The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1897-02-26
in NORTH DAKOTA.
,snterestinx News Items From all
b Parts Ut tho state.

,tntcrestinE News Items From All
pafts of tho State. III
The Menango mills go into new hands
and will resume work. {.
. The Monarch elevator ut Melville was
burned.
The little child Of Senator Ronrke
fell from the bed and broke its arm.
Paramount Catholics have organized
q society and will build O church. NJ .
A. o. Vambsahl has been appointed
postmaster ut Rugby. ..
Some Griggs county farmers want q
county fair.
Hillsboro has a quota Of wood and
coal thieves.
Churchs Ferry thinks Of incorporate
ing.
Wheat thieves are in evidence near
Milton.
Burleigh county has 1,432 school chill
dren.
Stutsman's court house will have
new. vault to cost $418.
Mrs. George Merchant of Tllendale
was quite badly burned while lighting
q fire with coal oil.
The domestics at Ellendale. arc re-
ported about to strike for an increase
in wages.
The name of Riverdale, Great Nor
thern station in Dickey county, has
been changed to Newton.
Mrs. Frost of Casselton, wants $1,000
from the city for injuries received
from defective sidewalk.
Robert Daniels Of Cando strayed 90
Hmiles while trying to find his way
I home in one Of the recent storms.
james aud George Wilson of Gale
,sdOni.l have been arrested, charged with
steading wheat.
Mrs. Tyndall of Hunter had her eye
badly injured. The baby accidentally
struck her with a sharp plaything.
Little Dwight Bolts of I4udden had
arm last week.
Rancher Lanterman drove 1,50O sheep
on the ice from Wahpeten to Bismarck
for shipment East.
The rostoftice ut Coburn, Ransom
county, has been discontinued. Mail
will go to. Sheldon.
Eddy and Foster counties have COM
Portable cash balances the first of the
year.
A horse trainer tried to jump board
bill at Park River, and got thirty days
in Jail.
Eugene Gould, an inmate Of the
state penitentiary, has gone insane, and
will change his quarters to the asylum
at Jamestown.
Twenty eight farmers in the vicinity
of Walcott, Ricbland county, still have
their last years crop in stack. A great
deal Of this grain has been damaged.
The nine-year-old son Of Cashier Har-
ris of Grafton has u badly crushed
shoulder, the result of catching on" to
bob sleighs.
Charges of cruelty have been pre-
ferred against III. H. Howard, teacher
of the Williamsport school and an in
vestigation instituted.
Fifty head, of cattle nave died at
Harris ranch IN Dickey. county this
winter from lack of feed. The heavy
winter has been hard on stock.
The county commissioners of Wells
county at a meeting last week decided
to refund its warrant indebtedness of
about $4,000, by issuing $4,000 worth
of bonds.
The wood famine at nathgate still
continues, but will be very short
through the spring, when it can be de-
1ivered from wagons by farmers.
The Brynjqlfson-Miller contest case
at Neche has ninety witnesses sum-
moned, and how any ordinary tribunal
can get at any definite facts is mar
vel.
people at Bathgate. 1t has been diff
of the teachers were sick ut the same
time.
The elevators at Bathgate are taking
but little wheat now. 1t is estimated
that about 80 per cent of the wheat
Is already marketed. There is large
amount of oats and barley left yet
on account of the very low prices.
Less charitable work than usual has
been necessary ut Jamestown this Win
ter. The reason is that the very Sc
we're winter has compelled the railroads
to employ great deal of help-so
there are two sides to the severe winter
u...ter.
The contest case between A. L. Miller
of st. Thomas and Mr.. Brenaldson of
Cavalier will be held at Pembina. A.
Il. Miller received the majority Of the
votes for prosecuting attorney, but
Brenaldson claims there were fraudu-
lent votes cast. There are other con-
test cases to be tried, but will hardly
get in this term, as there are about
100 witnesses In the first case.