The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1899-11-10

class III music at Wheatlanu.
Robbers secured $40 by burglarizing
Fred Johnson's house near Oakes.
The Northern Pacific has issued .
| new map to show extensions out west.
has raised $500 for site for ii new
mill.
Martin O. Rrekke. seventy-seven-
year-old resident of jamestown, ls
dead.
Peter McLachlin has sold his farm.
and will become permanent resident
Of Hunter.
Peter Morbou was brutally assaulted
and robbed by two masked men mt
Wallpcton.
A Park River restaura.ltcr turned bis
wife and baby into the street. and was
run out of town.
Mai. White has gone into the law
business with Attorney S. Nj. Locker
by at Valley City.
Lieut.. NJ. A. Hildreth of Company B
and Il. f. Ingwaldson have formed q
law partnership at Fargo.
Miss Maria Gertrude Murphy. daugh-
ter of Thomas Murphy OF Sanbofn, -
dead. at the age of fifteen.
Gen. Washburn and party are look
| ing up terminal facilities for the Bis
marck- Washburn railroad.
| The state transportation committee
cot Il check from Christiana. Norway,
for 50 for the soldier boys.
| Frank Rutten. Jr.. and Miss Carrie
MacEamara We're married at Devils
Lake by Rev. Father Placius.
| Bottineau raised $3.50 clear Of eN-
pcnses at an entertainment for the
benefit of the returning soldiers.
The eight-year-old son of Anton Bak-
er of Oliver county. while playing with
another boy, had his arm broken.
C. X. Scales attempted to shoot T.
C. Dolan at Harvey. and was arrested,
but the prosecution was dropped.
Courtenay has in course of erection g.
two-story. four-room school house, to
be completed inside of sixty days.
Officers with search warrants round
ed up all Casselton the other day. look
ing for blind pigs. They found one.
w. D. Washburn and party We're ut
washburn again last week, on bust
ness connected with that new railroad.
De la Mere has new saw mill, a
new state bank building. new livery
stable and many other improvements.
A tbree-and a half-foot rattlesnake
with nine rattles was killed in w. +.
| Cochrane's barn ut Bismarck the other
day.
Tom Lamb has returned to Washing
| ton. and it is understood has secured
an appointment at the Paris EXPOSE
ton.
Mayor Patterson's new block at Bis
marcll is about completed, and is also
about the finest ever III the capital
city.
! Receiver I.indstrom of the Grand
Forks land office has been looking af
ter his farming interests i'll Benson
county.
The recent rains and SHOWS have
caught great many Ward county
farmers with their potato crop only
about half gathered.
Horses have disappeared from VIM
| bledon with such frequency that the
| citizens are convinced that some thief
is working overtime.
A pair Of threshing hands at Valley
City were arrested for stealing a wo-
mans clothes. They We're fined $50
and costs for the job.
The city of Grand Forks is said to
have violated the city ordinance by
erecting frame annex to the city hall
| for machinery shed.
s. r. Finley of Harvey is excavating
a cellar and building foundation for
n new house on the corner of Ehlers
avenue and Second street.
The citizens committee on reception
| to Company find that they will have
some money. probably $500. to turn
over to the monument fund.
Rev. Powell. the new Congregational
home mission superintendent. is get
ting into his work over the state and
receiving some kindly notices.
Endcrlin is to vote on the question OF
bonding for $4,000 to purchase fire ap-
| paratus. and the State Bank of that
place offers to take all the bonds.
A Canadian attempted to abduct his
children. who were with their mother
| near Neche. The little fellows were
rescued by the brother of the woman.
The Baptist parsonage at Coopers-
town caught fire from lamp. and was
thoroughly soaked by the fire depart
lnent before the flames We're extin-
guished.
At Sykeston dam Einety feet ut
the base and twelve feet at the top
| will be built across the Pipestone, and
lake of considerable extent will be
created for ornamental and useful pur-
! poses.
At De La Mere some men We're fool
! ing with revolver. The blamed thing
went off-as usual. The bullet went
through the cheek of one man and hit
another in the forehead.
Brakeman Penny was caught under
an engine of the Great Northern at
Rugby and dragged some distance. He
saved his legs by rare presence of mind
in holding on to the engine reds.
Owing to the non-arrival Of windows
and finishing material, the new court
house Mt Willist0n was not In readiness
for this term of court as expected, and
] the old court room had to be used.