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The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1897-07-30
Pallow Fragranss.

This Is the time of the year for max
ing pine pillows. It may be impossi.
BILE to obtain the best balsam pine that
grows in the Maine woods, but there
10 sweet -fir that Is found all over
our Northeastern states, growing wild,
and in other parts Of the country, AZ
cultivated evergreen. Nearly every
one has seen the tail, gray stem that
shoots up 20 straight and smooth and
points to the sky without q single
curve. Out of the blistered- looking
bark Of this fir tree ooxes q resinous
fluid, the odor of which is said to be
extremely healthful. The needles Of
this Ar, or pine, are laden with fresh
perfume, and will keep sweet for
months without any care save to in
case them In q bag. Make stout
muslin pillow, Of any size or shape,
and I'LL 1t perfectly tight and full, AZ
the needles break into kind of pow
der when dry, and the cushion will
lcok fiabby without On abundance of
needles The outside of the pillow may
be as rich or as plain as taste may sug-
gest. A loose slip Of silk, with a de-
sign of pine cones worked In silk Of
the natural color, or motto in heavy
silks, will be appropriate. Some pill
lows are covered with sacks of silk,
tied near the mouth with q ribbon Of
q contrasting color, and finished on the
edges with q lace ruffie. Another COW
or 10 made of strips Of fine wool or
silk, cut 90 as to look like sections of
melon, and In the shaded yellows that
are seen in the muskmelon. A pillow
or plain the cover may be, viii prove q
that will bring comfort when all else
fails,
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1897-07-30
Rice.

tits not generally known that rice lie the king
tatoes as relish with meats ETC., that one of our
best posted lady lecturers says she would mt ue
potatoes at oil II rice can be procured. 0nc sayn
ual one Of rice in food strength # is also fact
that the consumption Of rice is increasing won
derfgliy and ie destined to continue. The de-
supply. because the territory where rice can be
grown 10 30 restricted. In Southwest Louisiana.
along the line Of the SOUTHERN PAciFIC, the
ideal lands and climate for rice raising exists
tho same @ wheat. and ia grown ON high land
and In section Of country q healthy e the
Fountain Of Youth.
An acre of ground will net ten dollars and fifty
acres can be tended by Que man. Look into I'll
Write to G. G. Cary, \. W. p. A., Southern Pac
tfic Co.. Exchange Building. Kansas Civ. Mo.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1897-07-30
PICKING oalolsnss Is ,rUslo.


Custons Of the Italian PoultRy Deal.
ers Of Ban, Franelsoo.
The sailor has hlB musical ahanty, 10
which he keeps time 40 he trots about
the capstan until the sr Choir Is holsted
to the peak; the farmer trills q laysto
tighten his labors az he pitches hay
Into q wagon; and these songs are "a
miliar to many; but whoever heard OF
saw gang Of Italian chicken pickcra
sing and denude owls to the time Of
the music?
4 Such scene can be- witnessed any
Friday evening at the Clay Street mar
ket, while the employees Of the big
poultry houses that have their places
OF business there are preparing for
buys for the Sunday dinner.
The men seat themselves In q half
circle and each takes q fowl. One
stroke of sharp knife across the
throat puts the unfortunate squawklng
broiler out of it's misery, and then the
foreman Of the gang starts the song.
A. they catch the air and the time the
others chime In, and In an instant the
plucking begins. With rythmic mo-
ton the nimble fingers grasp the
feathers and pull them out during all
the time Of the soEg.
Feathers ny In ali directions, but the
song goes on until the last pin-feathers
are removed and the carcasses are
tossed into pile, ready for the man
who puts on the finishing touches and
prepares them for the inspection of
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1897-07-30
Before It u too I.ate

001OI0 u u TOO I8G0.
Leave your business occasionally and
try new climate and new surroundings.
No better medicine.
The principal health and pleasure re-
sorts of the Southwest are reached via
the Santa Fe Route. Low rates, quick
time, comfortable service.
For specific information inquire Of loo
al agent. or address; c. c. Carpenter,
Pass. ACT, 5l3 Guaranty Loan. Bldg,
Minneapolis, MINI.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1897-07-30
truly Fsninine.

