The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1889-04-19
DAKOTA MENTION.
Condensed Happenings Throughout
Both North and South Dakota,

BOtn N0ftn ana south Dakota.
The Huronite says there has never
been q time when Huron contained
any vacant houses.
The Press says the tramp nuisance
is increasing in Sioux Falls to IN
alarming extent.
The acreage OF wheat sown in the
region tributary to Yankton is csti-
mated ut 30 per cent. greater than
that oflast year.
This is the season of the big egg.
Onida enters one measuring 6 ZIG
inches in circumference one way and
* inches the other.
Twenty-Five original entries were
made in the Rapid City land office
on the Sd, and it WIS the busiest duy
the office has had in three years.
The Vermillion Republican hears Of
farmers who threaten to stack their
grain loose before payingextortion-
ute prices for binding Irvine.
The recent censusot Iennox shows
a population of :GO, land STILL"
says the Independent, 1--WE have no
organization for protection against
fire."
After two days search the body of
Mrs. Snetzenger, who was drowned,
was found six miles from Grand
Forks. The boGyhad been to the sur
face some time.
Yankton's clcctrice light sys-
tenn, says the Press and
Dakotian, is operatedby the
Philadelphia moon schedule
thatis when the moon shines in Phil
ndelphia the lights are put out in
fankton.
The best advice the Press and Da.
kotian can offer is for the people of
iankton to hold themselves well in
hand and not give way to the seluc-
tive excitement of the boom period
now upon them.
An inquest over the remains of
Lars Larson, OF La Grace, appeared
to have been murdered by nalvor
Halvorson, Ole Peterson, and Pedcr
Holden, his neighbor, resulted in II
verdict OF death by drink, and the
defendants were discharged.
a daily morning paper will be pub
lished in Devils Lake within two
weeks. All the material has been
shipped, the associated press fran
elise secured, and u sufficient num-
Der of subscribers and advertising
pledged to warrant success to the
enterprise.
John A. Sigler, editor of the Har-
rold Sentinel, has been bound over
by Justice Pollock in the sum of $500
forhis appearance in the district court
to answer the charge of criminal
libel preferred against him by II. G.
Beasancon, editor of the Harold
Star.
All the money necessary for the
building of the narrow gauge from
Sturgis to Deadwood has already
been subscribed and surveyors set to
work. Omaha parties have assured
the Sturgis people that it is the in
tention to have reduction works built
in time to reduce the first carload OF
ore hauled into Sturgis on the road.
Another teapot tempest was
stirred up ut Sioux Falls
in the court house matter.
A gang of men began the work of re-
moving the building from the recent
ly selected court house site, when an
attorney for the kickers against loca-
ton appeared on the scene and war;
rants served ON all the men engaged
in the work for disturbing the peace-
able possession of the tenant of the
building.
On the 9Th Sioux Falls experienced
the most holly ontested city election
ever known. Party lines were
ignored. The contest was between
W. f. Wiley and W. H. Holt for
mayor. Eighteen hundred and eigh-
teen votes were east, which is the
largest vote ever polled. At IL late
hour the vote had not been
fully canvassed, but Wiley election
is conceded byat least 200 majority.
At Il special meeting of the Farm
ers' Alliance of Ramsey County reso-
lutions were passed censuring the
Irvine trust, resolving that the farm
ers OF that county discard the self
binders on their machines and sub
stitute platforms and bind by hand.
The alliance expressed a willingness
to pay 20 cents per pound for Irvine
and no more.
The Charles Mix county burning
bluff continues to throw off smoke
and II gaseous vapor. The heat is
less intense than some months ago,
or it is lower beneath the surface. A
fund has been raised 10y popular sub
scription to investigate the phcn-
omena and learn the cause of the
combustion. The result of the in
vestigation il awaited with great
deal Of interest.
Reports ofthe various sources are
corroborative of the rumor that
work will soon be begun at the tin
mines of the Harvey Peak company
upon an extensive scale. The Lon
don Mining Journal contains an adj
vertisement for good assayers and
tin dressers to superintcnd depart
ments of the concentrating works
which the company will soon con-
struct.
Mrs. Weinberg, living fourteen
miles south of Kimball met her death
by prairie fire. Theprairies in that
section have been burning for some
days, but this is the first fatality re-
ported, although considerable stock
and hay has been destroyed. Mrs.
Weinberg saw the fire coming, and
thinking it would surely burn the
house she rushed across the prairie,
but was overtaken by the flames and
burned to death, the house not even
catching fire.