The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1898-04-01

lOWneF county, In the Hp8atv3S "
Bisbee. is rapidly filling up with q
good class of settlers.
Cavalier county has $4,000 = its
t'""sury and no outstanding Indebted
rcss.
IL the Devils Lake land, Office 800
homestead entries were filed between
JAN. 1 and March Is.
During the last year the Metlrrlist
church ut Langdon paid over 81 coo OF
Indebtedness.
August Abrahamson of Glenfeld,
Foster county, will operate three gang
plows this spring, using u traction en-
CINE as IL motor.
There is so much money up in Wells
county that the auditor will have TO
:",,,,Ist lur an additional depository
for the sum Of $500.
G. G. Halliday, young business
man OF Wheatland, has gone insan.
hls maria is that someone has killed
two OF his brothers at Buffalo.
Burlelgh county commissioners offer
S1l,OOO refunding bonds for twenty
years at per cent. to retire 6.per cent
bonds of eual amount.
The Mccormick Harvester company
has received verdict of $3.50 from the
Northern Pacific for property burned
at Richardton, Stark county.
j. \. Grigsley. immigration agent Of
the Northern Pacific, will conduct 300
families from Pennsylvania to- Local
tons in the Red River valley.
The Wahpeton board of education
has awarded the contract for it's new
school building to Thomas Cole 4 Co.,
Fergus Falls, for $6194.21.
Dickey county farmers are import
ing some thoroughbred cattle. four be-
ing shipped in recently that cost ST.
100.
The Devils, Lake electric light plant
will be in operation in Il week or so.
Over 600 lights have already been con-
tracted for.
Over 100 quarter sections of land
We're proved up on in Richland coun-
ty last year. adding S12O.O0O to the
taxable wealth of the county.
Large shipments of Canadian cattle
are being moved to South Dakota. pay
ing customs duties at North Dakota
ports of entry.
The cattlemen will appeal from the
decision of Judge Winchester sustain
ing the constitutionality OF the Stark
county boundary law.
The Great Northern has raised the
price of it's land in Northern Minneso-
ia the price now ranging from $3.50
to $40 per acre.
\ couple of Dickinson men who had
been staked for the Klondike dropped
the other fellows money in places in
Seattle.
1t is said that the Northern Pacific
shops at Mandan are to be closed eX-
cept for making ordinary running lc-
pairs.
Emmons county officials are invcsti-
eating the loss of $1,000 in transit
from Williamsport to Bismarck. The
suspected mail carrier is still in Jail.
The hobo season begins Il little ear
ly this season in the Red River valley.
Forty-five of them were run out OF
Fargo the other day.
\ commissioner will have to he ap-
pointed in Kidder county to fill the va
cancy caused by the death OF Commits
sioner Shoemaker.
\ former Cando man named John
Darling, who has been in klondike for
several years, is closing Il deal where
10y he gets $4,000 for his interest in 4
mining property.
The work of weighing the mails on
the North Dakota division OF the n.
n. road is being done. The mails are
said to be heavier than usual, owing
to the klondike rush.
Reports of Special Examiner Nc
Donald as to the condition of suspend
ed banks in this state are expected this
week. to be followed by the appoint-
ucnt of receivers.
D. III. Houston OF Hunter has patent
cd all Improvement for Il kodak, ana
has sold it to IL kadak company, under
an arrangement that will net him
about 100000.
The county seat fight in Pembina
county is waxing warm. and Cavalier
is early in the field. securing names to
petition to have the matter brought
to vote. 1t will require 2.4OO names.
l.. Il. Kelly will retire from business
at Milton and seek health in the south.
Material used in the extension OF tel
ephOne lines this year is to be first
class.
Elevators are shipping their stocks
of grain so that the assessor will find
little in store on the LIST of April. The
wheat was practically all shipped ear
ly in the winter.
Max Wallace. son of j. ID. Wallace
of Drayton, was crowded against the
side OF stall by Il pet pony and near
ly crushed to death before being res
cued. His injuries are painful, but
will not result seriously.
The great exposition, opening over
ture and intended barbecue of the
Ransom creamery at Lisbon. so eX-
tensively billed. was postponed, but
not until many had gone there, and
returned disappointed.
Secretary of the Interior Bliss has
affirmed the decision OF the land office |
in the case of the Northern Pacific VS..
Jacob Boshec, involving 10000 acres in |
the Bismarck district. the companies
selection of which is held for rejection.
The skeleton of Il man was found on
the bank of Otter river, near Wahpe-
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