.He-Do you think Miss Kajones b
pretty?
she-Miss Kajones? Oh, she isn't .
bad looking girl-when she has Q veil
Somerville Journal.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1897-07-30
r.ki.. II La4a,.l,v

Talki.s II Literally.
Il Aunt. Emeline- Tommy, hold your
ton rue! : e a'@ Z,
& Tommy .(aftn. faithful trialeI
90. Aunt !; W too slippe9y.
~ VA anvil" .:3ri
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1897-01-14
Casualties,

Two men were killed and two in
jured by the explosion Of n boiler Of
the Fisher Oil company at Sistersville.
w. Va.
Mrs. Shadley of GreenSburg, Ind.
smOtherCG her ~two-yearOld babe. by
wrapping it too closely Oh the way to
visit her mother.
BY an explosion OF giant powder ut
Twin Lakes station. Col. Peter Fagin
and Michael Sebia were killed and Jo-
seph Larkin fatally injured
The late rains near Poplar Bluffs.
Mo, has caused the Black river to over
flow its banks and the eastern part of
the county is Il broad sheet Of water.
Charles f. Campbell. Il constable, fell
down IL dark stairway while evicting a
family 1t Dayton. Ohio. and sustained
a fracture ut the base Of the skull from
which he cannot possibly ecove
The steamboat Belle Of the Coast
was totally destroyed by fire at Carroll
ton, La. She belonged to Capt. John
+. Aitkin. and was valued at SiO.O0O.
and insured for $4,000 Cause of fire
unknown.
The state hospital NJ Rock Springs,
Wyo., was burned. Twelve patients.
who were in the buildinb. were res.
cued without much Inconvenience.
Most Of the furniture was saved, al
though the building Is Il total loss.
Schroeder. Smith * ~Schroeder's
ready mixed paint works We're entirely
destroyed by fire at Lancaster. Pa.
The origin Of the fire is unknown. The
members Of the firm decline TO make
any estimate Of the less. but it is be-
lieved to be fully covered by an insur-
anCc of So. 100.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1897-01-14
From Foreign Shores.

Another rebellion is threatened in
South Africa.
Another disastrous fire has occurred
ut Vera Cruz, Mexico, destroying fact,
cries and business blocks to the value
Of $1,000
The SpaniaTdS send out Il story OF
killing: 5000 Philippine revOlutioniStS
and losing only twenty-five men in the
operation.
The Madrid EpoCa publishes a form,
nj denial that the government has any
intention Of depOsing Gen. Weyler as
captain-general of Cuba.
The Cardinal Archbishop Sanfelicl OF
Naples is dead. He was born in 1884
and was created a cardinal at the con
Sistory of March "a. 1854.
Bedros Effini. the Armenian who was
recently appointed subwainamakan of
Tscharsandjak. Turkey, was assassn-
ated two days after his arrival there.
The correspondent of the New York
Herald at Rio Janeiro, Brazil, tele-
graphs hat the government has sold
the cruiser .Almiranic BarroSo TO Jap
an.
Ottawa, Ont, was visited by an
earthquake recently. No serious dam
age has been reported, but the shock
was distinctly felt all over The city. 1t
caused considerable excitement.
Maxine Gomez, the insurgent lead
er, has crossed the military line of Pu.
erto Principe, which extends from Jul
caro-, on the south coast of Moron, in
the northern part of the province.
The pope is pronounced well again.
after the slight iLdispOsition resulting
from the eXertions attendant upon his
Christmas and New Years receptions,
and will resume his duties at once.
A Spanish court in Cuba has sem
fenced Julio Sanguilly. an American
citizen, to eight years Imprisonment
for conspiracy against the Spanish
government.
The Paris Petite Republique says
that the government has no faith in
the duration of place, rs evidenced by
the fact that it has addressed to the
officers of the frontier Il series of spe-
cial questions relative to the eventual
mobilization Of the forces.
Sir Edward Clarke, solicitor general
in Lord Salisbury's former cabinet,
Si'tNlhS upOI tle lliSll SlitNduCtS vi
account of the o~ver-tayation of Ireland,
advocated the granting to Ireland Of
S5,OO0,OOO yearly from the imperial CX-
chequer.
The London Daily News has a dis.
patch from Berlin which reports that
DIR. Niemann. the well known bacteri-
clogist has discovered a new cure for
tuberculosis, being the serus from
goats blood mixed with the bacilli of
the disease.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1897-01-14
Grimes and CrirlinMla.

