The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1885-02-13
Dakota Territorial News.

Delegate Clifford will start for Wash.
ing Feb.1.
The long-continued and intense cold
OF the winter has made the wolves DIES
porate with hunger, and they have be
come really dangerous.
A new company has been organized
at Sioux Falls to work the granite
quarries OF that point.
Ranchers say that only young Texas
stock have suffered thus far in the
ranges Oh the Belle Fonrche, and that
the native cattle are dom g we'll.
The Lisbon Gazette Office, with a
small store adjoining, was burned.
There was $500 insurance on the news
paper.
Judge Stewart Smith of Dakota was
presented by the bar of Pierre. with a
handsome lamp. Resolutions were
adopted commanding Judge Smith for
his fairness on the bench, etc.
Col. Tyner, the commander of the
government army in the Redtield war.
and member of the governors staff.
mustered in the new military COMPANY
at jamestown. D. NJ. Hicks is captain.
Frank Stiles, the Chamberlain hotel
keeper sent to the penitent;ary some
months ago, has been discharged by
order of Judge Edgerton, a new trial
having been ordered in his case. He
is the man who was found guilty of re-
ceiving stolen property, while the man
charged with stealing the property was
not found guilty.
Mr.. Fisher of Sanborn has sworn out
warrant for Matt Lee. charging him
with taking horse that was left in
Fishers charge and selling it. Lee and
Mrs. Fisher left town together, and
there are rumors of an elopement, but
MIR. Fisher denies this and SAYS his
wife is with her mother in st. Paul.
John Paul Logan of Jamestown is
writinga series of open letters. In one
he petitions the city council to license
the roller Kinks to do business on Sun
day so the saloons shall not get ahead
of them, and i'll another he implores
Representative Nickeus to introduce a
bill in the territorial legislature chang
ing the name of Bismarck to Sodom.
The house of Mr.. Farrar, near Ando-
yer, with its contents was burned.
Citizens of North Dakota banquetted
Judd In Moure at Neche.
Dakota has surplus of 5000, 900 in
the treasury.
The Britton Daylight says in regard
to the coal explorations in that section {:
Work is being pushed with energy in the
development of the coal find north of
town. A party of Columbia gentlemen
have entered into q contract with DIR,
Won Gunther, who owns the land where
the discovery was made, to proceed at
once with the work and ascertain if
there is coal there in sufficient quantity
to work profitably. Laborers are now
at work, and we hope to be able to give
something definite in our next issue in
regard to the Day county coal mines.
Grand Forks. OAK, Special.-Sher-
if jerks telegraphs 500 reward for the
murderer of Mrs. Smell and son. Git.
liens are subscribing toward the Herald
reward fund. The news from Bismarck
of the passage of bill authorizing the
commissioners to offer 81 900 reward is
satisfactory. The murderer before he
left town bought new buffalo overcoat
and other clothing and got his hair cut
short behind. He has new morocco
pocketbook with a silver clasp. cheap
black square travelling satchel in which
he took an old chinchilla overcoat and
blue flannel shirt with lace front. His
hair and beard are light.