The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1885-01-09
DnSTf FERalTORIAb NEWS.

s:esi. n ssm0v'd from 1'n1t'a @ IT to Bis
!: 4 rdstoAlee bas been established "
Shelby, Brown county.
!. Ffsnk J. Drew Of Grand Forks dis.
ributd 800 loaves Of bread among the
poor efthat city on New Years morn.
The plan of building soldiers home
= Dakota is being agitated by the ter.
sitorial press.
Dakota spent 100000 for school
houslss lest ;ySsf 6tsd, owns sahool lands
The Sioux Falls,,' Fairb.nEs & West.
ern survey has been completed to .
point three miles west Of Huron, and
viii be continued in the direction Of
Sioux Falls.
Fire Destroyed the saloons Of Megin
4 Pfitzel and Gilbert Matson, at Rey-
holds, hgsI Grand Forks. Megin lived
over his place and lost lris household ef.
fects.
Charles Oleson, . Scandinavian was
taken. from the eastern train ct Bis
marck with his limbs 90 badly frozen
that they must be aDfputed, the result
of Q spree ct Brainerd.
A. johnson and Fingsr Larson were
brought before the United States COM
missioner, At Fargo and pleaded guilty
to cutting timber on government lands.
A Territorial Horticultural associa!-:
ton has been organized, with the fol-
lowing officers: President. Z. De Bell
Of Sioux Falls, vice president. H. Wust.
9h Of Huronj secretary and treasurer,
W: F: Ekstiaaff of Washington.
A finely propoortioned steer Weighing
1,55O pounds was killed at Yankton;
and its skin has been stuffed for ex.
hibition at New Orleans.
Messrs. Dale and Kennedy, hardware
and farm machinery merchants at Daw-
son, hsve made an assignment and
closed up business.
At Yankton Judge Edgerton pro-
nounced the following sentences: Will
liam Williston burglary, one year and
six months; Jacob Kostelberger, lar.
ceny from store, six years and four
months; Nelson H. McDuffie, securing
money under false pretenses, two years
and six months; Charles Sanford, bur.
glsry, four years and six months.
The vote for delegate, as officially
sanvassed by the chief justice AMI Sec
Eetary rf the territory, is as follows: {:
Total vote; S6,764; Gifford, II .079t vii.
son, 1914; scattering, 61.
The Odd Fellows of Dakota will ccle-
brate the sixty-sixth anniversary Of
their order at Huron; April 9th, next,
and ex-Vice President Colfax will de.
liver the oration.
A Philadelphia clergyman told the
children of his Sunday school that out
in Dakota they dig great square holes
IN the ground and hold the Sunday
schools in these holes. A little girl
writes letter to the Times of that city,
saying that the reverend gentlemen ID
In . hole himself, as nd such systaui
exists in Dakota. :,
At Fargo the United States commits
sioner held w. w. Bowers, Knud Knud.
son and Albert Graves, charged with
stopping the United States mail in Rob
ert county. H. H. HouRherty and Ed.
win Cook were discharged.
Word has been received Of the death
at San Francisco of Samuel McMaster,
superintendent of the Homestake gold
mines and other Enterprises in the Hills,
and Q prominent candidate before the
last Republican territorial convention
tor nomination as delegate to congress.
In an open letter to Gov. Pierce in a
Jamestown paper John Paul Logan asks
him to recommend the reconstruction
of the east and west boundary lines of
ell counties in Dakota which touch the
18th parallel, so that the 46th parallel
shall be the north boundary line for all
contiguous counties IN South Dakota
This, he says, would commit the present
Legislature to division, and otherwise
facilitate the same.
Judge Guptell, United States COM
missioner, at Fargo. bound all the al.
legged interferers with the mail wagon
in Roberts county, to the term OF court
at Sioux Falls. The Judge stated that
while it was shown there was no inten-
ton to commit the offcnso charged, the
hating of wagon in the highway with
Winchester and revolver drawn. was q
practice upon which the court should
set the seal of its condemnation.
The capitol building at Bismarck will
oe dedicated with appropriate ceremo.
nies on Jan. IA, the expenses of which
will be borne by that city. Mayor
Dunn has appointed the city council as
. committee to act in the matter. An
invitation to participate has been ex-
tended to members-elect of tile legisla-
ture, all county commissioners of the
Territory, editors, civil and military or
carnations and prominent citizens.
/. Devils Lake Inter Ocean: Nickeus
& Baldwin have enjoined the commits.
sioners of McHenry county from trans
acting any business, slleging maladmin-
istration and failure to provide voting
places for the citizens of the last gener-
alelection. The injunction, Col. Town
er informs Us, is in the interest Of a
townsite scheme. Messrs. Nicheus e.
Baldwin have laid several hundred acres
of scrip on the Mouse river near the
western boundary of McHenry county,
and an effort will ba made to undo the
present organization and effect now
one favorable to the new scheme. Live
ly times are anticipated. The matter
will figure to some extent in the legisla-
ture.
The North Dakota Poultry associa-
ton had show, lasting three days at
Fargo, and it was most agreeable sur
prise to its projectors in its being q
great success. Tie fair showed that
great interest is being taken in this sec.
tion in raising fine poultry.
Governor Pierce says that since tho
county seat trouble in Sphinx and Roll.
erts counties he hos applications from
almost eyeey town and village in the