TIE detectives working on the rl"c
Cut train robbery case brought to Kan
sas City another suspect arrested near
Glendale.
Kansas City.-Eugene Rideway. the
fourth Of the quartet who held up and
attempted to rob an electric car be-
tween Kansas City and independence.
on the night Of Nov. - last, has been
arrested ut his home at C%entropOlis and
lodged in Jail here.
Corning, y. Y.-IIorace Cook. Il pro-
minent church worker. has been
arrested charged with the attempted
murder Of his father-in law, Solomon
Adams. a prominent farmer in the town
of Woodruff, last Mondey night.
Gov. Altgeld Of Illinois pardoned
twenty convicts. twelve Of them
charged with mur0 az. The sentences
OF the latter ranged from short terms
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1897-01-14

measure or temporary relief there mar
he in wholesome state legislation, con.
tent 10 await q future opportunity tn
nut our national policies in operation
we are therefore or trial in the state
We shall be permitted a continuing
of power If we demonstrate our capac,
itv TO govern. If We show ourselye,
unft we shall be hurled from powe,
of tho next election, and we ought d
be. The fact that our opponents MAJ
have made mistakes in the past viii
not excuse mistakes on our part. W,
should not be content to follow; bu
should lead in all necessary REFORM
which will promote the general vel
fare Of our people.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1897-01-14
for manslaughter to Imprisonment for

for manslaughter to Imprisonment for
life for murder in the first degree.
Buffalo, n. Y.-Henry Duck, cashier
of the First National bank, of Niagara
Falls, which recently suspended, was
arranged last night before United
States Commissioners Norton, in this
city, III Il charge Of being implicated in
the failure OF the bank. He pleaded
not guilty, and was admitted to bail
in $4,000.
Springfield. Ill. - Gov. Altgeld has
cOmmuted the sentence of the Chicago
bankers, Charles j. and Frank X.
Meadoweroft, convicted of receiving de-
pOsits when their bank was insolvent.
The sentence was changed from a peni-
Tertiary sentence to sixty days in jail.
The governor states that both the
states attorney and judge who presid-
ed ut the trial recommended clemency.
.. +. Miller, convicted in the United
states district court, with c. II. Dow
and Sidney G.. McClirken. of having de-
frauded the Commercial National bank
Of Denver out Of $4,000 by mean Of
"kiting,' was released from Jail under
$4,000 bonds. The three convicted
bank wreckers will be sentenced Jan.
23, and the case will then be taken to
the supreme court.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1897-01-14
miscellaneous.

\ new soft coal pool is being formed
a trust %embodying oat meal and 9th
er breakfast cereals has been formed
The convention of the Order of Rail,
way photographers has been called 10
meet in Peoria on May II.
The %cOroner's jury found that the
death of Mr.. McCullagh of st. Louis
was accidental, and not suicidal.
Mrs. Leases house at Wichita was
sold at sheriff's sale for 5000. 1t cost
about 5000. 1t was bought in by J.
Marsh, an Eastern mortgage.
The directors Of the Delaware x
Hudson Canal company have voted to
reduce the dividend on the stock from
4 To > per cent per annum.
\ bill for Il receiver for the wholesale
jewelry firm Of Mark Streicher x Co
Of Chicago has been filed in the supe,
rior court.
PittSburg will follow the lead of Chi
cago in the passage Of an act prohibit.
ing the wearing of hats or bonnets 10y
ladies in theatcrs.
The Atlanta Journal makes the sensa
ational announcement that every trust
operating in Tie State of Georgia has
sCCCUmbcd TO the Calvin antitrust
law, enacted by the recent general as
s"lsb!v.
Judges La Combc and Wallace. of
the United States circuit court of ap-
reals Of New York. have made a dpci-
sion which classiiies natural Gas as Il
mineral for all the purposes OF the
statutes and customs laws.
Deputy Clerk Henry Cassin. of the
United States district court of Louis
vile, Ky, was appointed by Judge
Barr as Il special commissioner to sell
the Kentucky and Indiana bridge prop
erty within three months. The upset
price is 81 ,2I0,OOO.
The Farmers Trust company of
Sioux City, Iowa. which closed Its
doors recently, will prove n hard blow
to its Vermont investors. According to
returns since the failure, 80 per cent of
the liabilities OF S135.OOO Is said to he
due to the people Of that state.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1897-01-14
Washington Talk.

