The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1899-08-11
NORTH DAKOTA

Bottineau sports have abandoned foot
ball and taken up lacrosse.
Cutting Of early grain is reported
from various parts of the state.
Railroads are meeting with difficulty
III securing help for road work.
Walsh county is again in trouble to
Know what to do with it's lcpers.
j. ID. Stack. one of the oi;iest attor-
neys i'll Pembina county, is dead.
The North Dakota farmer is blowing
mmself for binding Irvine these days.
Cattle shipments from the big ranges
Will not be as heavy Us usual this year.
Twelve hundred farmers visited the
agricultural college ut Fargo during the
past week.
Judge Corliss and family of Grand
Forks will visit during the summer in
New Yo:k.
The leasing of the school lands for
Cass county will take place at Fargo
Sept. 10Th.
At Page. discharged patient from
the asylum named Hill cut his throat.
He will die.
The Darlington & Casey farm in Eos
ter county, lost 500 hundred acres Of
wheat by hail.
Ransom county has had Il big prai-
RE fire already. No serious damage.
Plow fire break.
jamestown has granted twenty
year franchise to the jamestown Elec-
trio light company.
The Cakes cheese factory seems to
get in more milk than any other estab-
lishment in the state.
The Leech brothers ut Fargo will in
stall complete electric light plant on
their farm in Cass county
Bids for the furnishing of the hos
pital at the soldiers home ut Lisbon
We're rejected. Too high.
The foundation of Harvey's new NJ.
+. church is completed. and the frame
work will he pushed rapidly.
The Northern Pacific lands sold in La
Moure county were bid in ut 500 per
section. subject 10 contract.
Forty-two enliS:Eents for the regu-
lar service have been made at the Far
20 recruiting Office since July 1.
Out of twelve applicants examined
by the state dental examiners at Grand
Forks. five passed the examination.
Lieut.. Farnsworth. formerly CT the
! Grand Forks university. is now located
1000 miles up the Yukon. in Alaska.
The building and fixtures of the de
funct Lloyds' Bank ut jamestown have
been bought for the postotfice there.
The Alliance Hail association of
jamestown, has had $50, 900 in losses
nd in,
The Williston Gun club has made a
| very laudable resolution to prevent
hunting out Of season in that locality.
Fishing ut Spritwood lake is getting
slack, and Il good fish warden is needed
| to prevent the exhaustion of the sup
ply.
Work OH the big Masonic temple
| at Fargo. which had been shut down
| for want Of material, has been re-
sumed.
w. W. Bell. one Of tile railroad car
pentcrs ut Valley City, was dragged
| through the coal dock elevator and seri-
ously injured.
Thomas Black. a Wells county blind
pigger. in Jail at Fessenden. has disap-
peared. the accommodations not PROV
ing to his liking
The little town of Arthur. Cass coun-
ty, has {; full-SiZcd sensation in the
discovery of the body OF small-sizcd
infant in Il vault.
The ninrtecn-montlS- old child of Mr..
and Mrs. w. j. Davis of Twist. Wells
county. found some morphine pills and
ate them, with fatal results.
Charley Booth of Sanborn has taken
advantage Of the new bankrupt law,
and Judge Amidon has made an order
Of final discharge in his case.
The Grand Forks city council has
limited the rate Of speed of bicycles to
eight miles per hour OH the streets and
five miles per hour Gil sidewalks.
Grand Forks has already started a
II ovcment towards building Il monu-
ment in memory of North Dakota's sol
diers who have died in the Philippines.
1t is supposed the Northern Pacific
will build Il branch from Wheatland to
Eureka S. D.. through Cass, Barnes
LaMoure. Dickey and Mcintosh coun-
lies.
The auditor of Dickey county has
been instructed to sell ut private sale
all lands to which the county has OBJ
taiEed title by virtue of the tax sale of
1896.
w. II. White. the Fargo lumber deal
er, will organize 100000 corporation
and purchase the entire business of the
Gull River lumber company in North
Dakota.
Just to show how the wool business
IS increasing i'll the state, over 100000
pounds of wool was pressed at Dickin-
son this year. against total of 10000
pounds in 1902.
Mcleod Bros. Casselton grocers.
have sued Walter l.. Main for the
amount of a grocery bill ordered for
circus day there, when the exhibition
was changed to Fargo.
In IL recent hail storm in Eddy coun-
ty. hail drifted to depth of four feet.
and. several days after the storm. six
inches of hail stones were found be-
meath some debris in low place.
While helping 10 unload piano at
Steele. the other day. ~ P. Agent Hen
dirk had the hard luck to fall with tine
piano on top of him. He smashed his
glasses and chokcd his face all up, but