The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1898-01-07
Jamestown has fun nedged literary


been organized ut Williston.
An acetylene gas plants is to put In
the state soldiers home on trial.
There are Il good many cases of ty-
phold fever in the Red River valley.
The city council of Crank Forks has
mace an appropriation of $500 to buy
an electric light plant
The county commissioners of Suits
man county will put $1,000 steam
plant in the court mousse.
Merchants on the jamestown 4
Northern lines petition for Il daily pas
SGnSer service.
Ed. johnson, Il Fargo man, has dis
appeared, leaving Il youny wife whom
he married last May.
1t is said the Bismarck postffice
will be removed one block east to
more central location.
The public examiner has called for
reports of the condition of state banks
at the close of business on the 18th
inst.
p. J. Atwood succeeds Z. r. Horn
as postmaster at Courtenay. The lat
ter has handled the mails for thirteen
years.
farmers co operative creamery is
under construction ut Ransom, with
ammonia cold storage plant to cost
$4,000.
Receiver Hanway of the lcfunct
Mears bank ut Fargo has been placed
under $1,000 bonds for misappropria-
ton of funds
Mrs. deI.endrecie has incorporated
college OF osteopathy at Fargo with
capital of $4,000. A charter has been
issued.
Rev. Palmetto who has been max
ing trip through Asia has returned
to the United States but will not re-
turn to North Dakoa.
The Methodist church people pur-
chased the old post chapel nit Fort Bu-
ford and will place it in position at
Williston for church.
A surprisingly light sentence is that
which sends the Sanborn homicide,
Ferdinand Kleinschmidt. to the peni-
Tertiary for eighteen months for kill
ing his son.
John \. Wilson. a pioneer settler Of
Foster County. and a commander OF
the the q. A. Il. post at Darlington.
died at Austin. Mimi. after a linger-
ing illness of seven months.
Stutslnah county comes in for the re-
vival of prosperity and the records
show that more mortgages have been
released the past fall than in ten
years. :
The Dual City Gas company. WHICH
has been supplying Illuminating gas
at Grand Forks has failed and Judge
Amidon has appointed w. $. Russell
of Grand Forks receiver. :.
Smuggling of cattle from Canada to
tile state has been going on industri-
ously for sometime and Bottineau
farmer has been arrested for bringing
in fifty head without paying the duty.
District court has been in session i'll
Devils Lake for a month and it is
stated the grand jury has indicted all
ct the liquor dealers, who have had
important business away from home
since the jury has been in session.
The railway station agent at La
Mourc mournS the loss of a package
containing $3.50 which he had prepared
for remittance to the ST. Paul office
1t was stolen from hi sdesk while hs
was selling tickets.
The comptroller of the currency has
received information of the failure of
the First National bank of Pembina.
The bank had Il capital of $4,000 and
deposits of $4,000. Receiver Anheier
has been place in charge.
An old man named Wilson died
alone in cell in the Jail at Forman
He had been brought in preparatory to
beklS examined for inSiEity and died
from the shock and exposure of the
trip.
Latest figures upon the Dakotah fire
at Grand Forks place the loss at $3.50
GOO with insurance at $211.5OO. This
covers the buildings a I'd firms losses,
and represents nothing of the private
losses which guests Of the hotel and
dweners in various flats suffered.
Alfred Rude. the principal witness OF
the state in Il wheat stealing case ut 3
Cavalier had q narrow escape from
death as n result of drinking poisoned
whisky 1t is suspected the poison was
caused to be administered by some per-
sons vitality interested in the outcome
of the case.
Engineer Jack Dawson of the Greaf u
Northern met with peculiar accident
at Rugby the other day. The bucket
at the new coal chute worked hard ana q
Mr. Dawson went to the assistance.
OF his fireman. and as he stepped back
on the engine fell. The steel lid to-
the bucket dropped just as he fell. and 81
caught his head. tearing his right ear
and bruising him considerably.
Alison Cunningham. the man wantedaS
in Colorado for murder and who was
captured near Minot last summer byas
w. 3. Lverlnore. has been tried md
sentenced to twenty years imprissn-s
ment for the crime. The women in
plicatcd in the case has been acauitted.s IA
Cunningham murdered q man nametiSs
Barnard and escaped from the otiicers
and was captured near Minot. The
woman in the case was the wife of ths.as
murdered man. s