The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1899-05-05
NORTH DAKOTA j

Bathgate will have q new postoffice
building.
Jimtown will have u new up-to-date
high school building.
The teachers association meets In
Sherbrooke May 9Th.
Thousands of head Of young cattle
are being shipped into the state.
S. r. Finlay of Harvey is the latest
one to invent a smut destroying device.
The Reynolds cornet band gave sue
cessful concert at Buxton last week.
A Scandinavian Lutheran church is
to be erected in Sheyenne this sum-
mer.
A boat club has been organized at
Lisbon and a fine launch has been or
dered.
1t will cost Park River $2,987 to re-
pair it's city hall so that it will be right
and safe.
The North Dakota Live Stock ASSOC
citation have decided to publish a new
brand book
1t is reported that H. G. Delaney, the
big stockman. will build a $4,000 resi-
dence in Fargo
Farmers in the vicinity Of Colgate
have decided to erect 10000 bushel
elevator this season.
During the high water at Mandan
over 700 sacks of mail accumulated
for Montana and other western points.
The Sykestown and Cooperstown ex-
tensions of the Northern Pacific will
cost from $1,000 to $4,000 per mile.
An Iowa stockman was in search of
5000 acres of land in one tract in La
Moure county, but was unable to find
it.
The Valley City curfew ordinance
has been in full force and effect for
nearly six months and not one arrest
yet.
Inkster will have new $4,000 brick
hotel this summer Landlord AlsdOrf
of the Inkster house will be the propri-
etor
Owing to illness from tonsilitis Judge
Sauter Indefinitely postponed the term
of court scheduled for Langdon last
Monday.
The foundation for the state indus
pleted. and the school will be opened
this fall.
The good people of Williston are
nervous over the proximity Of smallpox
and two doctors are busy vaccinating
the residents.
G.. ID. Shellenberger of Humboldt, Ia,
has purchased nineteen sections of
land in Sargent county, and will locate
Iowa families OH them.
The state wool growers association
has fixed July 10 as a public sale day
at jamestown for this years crop Of
wool and July s at Medina.
Mrs. Charles Kleinfelter the widow
of the late proprietor of the st. Charles
hotel, at Dickinson, died from blood
poisoning, caused by slight cut on
her finger about a week ago.
Bishop Edsalrs family will arrive
soon from Chicago, and the bishop has
taken quarters at the new hotel, the
Waldorf, in Fargo for the present.
All the Great Northern employees
have had to leave Devils Lake and re-
side in other towns, except one night
Waterman, and the railroad shops are
deserted
T.. A. Lamb. the outgoing Bismarck
land office official, has been admitted
to the practice of law before the inte-
rior department at Washington, and
will establish himself at Washburn.
The Cakes cheese factory has COM
menced operations and absorbs about
1000 pounds of milk FER day. Be-
tween June and September it is eX,
pected it will use over 5000 pounds
per day.
Mr.. Boyd Bliss and Miss Laura
Bentz of Glendale had very narrow
escape from drowning in fording a
swollen stream. The team, carriage
and occupants all went under. but by
rare good fortune all got safely to
shore.
Herbert A. Wells. an old resident of
Glendale, who went to the klondike
last winter died there a short time
ago. and his body was sent to Seattle
on the steamer City of Seattle. He
leaves wife and three small chill
dren.
Joe Osawski of Mimic was fishing on
the bank of the river when he con-
cluded to shuttle off this mortal coil.
He jumped into the river, swan about
in the cold water for while, crawled
out and died from cold and exposure.
He leaves Il wife and nine children.
L. j. Morris, one of Grand Forks
countys well known farmers. was dis
covered dead in his bed by neighbor.
and the coroner's inquest decided that
the man had met his death by fall
from the top of his barn, which he
was shingling there being bruises on
his body.
A young man of Glendale took his
best girl out for ride the other day,
and while crossing a bridge over Ma
pie river the horse went over the
bridge in about sixteen feet of water.
The team swan within ten feet of the
shore, and the young man swan the
rest of the way with his sweetheart
on his back
A number of immigrants will soon
arrive at jamestown to settle in the
Jim river valley. They came from
Bon Homme county, South Dakota,
where they leave land worth 500 an
acre, which is too expensive for the
business of stock raising in which they
wish to engage.
Arthur Gritty of Grand Forks, who
was brought up in the Catholic asy-
lum at Minneapolis, is endeavoring tc
locate his parents. He was left in the
asylum June "a, 1850. when about
+l,ron ,,oore. old Gritty hoe hnan do.