The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1888-05-11
DAKOTA NEWS NOTES.

DAKOTA NEWS NOTES.,
From all over the territory come
reports OF farmers returning from
Washington and Oregon.
The farmers elevator at Grandin
was destroyed by fire. Loss, $4,000;
fully covered.
The Sioux Falls Argus says that
there is talk OF establishing a morn.
ing republican newspaper in that
city.
A number OF Turner county farmers
are sowing patches OF alfalfa this
spring and propose to give this valu.
able crop a fair test.
The programme of the fourteenth
annual meeting OF the Dakota Sun
day school association is nearly COM
pleted. The convention will be held
at Mitchell July 10, IL and l2.
At the head OF a gilded palace OF sin
at Deadwood is the widow OF a dis.
tinguished union officer during the re-
bellion.
DR.. Emmons. an expert from the
mines OF Cornwall, England, has made
a careful examination OF the Black
Hills ore. He expressed himself a.
satisfied that u great future was in
store for the tin interests OF the Black
Hills, and declared that this must be.
come q great tin producing country.
Sioux Falls is to have the Norwe.
gian Lutheran college.
There is talk OF q Y. NJ. c. A. build
ing at Watertown.
The military fair given by the la-
dies OF Watertown for the benefit OF
Company II, lasting three days, was
q decided success. The boys cleared
about $500 to help them on their
trip to Nashville.
Attorney General Garland told a
correspondent at Washington that
Judge Francis case remained in the
same condition without change. His
resignation has not again been de-
manded, and while he could make no
certain statement, the attorney gener-
al conveyed theimpression that Fran
els would hold on until the end OF his
term. 1t is generally believed that the
president has decided upon Miller OF
Fargo as the man for the place when
Francis gets out OF the way.
Yankton county farmers generally Y
have finished planting small grain
and plowing for corn has begun. The
soil along the Missouri river counties
is in the best condition OF any sprin.
for five years, and the pralres and
lawns are already covered with grass
OF q length sufficient to be cropped
by live stock. The trees are rapidly
leating out and spring improvements
are in full blast. The Iankton street
railway company, with u capital
stock of $4,000. will begin building
within two weeks. The electric light
plant is we'll under construction.
Judge Francis was in Jamestown
the other day en- route to Darlington
to hold Foster county's first term OF
court. AS an indication OF the good
order prevailing throughout his dis
trict he stated t,ht there is at present
not single prisoner in the Bismarck
Jail but one or two in the .lamtst own
jail, which is usually empty, and in
the entire district not more than u
dozen criminals are now confined
The extent OF country embraced in
| T,I ES,.o -.
area than the State of New York and
has over $4,000 people.
Senator Davis introduced in the
senate a bill to allow the city OF Abcr-
deem to purchase from the general
government the southeast quarter
section /, town l2:', range 62, with.
in sixty days after the passage OF the
act. This tract OF land is the we'll
known Dayton claim in that city.
over which there has been so much
controversy.
John Stukey, IL butcher at Gettys.
burg. committed suicide. Viii isky is
the cause.
Plankinton is tryin. to solve the
liquor question by application OF the
law in II vigorous way.
Citizens OF Pierre are highly inccnscd
over the action OF the Chicago e
Northwestern railroad. The Jerry
boat is owned by that corporation
and because it does not pay u large
per cent the company has ordered
that it be laid up until further orders.
Petitions. signed by all the merchants.
have been sent to President Hu.hit.,
protesting against the act. Private
individuals are anxious to put OH a
new boat, but are frightened away by
the Chicago & Northwestern road
threatening to run their boat.
During q strong gale OF wind, II
spark from the Illinois Central loco
motive set fire to the horse sheds oi
W. O. Johnson, railroad contractor,
located On the river bank at Sioux
Falls. The sheds, which contained
l25 head OF horses and mules, wcr..
ablaze in III instant. The men rush.
ell in and cut the halters oi nearly u
hundred but the rest were burned.
Some OF the burning animals broke
their halters. rushed to the river and
| Jumped in and We're carried over the
Fails. Eighteen carrasses remain in
the ruins. Five were SO badly burned
that they had to be shot. A large
quantity OF harness WAS also burned
III the sheds
Herbert Smith, % young man from
Wisconsin, who was arrested at Aber-
deem, charged by John II. Drake with
grand larceny in taking trunk con-
tanning stationery and printing MA.
terial from the Dakota Pioneer Of
lice, attempted to commit suicide in
the jail. He was found and cut down
by Marshal Curiiss and restored to
consciousness. He stated that he
took the trunk TO secure money due
him. Drake subsequently paid him
The trunk WAS found at the depot, and
ho WIS arrested when about to leave
town. Doubts OF Smiths sanity are
| entert aimed.
There is considerable activity in