The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1885-12-25

II. Cole was arrested at Fargo on
suspicion of being the murderer OF
kopf, the man found in the cor OF
wheat.
Taxes for 1885, throughout the ter
ritory are due and payable on and
after Nov. LIST, and become delinquent
Feb. LIST, after which latter date q
penalty of 5 per cent. and 1 per cent.
interest q month attaches.
Judge Francis at Mandan decided!
the Mercer county case, sustaining the
demurrer of the defendants. This suit
began several months ago, in
which parties sought to upset the or.
ganization ofthe county on theground
that the commissioners were appoint
ed illegally by Gov. Ordway and for
other reasons. The defendants de-
INJURED.
The jury in the case of Anna Dono-
van VS.. Tie City of Fargo brought in
o verdict OF so, 33 for the plaintiff,
nearly one-half the amount claimed.
The coal mining company at Dun
seth, Turtle mountains, has resumed
work and will, haul to Devils Lake IL
quantity of their coal to be thorough
ly tested us to its steam-producing
qualities by the Manitoba road.
The man recently found murdered
in a freight car at Duluth was Andrew
Kopf ofAlgiers, Oak.
Jay B. Edwards has retired from the
Northwood Headlight, and is succeed
ed by Mr.. Kiley.
The railroad commissioners have
Gent q man to Milwaukee to obtain
certain information from the railroad
companies which they have been UNI
able to obtain by letter.
Judge Mcconnell sent the following
to the Bismarck pcnitentiary: Charles
0bsey, larceny ola horse, six months;
Louis Durkins, larceny from the per-
son, ono year and five months; Jesse
Mitchell, larceny OF a horse and bug
gy, one year and six months; Stephen
H. Stewart. attempted rape, two
years and six months; William Hart,
grand larceny, two years and seven
months; John Curley, mayhem, ono
year and seven months; Thomas Cor
ley, assault with dangerous weapon,
six months; Thomas Ryan, burglary
one year and four months; James NAL
ley. grand larceny from the person,
four years and eight months; Charles
Hayes, grand larceny from the person,
three years and four months.
George White, Frank sqnires and
John Patterson, prisoners confined in
the county Jail, ut Glendale, escaped.
They took the hinges off a door.
Delegates from several counties met
at Huron and denounced Commission.
er Sparks.
Settlers in North Dakota refuse to
pay taxes until the status of the
Northern Pacific lands is settled.
Bismarck Capital: A movement lie
on foot to build a railroad from Bis.
marck northwest. It is understood
that unless the Milwaukee & st. Paul
or the Northwestern pushes into the
country within the next year an in
company will be organized
to build southeast and pool with the
Rock Island, which is headed for this
point.
Clark, one of the smaller and newer
counties ofthe central region, already
has fifty school houses erected.
There are four graded and LOG un-
graded schools in Brown county, with
2,514 pupils enrolled.
The grading force on the Elkhorn
Valley extension of the Black Hills
are operating between Rapid City and
Spring creek.
A petition has been forwarded to
and elsewhere asking con-
gress to throw upon the market the
immense pine area in the Red Lake
Sheriff Harris OF Hughes county will
resign his Office owing to the made
quacy Of the salary.
Frank Hunter, O prominent farmer
at Cooperstown, committed suicide by
shooting himself.
At Fargo, J. H. Winslow secured a
verdict of s4ss, 90 against the North.
ern Pacific Railroad company for
some mules injured while being trans
ported over the defendants railroad.
John O'Brieu of Castalia pleaded
guilty in the district court at Yankton
of selling liquor to an Indian, and was
fined $500,
The Northwestern Stage company
are packing their Office furniture in
Pierre, preparatory to removing it to
Buffalo Gap.
An Ell red correspondent OF the
Fargo Argus writes: "Wheat nearly
all marketed; not more than one.
fourth in farmers hands. When the
seed is taken out of what remains