The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1896-09-04
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NORTH , K|'o \
/ ratsresti.s New. Ite,.s rron Il,
Parts % the state.
Ex-Goy. shortrddge lost nils wheat
crop BY hail.
John Muir Of Hunter has secured
patent on grain tank.
Langdon Is preparing for tennis
tournament in the near future.
Glen Ullin marketed 100000 pounds
OF wool the past week.
The Starke county Jail has been
empty two months.
The Hillsboro creamery will remain
closed for the season.
LaMoure county has more than an
average crop.
Harvesting is nearly completed in
Mcintosh county.
The Crary school house was buglar-
lied by hobos.
And now those Wahpeton hobos have
stolen hive of bees.
Eight bushels per acre is the average
wheat yield expected in Griggs county.
T.. H. Leonard will establish cattle
ranch on the Mouse river In McIIenry
county.
George Lockhart fell thirty feet from
the new elevator at Tower City. No
bones broken.
Hobos broke into an Northern Pacific
car and swiped some morocco bound
Bibles.
Art KEENAN, of Oberon was struck in
the face by pillow lever and secerely
hurt.
o. s. Lea, q prominent hardware
merchant of Valley City, died with ty-
phoid-pneumonia.
The semi-annual report of State
Treasurer Nichols shows cash on hand,
$219,933.66.
The Northern Pacific has track crews
ut work laying new track between
Jamestown and Bismarck.
Bids will be opened Sept. for a fine
four-room two-story school house at
Kindred.
"A nusSlan woman and her child We're
killed In q hail storm in Mcintosh
county.
Capt. Pope has been detailed to the
work OF beginning construction at the
military post at Bismarck.
| Some miscreant completely ruined g.
| binder and damaged two others on the
farm OF George Birks, near Jamestown.
A little four-year-old girl at James
town drank a cup of gasoline and is
not expected to live.
N. 7. Richards, southwest of FL
dridge, has 100 sheep that SHARED
LIB pounds of wool, or an average Of
9.42 punds each.
A fifteen-year-old boy at Drayton got
his foot in horsepower and received
injuries that Will probably neccssitate
amputation of the limb.
The first report of damaging
prairie fire this season comes from
| Painted Woods, Mclean county.
Lightning was the cause.
It is said that 100000 will not cover
the losses by hail in LaMoure county
1 this year, and still the crop is the larg-
est for years.
] Some miscreant broke three har-
vesters for Louis Wright near James
town, necessitating an expenditure Of
| 500 for repairs.
| The four-year-old daughter of Cen
j ductor Myers of jamestown is ex-
4 pected to fully recover from the effects
; of drinking cup of gasoline.
| Elvis Heath of Montpelier was badly
: wounded in the leg and left wrist by
the accidental discharge of shotgun.
| He is playing in tough luck, he recently
/! had two runaways, broke his ankle
playing base ball and had just re-
covered from an attack Of fever.
! The general store of Cunningham &;
J Lawrence at Iarimoure was entered
AMI nickels taken. Nothing else was
touched. The thieves entered by the
cellar window. The country is full Of
hoboes, and it is supposed that some
of these are tue guilty parties.
Elvis Heath, Stutsman county
/ farmer, was shot IN the leg and his
/ wrist filled with bird shot by the acct
h, dental discharge of a gun which he
| was carrying in a hay rack. This is
one OF series Of misfortuncs which
the man has experienced this season.
! Hoboes are infesting Lisbon and
: committing many depredatioi,s, espe-
cially to property in the vicinity Of
their camps. There are three detach-
ments, one provided with q colored
chef. Six of one gang was run in, but
let go and they are still about.
! While switching at Absarka Carl
Pratt of Breckenridge, brakeman for
Conductor O'Kane, fell from a fiat car
into the middle of the track. Several
cars ran over his right leg, and lie sus-
tanned other injuries from the effects
of which he died. He leave wife and
family.
The last crop bulletin for North On.
kota says: The past week was genar.
! ally favorable for harvesting. whici, 70
j. NOW lreyalart N all ,,a.4i,. =. n