The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1900-12-28
News Of the State.

Devils Lake wants water works, and
wants 'em bad.
Sargent county now begins to boast
of her coal fields.
More Iowa men are looking up lands
in the Missouri valley.
y Valley city and Mandan may lock
Ehorns over the state fair.
Fargo people are all struggling with
the public library question.
They are hauling coal by the train
Pload from the Washburn mines.
Thorpe Bros. of Fargo will lay $780,
900 brick for Anaconda shelters.
Dickinson has eighty phones in use,
and the plant is only six months old.
r.. 3. Griff1ths Of Grand Forks is
temporary receiver for Joseph Des-
chenes.
Stutsman county has a new post
office named Fancher, after the retir-
ing governor.
Darlington and Sykeston may get
into scrap over the proposed expert
ment station.
The Masons of Cakes have treated
themselves to new dinner service
costing $3.50
1t is reported that Andrew Blewett
will be deputy register of deeds in
Stutslnan county.
Predictions are made of super
abundance of rabbits in the western
counties in the spring.
The Fornan Telephone company has
raised its rates 50 per month for bust
ness houses; and there's kick.
Supt. Alexander of Pembina county,
will appoint his wife deputy, to serve
until he gets the situation sized UP.
Mrs. Putnam, who was once superin-
tendcnt of the Rugby schools, is the
new county superintendent in Eddy.
]. G. Bjornstad and O. H. Field will
erect custom Touring mill in Grafton
and have it in readiness for operation
in the spring.
Twenty alleged blind pigs have been
closed in the southern part of the state
during the past two weeks by the en-
forcement league.
The labors of the grand jury at
Grand Forks are over. The jury was
in session for some time, and made
the usual report on county affairs.
The game warden in Mclean county
will whack up his fees with the prose-
cutting witness. who will assist him to
convict somebody Of violating the
game laws.
Jacob TRANSCRIPT captured wolf
alive near Enderlin. He shot at the
animal and missed, and then dubbed
his Wolfship with gun, stunning it
so that he carried it to the barn.
Mrs Sallie E. Seekins, an old resi-
dent of Stutsman county eted in
jamestown at the residence of her son,
Alonzo D. Seekins. She was seventy
three years old.
A special agent of the Indian Office
has been directed to proceed to the
Fort Totten agency to investigate
charges made against Agent Getchell
by Rev. Mr.. Reese, the Episcopal mis-
slonary.
Richard Sykes of Sykeston offers to
donate thirty acres near his town for
the site of an experiment station, and
the legislature will be asked for an ap-
preparation.
An Indian over in the Roseau coun-
try caught a young moose calf and
traded it to a settler for a plug of to-
bacco. The animal has been shipped
to the New York Zoo.
referring to the kindergarten teach
er who has been making trouble over
in Minnesota. the Grafton Record
says: We've known her in Grafton"
And everyone thought Woods was such
quiet fellow, too.
UP to the present time ten lawyers
have been entered in the Musgrove
will case in Grafton. The property of
tie decedent amounts to about 100000,
which, at the usual rate, would be
about $4,000 apiece for the lawyers.
j. A. Atkinson of Sykesto- says that
for the past ten years the revenues Of
farmers with good lands in the James
river valley have been as great as,
those Of Red river farmers. A boom
in James river lands is looked for IN
the spring.
Fire damaged the Methodist church
at ST. Thomas about $4,000. There was
S1,5OO insurance. The fire started in
the basement and burned hole
through the floor, destroying the or
gan. altar, seats and smoking the
building.
In the coming session of the legis-
lature congress will be memorialized
to make an appropriation for monu-
ment for the Whitestone Indian battle.
field in Dickey county. About $4,000
will put up a monument and clear the
battlefield into reserve.
Albert Noel. who was severely in
jured in September last by falling off
freight train near Walcott, died at
county hospital in Richland county,
after about three months Of existence
which was worse than death. He was
entirely paralyzed from the waist
down.
The barn on Frank Utkes farm,
north of Enderlin, burned. 1t was a
large, well built structure, and was
totally destroyed with all of his har-
nesses and a quantity of hay. The
loss is estimated at $1,000 with but
$3.50 insurance. The cause of the fire
is mystery.
A. committee has been appointed In
Diclsey county to look up the histo,y