The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1886-01-29

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ment before the house committees on
territories for the admission Of Da.
kota.
Gov. Pierce has left for chicago and
the East probably to be absent about
q month.
Mr.. Reynolds, a lawyer of Herman,
Mimi, has been in Grand Forks looking
after the estate of Thollefson, who
was killed by Swenson. The heirs live
near Herman, and the estate is worth
about 81, 900.
The news was reached in Sioux
Falls that Helmuth Schoenfeld, who
was formerly resident of that city,
had been scalped by Indians in Mon.
tana, where he now is. The particu-
lars OF the affair have not been learn.
ed.
Corsett, cashier of the collapsed
bank at Devil Lake, was arrested af-
ter leaving on a train for the east.
Bismarck has accepted the propo-
sition of q local company to light the
city by electricity, and the Brush sys.
tenn will be put in at once, enough
private lights have been taken to in
sure its success.
Julia Peronta, one of the heirs of
the "Peronta estate" which is a claim
to q large portion OF Fargo, was re-
Gently married in Grand Forks, and
she now claims, it is said, that 1T was
against her will; that she was the VIC
tim of a conspiracy, the conspirators
first getting her intoxicated, and by
threats compelling her to marry the
man, the purpose being to get her to
relinquish her claim to the "estate."
Both the Milwaukee and thd North
western have Withdrawn their men
from Yankton, and there is cessa.
tion of hostilities regarding right-of-
way in that city and vicinity.
The fight between the two banks at
Sioux Falls, resulting from the First
National refusing to honorits cashiers
check for SIG, 900, and which was the
cause Of the attachment being served
on the First National, will be pushed
to the bitter end. United States Bank
Examiner Taylor of St. Paul has ar
rived to examine into the difficulty of
the First National bank.
Subscriptions at Sioux Falls for the
new railroad now amount to $40, 900.
E. s. Fancher, formerly of Chicago,
was arrested at Yankton charged with
seduction under q promise of ofmarriage
The grand jury at Deadwood has re-
turned indictments against Sheriff
Garland, Col. Tracy, John Mccarthy
and Others, charging them with issuing
false evidences of their indebtedness.
The residence of l.. G. Nelson, near
Bridgewater, burned. Mrs. Rasmus-
sen, who was injured at the time, has
since died.
A man arrived in Park River and
summoned Coroner Melville to attend
a man named Hans Midboe, who had
been murdered by his brother, Gunlick
G. Midboe, in Vesta township. He was
taken to the county Jail at Grafton.
Midboe is Norwegian and an old
settler.
c. K. Howard, county treasurer at
Sioux Falls, rendered his resignation
to the county commissioners, and it
was accepted The board at once ap.
pointed Charles l.. Norton to fill the
vacany. Mr.. Norton is cashier of the
Sioux Falls National bank. He was
q candidate for the Office at the last
general election and was defeated by
but twenty.fou votes. Mr.. Howard
has held the Office for thirteen years.
The Ozone printing office at Steele
was burned to the ground. The loss
will amount to nearly $2,O 900. with no
insurance. The proprietor, F. S. Cor
win, has been burned out twice before
in the past two years.
w. NJ. Hollister, agent of the Moline
Plow company at Sioux Falls, was ar
rested on charge of perjury IN swear
ing out an affidovit for an attachment
against the firm of Summers a. Van
Horn, who claim to have made settle
ment with the company direct.
Deller City is the name of a new town
recently planted in the south part OF
Aurora county.
Hog cholera is making clean sweep
in Greenfield township, Clay county.
At Mandan the residence of Alex
Helmsworth burned. Ioss- 80 5OO.
insured for 81, 500.
Gilbert Walker of Grand Forks ex.
poets AZ, 900, 900 feet of lumber.
A movement is on foot to organize
q company to build a line of railway
between La Moure and Glendale, con-
nectlng the James River Valley road
with the Milwaukee 4 st. Paul.
Insanity will be the main defense in
the Dickey- o Brien murder case at
Yankton.
Dakota loses about fifteen town
ships by change in the Sioux reserva-
tion bill.
The editor of the Fargo Argus says:
ave can accommodate 10000 girls
with husbands in Dakota on ninety
days notice. We have published
1000 letters from as many young
women, and made as many matches. !"
The Farmers Mutual Insurance
Company of Dakota, with headquar-
ters at Plankington, has been organ
lied. Capital, $4,000.
l.. s. 'sweetland, postmaster at
Sweetland, ten miles south of Miller,
was burned out recently. Cause, q
defective flue. Loss, 81 900; insured
in Council Bluffs, $1OO; Springfield,
$500.
Edward N. Leiby, of Glendale, has
been appointed correspondent for
Dickey county for the statistical de.
partment at Washington. He will
have three assistants under his charge.
A number of settlers in Avon, Bon
Homme county, have patitioned for
an abatement of taxes on the ground
Of GREAT lnaa NV hail