The public debt decreased S2,S39,5T
In December.
Federal treasury receipts exceeded
expenditures last month.
\ fraud order has been issued against
the Washington Farmer Land company
of Seattle, Wash.
The Smithsonian Institution has de-
cideI TO make the sultan of Turkey Il
present of 4 life-siZe figure of IL Sioux
Indian chief.
The controller of the currency has
given authority for the organization Of
the Ham National Bank Of Mount Yer
non, ILL.,; capital, $4,000.
There is no truth in the report that
Senator Sherman, chairman Of the for
eign relations committee, intends to
visit Cuba.
The secretary of the treasury award
ed a contract for the building of Il YES
sci for the light house service to Wolf
x Xweic<er of Portland. Or, at 49,
600.
The battleShip Oregon, now at Mare
Island. Cal. has been ordered to sea.
She will sail about the 18th instant on
Il cruise along the lower California
coats.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1897-01-14

A Frenchman has written to the
newspapers to say that he has invented
Il paper which will destroy the lead
pencil industry. And yet we venture
TO say that his letter was very prosy,
and that when he read Ii afterward in
print he found that he had not destroy
ed the blue pencil industry. The wise
editor will always use that weapon of
defense in spite OF the progress Of in
yention.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1897-01-14
People in Print.

Vivian st. Martin. the famous geog-
rapher, is dead ut Paris.
Prof. William Pancoast, the distin-
guished physician and surgeon, died in
Philadelphia, aged siXty-four years.
James Kirk. who. in 1914, strung the
first telegraph line between Baltimore
and Washington. has been stricken
with paralysis, and is in a critical 0 II
diticn ut his home n Piqua, Ohio.
Obcdient to his fathers last wish,
Ernest ROsen stood on the center arch
of the Eads bridge ut st. Louis and
scattered the ashes of his fathers re-
mains to the four winds.
Joseph II. McCullagh. the st. Louis
editor, left no will. His estate. now in
the hands Of the public administrator,
will be divided between seven sets of
heirs. part of whom live in Dublin, Ire
lani
Sir Henry Halford. who was captain
of the English lilc team which visited
America Il score Of years ago, died in
London. He has been well known to
American marksmCn since 1870. when
he entertained the American party that
visited England.
Horace Merriam. aged se~venty-fiye
years, is dead in Kansas City OF pneu-
nlouia. At the tine of his death he
was a well known insurance man. In
the earlier days be was n lawyer as
well as n civil engineer. From 1878 to
1850 he was attorney for the Santa Fee
road.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1897-01-14

During 1896 the railroad construction
in the country amounted TO only 1902
miles, mostly in California and the
South. The country appears To have
about as many railroads as it needs,
and new ones are not likely to be con-
structed very rapidly in view of the
fact that the business pays nothing on
over 20 per cent of It's capital and Is
per cent Of its bonded debt.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1897-01-14

1t has remained for Gen. Horace For
ter to place on record II OF Grants
best expressions. When Gen. Hancock
made his assault at Spottsylvania and
captured a Confederate division Burn
side reported that his right had lost its
connection with Haucock's corps. Gen.
Grant replied in a note: Push the
enemy with all your might; that's the
way to connect"
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1897-01-14

