The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1886-07-23
DAKOTA TERRITORIAL NEWS

Pierre is snid not to have been as in
furious to crops as was first reported.
Forty-tivc thousand barrels OF water
90 to waste every day from the Yank-
ton artesian we'll.
Joseph Smith, near Hamlin, Rich.
land county, was killed by stroke Of
lightning.
The Huron National bank has in
creased its capital stock to $4,000.
The lessees ofthe Yankton creamery
have disappeared, leaving an indebt.
edness OF 50, 900, principally to farm.
ers.
Mrs. Olivier Laplant, living near
Elkwood, was killed by stroke OF
lightning.
w. Z. Jones' saw mill in the foot
hills west of Big Springs was destroy
ed by fire. Loss $4,000.
Important finds of silver and copper
and some gold and mica are reported
ut Whalen canyon, nea kSet can
yon. I;
A negro named. "sl ally
shot at sturgis City y n.
Iron Hill turned q ounces
Of silver during Jun
Fire destroyed le of E.
Hughes ut Portland. The contents
were saved. Loss, $500.
S. Il. Pickert has been commissioned
postmaster at Pickert.
A. l.. Abbott, ex-judge OF probateat
Milbank, has received 2 ,O95 back pen
sion.
| The treasure coach brought into
Rapid last week $151, 1856 worth OF
bullion.
Arthur Fenton, at Salem, made his
third unsuccessful attempt to commit
suicide by taking chloroform.
Lieut.. l.. p. Dawson, Eleventh infan-
try, late Seventh cavalry, has been or
dered to his station at Fort Buford,
Oak.
l.. Q. Jeffries, late OF Wooster, Ohio,
has been appointed clerk of the Hyde
county court by Judge Church. Mr..
Jeffries is an author.
The Milwaukee & st. Paul engineers
are now in Emmons county, cross Sec
tioning and setting grade.
The increasing demand for oats in
the Black Hills has caused prices to
advance to 1926 per 100 pounds
and the government contractors will
be Obliged to ship in grain from the
| states.
DR.. w. r. Collins of Grand Forks,
who was defeated two years ago for
she territorial council, has again an
| lounced himself rs u candidate for
She same position.
Timber and prairie fires swept over
large area north oftlle Belle Fourche.
Settlers fought it two days before get
ling control.
The Seventh Day Adventists have
about dozen ministers in Dakota
and u membership of about seven
| aundrea.
Following is list of the gentlemen
who were charged with having "filed
claims" on the Aberdeen land office:
Abe Boynton, c. Boyd Barrett, Dem
ocratic editor of Aberdeen; Il. II.
Broom, Huron; i. A. Bowers, r. III.
Calvert, j. w. Cope, +. A. Howard,
N. B. Manson, i. r. Masllicrs, A. NJ.
Pierson, ii. d. Pugh, II. ii. Russell,
Mai. a, l.. Burke, +. j. Dean, Am
brose w. Miller and Frank l.. Ran
dolph.
A Chamberlain special says: Trout,
who is wanted ut Sioux City for the
murder of Ed Hatch, July 3, was cap
turcd nine miles east OF Chamberlain
by John Foster, city marshal OF Cham
oerlain, and Deputy Sheriff Austin,
while assisting afarmer in making hay.
lie at first protested his innocence of
;he crime ut Sioux City, but finally
ander close questioning by officers, he
confessed he was Trout.
DIR. Burchard, the insane cousin of
ex-President Hayes, who came up from
Jamestown and started west, will have
20 go back to the asylum at James.
Gown and await the arrival of Eastern
friends.
Special from Sanborn: Animmense
cloud OF grasshoppers settled down on
grain field seven miles east of San
born, and in short time had eaten
svery green thing on about fifty acres
One or two other fields were also in
iured, but none so seriously. Before
sundown the hoppcrs rose and winged
their way southeast. It is not learn
ed where they alighted
Sterling S. Smith, recently named by
President Cleveland as receiver OF the
United States land Office at DEVILS
Lake is unknown there. The nresent
incumbent, A. o. Whipple, sent in his
resignation in December. to take charge
OF the First National bank at DEVILS
Lake OF which he is vice president.
There were u nnylber Of local appli-
cants ior the office, and some disnp.
proval is expressed at the presidents
course in appointing an outsider
Oswald, the murderer of McWeeney.
Mt DEVILS Lake, was sentenced by
Judge Mcconnell to twelve years in
the territorial penitentiary at Bis
marck. The sentence was lightcr than
generally anticipated it would he. The
prisoner . brother was the only one OF
the family present. Refore sentence
was passed ]. h. Olsricn, counsel for
the prisoner, withdrew his motion for
q new trial, and asked the lieniency of
the court. The prisoner was taken
Immediately to the tram. In passing
sentence Judge Mcconnell strongly
condemned the theory set UP i. ihs
trial that McWeeney d;od irom heart
disease. The Judge said the theory
was absolutely outrageous.
A man named Ole Martin shot his
right arm off near Broken Bona Jake,
near Grand Forks, bY accident. The