The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1885-11-13
DAKOTA TERRITORIAL NEWS.

w. A. Wilson, city marshal OF Rap.
id City, was killed by O cowboy while
making an arrest.
John Gafiinet, a we'll known German
contractor committed suicide at
Jamestown by shooting himself. He
had been addicted to drink OF late,
and loss in business matters caused
him to do the deed.
The pension commission appointed
the following board of pension exam.
iners at Pierre: E. l.. Siggine, A. D.
Brown and w. B. Steere, the latter
being an old member.
W. H. Simpson, formerly of Anoka,
reports that his residence, two and
one-half miles north of Bismarck,
burned, caught fire from q lamp, and
that nothing was saved.
Samuel r. Fellows and r. Chandler
have been arrested at Castlewood for
extensive thlevery OF grain.
John Scott of Easily tried to inhict
a death wound OH himself with a
butcher knife.
Fifty settlers have recently taken up
land between Geneva and Sterling.
Clark is discussing the policy of i'll
cooperating under the general law, as
the most advisable method OF putting
the town in shape to secure immunity
from fires.
The mayor of Valley City has or
dered the enforcement OF all city ordi-
nances relating to closing saloons on
Sunday and prohibiting gambling.
l.. Leppelman, father of the owner
of the Hat Creek ranch, near Dead,
wood, while cleaning a gun, accidental
" shot and instantly killed Frank
Haven.
A new and richly-equipped Congre.
gational church at Grand Forks was
dedicated. 1t cost $4,000 and the
money has nearly all been raised
by the local society.
The first furrow ever turned over in
Turner county was byD. w. McCanna
in May, 1883. Henow has u fine farm,
and his crops this year were 10000
bushels of grain.
At Larimore the bakery and res
taurant of C. w. Ring was burned.
Loss, SO, 500; insurance, 81, 800.
In view OF the spreading ofsmallpoA
in the United States and Canada, the
board OF public health Mt Bismarck
has ordered that all school children
be vaccinatcd.
A man named N. Goble was run over
near Canton and killed.
Rev. c. B. austin resigns the pastor
ate to the Bismarck Presbyterian
church because offailure to raise funds
for q new building.
Mrs. Fleury, wife of Interpreter
Fleury, killed at Fort Buford q short
time ago by Private Wood, OF the
Seventh cavalry, went to Bismarck
accompanied by Gen. Whistler, COM
mander fthe post, and Sergt. o Brien.
1t is thought that Wood is guilty OF
murder in the first degree.
There is growing up among our farm
ers, says the Sioux Falls Press, q feel
ing that in the near future the plant
ing of flax will be the exception and
not the rule As is we'll known, flax
wears out the land and fills it with
weeds. Corn" Jones and number
Of our most successful agriculturists
denounce flax as u public enemy.
Navigation on the Mississippi river
is practically closed.
There is n big fight in Turnercounty
over the location OF the county seat.
An aggregate bonus OF s61 ,72Ois offer
ed by Parker, while Hurley bids SlO,-
600.
Messrs. Kent and .Mumford have
about completed their arrangements
for the foundry building at Fargo.
Mrs. w. c. Nye escaped from the i'll
sane asylum few days ago and was
caught ut Parker.
Rev. Mr.. Peterson has just closed
his work as synodical missionary for
Presbyter,ans in South Dakota. lie
is wanted to labor in the Black Hills
but is undecided as to the future.
w. B. Dean & Co. of Wahpcton fail
ed with liabilities OF about 1000; as
sets, $4,000 and upward.
J. s. Mcfarland assumed the duties
of register of the United States land
Office Mt Huron.
Mr.. Heith, near Valley Springs. kept
his Bible near him as he threshed
grain. The machine stopped sudden
ly. and he found that the sacred vol
ume had gone through the thresher,
tearing eight teeth ont of the cylinder.
Rev. j. J. Hill is trying to raise
money in Valley Springs to build u
Baptist church there.
james Duffee was arrested at Min
for horse stealing. Twenty
minutes after being lodged in jail he
Il hole through the upper
part of the Jail door with an iron bar
from one of the cell doors
and skipped.
Sioux Falls papers are urging the
establishment OF n flax mill i'm that
city.
The artesian we'll at Milbank has
been abandoned at q depth of 40
feet. Thcgranite struck was too hard
to bore through.
Forty-two condemned cavalry
horses and two others were sold at
auction at Fort Meade, bringing prices
that could not be obtained for young
horses brought from the states.
Joseph Kleimisch OF GAINESVILLE was
accidentally shot while husking corn
in t, field with his gun by his side. His
lower jaw was shot away and he is ex-
Oecteu to die.