The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1903-02-20
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A syndicate of Michigan lumbermen
purchased the Port Blakeley mill and
$4,000 acres of timber land in Wash
ington for 100000.
Charles F. Schultz, city treasurer of
La Porte, Ind, aged forty-seven, died
of old age, having lived half a life
time in less than year.
The appraisal of the estate of Au-
gustin DAILY of New York shows that
after a payment of his debts :and La
bilities there is deficiency Of s2S,460.
Revocation of the licenses of all
druggists who sell cocaine indiscrimi-
nately to all customers is the panacea
for the drug evil advocated by Chief
of Police O'Neill of Chicago.
It is stated that James E. Kelly, the
well-known sporting man, is dead in
Paris. Mr.. Kelly at one time owned
a number of noted race horses, among
them Dry Monoploe, Jacobus and Sis
ter. =
The Standard Oil company has ac-s
CURED control of the ]. H. Guffey Pc
troleum company at Bayonne, N. j.
The Guffey company located in Bay
onne less than year ago and handled
Texas oil.
Attorney General Cunneen of New
York holds that the Offering of trans
portation pass to a member of the leg
islator is a misdemeanor, and it's &C.
ceptance by the legislator would con-
Stif1lto a micdamoanOr
Lawrence Sluter Benson, aged about
seventy years, author of "Benson's
Geometry" and well known years ago
as novelist, philosopher and mathe-
matician. is dead at the city hospital
in Newark. N. j., penniless.
The Illinois commandery of the Ma
val Order of the United States, at it's
annual meeting, has adopted resolu.
tions requesting congress to substitute
the rank of commodore for that of cap
tain in the United States navy.
Anthracite mine workers at Wilkes
barre, Pa, have been informed that
they may have to aid the soft coal
workers soon. The soft coal opera
tors have refused to give their men an
increase, and a strike is expected.
Joseph William Sheppard, who for
the last three years has been living as
a recluse in New York. died there of
starvation. Sheppard's death was due
to his efforts to prove that the true be-
lever in Bramah could live without
food.
The bill introduced in the Missouri
legislature providing for Jim crow
cars does not meet with the approval
of the colored people. Large delega-
lions are at Jefferson City trying to de.
feat it. kilograms were sent out to
negro preachers in every town In the
state asking them to pray for the de.
feat of the bill. The author Of the bill
says he will not push it, n ]. NJ, :. ~
The win Of Amos Mccartney, an; &c
centric capitalist who; died at Oakland
Cal, on Jan. "a, has just been opened
It directs that no religious services be
held at his funeral, bit suggests that 4
t band Of music be provided The gu
/ tate, which isf left to- his daughters
includes valuable property ms AIifor
mia. realty IN Kansas City, s. GOO acres
ofaand in Missouri, real estate 81 Chi
caao. besides stocks, bonds and mort
cages. !. &.
4 movement III .beYh star AN Iii
4 New England stitttss for the erection 81
AGaiss kasbin IA. f,,islyzsan- ~ st.Qx
anR r. ia
\ Grand Army III flaasA a nrh -
annual encampment at San Francisco
NEXT October.
TO circumyent the law forbfddinl
the marriage Of girl under eighteen
4 YEARS Of age without the consent III he
i pAyentS Antonio Ardoinf Of Chicago
Il twenty syeaTs Of age. had htnsel
Il appolnte gtia ~ ~ the 1irl "a,
II then married IN. b: