The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1898-02-11
NORTH DAKOTA


The wolf bounty tax viii amount to
between $4,000 and $4,000.
E. T. Gorton of Bathgate died at
that place Of appendicitis.
Two Grafton men expect to drive
about 100 dogs to the Ixlondike region.
Cando's electric light plant is in op-
| GRAFTON.
A colony of Iowa farmers will locate
In TSw1ler county.
Grafton's militia company has q
membership of forty.
The Methodist church of Mimic is
free from debt, the last claim having
In q Wells county case the defendant
was given judgment for % cents.
Henry 4. Hanson is appointed post
master at Viking.
Five creameries will operate in Sar-
gent county this season.
The school board at Rolla will ex-
pend $50 in addition to the school H.
brary.
Twin City wholesalers report bust
ness with North DakOtans unusually
brisk.
Fire at Caledonia destroyed the store
of Little & Co. Loss $1,000; insurance
$4,000.
I.arimore has organized a law and
order league, with Senator Arnold as
president.
Marshal Haggart has appointed Fred
SCHNEIDER and Jim Ryan Of Grand
Forks as deputies.
Some thirty applications for Land
loans are pending before the state land
board.
All desirable land within twenty
miles of Bisbee has been filed upon
during the last year.
Judge Amidon has appointed Attor-
ney James Murphy United States COM
missioner at jamestown.
An egg case company has been Or
ganiZed at Hillsboro with Il capital
stock Of $4,000.
The annual issue of the annuities to
the Indians of Standing Rock Agency
has been completed.
"A Presbyterian church is to be built
ut Rackoo the coming season, the site
of which is donated by II. Tuson.
Ike Hulquist, lumberman working
near Fosston, was instantly killed
crushed under load of logs.
Maj. ]. S. Murphy is endorsed for
appointment as receiver of the MinOt
National Bank.
Mclean county will negotiate $4,000
bonds for funding outstanding indebt-
edneSS.
Lieut.. Schenk, formerly stationed at
Fort Yates, is gold-mining in South
Africa.
Grand Forks has about $4,000 in the
city treasury after paying all floating
indebtedness.
Ncls J. Nelson and Anton Olson have
been sent to the insane asylum from
Barnes county.
Lewis Fosston of Fosston was among
those saved from the wrecked steamer
COlona en- route to Japan.
The new postmaster at Lidgerwood
is putting in new office, new fixtures
and new assistant.
Rurleigh county has Il school popula-
ton of 1,431, of which Bismarck is
credited with 1913.
Samuel Lovnes. Il pioneer settler and
influential citizen of Cavalier county,
is dead, at the age of seventy-twO.
Departmental civil service eXamina-
tons are to be held in Grand Forks
March %. and ut Bismarck March 30.
Judge Glaspell tried twenty cases at
the recent term of court in Wells coun-
ty.
The Scandinavians of Fargo have Or
ganized a literary society, to hold
weekly meetings.
Fessended creamery men are PLAN
ming to put in creamery ut that
point.
The notwithstanding mania is said to
have done up Grafton man of high
family connections.
Land seekers report an excellent
tract of vacant land open to settlement
northwest of Park River.
Electric light patrons at Cassclton
pay 10 cents fiat per light. Arc lights
are furnished for $64 per annum.
Mclean county will bond for $4,000,
to take up warrants issued and out
standing for payment up to June, 1898.
The creamery plant at Rutland is
will soon be drawing cash dividends.
w. J. LAWN, for stealing wheat Mt
Rugby. will do one year and eight
months in the penitentiary.
Company G, N. D. N. G., Mt Valley
City, elected Charles Il. N1udgett cap
tain, to succeed f. G. Clark, resigned.
Walsh county stands second in the
state now in school population, and
Grand Forks third. Cass county
stands 9rst.
Surveys are being made for straight
ening the Great Northern tracks near
Carman, to facilitate other improve
ments contemplated this season.
Banker Rosholt of Mayville, is look
ing over the rice-producing district
near Jennings, La, with view Of ill.,
vesting.
Stockmen are looking up locations in
Stutsman county, and one st. Paul
man will locate near Medina with 500
head of cattle for starter.
Congressman johnson has recon-
mended Wallace Galehouse for post
master at Darlington, and j. G. Pitts
at Winona.
The party Of gold-seekers which left
Grand Forks some time ago by the
Edmonton route to the gold fields, Is
reported snow-bOund at Edmonton.
Three men are under arrest at Ro1lo