The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1897-02-19
IN NORTH DAKOTA
Interesting News Items From all
Parts Of the State.

Jamcstown's lights went out for
couple of nights recently.
Jamestown was just solid week
without delivery of freight.
Frank Moran of Fargo has been up
pointed stenographer for Gov. Briggs.
Sargent county's cash box makes a
good showing.
Knives and things like that figured
In drunken row at Lisbon.
G. A. Henry won the Wahpeton col
lege OratOrical contest.
Valley City wants the firemen's tour
nament this year.
A rotary snow pillow on the James
town Northern was destroyed by fire.
r. ID. Bennett has been appointed
postmaster at Robinson, Ward county.
T. HI. Ryan of Dickinson has had q
cancer removed from his eye.
w. E. Bauch Of Rutland has been
granted veterinary's certificate.
Valley City Normal has an attend
ance Of 116.
Il. s. Owens is deputy treasurer Of
Kidder county.
The Polk county hospital has been
closed for want of patronage.
Game Warden Bowers confiscated
nice bunch Of game at Fargo, to keep
1t from leaving the state.
A Jimtown youth went up against
the Salvation army, and now reposes
in a bastile.
w. H. Shepard has contracted to car
ry the mail from Hannah to Cypress
twice q week.
The Norwegian Lutherans of Hunt
er are endeavoring to raise funds for
tie erection of church.
Capt. Pope has received instructions
to proceed with the survey of the mill
tary post at Bismarck.
A sneak-thief at Hannah stole
buck saw. An evidence of industry,
and he will not be prosecuted.
Steele county will invest in an edi-
ton of Old Glory to float over the
court house;
patient at Jamestown imagines he
is George Washington, and bsies him
self conducting the Revolutionary war.
Albert Retzlaff is standing trial at
Cooperstown on a charge Of assault
and battery, preferred by woman.
Anton Brekke of Norman was up
before the insanity board, but was &C.
quilted and released.
Peter Paulson Of Mayville sustained
a fracture of the shoulder from fall
from a sleigh.
Steele county will endeavor to have
Its paupers taken care of on the Trail
county poor farm.
Two Wahpetonians got lost in a re-
cent snow storm and made a night of
it. frozen feet being the only damage
sustained.
Fire caused a damage of $500 in
Montgomery & Flint'c furniture store
at Jamestown. Much of the stock was
damaged by water. Fully insured.
There were 1853 chattel mortgages
filed in Rolette county in 1896, and
only two reports of chattel mortgage
sales.
Jens Jensen. the Fairmont farmer,
charged with the rape Of his daughter,
was found guilty in the second degree.
Sentence has not been passed yet.
Barnes county commissioners found
the poor house in execrable shape, and
forcibly warned the overseer that it
must not be found that way again.
David Lindberg. who recently had
his feet amputated at Froman, died Of
od-poisoning. He was q blizzard
victim.
Fred Kraus of Lidgerwood had the
little finger of his left hand crushed
in chain halter last week. 1t had to
be amputated.
Work ON the Forman artesian we'll ia
suspended. A flow of water was Sc
cured, but not of sufficient force to use
for power.
Suit has been brought against DIR.
Dorman Baldwin of jamestown for
5000. 1t is alleged that Cora Kline,
aged five, died from the effects of med
icine administered by him.
Bob Daniels, bachelor, residing
near Cando, got lost in the recent bliz-
zard and walked forty miles. finally
landing Mt farm house, pretty well
exhausted.
A broken rail caused wreck to one
snOw-bucking outfit near Jamestown,
and two engines were derailed. The
engineer was thrown twenty feet into
the snow. All of the trainmen es-
capped.
Michael Carroll. a wealthy farmer
living near Darlington, died from the
effects of chloroform administered
while about to undergo an operation
for the removal of an abcess from his
left hand.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Wormington of
Wheatland had narrow escape from
being asphyxiated with coal gas. The
pipes were Jared apart. and 1t was
only through chance that they escaped
being suffocated.
Fred Boisvert, foreman of car re-
pairers, was struck by q switch engine
and knocked under a slowly moving
train at Fargo. The first trucks passed
over his body and the others stopped
on 1t. His hip was crushed and back
broken. and he lived only few min
utes. He leaves a wife and six chill
dren in poor circumstances.
Jacob Reinhardt, an old resident of
Walsh county. is dead. He was one Of
the early settlers at Kelly's Point, lat
er known as Acton, on the Red river.
He was the first sheriff of Walsh
county in territorial days. He had for
q number. of years been living a n,,iet |