The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1898-02-04
NORTH DAKOTA


erect Il custom grist mill.
The bank Mt Pembina will probably
bc reOrganiZed as state bank.
Fessenden is to have a creamery, cp-
Grated on the cooperative :,lan.
The early-closing movement has been
inaugurated Mt Devils Lake.
George w. Harmon is the new com
niander of the Mandan G. \. Il. post.
\. NJ. Packard is the new foreman Of
the Manlan hook and ladder company.
Cantla is lighted with electric lights
now.
Man,lanitcs are forming Il klonlike
party.
Glen Ullin. Morton county, las two
brass bands.
James Smith is the new postmaster
Mt st. Johns, N. ID.
The state industrial school will open
at EllG;laalc about Sept. 1.
Stealing houses has become IL winter
pastime iii Towner county.
One man caught 400 pounds Of fish in
one day up near Towner.
Minor.
Sargent county has 1,GGS children of
school :iye.
Judge Pollock is holding court at La
kota.
A Rebekah lodge has been instituted
at O.kcs.
Viola Z. Woodward of New Rockford
is granted n pension.
Daniel Healy of Armenia has been ap-
pointed railway mail clerk.
Game. except wolves, is unusually
scarce this winter in North Dakota.
Wild geese have been seen in Polk
county inside of the last week.
Col. a. 2. Peake of Valley City has
purchased controlling interest in the
East Lehigh coal mine, near Dickinson.
The quarantine at Hamilton has been
raised and schools will reopen OH the
3ist inst.
All state educational institutions are
ovcrcrowded and in need of additional
buildings.
Bleckmer is a new postottice estab-
lished in Richland county. with Otis
FoGte as postmaster.
Surveyor General Blewett is figuring
on putting in u -four mill at Dickinson
when his term expires.
Several buildings are being erected
ut Lakota, carpenters working bare
handed, just us in summer.
The Lisbon cheese factory is to be
operated the coming season on larger
scale that heretofore.
Walsh county reports Il school enum-
Grafton of 6,S57, a gain Of $40 over
1896.
S. ]. Rice. of Omemee. is in Jail at
Devils Lake. charged with assault with
criminal intent.
Dickinson women are moving toward
the establishment of free reading
room and public library.
An electric light plant is being put in
at Devils Lake and pipes being laid for
water mains-all in January.
Three brothers Greebe We're arrested
and Jailed at Rugby fer operating 4
blind pig.
George A. Bangs and Ledru Guthrie
have formed legal partnership It
Grand Forks.
A number of farmers of Morton
county propose to build custom grist
mill Mt Mandan.
United States Court Clerk Montgom-
cry is in Washington settling up his
accounts with the government.
Harvey Randall a Cavalier county
farmer. committed suicide by shooting
himself through the head with IL rifle.
Rolette county is expecting a RUSH Of
Immigrants in the spring. Rolette is
one of the best counties in the state.
Northwood wants a good hotel, and
the party who will erect it will set
$1,000 bonus.
There are 1.195 children of scauol age
in Stutsman county, an increase OF 40
i'll the last year.
William. Lcvincs is under arrest ut
Dunseith Oh the charges of stealing Il
yoke of oxen and load Of wheat.
Reynolds Masons are fitting up n
lodge room ON the third floor Of the
Rockaway hotel.
Fully GOO new members were initial
ed by lodges of Worllmen throughout
the state last Tuesday.
Daniel Miller. prominent citizen of
Steele, died suddenly while visiting rel
atives in Pennsylvania.
Judge Winchester suspended sentence
in the case of Robert Taylor, charged
with bootlegging at Steele.
The school population of Stutsman
county has increased 55 per cent in five
years.
Harvey Harris has been appointed
sales solicitor for the Northern Pacific
in Burleigh county.
A former Bismarck man. Robert
White, is reported to have located an
Alaska gold claim worth Million
December business in the Bismarck
land office exceeded that for the cor
responding month in any year in the
last decade.
A horse belonging to Mr.. Sternberg
at Valley City got tangled up in wire
fence and was so badly injured as to
necessitate killing him.
The first land mortgage securities for
loans from the permanent school fund
have been hiled with the state auditor
and warrants drawn therefor.
The epidemic OF scarlet fever in sew