The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1900-08-10
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Wimbledon is said to have d. bar ass Is

cass county's school population Is
over 5000.
Cakes reports some lively .runaways
last week.
Good crops are reported in the Turtle
mountains.
Bismarck has basketball team com.
posed of girls.
The flour mill at Forest River is be-
ing torn down.
n Thirty rt Iowa land seekers are at Will
Michigan City's juvenile band is said
to be hummer.
The Grafton soldier boys had great
time at Winnipeg.
Ball playing has been prohibited in
the streets at Cakes.
The new engine for the Wimbledon
water works has arrived
Three Michigan girls have taken up
claims in Mclean county.
Mayville people have some great
stories to tell Of the cyclone.
| Two Steele county men have con-
tract to put up 300 tons Of hay.
Two kegs of wine were confiscated in
Valley City but no arrests were MADE.
The injunction cases against Caring
ton blind piggers have been dismissed.
Towner wants u watering place for
the farmers who come IN to do BUSH
ness.
Track laying has begun on the Mill
nor -Oakes extension CT the Northern
Pacific.
| A grocery store and confectionery
were closed at Lisbon because they sold
hard cider.
| The drouth at Dickinson is unprece
denied, but despite the fact nearly all
the ranchers will get little new hay.
Attorney F. D. Alexander, formerly a
law partner of Judge Glaspell at
Jamestown, died at Fairhaven, Wash.
Good government land is becoming
scarce in Bottineau county as result
of the numerous settlers in that vicin-
ity.
At Eckelson two farmers fought over
dog and a Scotchman is said to have
licked his Scandinavian friend to a
finish.
A Ransom county schoo1ma'm gam
bled on wheat speculation, lost her roll
and was fired by the school board for
her fun.
Mckinley Rice, infant son of Mr.. and
kerosene and a physician was called
just in time.
A. H. Ravenstein is said to have
caught Carl Bandfield stealing his corn
at Glendale. The latter is said to have
suddenly disappeared.
George Griffith, who was arrested on
the charge of burglary at Cakes. at
tempted to. escape from Jail at Ellen
dale, but was recaptured.
the cyclone and was thrown under his
team near Mayville, but managed to es-
cape with slight injuries.
Miss Tessie Stafford and O. w. James,
both well known young people of Wah-
peton, were married at the home of the
brides brother at Snohomish, Wash,
on July 8.
The Steel county w. c. T. U. elected
Mrs. c. S. Shippy of Hope president,
Mrs. o. G. Majors corresponding secre-
tary and Mrs. A. K. Cochrane record
ing secretary.
Mrs. Holley, state humane agent
made some horse owners at Minot look
after animals that had been tied too
long in the streets and were being
eaten by hordes of flies.
Carl Kohlman, who had lived at
Snyder's Lake, near Cando, was ar
rested on the charge of obtaining
money under false pretenses and sui
cided by taking strychnine.
Russians who We're trespassing on
hay lands near Anamoose refused to
leave when ordered. After curing the
hay the owners burned it and a wagon
belonging to the Russians-for spite.
The Mcintosh family had a reunion
and picnic at David Lanes grove west
of Crystal Lake last week, at which
Donald Mcintosh of Ormund, Ont, two
sons, two daughters and twenty-three
grandchildren gathered.
The Hope people do not take kindly
to the cutting down of their train facil-
tiles, and even express the wish that
Jim Hill would remove his tracks and
then another road could be induced to
pass through that place.
F. D. Alexander, a we'll known in
surance man and single dealer, was
found dead in his room on the third
floor of the Pike block, Fairhaven,
WASH, from gas asphyxiation. He was
formerly lawyer of Jamestown.
The Foster County State bank pub
fishes its regular report, attested by E.
Delafield Smith, president. 1t has loans
and discounts of $4,000, a goodly
amount of ready cash on hand and is
in an exceedingly healthy condition.
Lightning destroyed the house and
>contents belonging to c.. B. Still, a
farmer living a few miles east of Nc
Henry, in Foster county. He and his
wife were in town buying lumber for a
new addition, when the fire occurred.
A cowboy at Rugby was arrested
charged with stealing spur. The spur
| was found in his possession and the
dispenser of justice fined him $40. In
order to get the money he was obliged
to sell his pony and now doesn't need