The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1900-07-20
"A tough female was bounced at Bow.

I the band. y
q party Of moonshiners had trouble
The Bathgatc Gun club has been re-
organized. ~,
Wool is being sold at Is to 1G cents at
Glendale.
Hail did some damage throughout
Grlggs county.
The Independent elevator at Portland
has been closed.
Grasshopper stories from Towner
county are discredited.
Ormsby McHarg succeeds John Knauf
as city attorney at jamestown.
Charlie Jones, the escaped convict,
was recapturcd near Bismarck.
j. r. Mears of Milton las gone to
make his home in the Northwest Terri
tory.
John Young's home, at Berlin, La
Moure county, was struck by light
ming.
County Commissioner George of Oil
yer county, was drowned while bath
ing.
Despite the bad crops, the Jim River
Valley Racing circuit did good bust
ness.
Rev. Charles A. Downs is the new
Congregational pastor at Michigan
City.
New buildings are being erected at
Harvey, despite the bad. crop pros
poets.
The Thirtieth District Populists NOM
mated L. Wadeson and George Platter
for the house.
The Barnes county summer school
will begin July %.
l.. s. Stafford, one of the most SUGGEST
full farmers of Trail county, is an en-
thusiaStic Diker-at seventy.
Michael Brown of Cannon Ball is
shy three fingers as Il result of can
non crackers premature explosion.
Miss Clara Hauge has been engaged
as teacher of music at the Bruflat acad-
envy, Portland.
The auditor of Cavalier county re-
Gently leased forty-four quarter Sec
tons of state land.
1t there was a section of the state
not visited by the recent rains it has
not been discovered.
Cavalier voted $1,000 to better equip
the fire department in the matter Of
new paraphernalia.
Grafton cattlemen are sending stock
to the western part of the state, where
there is plenty of forage.
The seventh annual convention of the
Trail county w. G.. Il. U. will be held
at Hillsbcro July 10 and II.
A waterman ut Valley City fell un-
der water pipe and was nearly
drowned before he could be rescued.
The Cargill elevator, at Portland is
undergoing extensive repairs. and Il
new engine house is to be built
The inspection trips of the railroad
con missioners seem to have been free
from complaints OH the part of anyone.
The Sargent county commissioners
counted and destroyed about $4,000
| gopher tails ut the last session Of the
| board.
Joe Sundie. proprietor of the Head
quarters hotel ut Cogswell, Is reported
| to have left the country without leay-
ing an address.
The foundation of the new Congrega-
gational church at Wahpeton is near
| ing completion. and the corner stone
will be laid in short time.
The black potato bug brings back to
the old settler recollections OF the good
old days down East. before the Colora-
do beetle was heard Of
The population of Toilette, Pembina
county. has ben reduced. The North
ern Pacific cut the section crew down
from eleven to three men.
New Rockford is said to be booked
for visitation from the enforcement
| league spoilers, who assert there are
all kinds of pigs there
| There was n bad wreck on the 500
near Kuhn last week. A heavy train
broke in two and when it came togeth-
er there was a bad smash-ub.
| A number of explosions were ar.
ranged at Milton to secure rain. A
| few drops fell. but not enough to pay
for the powder that was burned.
CELSIUS Enumeration, Link, who has
| the biggest territory in the state out
west in the cattle country, is not anx-
| ious for another job of the kind.
Beer socials are the popular fad now
in Valley City. Mayor McPherson's
$50 bluff may be all right, for they say
kegs are more popular than cases.
| Dick Smith, an old-time Northern Pa.
citic conductor, bigger nor d. NJ. Ste
venson or Finn eLech. has been inau-
gurated postmaster at Mandan.
Near the 500 depot. a mile and half
from Valley City proper. a wide-open
saloon is in operation. and the enforce
ment leaguers are said to, have it on
| the list.
Mayor Mcpherson of Valley City is
being iashed for his statement last fall
urging farmers to sell flax at SIS cents,
claiming that the price would be no
higher.
Halliday & Hood have been awarded
the contract for new barn on the
farm of DR.. McLain at Grandin. to
take the place of the one burned some
time ago.
A jamestown man advocates Sunday
ball playing by the kids as better
amusement than learning the back
door route to a blind pig or other tough
resort.
A. G. Shepard of Harvey has added a
contrivance to an ordinary bicycle