The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1897-03-19

Sargent county has 1,67O school chill.
dren, a years gain Of 40.
Wolves killed tbilty-flye turkeys for
one farmer in Nelson county.
Ramsey county gets $1,53s50 as its
snare OF the state tuition fund.
A temple of Rathbone Sisters will be
organized at Fessenden.
A mail route has been established be-
tween Hankinson and Seymour.
Langdon may settle the postmaster
contest there by a popular vote.
Some very mysterious cattle losses
IRE reported In Stutsman county.
Willow City schools are closed ON
account Of the epidemic there.
James B. Farrell of Jamestown died
suddenly Of la grippe.
D. w. Hines, the ex-railroad pnesi-
dent Of the Dakota line, is holding re-
v1vaa meetings at Hannah.
DR.. Sherpings Office was broken into
at Enderlin last week and $25 worth of
surgical instruments stolen
John II. Swenson of Hamilton picked
up a lamp just as it exploded. His
wrist was severely cut.
The government building at Fargo
will be re:nodeled to furnish Judge
Amidon q suitable Office.
The Ok Greek settlement near Dun
seth wants a pOstOffice established
there.
w. L. Williamson has been appointed
receiver of the Harris Gardner property
at Lisbon.
At Williston, John Morton, charged
with stabbing f. Bellman, a brakeman,
has been bound over under $500 bonds.
q. Cachran's dwelling house, situated
a quarter of mile east of Smith Lake.
burned. Loss, $1,000; insured.
Mrs. r. Mclean of Bowesment had
q narrow escape from asphyxiatiun
from coal gas.
Paul Gardner and James Walker
have secured q five-year electric light
franchise in Langdon.
Stoiler, the man who plead guilty Mt
GRAFTON to obtaining goods under false
pretenses. was given a year in tha pen..
The Grand Forks clerks want the
early closing movement made perrm-
nent.
Thomas O'TooIe of Crystal froze his
feet SO badly that all his toes had to be
amputated.
A Northern Pacific engineer was
badly injured in the derailment of his
engine by a snowdrift at Mandan.
Redmon, Rowland & Ink, the Wah-
peton attorneys, have dissolved part
nership.
Prof. F'ancher will serve another term
as secretary Of the North Dakota Read
ing circle.
insurance companies will have to dig
up little over 100000 in the fire
losses at Grand Forks.
Walsh county's school census is the
third largest III the state and is only
eighty less than Grand Forks.
Charles Cavalier, the old pioneer of
Pembina, who has been in the Red
river valley for fifty years. says there
is more snow this year than he has
ever seen.
Injunction papers against the various
blind pigs of Ramsey county have been
placed in the hands Of the states at
torney.
Williams county has 234 school cllii-
dren. and its apportionment Of the
school funds just made for the last
quarter, IS SlJS.U.
Residents Of the lower parts of
Jamestown are preparing to move to
higher ground to keep from being
flooded out in the spring. 4
Register of Deeds Wagner of Rolettc
County released 800 chattel mortgages
in one day. The list is fourteen feet
long, and is probably the largest of any
che days business in the state.
DR.. j. c. Marquis Of Olga drank a
bottle of carbolic acid straight while
intoxicated. and the coroner is attend
ing to his business now.
Auditor Hale Of Ramsey county has
captured q snow drift on his farm
from fifty to sixty feet high and wants
somebody to help him let 60.
Carrie e. Slocnm. whose husband is
an inmate of the insane asylum. has
brought action for divorce before Judge
GlasDell at Jamestown.
A warrant was issued for Fred
Brown Of Tower last week for forgery.
but when the sheriff started to serve it
his bird had lowll-and not yet dis
covered.
Dead cattle are becoming numerous
along the railroad track west of Dick
insOn. Between MedOra and WibeauX
trainmen can now count $50 dead cat
tie.
Five persons were discharged FROM
the jamestown asylum and seven more
will shortly be sent home, wholly re-
covered. They are Charles GustafsOn,
Grand Forks; C. Cherry. Fargo; Henry
Barton. Barton; d. Il. Wagner, Tower
City; John Erickson. Walcott.
+. NJ. Van Bergen, locating agent of
the Northern Pacific railroad, brought
party of Nebraska Dunkards to the
James River Valley last week. to Sc.
cure locations for large colony from
that state to arrive early In the spring.
Most of the Dunkhris intend settling
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