The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1896-02-14
IN NORTH DAKOTA,

LIN NUHlH UAkUlA.
Interestins News Item. From ali
Parts OF the state. M
Fargo may try artesian wells for
pure water for the city.
A large colony Of Iowa farmers are
coming to North Dakota.
There were 1O2 births and 81 deaths
In Burleigh county for 1895.
County Commissioner Tufveson Of
Ward county has gone insane.
Two NOrthwOOd men had narrow
escape from being asphyxiated by coal
gas.
Grand Forks and Stutsman counties
hold immigration meetings early in
February.
Stock thieves and poachers Of Uncle
Sans wood keep officers busy in Mis-
souri, county.
Steele county reports SIG, 34.31 cash
on hand, mostly in the Hope and the
two Mayville banks.
The defalcations of Postmaster Sim
ons at Wogansport, Burleigh county,
amounted to about $500.
Wolves move about Wimbledon in
bands and are quite fearless in ap-
preaching human habitations.
Only six Of the horses burned at
Fort Yates belonged to the govern
ment. The other forty-six belonged to
private parties.
Custodian Traverse, of the Fort
Pembina reservation, who was arrest
ed for disposing Of government prop
erty, was dismissed from custody,
there being no evidence against him.
Typhoid fever is very prevalent at
Forman. A great many cases are re-
ported from the surrounding country,
and In one instance every member of
family is down with the disease.
George Rand, in Jail at Dickinson,
charged with adultery, attempted to
make his escape by filing the bars off
his cell window. He had small file
and a case knife to work with.
Hans Kapstad Of Colfax, Richland
county committed suicide by cutting
his throat. He was subject to epilepa
tic fits, and this Is ascribed as the
reason for the deed.
w. G. Traverse, custodian Of govern
ment property at Fort Pembina, is in
Jail at Grand Forks charged with SELL
ing some Of the property over which
he had been placed in charge.
At Pembina the jury returned a YER
dict Of not guilty in the case where
Annie NORM was tried on the charge
Of numbering her husband by poison
ing.
A call has been issued for county
immigration convention to be held at
Forman. A great deal of interest is
manifested in the movement and q
large attendance is expected.
The annual state convention Of the
Y. NJ. G. A. will be held at Grand
Forks, Feb. 20-23. Delegates will be
present from nearly every one of the
local associations throughout the state
The government loss at Fort Yates,
caused by the burning of the stables,
will be about $4,000. Forty-six horses
belonging to private parties and 6
government horses were destroyed.
A call will shortly be issued for a
county immigration convention at
Forman to organize an association
which will act in conjunction with the
state association recently organized.
At Fort Yates fire destroyed the
cavalry stables and all the equipments
Of Troop A, Eighth cavalry. Fifty
one horses burned to death. Loss
about $4,000. The fire was of incendi-
airy origin.
It is said that Mrs. Young, widow of
the late DR.. Young, who was killed by
Maniac Peterson at Buffalo, will en-
deavor to have his murderer prose-
cuted, claiming that the latter was
sane at the time of the tragedy.
Sheriff Barton of Devils Lake
searched the nine prisoners in the
county Jail at that place and found a
full outfit Of tools with which the bars
on one window had been sawed nearly
in two.
Inspector Clement Of the postoffice
department at Bismarck is settling up
the Wogansport postofiice embezzle-
ment. Postmaster Simon's defalca-
lions amounted to about $500 and will
be paid by his bondsmen.
Sheriff Mcdonald Of Benson county,
performed the remarkable feat Of stop
ping his team to rest on the railroad
track. The snow plow on an Northern
Pacific engine did the rest, and the
sheriff needs new horse.
Chairman Robinson has called q
meeting Of the Republican state cen
trail committee to be held at Grand
Forks Tuesday, Feb. IS, for the pur-
pose Of selecting a date and place for
the state convention to appoint dele
gates to st. Louis.
+. d. Kenworthy of Grand Forks an
| nOl1ncef1 his Intention nf MAKING n
trip around the world with a bicycle
wagon drawn by eight big Newfound-
land dogs. He will start in thirty
days, passing through st. Paul to Chi
cago and New York, and from there to
London.
The Church of st. John the Evan
gelist, Roman Catholic, of Wahpeton,
has just secured articles of incorpora-