The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1896-08-07
IN NORTH DAKOT A
Interesting News Items From MI
Parts OF the State.

The Inkster brass band has been Or
ganized. H8
Stltsman county's live stock interests
show a rapid and healthy growth.
Stutsman county is paying cash for
its warrants.
The army worm is doing some dam
age in Pembina county.
Crop, hay and stock conditions Of the
southern and western portions Of the
state are said to be booming.
Cando's new fire engine has arrived
and been tested to everybody's salts
faction.
The business portion of Bathgate had
n narrow escape from destruction by
fire.
A farmer named Hewitt, near Perth,
says he was driven fromhis farm by
French weed.
! A Grafton prisoner tried to escape
up Il chimney, but the sheriff smoked
him out with Il gun.
A good deal of winter wheat will be
harvested by the hogs this year, rs 1t
is so thin as not to be worth cutting.
Lisbon waterworks contractors are
having trouble in getting their pump
Ing machinery from the factory.
A farmer lost his home by fire near
Steele, and the neighbors promptly
raised a liberal subscription.
Rev. J. Lincoln Jones has become
pastor of the Darlington Congregational
church, vice Rev. Gimblett.
Postmaster Wiley of AIilnor. await
ing trial for embezzling postottice
funds, has been removed from office.
Ex-Gov. Miller writes Wahpeton
friends that he is now settled In his
new Duluth home.
Uncle Sam is expected to do some
work on the Missouri between Mandan
and Bismarck soon.
The French weed is said to have
forced the abandonment of some farms
up along the international line.
Darlington will have a night watch
man during the remainder of the sum-
mer.
The name of the Even postoffice in
Foster county has been changed to
Haven.
The annual session of the grand lodge
| of the knights of Pythias was held ut
Fargo.
Il. c. Tolley, the man who killed
Gust Rouse at Kenmare, has been COM
mitted to Jail until the district court
cOnvenes.
Harry Page, an old-tfme jamestown
checkraiser, has drifted back home and
is again in Jail. He was recently re-
leased from the pen.
A party Of Menonites have been pros
pecting at LandOn and will also inves-
tigate Ramsey county before bringing
a colony from the East
The drouth in the Black Hills region
is serious. The grass is dried up. and
1t is estimated thousand carloads of
hay will have to be hauled into the
country this winter.
Application will be made to Gov.
| Allin within q few days for pardon
for Agnes Baldwin, who was sent to
tho penitentiary from Devils Lake for
eight years for granddaughter.
The two hobos Thought to be the
murderers of j. A. Brown of Cakes are
serving ninety days for vagrancy at
Asslniboia, n. w. r.. and cannot be ex-
tradited until their sentence expires.
An elephant with the Wallace show
got loose in the streets Of Pembina,
created Il stampede. smashed a couple
the other elephants.
| A Portland butcher missed Il half of
a beef and followed some buggy tracks
to Mayville, and, with the aid of an
officer, found the meat in the cellar of
a house, whose occupant then willingly
paid over the price of the food.
| Judge Thomas has authorized the
sale of the assets of the National Bank
of North Dakota at Fargo to John A.
| Percival Of Devils Lake. Mr.. Percival
pays $4,000. 1t has not been definitely
decided whether the bank would be
reorganized or not.
Bert Schloemilch and James Crosby,
two boys from Portage. Wis, were ar
! rested at Fargo on authority of tele-
gram from DR.. Schloemilch. The doc
tor arrived here yesterday and left for
! home with his son last night. The
boys run away from home two weeks
ago, and came West in search Of cm-
plOyment.
William Miller, it is charged, worked
a fake mining deal on Il number of Nor
| wegians in the Red river valley last
fall, robbing them of several thousand
dollars. He was arrested in the Twin
Cities. but escaped en- route for Fargo.
He was recently captured in st. Louis
OH Il similar charge and the Fargo au-
tllorities will try to have him brought
back
The artesian we'll recently completed
on the farm of w. s. Howard in lay
lor township, near Milnor, is causing
much uneasiness among farmers in
that vicinity. The flow was struck ut
a depth of $50 feet and is gushcr in
all that the term implies. throwing IL
six-inch stream to i consideral lie height
above ground. The flow WI 3 struck
less than month ago, but i. has al
ready filled ten-acre slough to IL
depth of over eight feet and the over
flow is now spreading in every direc-
ton and threatens the adjacent grain
fields. The we'll was sunk for irriga-
ton purposes, but bids fair to convert
the adjoining premises into frog farm.