hills hdve
discovered myriads cf. grasshoppers
alEeaay hntshed where the old grass is
sti1l left unburned.
A billiard tournament is being ar
ranged between Yankton, Sioux Falls
and Mitchell experts.
The late storms in the. Black Hills
caused heavy losses Uf stock.
Near Steele, seven men were riding
on hand car, and, while running at a
rapid rate, the car jumped the track
and rolled down an enbankment, iniur-
ing every man. The seven wounded
lnborers were taken to the Northern
hospital at Brainard.
A young man named Sidney 8. Jcr-
dan was struck by lightning and killed,
on Linton's ranch, three miles north of
Rapid City.
There are eighty-eight G. A. r,
posts in the territory, with an aggre.
gate membership Of something like
5000.
Mr.. Babcock, living near Sioux Falls,
has captured six cub wolves.
In Woonsocket, Contractor Payne
horse-whipped young school teacher,
Fred Slack. on the main street. Tho
latter had been keeping company with
Payne's daughter and she attempted to
dismiss him, but he was persistent, and
she appealed to her father. Payne was
arrested and fined.
The Homestead Mining company has
declared dividend No. 80 or 25 cents q
share, or $31, ,25O. Total dividends to
date, 81, 718, $50. The Father de Smet
has declared its forty-fourth dividend,
70 cents q share, aggregating $40, 900.
Total dividend to date, $3.50, 900. or $40
. share.
The vote at Steele, for the division
of Kidder county and the formation of
Stanton county stood: 1856 for. z
against; at Tappen, 46 for, 12 against;
Crystal Springs, S for, 6 against.
Fifteen car loads of telegraphic equip.
ments went up to- the jamestown g.
Northern recently, in charge Of Mr..
Willonghby, as foreman. and the work
Of finishing up the construction of the
line to the Minnewaukan will he pushed
forward with the greatest rapidity pos
yible.
The first grand conclsve of the grand
oommandery of the Knights Templar of
Dakota will meet at Yankton OH June
16. All the Communicates of the terri
tory will be represented.