The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1897-08-06
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OeFeO 10 shanghai. ls
The National Retail jewelers. asso-
citation has gone to pieces.
All owners of good horses in WASH
ington expect an era Of better prices.
The income from mutton from the
Missouri valley this year viii amount
to over 100000.
At the steam shearing plant at Hill
lard. Who, recently, fifty men sheered
3,40O sheep in one day.
A great gas we'll has been struck
flowing 5,O00,O00 cubic feet in twenty
four hours at Baldwinsville, N. Y.
The threatened strike Of telegraph
operators at London has been averted.
The operators IRE inclined to accept q
compromise.
twenty-five seamen of the lost Brit
ish ship KankOra, who spent nearly
two months on the barren island Of
ClfppertOn, in the South sea, arrived at
San Francisco on the war ship Comus.
At the Putney boat races Black
static won the Wingfield sculls, How
ell. the young American being among
the competitors and taking second
place at the finish. Blackstaffe won
by two lengths.
The Indiana Farmers Savings and
Loan association, Fort Wayne, has
been placed in the hands of receiver.
Liabilities, So, 600; assets, $4,000. In
ability to raise funds to meet the with
drawals of stock caused the failure.
The Berlin Lokal Anzeiger says that
Capt. Sverdrup will endeavor to get
around the northern end of Greenland.
He expects to be absent two years.
The party will take dogs with them as
a precaution against being frozen up.
The natural gas strike in Sacramento
Is turning out an important matter.
Pour bodies of gas have been struck.
lying in different strata. and the total
supply from the well is estimated at
1OO, 900 feet daily. ~.
Mountain lions are very numerous in
the neighborhood of White River, Col.
In Hub Gulch, near Salida, also, they
are making trouble for prOspectors and
cattleemn, killing and carrying on
dogs as cats do mice.
The Campania Perlifera de In Baja
California lower California Pearl
Fishing company has sold it's conces-
sions and other property in the Gulf of
California to an English syndicate for
$500 900.
The will of Mrs. Julia G. Maffit, re-
puted to have been the richest woman
i'll st. Louis. has been filed for probate.
The estate is walt ed at 5000, 600, and
consists largely of personal property.
1t is to be apportioned among six chill
dren, share and share alike.
S. G. Carter, nationa! secretary of.
the Metal Polishers, Platers and Buff
fetcrs' union, announces that the
eighteen months strike of the polish
ers employed by the Overman Wheel
company at Chicopee Falls, Mass, had
been settled.
A party Of Deadwocdites is Off on q
treasure-hunt far into the Bad Lands.
where as yet few white men have trod.
The mission is to locate the grave of
Winding Hawk, once the head chief of
the Sioux nation, wherein, according
to Indian tradition, is buried $4,000 In
gold.
Contractors state that the Canadian
Pacific has issued an order that no
United States citizen can be accepted
as contractor, subcontractor, manager,
superintendent or labOrer on the
Crows Nest Pass railroad, now about
to be built by that road through Fort
Steele mining country.
| Another immense gas well has been
developed, one-half mile northeast Of
Baldwinsville, N. Y. tits by far the
most prolific well yet found. The vol
ume of gas flowing from it amounts to
over 5, OOO, 600 cubic feet every twenty
four, hours. The force of the gas pro-
ceeding from the boring. is so enormous
that 1t will lift q weight Of 200 or 300
pounds placed over the opening.
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