The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1899-09-01
NORTH DAKOTA
Blanchard is not booming, it's JUS
growing.

overdose of nightingale.
Kuhn has put down well. Plenty
of water ut twenty feet.
VIII Stowell Of Bottineau is reported
as having hOrseless carriage.
Mclaughlin Bros. are putting up a
new elevator Mt Bottineau.
The jamestown & Northern Is to
have daily passenger train.
The cattle-shipping season has opened
in the western part of the state.
A yield of 100000 bushels of wheat
is expected in Bottineau county.
Valley City is whooping it up these
days-yhooping cough prevalent there.
Twenty tons of hay went up in
smoke the other day. First of the sea-
son.
Cassiday, of the 500. steers two car
loads Of Iowa land seekers into Bis
marck this week.
The summer school at Mandan closes
next week, after very successful
three-weeks' session.
Charles Holdorf Of Leal broke a co,l-
pie of bones in his hand the other day
while correcting balky horse.
The new dwelling of Syver Frisv of
Cooperstown is receiving it's finishing
touches, preparatory to occupancy.
OF the $500 young fish toted from the
United States fish car at jamestown to
Spiritwood, only four died en- route.
Otto Voelzke of Fargo has taken his
choice of $40 or ten days for attempt
ing to carve the clerk of the Fargo
House.
Up to date, the hail losses adjusted
by the Red River Valley Insurance
Company of Wahpeton have amounted
to $l4 900.
The heavy winds during the last few
days have threshcd several bushels OF
grain for farmers in the vicinity Of
Wimbledon.
Burglars blew up safe belonging to
William Lackie Of Cakes, and got 20
cents. spelling $3.50 worth of safe in
the operation.
morning of the 18th. and is now max
five barrels per day.
The first threshing near WahpetOn
yielded twenty-seven bushels of barley
to the acre. A light wheat crop is pre-
dicted in some sections.
Mrs Grass. matron of the Cass coun-
ty hospital, has evacuated that institu-
| ton, as the commissioners wished but
Il it is said she will have an inning later
Il on.
Commissioner of Agriculture Thomas
reports prospect of fifteen to seven
teen bushels of grain per acre in Ben
son county, and little smut on the
side.
A we'll conducted creamery would be
valuable acquisition to Cooperstown,
and will doubtless be one of the inn
provements that will be added before
long.
Justice Thompson Of St. Thomas
fined James Chapman $40 and costs for
the pleasure Of busting his farmer
neighbours clothes with a pitchforl
handle.
The recruiting station at Fargo has
been notified to enlist men for five adj
ditional regiments. The ten companies
have been filled, and five more will be
recruited.
The Casselton band has ben reorgan-
lied. DR. c. S. Putnam will be the in
structor and musical director. with
Charlie Stone as assistant director and
leader.
The Great Western has assured the
Pittsburg & Gulf that it will not be a
party to the boycott against the latter
by competing roads. This gives the
Gulf a Twin City connection.
Gottlieb Scholtz. jamestown farm
| To hi is
promise to explain to Judge Glaspell
about a selling mortgased property
story that got out about him.
A fire occurred at Braddock last Sun
day night, which consumed Fred Colt
on's livery barn. meat market and a
blind pig. Cause unknown. 1t is be-
lieved that tirebug has been getting
in his work.
| The eleven-months-old child Of Com
missioner Of Agriculture H. U. Thorn
as died at the residence in Bismarck
Thursday morning. Troubles resulting
from teething were the immediate
cause of death.
There will be hotel built by the
Washburn railroad people at Willet,
which will be one Of the stations along
the line of the road about twenty-six
miles north of Bismarck. The MOTEL
will be for the accommodation of land
seekers and others travelling along the
lire.
a party of men entered the house of
Sven Menson of Sanborn, ten years ago
and applied fire to his feet, in an en-
deavcr to extort money from him. The
men escaped, but the other day, in the
harvest field, Menson saw a man whom
he recognized as one of the assailants,
and caused his arrest.
County officials took charge of a
number Of kegs of beer in the 500 de-
pot at Courtenay, preliminary to prose,
cution of the agent for violating the
prohibition law, and some tramps came
along after the beer was stored in the
Jail building, tapped them and drank
the been-and the evidence is minus.
William Pinkham, one of the prom
inent farmers Of Wells county, was ar
rested, charged with attempting to
sloot Walter Lee, neighbor. The diff
| fculty originated over the ownership
Of some hay. Lee had narrow es-
cape, the charge Of heavy shot passing