The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1885-05-01
DAKOTA TERRITORIAL NOTES

The official elevator report sh;o nj Lis
bon to be per cent. ahead of any o;the
town in Dakota In tho quantity Of No.
hard produced last year, and the count,
OF Ransom II per cent. ahead.
The new county of Oliver has beer
created out of part of the county o.
Mercer. The new county il named il
honor Of Assemblyman Harry Oliver o.
Ransom county, who was one Of thu
leading members of the late legislature
Ida Burdick, Of unfortunate social
predictions. committed suicide IL the
Park house, Grand Forks. ShS had
quarreled with her lover.
A regiment of eighteen companies Of
the Dakota National guards has been
formed and another one will be organ.
lied in the south.
Many farmers in Dakota who did no,
pillow all their ground last fall have moi
the stocR necessary to prepare the
ground now, and will he obliged to car.
ry out their original plans. Others
have bought flax and other seed and
cannot afford to change now. In some
cases where farmers have not procured
flax for seed, and have ground ready,
they may put it into wheat.
The reason Dakota is allowed $4,000
more than Minnesota for taking the
census is that the per cent of increase
Of population since 1880 has been great
er.
DIR: o. W. Archibald, superiuten.
dent Of the North Dakota hospital for
the insane, at jamestown, has arrived
here with his family from Fort A.
Lincoln. 1t is expected that patients
will be transferred from Yankton with
in 30 days.
The contractors who graded about
100 miles of the Dakota & Great South
ern railroad last year are again at work
with double the force. The work lacks
but few miles of being completed
from Eliot. on the Fargo & South
western, to Bristol.
One firm at Glendale has Just
shipped 100000 trees from Iowa.
That number set out in that section
would make quite start toward trees.
D. NJ. Shannon of Sanborn was awak-
ened the other night, to find his barn
in flames. He reached it it time to
barely save six horses. Fifty bushels
Of wheat, 300 bushels of oats and reap
ing machine were destroyed.
Robert Fairweather, of Euclid, Polk
county, has 700 acres in seed, and will
have upwards of 5000 acres seeded.
Commissioners Wilton and Mallory Of
Rolettc county, have been required to
give bonds of $500 each to answer on a
charge of misdomeanor and neglccting
to appoint judges on May II, at a
special election, as called for by law.
The first rain of the season fell at
Pierre, and farmers are happy. Vege-
tation was sadly i'll need Of moisture,
and planted crops will rapidly come
forward.
A burglar broke into Mobey's tailor
shop at Fargo and succeeded in getting
away with six coats, five vests, three
pairs of pants and one pants pattern.
Police gave chase and captured the
clothes but failed to capture the thief.
Near Brownville, in o camp of Fin.
landers o drunken row occurred, in
which John Weare was killed and john
Costello wounded by one Clemens.
DIR. G.. E. vesey, physician of good
standing at Clifton, in Sully county.
lately attempted to commit suicide with
morphine and strychnine. Prompt use
Of antidotes saved his life. It was
thought that his mind was affected, and
the county board pronounced him in
sane. He has been taken to an asylum.
The Msndan Pioneer calls attention
to the fearful and wanton destruction
Of large game going on in the northwest
At this time.
Albert Bugemill of Darbin has bought
;he noted farm near Sanborn for 81,
500.
Fred Reenkel of Minor has been ap.
pointed auditor of Sargent county.
The Hide & Fur company of Tracy
purchased an otter skin five feet in
length. which was shipped down from
Gary, Oak.
The Red River Elevator company, of
Minneapolis, will build 10000 eleva-
tor ut Devils Lake.
w. T. johnson of Aberdeen has q
Inc stable of horses. Hambletonian
Pilot, by Dauntless. by Hambletonian
10; dam Flora, by Strader's Clay; sec.
ond dam by Pilot, Jr. Agatha, b. NJ,
by Alaric, by Richmond, by Handle
tonian 10; dam Mamie Thorne dam Of
Thornless, 2 $3.50, by Hamlet. Grit, b.
g., full brother to Thornless.
In the United States court at Yank-
ION, the jury in the case of William
Rust of Chamberlain, charged with
trespass on government timber, return.
ed verdict of not guilty.
Bennett, accomplice of Bell in the
Small murder, pleaded guilty as acces-
sorry. This gives him five years i'm
prisonment. Bells corpse has been he.
headed and physicians have his skull.
The Park hotel at Steele, burned. It
was owned by Mrs. E. MCGOWAN, was
valued at $1,000, and was insured for
$500, $1,000 being in the St. Paul,
Fire & Marine company of st. Paul,
MIMI, and 81, 1000 in the Hartford Fire
Insurance company of Hartford. Conn.
The hotel was occupied and run by F.
s. Corwin and d. H. Stickney. Board.
ers and others had many individual
losses, making the grand total some
$13, 500, with but $500 insurance.
| Wednesday,. the 18th the valuable harm