The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1885-07-10

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whole the crop may be said to be in az good
condition as 1t was last year at this time.
Aside from the slightly decreased acreage
the crop would turn out as much as last
year. Harvest will begin ten day earlier
In the northern portion Of the territory un.
less the weather from this time should
prove backward.
Two good horses were stolen from
Rev. Mr.. Cook of Dickinson q few days
ago.
Miner county: will issue ten bonds oi
81 900 each.
The new quarters for the Fifteenth
Infantry band at Fort Buford have
been completed.
A man named Jacob Jordon was
drowned in Day Creek, near Rapid
City, recently. A cloud burst sudden.
ly, swelled the creek, and he was caught.
w. L. shrigley, a well known farmer
residing a short distance west of How.
ard, was seriously, if not fatally gored
by an enraged bull.
Sheldon was visited by hailstorm.
Among the fields damaged are James
Hawley, 200 acres; j. B. Folsom, 800
acres; A. j. Ayers, 800 acres. Most
all of it was insured in various COM
panies. The hail covered a strip four
miles wide by six long, hitting section
and skippingperhaps two or three be-
fore damaging another.
George Burns, while driving a bunch
of cattle along Elk creek, near Rapid
City. was struck by lightning and
killed.
The Grant County Agricultural as
sociation has secured a 81, 900 inter.
est in the driving park association oi
Milbank, and it will use the grounds
for it's fairs.
I The Sioux City & Pacific railroad
twill be built to a point fifty-six miles
from Rapid City, this season.
Judge McC Connsll at Fargo, practical
y denied the mandamus in the Traill
county case which had been asked for,
to prevent the building of u new court
house at Caledonia. He advised the
contending parties to get together and
agree to improvements affording more
safety for the county records, instead
of putting up new building. Thecase
was adjourned for two weeks, when the
result of the conference will he given
to the court.
A large number of energetic settlers
have taken claims in the southwestern
part of Rolette county. Two town
ships have been occupied.
Thefailure OIL. L. Smith, the Omaha
merchant, made lively work for Sioux
Falls attorneys. 1t was learned that
Mr.. Smith was the owner of about
twenty acres of land in Sioux Falls,
the value of which is perhaps SIS an
acre. John v. Farwell's attorneys
were the first to swear out attach
ment papers, and his claim being for
$16, 900 will of course absorb the en-
tire property. Later the attorneys OF
A. s. Gage & Co., for$2, 400, Wilson
Brothers for $2,165, and the Mer.
chants National Bank of Omaha for
$15, 900, each levied upon the same
PAot0AGy. vi U1lC hUJ6S:Ils
ments can hope to get nothing, except
in theevent that some error may have
been committed in the papers Of Far
well & Co.
w. H. Day, Dakota's member of the
national Democratic committee, was
at Grand Forks, and was besieged on
all sides by applicants for Office. In
reply to inquiries he stated: He
thought there would be some changes
in federal Offices in Dakota during July
and August, both in the postoffices and
land Offices; but no sweeping changes
i'll either. There were legions of appli-
cants for all the Offices in the territory,
but it was impossible to say who the
lucky aspirants would be.
Subscriptions of stock are being
taken by prominent citizens of Sioux
Falls in connection with the New Eng.
land Loan and Trust Company Of
Des Moines, Iowa, for q Fourth Ma
tional hank, to be opened in Sioux
Falls. Nearly all the stock is already
taken. A new business block will be
erected, part of which will be for the
use of the bank.
The postoffices in Dakota number
over nine hundred, which is more than
many important states have. The
fact furnishes abundant proof of in.
creasing population.
D. G. Shepard & Co., the St. Pau.
railway contractors, have just closed
a contract with the Manitoba & North.
western to build fifty miles of road
northwest Of Minnedosa by Oct. Is,
1855, and tQ grade fifty miles more
and have it ready for the track next
season:
The proposed Dakota 4 Great
Southern has been sold to Eastern
parties and the company reowanized.
Mesars. Haupt, Nlshury, and ono or
two others retired from the directory,
and the road has been sold to Eastern
capitalists, among whom are J. NJ.
Childs of Utica and j. w. Stoddard OF
Dayton. The new officers of the road
areJ. M. Childs, presidential. B. Davis.
vice president, and J. 8. Wheeler, see,
retary and treasurer.
Miss Jennie McCauley has taken two
claims about four miles from Dun.
seith; She has thirty acres Of break.
ing already. o
Sheriff Smith Of Kiaaer county tele.
graphs the Fargo Argus that be has
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