The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1885-07-17
DAKOTA TERRITORIAL NEWS.

book full of money, in Michigan City,
Ind.
Rock has been found OH Two Bit, in
the Hills, which carries 40 to so per
cent of first-class saltpeter.
Erick Olson, a Scandinavian, com.
mitted suicide in Bismarck by taking
poison.
Ayoungm named Conrad, former.
ly ofWimona, MINI. committed suicide
ut Casselton.
Rev. William NJ. Blackburn, d. D.,
late president of the University OIL
North Dakota, at Grand Forks, has
accepted the presidency of Pierre un
ivcrsity, and will at once remove his
family to East Pierre and enter on the
duties of his Office.
j. +. Osborne, a horse thief attemp
I'd to break Jail at Bismarck and was
shot through the lungs by Jailcr CLARK
while trying to escape.
In Aurora county a young man ruin
I'd a respectable young lady, and hel
friends gave him coat Of tor and
feathers.
At the Dakota Teachers associa
.ion's second annual meeting ut Huron
20 teachers were present.
The clothing store of w. A. White
Co., at Wahpeton, was entered by
burglars cutting through q rear door
About 500 worth of clothing ant
some watches we're taken.
The camp meeting at Big Stone City
was largely attended. Thirty tent.
surrounded n large pavilion seating
1000 people. Many clergymen wcr.
present, also Thomas McClary OF Min
neapolis and Rev. j. F. Dunnett, ID. ID.
md party from Dixon, III. Ira N
Pardee, superintendent of the NJ. f
Church Dakota mission, etc.
The Bank of Mitchell has paid off all
its creditors 100 cents on tledollar.
The house OF George sperry at Fps
wich was entered by burglars i'll searcl,
Of several hundred dollars he had that
day, hut Mr.. Sperry discovered the
thieves and put them to flight.
Miss Lena A. Dix of Mitchell has been
given u certificate by the state board
of dental examiners, allowing her to
practice in the territory.
The boy Condcrman, who shot and
killed bis sister near Mitchell, has been
discharged on preliminary examine.
ton.
A vigilance committee, with 100
members, has bennformcd in I.arimore
county to look out for horse thieves.
Mrs. J. Barnett, living near Water
sown, gave birth to four lively babies
weighing twenty-eight pounds, and
nearly alike in weight and appearance.
The quartet is well divided, two being
boys aud two girls. The mother and
babies are reported as doing we'll.
Mrs. Harold I.rnde died in Fargo
from the effects of nn overdose of
opium.
James LIE Moire was killed by the
kick OF horse, OIL the Belle Fourclle
The population of Beadlc county is
1O,3SO, and OF Huron $500.
The county assessor has just eo.,,;;
pleted his returns for SPHINX county,
and it shows L total valuation of 49,.
!:l.b, 1913. The assessed valuation Of
Ashton is 1871 ,OG5, of Redtell $780,.
7OG and OF Frankfort $233,S7s
Col. Lounsberry recalls the fact that
III the carly days of Bismarck, Il doz,
EN- years ago, Vice President Colfax:
Secretary Window and party of Ia.
dies visited that city with their fami.
lies to remain some time. hut were driv.
an away by the mosquitoes and some
of thelaties made sick. Then smudgas
sent up their fumes in front of every
door and everyone wore mosquito
nets. These pests reiterated befOreeiy,
ilizatioN somewhat, but are worse this
season than for several years on &C.
count of the frequent rains and hot
weather.
q. IL. Moore lately sold bis 800
acres IN Ransom county for SIG. 500.
He entered the land less than five
years ago and it had cost him but a
few hundred dollars. -
William F. Goheen, formerly law
yer from Springfield, ILL.,, for the past
few years farmer in Dakota and
postmaster ut Maybury, about wen.
ty miles west OF Aberdeen, was struck
with lightning on his way home, about
two and a half miles west, with q load
of grain and feed, and instantly killed.
The census shows the crop acreage
;of Ransom county this year to be 81.
200 acres. Somewhere about three
tifths of this vast field is seeded in
wheat, the remainder being principally
lax and barley. The crops are re-
ported magnificent. The total i,opu,
lation of the county is 5,673, Lisbon
counting up about 1868.
George Harlan, agcl sixteen years,
was drowned at Sioux Falls recently,
sShile bathing.
Hugh McConvilie's residence in Cas-
SETON was burned by tra,nps. Loss
81 200.
VIC. Cook and wife, were killed by
lightning near Chamberlain.
Thirteen Sioux Falls saloonkeepers
have paid $4,000 city license.
Hon. J. H. Drake makes Sioux
Falls generous offer of a valuable
plot of ground upon which to erect a
soldiers monument
Coates, the Scottish thread manu-
facturer, John Hamilton and Audrey
Allen, of Montreal, havein view the es.
Enlistment of a stock farm near Grand
Forks, with capital Of 5000. OO0.
Sioux Falls Daily Press: Amatri.
monial agency has been started in town
ofwhich John Cameron is the blooming
head. He has already one applicant
on his books in the person ola granger