The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1902-05-09

laOTtNWeSISrn QarCA8OI sIne state are
holding Gown claims. n
i Il Most locations are kicking because
there ia not school CROUCH. La Moure
claim to have too much.
IL "a lecturer at Glendale requested the
ladies to remove their hats, and the
men called him blessed "a 8 d
w. w. Barrett, Reconnaissance OF
|. forestry. has returned from Maine,
where he spent the winter.
Sargent county people are congratu-
lattng themselves over the high class
OF settlers lobcating there. M
Miss Emma Preston. superintendent
of schools OF Pierce county, has re-
turned from her visit to Sweden.
A Kensal man has certificate of
sanity-ahd thinks that is more than
some of his neighbors can produce.
Postmaster Oliver. Of. Lisbon is state
lecturer for the N. w. Of A., and is vis-
ting some of the Iode es in the state.
The rural mail routes out Of st.
Thomas have been in operation nearly
four years, and are very satisfactory.
Receiver Lindstrom, OF the Grand
Forks land Office, may be candidate
for states attorney Of Benson county.
Thomas Cameron drove into Wheat
land recently, and was informed that
he had a well-developed case of small
pox.
Until two years ago rats were un-
known in Grand Forks. 1t is said there
are enough now to make up for all past
timer
Omemee didn't suffer during the re-
cent spring weeness and claims to be
the best-drainel town in the North
west.
At Buffalo a duck egg is reported
weighing six ounces and measuring
seven and a half inches in circumfer.
ence. q.
A South Dakota man deposited 81 100
In Hankinson bank, and few hours
later withdrew it. He was sent to the
asylum.
Mail Carrier Mcdonald of Richpurs
drove into hole in the river, and lost
a mail sack containing six registered
letters.
Former-Mayor Brown of Devils Lake
Is to establish a colony in Morton coun-
ty. and Senator .McGillivr1y another at
Sentinel Butte
T. M. Milham has resigned as coroner
of Dickey county, to become postlnas-
ter, and the commissioners appointed
Charles Misfeldt.
Receiver Lildstrom, of The Grand
Forks land Office. is to return to his
Benson county possessions when his
successor is named.
AT Anamosse twenty-seven filings
were made in one day. All were by
married homesteaders, who will estab-
lish homes at once.
jamestown is said not to have a civil
engineer who can perform the duties Of
city engineer, and resident of Spirit
wod does the work.
1t is charged that an Iowan, who has
not been in the state in nearly a year,
is advertising to prove up on a home
stead in Ward county,
Prof Fl. G. Kleoper of Wahpeton is
already canvassing Richland county in
his interests for the nomination of
school superintendent.
1t is said that the number Of boys re-
Gently born in Cass county exceeds the
girls, and another war is predicted
about twenty years hence.
The next term. of court in Mclean
county will be an important one, as
there is considerable criminal business.
Including murder case.
A farmer drove into Walhalla and
left his team ou. Ill right. The officials
put them in a livery barn and taxed the
owner 81 for food and shelter.
A laboring man was testing his
strength at Casselton, and broke a
tendon in his leg, and isn't as strong
now as he really ought to be.
George Dame and George Dslisle of
Walhalla were hunting, and a shot
from Danes gun struck Dalisle in the
eye, and he mas lose the sight.
A man in Maine wrote a friend in
North Dakota that he would like to
come out here TO live, if he could be
guaranteed the Indians wouldn's scalp
him.
Joe Bulls o. Pembina county was
kicked in the face by horse and had
several homes broken. He had to hitch
up team and drive to town for med
ical assistance.
"A mass meeting has been held at
er were lost, and camped out until day.
light came to give them their bearings.
Renville to discuss the reorganization
of the old county.
A druEKen man drew a revolver on
girl at Lidgerwood, and when an Off
er appeared the fellow jumped through
a winGow without waiting to raise the
sash. He was badly cut.
H. D. Court, who was superintendent
of the big Sargent farms, near Buffalass
for many years )rior to 1896, recently.
died in Battle Creek. Mich He was
succeeded on the farms by his son. T.
E Court. a5
The carelessnrss of North Dakota
farmers in the matter of caring for
their machinery, which is sometimes
left out of doors all the year, is one of
the things that strikes the new settlers
very forcibly.
Many school teachers complain be-
cause Of the large number Of boys who
were compelled to stop attending the
schools just when they were getting on
SO nicely. and wish farm hands were
more numerous.
OFF the Tyne. at Newcastle, England,