Sacramento now receives a 1900
volt current Of electricity from Il plant
thirty miles distant, and had previ-
ously secured IL partial supply over
twenty-four miles Of wire. The Cali
fornia city has apparently demonstrate
ed that a long-distance supply of the
current is practicable in every way,
and also economical.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1897-01-14

The nineteenth century will be re-
membered as one in which the Dark
Continent was opened up to the world.
What the commercial Importance Of
Africa will be fifty years from now
may be Judged from the fact that reg
ular lines of steamboats, are running on
the Zambesi river.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1897-01-14

The duke of Orleans has written Il
letter in which he says that he does not
wish TO cause any internal difficulties
in France at present. The good thing
about all these royal pretenders is that
they only pretend. 1t is just their fun.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1897-01-14

1t is said that Queen Victoria wired
her sympathy to the East Indian fam
inc sufferers, but the ear of Russia
raised Il large sum of money and sent
it. AS a consequence the queen is rath-
or short, and the ear long on popular
ity among the native of E~ngland's
greatest dependency.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1897-01-14

Ian Maclaran is much pleased with
the American people. Most authors
like Il people who like their books, ana
who give satisfactory financial evidence
of their Partially. Maclaran IS salt
ing down American dollars ut a very
inspiring rate.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1897-01-14

Joseph Jefferson says athletic train
ing is carried TOO far and kills more
than it benefits. On the other hand, it
may be said that Old Rip had extreme
views regarding the value Of the rest
cure.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1897-01-14

However disSracefully the American
wives Of foreign noblemen may con
duct themselves, little sympathy Will
be felt on this side of the water for the
selfish weaklings who married them
for their money.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1897-01-14

An Ohio mar nan has just died ut
the age of 107, leaving Il fortune OF
S2,010,0O0 and no kin. As the money
all goes to personal friends there will
be no lack Of mourners among those
get left.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1897-01-14

England could not have chosen Il bet
ter way to promote peaceful and friend
ly relations with this country than that
of buying large quantities OF pig iron
in Alabama.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1897-01-14

DR.. Pingl, a member Of the reich
will soon fall. This Is not the only
country IN which cranks get into con-
gress.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1897-01-14

White Ghost" an Indian chief, is in
Washington asking the government to
give him a present of 100000. 1t is
safe to say that the ghost" will not
walk for him.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1897-01-14
.PITH OF THE NEWS.
EVENT. JF THE PAST WEEh IN \
CONDENSED FORM,

A General Resumc OF the Most I'm
all Parts OF the Globe, Boiled
Down and in Con
venient Form for Rapid FER
usal by busy People.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1897-01-14

A man in Kentucky has just died
from the excessive use of tobacco for
sixty-one years. Aud even this terri
bic lesson is likely to b" lost On thous-
ands of similarly rash people.
The San Francisco call., 1897-07-10
3yan Being Borne Along the Tide Prosperity Spite of HIMSELF

to he up. When the strike is declared off
there will be a heavy demand for boats,
and the vessel men hope then 10 obtain
better rates. The vessel men take, m
deed, very philosophical view of the
situation. They hold that it will improve
traffic and that the miners will doubtless
be victorious.
The great plant of the Cleveland Steel
COMPANY closed this morning owing 10
lack of fuel. A number OF other pla nts
are preparing TO shut down.
The coal-miners in the Wheeling and
Lake Erie district won a great victory to-
day. Colonel Myron T. Herrick, recei yer
for the Wheeling and Lake Erie, received
a dispatch at noon saving that only one
man went to Work at Dillonvae. This is
The place where the Wheeling and L Ike
Erie decided 10 make the test. Mr.. Her
rick said that he was inclined to believe
the men wanted work and he had secured
protection for them.
The full force of this intelligence can be
appreciated when it is stated that Cleve-
land manufacturers and shippers ex-
worst the district covered by the Wheeling
and Lake Erie would supply whatever
coal was needed. Tnis means to Cleve.
land now practical tie-up.
OF all the Cleveland operators J. B.
Zerbe, president of the Ohio and Pennsyl-
vania Coal Company, is the most SAN
gulne. He thinks the strike will be over
in few days and thinks the officers of
the United Mine Workers Association are
only making grand-stand play.