The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1900-07-13

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The Red Falls creamery is in work
ing order. @
George Purvis of Mimic has located
In Virginia.
Most of the papers IRE running the
ChautauQua supplement-. S
Israel Hildebrand was fined at Napo.
leon for setting prairie fire.
Walhalla is considering the construc-
tlon OF water works system.
Lisbon promises to send big dele
CATION to the q. A. II. encampmelt.
James McSaggen of Peary, was one
OF the victims of the Edmonton trail
disaster.
The 500 is using a patent weed
burner to burn the Russian thistles
along it's line.
The total expenditures of the Fargo
nre festival were $500, and the treas
urcr has 1924 left.
The improvements in the telephone
system at Grand Forks are expected to
cost over 100000.
The father of Anton Hefta of Mimic
died recently, aged 1O5. He has been
in this country for twenty years.
President Hill of the Great Northern
IS not enthused over the project to
bring the Beers to the Northwest.
Prof. G. NJ Hall of the North Da-
kota agricultural college will make O
geological survey of North Dakota.
AT tire picnic at Jessie there was con-
SIDERABLE bootlesging and three dozen
bottles of beer were swiped from one
Illicit vendor.
A CooperstOwn man received box
ny mail containing a live snake. He
opened the box at the stampery and
created panic.
The Fertile Brick company has Sc
cured the contract for furnishing the
city of Wahpeton with 100000 brick
for sewerage purposes.
A leaky gasoline tank in the resi-
dence of G. Il. Lyman of jamestown
made work for the fire department.
The residence was saved.
Lightning recently set fire to the
grass near Charles Hoof's home east
OF Napoleon. and lively work was
needed to save the house
Veterinarian Moore pronounced an
outbreak of what was supposed to be
black leg among cattle near Caring.
ton to be malignant catarrh.
The Grand Forks Lumber company
Is shipping in logs from Bemdji over
the Great Northern, as the water in
the river is too low to float them.
FRANK Martini. an Italian waiter boy
on the Northern Pacific road gang, was
Killed recently. He was thrown from
horse and caught in the bride rein
and Kicked.
Mushrooms were found at Hannah
nine inches in diameter. If the porter
house steaks are in proportionate size
Hannah will have visitors soon.
Farmers are worrying over what to
90 with surplus stock on account Of
the prospective short hay crop. Some
Will sell down to close margin.
The hay crop in the hills of western
Stutsman county, it is said, will be
sufficient for the needs of stockmen in
that vicinity, though much lighter than
usual
The newspapers of the state express
general regret at the misfortune which
has Defallen Forestry Commissioner
Barrett and hope it will only be tenn
porary.
i'll the river is lower than it has ever
been, but actual measurements indi-
cate that it was lower in September.
1895, than at present.
The parents of Peter Kolllberg of
Cannon Ball arrived recently from
Norway. His mother was i'll on the
way over and died two days after
reaching her sons home.
The trees planted along the Northern
Pacific this spring are doing well, at
least 80 per cent of them having lived.
For dry year like this has been this
is an excellent record.
Four men had narrow escape from
drowning in Maple lake the other day,
their boat capsizing and dumping them
into the water. 1t is said that there
has never yet been a drowning acct
dent in Maple lake.
A farmers horse stripped the har-
ness from itself and backed I'D to one
of Strong's plate glass windows in
jamestown, just missing 500 wreck.
The driver struck the horse because it
would not turn for him and the horse
nearly had the last laugh.
Garry Hodge participated in a game
of baseball between Thompson and
Merrill, q. and in dunning to first base
was struck either in the back of the
head or neck with the ball and his
spine seriously injured. He became
deranged from the pain.
A pension Of So per month has been
granted Benjamin Stroebel of James,
town. Stroebel received wound in
the neck in the big February, 1899,
battle in which so many brave South
Dakotans We're wounded or killed. He
was a member of the South Dakota
regiment and served with the regiment
in the Philippines.
The village of Kensal, Stutsman
county. is fenced in and communica-
ton by railway and by wagon road is
alike cut off. The smallpox cases there
are light, and it is expected that
the strict quarantine established will
stamp the disease out. Among those
detained are six bridge carpenters who
have been at work on the Soo
President Sheppard of the North Da-
kota Stock association says: Having