The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1902-02-21


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Flax thieves are reported around
CaaselnnaH.
l'ooperstown will get a knights Of
FJthias lodge.
The newspaper war at Linton is as
yilulent as ever.
Railroads are coming in punches for
Emmons county.
DR.. Nelson of Kenmare is laid up
with broken leg.
F. Il. Bentley Of Santorn has secured
patent on fly screen.
The real estate men have their "busy
day cards out all the time.
The latest pugilistic carnival at Can
do wasn't exactly a success.
The 500 will put another passenger
train on the road from Portal.
A gas lamp exploded at Sheyenne
and gave the people a bad fright.
The prevailing epidemic has struck
Jamestown-the lack of houses for rent.
The Northern Pacific is giving Ignite
coal thorough test at the Mandan
shops.
Gilbert Burge, patient at the state
asylum from Edinburg, Walsh county,
is dead.
A number of Minnesotians are taking
claims and purchasing land in En-
mons county.
detective accused a Berwick young
man of the theft of some boxes, and
had to recant.
SOM. men were at Berwick looking
for location for a blacksmith shop
and a livery stable,
jeff May. who is held on the charge
of murder at Bismarck, was former
resident Of Steele.
j. r.. Carley has been recommended
for postmaster at Hillsboro by Con-
| gresham Marshall.
Dealers who sell formaldehyde arc
begin ming to advertise their wares to
catch the early farmer.
J. N. Kunkel of New Rockford has
purchased a confectionery store from
j. e. I,obdell Of F'essenden.
The Northern Pacific may be COM
| PEELED to run three trains daily to ac-
conmodate the settlers next month.
The Bottineau school pupils held a
midwinter picnic, but it was prior to
the recent Mountaineering weather.
Mrs. Bunting, who recently secured a
| divorce from her husband in Mandan,
has gone to Detroit, Mich, to reside.
| Dr.. Wheeler is being urged to become
a candidate for mayor of Grand Forks.
Docs one of the best that ever came
over.
| A herd of sheep belonging to j. w.
| Balch G. Son, in Stutsman county, wan
| der,d away from their pen and sixty of
| th"m died.
| 1t is now reported that the Northern
| the branch into Emmons county from
| Mckenzie.
| A Dickey county farmer sold a num-
Der OF April pigs at Ellendale at S14 per
| heal. They were fattened on wheat
and millett.
| The locomotives on the Washburn
branch had to go to Bismarck to drink.
while the Bismarck water works were
on the bum.
| Z. Y Sarles of Hillsboro should feel
proud of the kindly words said of his
gubernatorial boom, even if he isn't
aft.r the job.
DIR. Mcbride of Rugby is nursing a
severe scalp wound as result of being
| thrown from his rig while his team
was running away.
The Northern Pacific will build a big
| wool warehouse in Dickinson. The
| Press wants it to be of 100000 pounds
capacity, built Of brick.
Derhoff is the new town at the end of
| the Bowdon extension of the Northern
Do o1~ ,,ei
| ness houses and a-drug store.
Mrs. Minnie E. Sears of Glendale
varies the monotony a little by adver-
Using that her daughter left home, and
no NOR. of her bills will be paid.
| Valley City and Devils Lake militia
| companies will have new armories by
the end of the year, and arrangements
are also in progress at Glendale.
The at thcrities of the Bismarck post
Office are preparing to make things not
for the loafers in the lobby who make
the place filthy with their expectora-
tons.
Ten of the thirteen horses supposed
to have been stolen from Ranchman
Gerb VI OF Stutsman county, have been
located. They had wandered away in
storm.
An Iowan who saw the corn cribs in
Emmons county wrote home to his wife
that ha had struck a young Iowa, and
to sell out and get ready to move to
North Dakota.
T. w. Weego of Grand Forks advo-
Gates Il seven-club base ball league for
the summer. to include Winnipeg,
Crookston, Grand Forks, Grafton, Lar
imore and Devils Lake. Raise the ante
an ! make it eight.
A black-haired. argumentative cuss
in the We stern part Of the state claimed
that all great men ad dark hair, but
changed his mind when red-headed
opponent swiped him one in the jaw
that laEded him in the coal tox.
The poor, unfortunate pessimist who
wandered from North Dakota after
faintlv endeavoring to win fortune,
must be looking for man's-sized man
to kick him around a block or two,
When he reads how the state is pros
pering.
A merchant in the northern part of
the state is said to have had some