The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1899-12-01
NORTH DAKOTA

can YeOmanry.
Napoleon will keep the Logan county
seat-137 to a.
Grand, Forks has accepted the con-
tract for the Holley pump.
One Charles Thompson Is wanted at
Fargo on the charge of forgery.
Incendiaries attempted to burn the
HankiEson Jail the other night.
Thomas Carley of Clifford has leased
the Northwestern hotel of Hope.
A stock company has been formed At
'Cathay to go into. the dairy business.
II. II. Maggie of Valley City is the
new Northern Pacific agent ut Wheat-
land.
The sum of $542 represents the prof
it's OF the Catholic fair held at Mali
dan.
There is little scrap at Hillsboro
over the telephone ownership and man.
agrment.
Michael Emo. who lives near James
town. lost forty-tive tons of hay by
prairie fire.
Miss Annie Smith of Leeds took
claim in 1892 and this year raised
1900 bushels Of flax.
Tower City is determined not to let
Wheatland get the best Of the deal and
is after IL flax mill.
Mandan's board of education is adj
vertising for plans and specifications
for IL new school building.
The farmers around Sheldon have
hauled in several hundred tons Of
straw for the fiber mill.
.Jimtown will probably assume the
S1.SOO Indebtedness and retain the fair
grounds here for the city.
Frank Moore swiped coat at Har-
vey and was given twenty days free
board ut the county Jail.
Benson county votes for new court
house at Minnewaukan by over 800
majority-and there you are.
Blind Pigger Iosum of Grafton has
been taken to the pen to serve Il sec
'ond term for blind pigging.
Elinl pigs We're raided at Osnabrook.
Three arrests We're made Two of the
prisoners later escaped from Jail
A tcn-year- old Chicago boy. who had
run away from home, was gathered in
by the police at Grand Forks and sent
home.
Merchant Curric of Dickinson, ex
railroad commissioner, was mixed up
in Il runaway and took an enforced
vacation.
Grand Forks people are preparing
anti-polygamy petitions. addressed to
Senator McCumber and Congressman
Spalding.
Some worthy patriots of Jimtown are
signing contributions for a Stutsnlan
county settler who lost his all by fire
recently.
Mrs. Amy Bliss principal Of the
jamestown high school. has resigned.
The resignation was accepted very re-
luctantly.
Fifty Dagoes, who have worked for
the Northern Pacific near Bismarck
this summer, have gone to Chicago for
the winter.
A fellow is under arrest down at For
man charged with stealing and butch
ering and selling widows cow-the
Son-of-a-gun.
William Young of Page sued his
young wife for divorce. charging her
with adultery with his own two sons
by IL former wife.
1t is reported that the firm of Car
mody & Leslie. the we'll known lawye rs
OF Hillsb0ro. will be dissolved ut the
end Of the year.
Hector Mcpherson. aged twelve. will
probably die from the effects of a gun
shot wound received while hunting
near Willow City.
Brakeman Warner on the Hone
branch of the Great Northern had his
hand pinched and finger crushed
while coupling cars.
The Great Northern wreck mt Kilya.
near Williston, resulted in the death of
Brakeman Sherwood and the fatal ill.,
jury of the conductor.
The Alliance Hail Association of
Jamestown has sent out checks for 80
per cent of its losses, distributing
$4,000 to losers from hail.
Frank Dallier's loss OH his threshins
rig. which burned near Jamestown,
will amount to $1,000 over and above
the amount Of insurance carried.
Aaron Nj. Staehnke paid Jeweler
Glassford of Sheldon $25 for breaking
plate glass and was soaked $40 costs.
making it rather expensive fun.
Fred Carsten's place north of Sterl-
ing. was burned by prairie fire. The
report states also that his new sheds
and 500 tons Of hay went up in smoke.
Louis Cults Of Larimore, aged eighty
two. committed suicide by cutting the
artery in his thigh. His dependency
was due to brooding over an early love
affair.
Mysterious disappearance of stock IS
reported by ranchmen in the northern
part Of Stutsman county. Several
herds have been found ten or fifteen
head short
Contractor Swan has been employed
by the city of jamestown to clean out
the artesian we'll. The work will cost
$40 day and bonus Of $3.50 for the
contractor. l
There seems to be a dispute as TO-
whether the. conductor of the train or
the officer should have that $50 reward
for the recapture of Hines of the state
penitentiary.
The village trustees ut Dickinson are
Introducing ordinances for the govern