The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1896-06-05
IN NORTH DAKOTA
Interesting News Items From al1
lurts Of the state.

Interesting News Items From alD
lsurts Of the state.
The pipe for the Lisbon water works
IS more than half laid. 81
The 500 had to put in an additional
crew to hustle freight at Harvey. 81,
New Rockford has tennis club
with sixteen members.
Some Wheatland men have violated
the game law.
Judge Lauder is holding court in
Mcintosh county.
Crystals fire department has been
reOrganiZed.
jamestown is now district headquar-
tiers for the Salvation Army.
o. j. Stirk of Devils Lake has been
appointed q guard at the pen.
X. Smith of Lisbon gets an increase
of pension.
Mimic will probably get into the big
telephone circuit.
Mimic parties struck q very good ar-
tesian we'll at depth of 223 feet.
Edinburg, in Walsh county, will in.
corporate.
Three Pembina blind pigs were
pulled last week.
Lars Ellingson has been appointed
postmaster at Jackson, N. D.
Ncls jacobson of DeGroat has been
granted an original pension.
Farm hands are in great demand
and hard to get in Sargent county.
Ben Pagels killed 35O-pound bear
near Bottlneau last week.
Ransom county Independents meet
in county convention at Lisbon June
IL.
A twelve-year-old boy at CRYSTAL
would have been killed by a boar but
for the gallant services of his dog.
Alfred Johnson, a fourteen-year-old
Grand Forks boy, will be sent to the
reform school for incorrigibility.
A Dickey county mans team. and
wagon ran over him, inficting serious
injuries.
The Traill county seat case was be-
fore the supreme court again for ar-
gument.
A farmer nine miles west of Grand
Forks shot an American eagle that
measured six feet across the wings.
Some one burglarized Grand Forks
restaurant for $S5 and set fire to the
building.
A Quarter-section Of wheat is being
sown at Wheatland for the benefit of
q Methodist parsonage fund.
So many horses are missing in Sar-
gent county that the existence of rust
lers is suspected.
The tiremen's tournament has been
postponed from June 8, 10 and IL to
June 1G, IL and 10.
FOrman is up with the procession
with two safes cracked. No money
found.
DR.. j. NJ. HI. Stoffer got losts on the
prairie near La Moure one night last
week, but found himself next morn
ing.
A tarantula stampeded the whole
town OF Harvey the other day. The
varmint finally jumped himself to
death trying to catch somebody.
Hon. H. A. Armstrong has been ap-
pointed states attorney of EmmOns
county to succeed the late John
Parker.
George Doherty of Drayton who
created a sensation last year by get
ting arrested in New York, has been
sent to the asylum at jamestown.
Grand Forks is to have paved streets
tile business men and the property
owners are ut work hand in hand to
bring about the desired end.
The proposition to change Bathgate
from a village to a city carried by 20
votes. The city officers will be elected
in IL few days.
Hope will celebrate July / in man
ner never before attempted there.
Preparations are now in progress and
a big time is looked for.
The Office of Agent Warner of the
Andrews & Gage elevator at Pingree,
was entered by burglars and $3.50
taken. No clue.
Horse thieves broke into the barn of
William Pinkham, Il farmer living L.
miles southwest of Fessenden. and
stole valuable horse and four sets
| of harness.
Bathgate city schools Will close OH
June 1. Prof. Godward has accepted
a position with the Pembina schools
as principal. He is a graduate OF
| Minnesota university.
Neil Mckay, nineteen years old, son
of farmer living twelve miles from
Wheatland, was accidentally killed
last night by being thrown from his
pony. He lived several several hours.
| The Forman Telephone company
has let Il contract to Kemper Peabody
and 9. G. Mundahl to extend the pres
ent line from Lisbon to Sheldon via
Buttzville and Enderlin. Work is
now under way. When the line is
completed this will be one Of the best
telephone systems in the state. The
line is now paying q per cent divi-
dend.
At a meeting of the business men
and farmers of AbercrOmbie $1,000
was subscribed as a bonus for a first
class Touring mill of not less than
100 barrels capacity, to be located at.
Abercr0mbie. All bids for this mill
must reach the secretary of the adj
vertising committee by May 80. The
committee reserves the right to re-
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