The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1900-04-13
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Settlers are here and more are COM
ling. H. ~
Two feet Of snow at Dickinson last
week. "
Valley City people still want IN OBJ
l. era house. {.
IA farmer near Olga thinks he has
discovered oil. . 4.
Two car loads of settlers have ar
rived at Barlow.
Slatterly Bros. of Botineau are build
| ing stone store.
Grafton's Business Mems. club has
been incorporated.
| Cavalier county reports go farps
proved up this spring. .s
Wells county is receiving a large
number of new settlers.
s. +. Corwin has been appointed city
assessor at Jamestown.
Emmors county is getting large
number of new settlers.
| Poultry fanciers over the state are,
adding to their fine birds. :
Mrs. Sloan of Bismarck has started.
on her return trip to Alaska.
| A considerable number Of cattle are
being shipped into the state.
Wheatland's new town board is at
work on the well proposition.
Hope wants q telephone exchange,
and is sure Of thirty subscribers.
| Bowbells received 135 tons of mer-
chandise in three days last week.
Lieut. Gov. Devine has been i'll in
Minneapolis. but is recovering.
The depot at Forn,an was destroyed
by fire. caused by defective fue.
There is to be telephone from Bot
tineau to a point on the Mouse river.
Lieut.. Gov. Devine will deliver the
Decoration Day address ut jamestown.
Sheriff Wilson of Cass county is re-
covering from an operation for hernia.
The Red river valley university at
Wahpeton has closed a successful
term.
Some 1900 Dunkards passed through
Chicago en- route to the Devils Lake
region.
Charles Ekeberg, prominent resi-
dent Of Hoople, Walsh county, died in
Arizona. 81, :,
Several large. stock farms have been
started in the past year in Ransom
county.
All the best land within a radius Of
thirty miles of Bottineau has been
taken up. (;
The twelve-year-old son Of Railroad
Commissioner John Simons died at
Valley City. >. ~
Game Warden Gokey and another
Dawson man shot forty-eight geese
one day last week.
Presiding Elder Klingel of Pembinn
county has served his time; limit anu
will be transferred.
frank Ray of Bottine.au was arrest
ed 'on the charge Of monkeyingn with
goods under bond. .:t.,:.; ::
j.. r. Sherwood ofs-Knox lost his
home by fire while he was attending q
wedding amile away. ..1*n<
President Brdwm,of flie Chattsworth,
Ill, bank, has purchased two or three
sections. of land near Page.
Farmers institutes throughout the
state are bringing out the merits of
bronze grass As fodder plant.
The Wahpeton colony in Southern
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state about the middle of April.
John Rockford, deaf man living at
Devils Lake stopped in front of an
engine and was instantly killed.
j. T. Callahan Of Casselton, it is
said. will have charge Of the Devils
Lake summer school this season.
The city of Grand Forks will sue the
county for delinquent tax interest and
penalties, aggregating some $4,000.
The Northern Pacific road estimates
that it carried 500 car loads of immi-
grant movables to the state in March.
The fax fiber mill at Fargo made a
shipment of twenty-saven cars Of proo-
uct to its Eastern establishment last
week.
The new list from the Devils Lake
land Office. shows that 100 parties have
recently proved up on land in Townes
county.
Joseph Kouta, q Bohemian farmer
living near Pishek, Walsh county, was
thrown from his wagon and his neck
broken.
Judge Sauter gave Thomas Coleman
OF Cavalier five years in the peniten-
tiary for false affidayits in proving up
on a claim.
Several car loads of telegraph poles
and piling for the Washburn road have
arrived in Bismarck and are being TAX
en- Forth.
Iowa and Nebraska farmers are buy
4 ing land in Stutsman county. One man
from Nebraska bought ha!f-section
4 for $1,000.
4 About $50 farms have been proven
up on in Cavalier county, and will be-
come subject to taxation for the first
time this year
Charles and Roy Barringer, two
young men from Forgy, Ohio, have ar
rived at Willow City and will take UP
claims there.
The bank building at McHenry is
nearing completion and Cashier Torgu-
son expects to open the institution Tor
i business soon.
The new artesian well at Forman is
completed and an Enclosure has been
built over it to keep the refuse matter
from the water. ,s
Sheepmen in the vicinity OF Cakes
4 are arranging for a wool warehouse