The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1899-06-23
NORTH DAKOTA

Business at Naples is reported pick
ing up.
Unknown and Darlington have hay
famine.
The parish library ut Oberon now has
$50 volumes.
Minor is now enjoying q good,
healthy growth.
Samuel A. Raple Of Buffalo has been
granted Il pension.
The Merchants hotel at Winona has
been destroyed by fire.
An effort will be made to reorganize
the Cooperstown band.
Only forty-ninc votes were cast at
Jimtown's school election.
Stone contracts for the new mill at
Wimbledon have been let.
There is no better investment than
farm lands in North Dakota.
Cakes papers report crop prospects
and all lines of business booming.
The town of Bowden, Wells county.
is plated and ready for the boom.
The Northern Pacific has patented it's
last section of land in Cass county.
A class Of eleven was graduated
from the publis schools at Jamestown.
DIR. Moore of jamestown reports two
mild cases Of small poX in Wells
county.
The Eddy county Sunday School as
ISOLATION meets at New Rockford June
% and 90
The copious rains have injured the
potato crop in some parts of the state,
1t is feared.
Alfred l.. Whipple of Lisbon has
been granted a patent for a variable
gear for bicycles.
A committee has been named at
Dickinson to arrange plan for incor-
porating that burg.
There is to be q G. \. II. encamp-
ment at Spiritwood lake for fifteen
days. June 2G to July 10.
Mrs. Olivia Foerie Of Fessenden was
thrown from Il carriage in runaway
and sustained broken thigh.
\ farmer near Walhala shot peli-
can that measured eight feet ten inch
es by three feet nine inches
The teachers institute held at La
kota was tile largest and most success
full ever convened in Nelson county.
kasmcr Sanders was digging under
huge stone near Fessenden. when it
fell upon him crushing him to death.
\ mortgage for $4,000. held by Eng
lish capitalists. is being foreclosed on
the Pckert lands in Steele county.
The trustees of the state school for
the deaf have bought twenty acres of
land to use for farming purposes.
A gang of horse thieves is said to be
located near Harvey. and the other
people want something done about it.
The pressed brick plant at Dickinson
is running full blast. and is turning
out an excellent quality of building
brick.
George d. Winfree pleaded guilty at
Gllendale to stealing Il livery rig, and
was sentenced to two years in the peni-
Tertiary.
Fcfty-three persons have taken adj
vantage OF the new bankruptcy law in
North Dakota. with total liabilities of
$;'.0OO.OCO.
Duncan Mcdonald. a Valley CITY con-
tractor. gets the contract for building
the new $4,000 high school building at
Jamestown.
Lightning killed seven head of cat
tile belonging to L. f. Hunt. near FEES
sender. The cattle We're standing near
n wire fence.
y small cyclone is reported from the
northern part of Mclean county. No
buildings stood in its path. but it sailed
off with Il buggy.
DR.. MceKnZie Of Darlington has been
appointed by the governor assistant
surgeon Of the First regiment, with
the rank of captain
\ Homestead of American Yoemen
was organized at New Rockford last
week by w. ]. Newlove II. \. Stick
ney was elected foreman.
Arthur Baker of Port Emma. Dickey
county. fell in front of grain drill he
WAS riding. dragged for some distance
under the shoes and killed.
-Four men We're convicted ut Caring.
ton of violating the prohibition law.
They were sentenced to ninety days
in Jail and 5000 fine each.
Hon. David Bartlett has been ap-
pointed by Gov. Fancher North Dako-
ta's delegate to the antitrust conven-
ton to be held at St. Louis.
Ed johnson, a reworks man who
was assisting With the display in Far
so, lost an eye from the premature ex-
plosion Of piece of fireworks.
Business has increased at the James
town postoffice until it has been made
a second-class office. and the salary
will be $1,000 annually after July 1.
The first wool of the season was
brought into jamestown the other day
by William Kline. 1t was of good
quality but rather dry. The price runs
between IL and IL cents.
Stutsman county seems to be on easy
street. The treasurer has $40, 600 cash
on hand and no bonds to pay until
1908. and all outstanding warrants
called in and paid.
a report from Minot says boy
named Hoffman fell from a wagon
bridge into twelve feet Of water in the
Mouse river. and his sister jumped
twenty-five feet after him and pulled
him out. Neither was hurt.
The Northern Pacific has fled with
the Bismarck land office a list of its
selection Of lands on the west side OF
the Missouri river a1grepafinp 1SE OOasG