The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1899-07-28
NORTH DAKOTA


Williston school board again.
The new Industrial school at james
town is fast nearing completion.
Stone cross walks are being put in on
some Of the streets of Jamestown.
w. w. Sears has been appointed dep
uty game warden of Dickey county.
DR.. Graham, long at Grafton, is en-
gagged in stock farming at Walhall..
The heavy rains have damaged the
hay crop in the vicinity Of Osnabrock.
Thomas Smith, an old conductor on
the Northern Pacific, is dead at James
town.
Valley City merchants are consider
ing the early closing of their places Of
business.
Leeds wants Il -four mill, and is
willing to put up a bonus to- the right
Kind Of man.
Ward county commissioners are go
ing to get together oftener. Quarterly
isn't enough.
The state Baptist association has
elected as it's president Rev. A. B.. New
comb of Grafton.
Thirteen APPLICANTS for permission to
practice dentistry took the eXaminl-
ton ut Grand Forks.
Graders are at work on tile WASH
burn railroad. and bridge timbcrs are
arriving at Bismarck.
Several Indian women are reported
to have received fatal injuries; i'm the
storm at Fort Berthold.
Nebraska stockmen have al bunch Of
100 horses driven in to dispose Of in
Wells county after harvest,
With the exception of Kidder' county,
the Northern Pacific has settled all it's
delinquent taxes in the state.
The reports of the big hail storm up
in the northern part of the state We're
said to have been exaggerated,
The Rolla cheese factory is;eceiving
about $500 pounds: Of milk every: day,
and the quantity is increasing.
A count taken by somebody shows
1900 acres more in crop in Stutsman
county this year than ever before.
Louis CadieuN, who suffered a
crushed foot at jamestown, has been
taken to the railroad hospital there.
A new and bigger hotel, stables, etc.,
are already on the tapis for the Char1-
tauqua ere another season rolls around.
Pembina can now boast of Il long
distance telephone, the same having
The Farmers and Merchants State
Bank of jamestown has its articles of
Incorporation and is about ready for
business.
The receipts of the Bismarck land
office for the year ending June 30 We're
$27, 5O1.6S, while 234.414 acres of land
We're disposed of.
Sam Burt of Valley city has struck a
good pay lead ut Colorado Springs,
Colo, getting 81 600 per year as,super'
intendent of a mine.
Bloody accident on the Bismarck &
Washburn railroad already. Handle
Of grader flew up and split the snoot
Of one of the workmen.
John Stafford. near Crystal, market
ed four head Of cattle recently for
S226.42. Two two-year-oldS weighed
2.GO9 pounds and brought $117.42.
The hobo season was inaugurated at
Fargo with the breaking open of Il box
car and the abstraction threfrom of a.
stock Of cigars. tobacco and shoes.
The Rolette county bank reports IL
surplus of $1,000 and good money on
hand. Messrs. Wilbur and Steele are
OLD and successful hands at the bank
ing business.
Manager Freer of the Lisbon cheese
factory. reports an increase of bust
hess over last year, the daily receipts
Of milk aggregating about 1900
pounds. and making 800 pounds OF
cheese.
The government appraiser is, listing,
the half-million acres of Fort Steven
son reservation, which will be thrown
open to settlement soon. The Fort Blu
ford reservation will also be thrown
open to settlement.
Carl johnson of Portland received H.
bastardy fine sentence of 81 900, to be
paid in Semi-annual inStallments, of
$3S. Not heavy installments, but they
will probably become monotonous to-
Carl after while.
The Valley City Fruit and Candy
company is new Barnes county firm,
which will do an exclusive wholesale
business. E. III. Lee of st. Paul is
president of the company; and Andrew
Haas of jamestown, manager.
So far there is an unusual scarcity in,
North Dakota of the genus homo
known as "hobo," while in former
years the state has been fairly overrun
with them. Unless these gentry make
their advent here again soon. there is
likely to be shortage Of harvesters.
An exchange out that way says an
Glendale young man recently wrote,
the Milwaukee officials for a position
to run on the railroad, and received n
reply to the. effect that they had no OBJ
jections to his running on the railroad,
provided lie kept out of the way of the
trains.
1t is stated that the location Of the
town of McHenry, on the Cooperstown
branch, was changed half a mile after
the Johnson company had built hotel
where it was expected the town would
be located. The new site is on railroad
land. and the hotel was moved to it at
considerable expense.
Grand Forks county has bonded in
debtedness of So, 900, and at a meeting
this week the county commissioners in