The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1895-10-04
NORTH DAKOTA NEWS
@TEREsTlxo NEWS FROM ALI
PARTS o. the STATE.

t1TEWEeTEN0 NEWS FnO2 ALI
PARTS OF the STATE.
q Condensed Record Of the Inapsp. |
ennt Happenings oe the Week In
Hsrth Dakota, Arranged fsr nsDsS
RsaLiaS.
saturday, Sept. n.
A jamestown burglar was caught IL |
tho net and goes to the jug.
A larn containing 1900 bushels Of
oats was burned on the McEldowney
farm near Wheatland.
Prairie fires did considerable damage
In Stutsman county.
A blind pig was robbed Mt Cogswcll
and the thieves took all they could
drink for week.
Entries for the Jamestown fair races
are being filed rapidly and some ex-
cellent sport is assured.
A pelican measuring nine feet from
tip to tip was killed on the Jim river
In Dickey county.
Frank Whipple out In Kidder county
lost his barn and its entire contents by
fire.
Blackleg is reported to have carried
OF q considerable number Of cattle in
northern Emmons and southern Bur-
leigh counties.
A barber ut Wheatland was arrested
for selling malt, but proved the goods
didn't contain over 2 per cent and was
released.
Coroner Donovan and Fred Mclean,
private secretary to Senator Roach,
are contesting valuable quarter Sec
tion OF land near Langdon. and each
wants 1t badly.
Several bed rooms and the laun-
dry of the Columbia hotel Mt Langdon
were broken into by burglars and q
quantity Of bed clothing and $40 in
cash stolen. A number Of suspicious
characters, are in town, and arrests
will follow.
Sunday, Sept. -.
The bulk of the wheat around Lis
bon is unthreshed.
The Hunter jail was burned by in
cendlaries.
T. G. Little Of Lisbon is showing
some fine syrup made from sugar
beets.
Hobos tried to hold up Fred Graham
at Glendale, hut his fast horse saved
him.
Miss Belle Mattcson, formerly edi-
tor of the Fargo Sun, and now a resi-
dent Of Minneapolis. is to become Il
school teacher in Williams county. q"
The Rolette county fair has been
postponed two weeks to give formers /
time to get their threshing out Of the
| way. The new dates are Oct. 1S and
10.
Judge Morgan has denied the motion
to dissolve the injunctions against the
saloons In Devils Lake, issued by
Judge Sauter. The cases will be tried
| ut the December term of the district
court. Meanwhile the sheriff Is In
charge of the closed plat es.
A prairie fire, said to have been
started by a west-bound passenger,
! try in Nelson county, including 200
dred men and teams were constantly
| fighting it almost from the start.
Monday, Sept. 23.
A farm laborer at Cando was killed
by the bursting of a granary, near
which he was standing.
A Jamestown man was thrown from
a road cart and sustained broken
wrist.
A Rolette county farmer has timothy
three feet high, and it is the second
cutting this season, too.
Burglars secured 500 worth Of shoes
from Schroeder's store at Sheldon.
The injunctions against the eleven
blind pigs at Bismarck have been dis
solved.
A Grafton farmer who had been too
busy threshing to renew promptly the
insurance on his buildings lost his
house and all its contents by fire.
A bright financier at Fargo got hold
of some check books and, filling them
out sold them to threshing crews for
whatever they were willing to invest.
James Earnest, horseman at Wah-
peton, had his assistant arrested on
the charge Of stealing horses, md
couldn't prove 1t and was stuck for $52
costs.
A Burleigh county farmer will con-
vert his entire crops, wheat. oats and
potatoes, into pork, grinding the grain
and steaming the 'tubers and feeding
the mixture.
Tuesday, Sept. ~.
-Four hobos are under arrest at
Wheatland for beating and robbing
lab0rer.
G. o. Odegarden of Sherbrookc, lost
his barn by fire. The origin of the
fire is unknown.
A Larlmore boy took a young lady
out for drive ond got lost on the
prairie in daylight.
La Moure had another narrow es-
cape from confiagration last week
by some hobos setting a box car on
fire.
A harvest hand was found dying be-
tween Wahpet0n and Great Bend.
There was big hole in the back of
his head.
August Willamola, q farmer living
near Glendale, met with a threshing
machine accident which necessitates
the amputation of au arm.
A large amount Of grain near Mich.
igan City was swept up by q prairie
fire and the berg itself only saved by
heroic work,
Dickey county has furnished large
number Of cattle for the Eastern mar
kets within the Inst year or two. Six
teen carloads left Ellendale for Chi
eago on one train,
II the total amount Of losses by prai-
rie fires in North Dakota each year
could be ascertained the figures would
no doubt he enormous. And 40 cheap
and simple thing as a fire break
would prevent every one of them.
Wednesday, Sept. 81.
A prairie fire near Minot burned the
home Of Mr.. Gregory, farmer.
Bootleggers place bottle Of whisky
In pair Of socks and sell tlle-socks
Two tougifs attempted tn rob a
brakeman on No. 80, near Eckclsop,
and were captured by the crew and
landed In jail at Jamestown,
A highwayman tried to hold up Q
Chinaman at the Forks and the rat
eater swiped the robbers revolver and
made him scOot.
The school children of Church's Fer.
~ won the prize ut the street fair for
the best forestry exhibit. Commis-
6i0ner Barrett's work Is bearing fruit.