The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1898-01-14
NORTH DAKOTA

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forgery, broke Jail ut Dickinson.
The Klodike fever has struck Sar-
gent county.
Charles E. Gaber. Grand Forks, has
been granted an additional pension.
s. B. Mahaney of Willow City has
gone to the Arkansas Hot Springs. y
The combined deposits OF the May
Vile banks amount to over $44O,OOO.
Fire damaged Hotel Buie at Hamil-
ton to the extent of $500.
Twenty-three inmates of the SOL
diers' home ut Lisbon.
Rev. Mr.. Hammel, of the Baptist
church ut Crystal, is dead.
Hamilton has several cases of scar
let fever.
There are abont 141 convicts in the
state renitentiary.
Miss Emma Larson of Wimbledon
has been sent to the insane asylum.
The grading ON the Fosston extern
sion will be completed July 1.
Sargent county's December school
apportiOnment MaS 1921.
Cando is to have an electric light
plant.
A quarter section of land in Hills
bolO township Traili county, sold for
$4,000.
Citizens of Churchs Ferry offer $50
reward for the conviction OF dog
ers and dog-poisoners.
A Lisbon business man, John Wheel
don, has been committed to the asy-
lum at Jamestown.
a colt killed at Engelvale recently,
is said to have contained several hun
dred feet Of tapeworm.
Over $1,000 has been collected in
Cleveland, Ohio, to swell the fund for
the Cuban sufferers.
North Dakota's ice rink crop is un-
usually large on account of the alb
sence of snow.
The people of Hacvana are discuss
ing the ACCESSIBILITY of erecting beet
sugar mill.
]. b. Lockhart of Fargo is suffering
from appendicitis, end will have to
submit to an operation.
Harvey Harris has accepted the po-
sition OF superintendent of the Bis
marck water works plant.
The schools at Kuhn, LaNIoure coun-
ty. arc closed on account of scarlet
fever.
L. G. Welton will take Charge Of the
Dunse.th postoftice as soon as his
bonds arc accepted.
Two blind-piggers failed to come up
for trial ut Grand Forks, and their
bonds were declared forfeited.
J. d. Boyes was sentenced to one
year in the penitentiary by Judge
Sauler
The Northern Pacific is now carry
ing dogs to the coast. for the Klondike.
for $500.
The skull of mound-builder has
been dug up near Lisbon, probably of
the Sioux variety.
Peter Halvorsen and his wife were
asphyxiated by coal gas at New Rock
ford. They are seventy years of age.
The Northern Pacific has paid its
real estate taxes in Burleigh county
$500.
Fargo wants better telephone SER
vice. and has sent a delegation to
headquarters to see about it.
Andrew johnson of Wimbledon died
at the state asylum of cancer of the
throat
Crary's new Maccabee hall will be
dedicated with a grand blow.o out about
JAN. 20.
The postotfice ut Pisek. Walsh coun-
ty. has been made 4 money order Of
fee.
The Prouty Live Stock company of
Grand Forks has gone into liquida-
ton.
The comptroller of the currency has
not yet decided whether or not to al
low the First National Bank of Penn
bina to resume business
a number of The mills in the state
are said to he short of wheat and sew
eral of them will have to Shut down,
as they can purchase none,
Auditor SchalleTA of Morton county
is endcayoring to arrange a meeting
OF county auditors OF the state in the
rear future.
Battery A. at Lisbon has added
basket ball outfit to it's list of accout-
relnents, and the boys are looking for
ward to some fun during the winter.
A newly-wedded couple at Towner
threaten to have a posse who sere-
naded them with tin pans, cow bells,
ETC., arrested.
A jury at Valley City acquitted the
man who assaulted Herbert Root re-
Gently, broke several Of his ribs and
otherwise bunged him up.
Ransom county farmers have sold
their wheat crop so freely that it is
doubtful if there is enough left IN the
comfy for seed.
Augustus Baker was bound over to
the district court at Fargo OH the
charge of incest, and the details of the
crime are said to be most revolving.
At a recent meeting of the town
board of Rolla it was decided not to
accept any more license money from
temperance saloons.
A dividend of 10 per cent has been
declared in favor of the creditors of
the Second National Bank of Grand
Forks, making 80 per cent in all.
Peter Ranello, blind-pigger, has
escaped from the Ransom county iail,
where he was serving ninety days for
violating the prohibition law.