The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1888-06-01

A petrified monster about the size
Of a barrel in diameter and from
twenty to forty feet in length has
been discovered nca, Medicine Bluff
on the south side of the Missouri
river. Several soldiers from Fort
Randall are engaged in digging out
the stone and sections OF it will Re
sent. east to be examined by experts.
W. rrsm costing $57 for
=. wenv IRON, Y...,ktan
recently to England. 1t covered two
pages OF cap, and the words were
written closely together.
A young gentleman at Bismarck,
Weldon Webster. hasinvented type
writer that double discounts the ma.
chimes in use as lar as speed is con-
cerned. II should make eighty words
u minute i'll the hands OF a fair writer.
MIR. Webster has been working on it
ior Il year and filed u cuveat in the
patent office to protect Ills revolution.
The old-time spirit oflawlessness has
been revived 81; s';;irgis. One night ut
the halfway house bet ween the town
and the fort, a colorel damsrl carved
q soldier OF the same hue as herself
with one fell swoop she hewe,l him
from collar bone to hip. lie was not
killed and no arrest was made. Ii is
Slid that two men were shot in the
same row.
The Buckeye Cattle comp.ny of
Rapid City sold its horses and horse
brands to Bo|ard Il Gould, OF this
place. The price paid was $50 per
head. The number sold is not known
iiet as tile count has not been made.
Tue sale is one OF the largest stock
transactions made here this year.
Recently Warden Fullenwrlder, o,
the United States penitentiary at
Sioux Falls, received n pardon from
President Cleveland for Herman Gun
ther. who was n soldier in the United
States army and was sentenced from
Bismarck to sixty.ive days in the
penitentinry and to nay u fine OF
81, 900 for mayhem.
The Sioux Falls high school has
been presented with over SIXTY maps
and charts by the interior depart.
ment. The collection is highly prized,
and will be OF much benefit to pupils
who are posting themselves on the
United States.
Fire destroyed eleven business
places in Blunt ageregatiny in value
5000 with only $1,000 insurance.
Several people narrowly escaped with
their lives. Some of the business men
sSs sGf nss"r5Y E,.S .SSfiSst,is"ts' but all will re-
millinery store, two butcher shops, q
confectionery, livery stable and a law
office are among the buildings destroy
ed.
Planting the first tree in n new
country is not usually made an event
OF much Importance, but the New
Englanders OF Hettlnger county have
thought it worth while to record the
fact that the first tree was planted
on the 18th OF April.
Mrs. Richard Higgins, who was ai-
tlicted by the death OF her husband in
Aberdeen durin. the last days OF
April, and then again by the death OF q
young son u week or so later, received
IA letter Monday night bearing the sad
intelligence of the death of her father
and mother, Mr.. and Mrs, X. S. Raw.
don. on the same day at their homo
in Darlington, Lafayette county, Wis.
Minot has Il citizen. John Hyatt by
name, II man OF some 40 years OF age.
who has never had u tooth, none ever
having grown. But has u set OF gums
that are almost rs hard MS u stone.
He says that he can eat anything, and
while in the army lie had no difficulty
in getting away with the hardtack.
The Sioux Falls vinegar and pick.
ling works have secured cucumber
seeds and these they are going to dis
tribute among the farmers and then
enter INTO contract with them for Gu
cumbers. 1t is he intention to put up
several hundred barrels OF pickles
this fall, and the price to be paid for
cucumbers will make it II big induce
nlent for farmers TO engage in this
business.
A Finklestein. who formerly kept n
clothing store i'll Black River Falls,
recently shipped about $500 worth OF
goods 10 Chicago in the care OF clerk
named Henry Stein. But, instead Of
sending them to Chicago, the clerk, it
is is charged, had them shipped to
Indiana and various other places.
Stein has been arrested.
The l2-year-old son OF j. b. speers,
OF Worthwhile, while playing with q
loaded revolver recently, shot himself
through the hand.
Diversified farming is being adopted
this year more generally than hereto,
fore in central Dakota The farmers
are learning that they lGtrc got to
have some kind ola pnyinscrop every
year.
While workmen were engaged in
raising a store buildin. at Aberdeen
the jnckscrews gave way. Anton Bur
an, II workman, was cu,sht between
the falling building and tho one ad-
Joining. His cries for help wrreplteous.
1t was fifteen minutes before he was
released. lie is njurcd internally and
may die. A number OF other work
men narrowly escaped.
John a. Chadwick. one OF the first
settlers Of Water;own, is dead at the
asc oi - years. He took up his resi-.
dence in Jefferson County III 1897.
Alfred Englcstadt. editor oi an Eau
Claire temperance paper has receivod
u letter saying he will be "Iladdoek-
ed. if he does not "let up Oil the sa.
looms"
Keeping Away the Frost.
Regulations have been established in
the coffee districts in Guatemala by
which the farmers ale required to
build furnaces ON their lands. and