The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1896-06-12
IN NORTH DAKOTA
Interesting News Items From All
Parts of the State.

Fried is the name of a new postofice
to be established in Stutsman county.
The rains pulled out many culverts
on the 500 out at Minot.
A. NJ. Clough will be the next chief
Of the fire department at Jamestown.
Mayville has voted to build an addi-
tional school house over three to one.
Sanborn has a volunteer fire depart
ment.
Medina's cheese factory is in course
of construction.
Langdon clerks move for an early
closing agreement.
Sargent county's farmers institute
will be held at Forman June 1924.
A young girl near Sheldon sustained
q broken leg while attempting to OPP
crate gang pillow.
The annual meeting of the Seventh
Day Adventists will be held at James
town, June 5 to Ia.
James Palmer, employed on farm
nine miles north of Larimore, was
killed by lightning.
Sneak thieves entered a young ladies'
room at the Elliot in Fargo and stole
SIS.
A party down at Billsport bagged
eleven wolves in one roundup the 9th
Both houses at Washington have
agreed to give S40.O00-as a starter
for the Bisma rex military post.
Diphtheria is again interfering with
the normal course of things at Willis
ton.
The Northern Pacific depot at Pin
gree was burgled for $500, sound
money.
A father and son went out hunting
at Devils Lake, during which the sons
gun was accidentally discharged, blow
ing a hole through the fathers hat.
Horse thieves raided the barn of
William Pinkham, near Fessenden, and
made away with q valuable harse and
four sets of harness.
Andrew Anderson of Towner, an un-
married man, quarreled with his broth
er's wife and then blew his own head
or with the charge of shot gun.
The Grand Forkes militia company
is drilling two nights week now in
order to show up we'll ut the Devils
Lake state encampment.
Christopher Curry of Mimic is in
the clutches of Uncle Sans law and is
charged with selling liquor without
having paid the internal revenue tax.
A Bathgate syndicate proposes to re-
pair and refurnish the opera house
there If favorable lease can be Sc
cured. .;.,...
A twelve-year-old boy at Ashley was
thrown from a horse and dragged by
the saddle stirrups considerable dis
lance, sustaining serious injuries.
The dead body of an infant child was
found near McCanna. along the Great
Northern tracks. Officers will try to
locate the mother.
Several cases Of glandeys are report
ed around Maza. Some farmers are
killing nearly all of their stock which
is diseased
T. =. Lane has brought suit against
E. p. Wells Of Jamestown for $4,000
for selling him horse that reared and
fell backward and broke Lanes thigh.
Robert Coyle and James O'NIalley
were each sentenced in the district
court at Bismarck to one year in the
penitentiary for attempting to escape
from that bastile.
Orlando Cornell of Gladstone secured
an original pension. and Brete karine
Christopherson of Grafton was fortu- |
nate enough to secure an original
Widows.
Theodore Franks, one of the oldest
of FargO's mail carriers. was dis
missed this morning. by order of the
postmaster general, for destroying
mail matter.
Thomas Welch, colored man. was
tiary to two years and three months |
for grand larceny. He stole goods from
a hardware store.
Tramps are making trouble with rail-
road trainmen out in the vicinity of |
Bismarck. A gang of seven boarded
passenger train No. 2, Mt Mandan, and
during the fracas two shots were fired
but nobody hurt.
The deputy United States marshal
arrested Cashier Grasse and his father
md brother at Mandan on a warrant
charging them with stealing govern
ment property at the old Fort Lincoln
ute.
At AIandan the jury decided in favor
If the Northern Pacific in condemna-
ion proceedings by which it seeks to
change the course of the Heart river,
thus doing away with two bridges.
Damages were assessed at 81 .225. This
s divided among twelve owners of
and affected.
c. Borgskov, a travelling man whose
lome is in Fargo, had 5000 worth of
clothing stolen from his sample cases
ecently. The goods were found in
stores, the proprietors of
which allege they secured them from
mother we'll known travelling man
Who formerly clerked in a Fargo store.
Arrest and prosecution will follow.
A grain elevator at Tower City be-
onging to the Consolidated Elevator
of Duluth, leased by An
rews & Gage, caught fire and was
urned. The building was of 5000