The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1900-08-10

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/ Grand Forks BARRIERS organise.
Harvesting is general all over the
state.
A six-foot eagle was captured near
Fargo.
Emmons county has suffered from
prairie fires.
Sargent county has Ave active can
dfdates for sheriff.
Every part Of the state reports lots of
prairie chickens.
The old sandpit at Bismarck is now
the city dumping ground.
The Wilton hotl was struck by light
ming during a recent storm.
T. G. Kennedy is preparing to erect
an opera house in Mandan.
Western wool is being shipped to the
Eastern commission houses.
Wheat is averaging about seven BUSH
els per acre in Richland county.
In Barnes county, incendiaries have
burned hundreds of tons Of hay.
The North Dakota potato crop will be
much larger than was expected.
A Davenport machinery man sold
three binders in one day recently.
Sheriff Carroll of Ward county is
keeping horse thieves on the trot.
Violators of the game law are having
trouble lodging the game wardens.
The new engine for the Wimbledon
power plant has been put in place.
Carl Krieger, Mercer county man,
lost five head of cattle by lightning.
The Leeds State bank shows some
$4,000 assets with plenty of cash items.
The public school building at Pembina
is receiving some needed improvements.
Crops in the vicinity of Backoo are
said to be the best in Pembina county.
T. L. Benewitz of Argyle lost barn,
two horses and cow by fire, the loss
being $500.
An Armenia farmer declares that Cass
county's crop will not average four
bushels per acre.
A. G. Burr of Bottineau is doing a
conmendable work for the benefit Of
the starving in India.
Sargent county farmers report wheat
heads to be filling nicely. They figure
on ten bushels per acre.
jamestown citizens will vote on the
question of issuing water works bonds
on Aug. 20. instead of Aug. Is.
Judge Glaspell decides that Justice of
the Peace Pearson, at Jamestown can
not be deputy clerk of courts.
There seems to be a general DISPOSE
ton on the part of the Fargo papers to
throw things at John Haggart.
Peter Dufour of Jamestown gets ten
days for violating the anti-hobo law.
Instead of Dufour, it will do ten.
The sheriff of Barnes county found
couple of kegs of wine in Valley City
and confiscated them. No arrests.
About 1000 black bass have been
placed in Maple lake by a representa-
tive of the Minnesota fish hatchery.
Owing to the fact that the straw is
very short this year, much Of the grain
in North Dakota will be cut by head
ers.
County Commissioner Wing of Nc
Lean was mixed up in a runaway, as a
result of which he suffered broken
leg.
Frank Trichler, son of former po-
liceman of Fargo, has been taken in,
charge by the sheriff, charged with be-
ing incorrigible.
Eastern capitalists agree to go
and build a beet-sugar factory at
jamestown as soon as the city fulfils it's
share of the agreement.
John B. Cargill, arrested in Duluth
and returned to Fargo for rape, settled
the case by marrying the girl. and the
matter will be dropped.
1t is said Richland county may have
another county ticket, engineered by
friends of Judge Lauder, with candi-
dates for all county offices.
Wideawake stockmen in Sargent
county, who are liable to be short Of
hay, have leased reservation lands near
by for wintering their cattle.
Grafton is making great preparations
to unveil the soldiers monument Oct 1.
Wahpeton people hope to see the city
made a Northern Pacific division term
mus.
Lewis Mason of Wells county was
very low with quick consumption, and
started for his home. He died on the
lake between Chicago and the Michigan
shore, within short ride of home.
A barn belonging to Nels Larson near
Hunter was struck by lightning and
burned, together with three horses,
feed, chickens and calves. There was
but small insurance on the property
The harvest has begun and there is a
crying demand for men in all parts of
the state. The prevailing wage is S1.75
to 50 per day. The employment agen-
cies report men scarce and demand in
creasing. s,t
A Grand Forks landlord concluded he
would thrash delinquent boarder-for
the bill; the delinquent boarder OBJ
jected, and polished off the landlord so
artistically that he credited him for an
other meal ticket.
i A few weeks ago an epidemic of fall
ing into wells swept over The state and
some thirty or forty cases We're re-