The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1902-01-24

WINTER IS over.
Snow is said to have almost disar-
peared from the ranges in the western
part of the state.
Capt. Ike Baker of Bismarck is buy
ing some fine Shorthorn bulls for his
Cannon Ball ranch.
The brother of Frank Lish, the popu-
lar boniface of Dickinson, was muir
dered in st. Louis.
Lakota business men close at p. M
Some form of fire protection is want
ed at Washburn.
The warm weather and melting snow
have caused suspension of crossing
of the Missouri river.
Ex-Commissionery of Forestry Bar
rett is visiting scenes of his early boy
hood, down in Maine.
The Missouri slope country will be in
line for much Of the immigration to
North Dakota this spring.
The Tri-State Grain and Stockgrow-
ers' convention brought farmers from
all over the state to Fargo.
"Short" Sanders has accepted the po-
sition left vacant by the death of
Frank March of Grand Forks.
The county commissioners of Rich
land seem to be mixed up worse than
those of any other county.
A Courtenay hotel clerk eloped with
$25 of the proprietor's coin and an over
coat belonging to a guest.
A brakeman under smallpox quaran-
tine at Harvey, attempted to shoot his
way out, but was rounded up.
Despite the poor oil from the Stand
ard Oil company, most editors of the
state see things more brightly.
William Bowser of Forman has Sc
cured a pension of Sc per month, with
lack pay for a number of years.
A lady at Cando was bitten by calf
that was supposed to have rabies and
was sent to Chicago for treatment.
A fire caught in the court room at
jamestown from a mixture of rags and
oil, used for cleaning the furniture.
The red tape over the selection of ru-
raj mail carriers seems a trife out Of
place-with only $500 annual salary.
A. B. Ferguson of jamestown adver-
tises that his wife has left him, and he
will Fay no bills of her contracting.
Henry koehler of Jamestown went
on the warpath and flashed knife
several times before he was arrested.
The people of Lakota want the Great
Northern depot removed to a less con-
spicuous location, or a new one built.
The Standard Oil people seem to have
followed the Biblical injunction, and
poured a-little-oil on the troubled
waters.
DR.. John will start drug store at
Howe, the new town at the terminus of
the Bowdon extension of the Northern
Pacific.
The mayor of Park River has issued
proclamation calling upon business
men to close their places of business on
Sunday.
The debt limit Of Bismarck is $780,
900 and the city has ISL 900 bonds out
standing and warrants to the amount
of $4,000
are getting more interested in the tri-
work.
If there is one thing more than an
other of which the average North Da
kotan is proud, it is the public school
system.
Some Of the farmers around Cakes
sold their beets to the Minneapolis mills
for $3.50 per ton, and believe the enter
prise will pay.
At Jamestown man smashed Win
dow so he could be jailed and receive
medical attention, for which he was
unable to pay.
Col. c. p. Lamborn, former land COM
missioner of the Northern Pacific, and
for whom the hospital at Bismarck
was named, is dead.
Courtenay business men have organ
lied q $4,000 company for the transac-
ton Of q general mercantile business at
CoNrtcnay and Kensal.
Some one is working Ward county
settlers for accomplishments with lie
about the privilege of the sellers to
take up another claim.
A blaze was started in S. J. Hughes
store at Mimic by falling lamp. and
the proprietor's clothing caught fire in
extinguishing the flames.
Just why a man should rent land,
with the free hcmesteads going to
waste in the western part Of the state,
cannot be understood by some people,
The Grand Forks county commits
sioners have effected compromise on
the money due from the defunct North
wood bank, and got -fifths Of it.
There are fifty criminal cases on the
court calendar at Grafton, many Of
them for maintaining liquor nuisanccs,
and some Of them of long standing.
Ransom county lands are being taken
largely by actual farmers from Iowa,
though much Of the county is being
sold to Iowa bankers as speculation.
Devils Lake is having hard time to
decide over the system of water works
to be used, and there is a sentiment in
favor of municipal ownership.
Charles Talley Of Montpelier, who
found the body of August Tronier and
received 5000 for it, is thinking of hunt
Ing for the body of the missing Dickey
county man.
Stark county bids fair to take first
rank as an agricultural section of the
state. Owing to the balmy winds and
the nature Of the soil many crops can
be grown to advantage there that re,