The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1901-10-11
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Lieut.. IharaldSOn gets the Grafton
postoffice, and a long struggle is end
ed.
There is a complaint of a shortage of
threshing machines and men along the
500.
! A Bottineau young man was arrested
| for the theft OF 1926, and confessed the
; crime.
| The contract for public school
building at Buffalo has been let. Price,
$780,
| The rush for Ward county land keeps
up, and the Minot land office is a busy
place
Fey. o. Rlste of Milton raised some
| sugar cane and made his own sor-
| ghum.
Sanborn man has Quit the restau.
rant and gone into the harness bust
/ ness.
Work has been begun ON the new
p, hotel at Knox, and also on the new
depot.
| Farmers in Grand Forks county
complain OF damage by rot to the Do-
tato crop.
Complaints come from from Barnes
county that some of the wheat sprout-
! ed in the shock.
a Finley farmer raised ninety bush
els of speltz per acre, and is selling 1t
at a dollar q bushel.
! Efforts will be made by North Dako-
| tans to secure some of the new mail
| contracts to be let soon.
! Farmers in the Mouse River valley
are experimenting With sugar beets
with considerable success.
Mayor Register wants a Spanish
! cannon to orament the Northern Pa
f, cific grounds at Bismarck.
A big batch OF incombustible side
walks have been ordered put down at
| Bismarck by the city council.
Work Oh the new buildings at Fort
Lincoln is progressing slowly, on ac-
count of the scarcity of laborers.
Peter Nelson cf Braddock rejoiced
over the assassination of the president,
ana narrowly escaped d lynching.
A thrcshing engine boiler exploded
near Valley City, and three men were
+, badly scalued, although no one was
killed.
Hanley Bros barn at Page was
burned. and the bucket brigade had
! hard work to save the adjoining resi-
/ dence.
Three suspected horse thieves were
: seen at Glenullin recently. one of
. whom was seupposed to be an escaped
; convict.
! The people of the state will be graft
fled at the awarding of several medals
la
Pan-American.
| A young man AIMED Ernest Wingeir
OF Foster county was Shot in the thigh
by a gun which his brother didn't
| know was loaded.
! Considerable interest is fell in the
selection of a successor to Bishop Ed
sail. Thus far no names have beer
publicly suggested.
I, A number of threshers at Mimic have
pulled in their machines for The Win
ter, claiming there isn't much in tn.
business. anyway.
White laborers are succeeding the
colored on the Northern Pacific exten.
sion work The dusky brethren think
the weather too cola!
c. M. Porter allowed the engine to
get too near him while running
threshing outfit near Darlington. and
a thigh was fractured.
Joseph Lemieux of Maryville, Rolette:
county, raised pumpkin that weighed
sixty pounds and was sixty-threc
inches in circumference.
There was warm time at one of this
Jamestown Joints" recently. as re-
suit Of one man being thrown OH
stove by frail female.
Charles Fritz, while threshing, near
CLaffee, stepped on top of the separat-
or and dropped into the cylinder. One
foot had to be amputated.
The co'ored laborers imported from
the South for work on the Northern
Pacific branches are being returned as
the weather becomes cooler.
On the Adams farm, in Richlanl
county, there was 400 acres Of corn
raised this year, and next year this
will be increased to $500 acres.
Austin Logan shipped fifteen cars of
cattle from Bismarck the other day.
This is one Of the largest shipments
made from Bismarck in years.
Another bank is to be orgaized at
shley by Theodore Landmann, c. c.
Hammond and Mrs. G. G. Hammond.
The carital stock will be $4,000.
George Brown is putting up cream,
erv at Fde'ey, the building costing
50 coo and will try to interest the PEG
pie OF Sykeston in @ similar project.
John Doyle. who was sent up from
Grand Forks on a burglary charge, hal
served two years in the penitentiary
for entering JUL LaMoure's store at
Neche:
The ta., rate Of Maryville is. So
mills. and that OF Hudson 700 mills.