The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1905-12-15
Rock Lake wants q big hotel.
Bottineau Is to have q library

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J. J. Gokey's hunting party killed
sixteen deer.
The stock losses from the storm
were not severe.
The Great Northern depot at Nor.
witch was burgled.
The opera house at Portland will
soon be completed.
Grand Forks city will keep its &C.
counts in new form.
Bismarck has 400 names In the new
telephone directory
Bismarckers are enthusiastic over
the new commercial club.
An sS2-year-old prisoner has been re.
leased from the state pen.
Mark Nelson and Dummy" Olson
had fierce scrap at Minot.
Some of the branch railroad lines
were not opened up right on time.
There are a number of prosecutions
for destruction of rural mail boxes.
There is strong demand for school
teachers in many counties of the state.
Salt will save lot of things, and
some people are using it on the soft
coal.
With the state printing fund ex-
hausted, some of the reports may be
held up.
Farmers around Minot are PLANNING
| to hunt wolves this winter for the state
bounty.
George. Burke, near Sawyer, broke
his leg while hauling load of wheat
to town.
Some blind piggers at Nekoma, Cav.
aaler county, were nailed by the au.
thorities.
At the funeral of Neil Mcdonald OF
Hannah, his six eldest sons acted as
pallbearers.
The electric light problem at Lang.
don is serious one. The old plant is
about all in.
A Grandin man has contract to
ship all the rye straw he can raise to a
harnessmaker.
| Wrestlers at Cando managed to 90
to draw and worked the suckers for
another audience.
The state university will debate a,
Winnipeg this winter with the Univer.
sity of Manitoba.
An ancient elevator at Walhalla col.
| lapsed and dumped 10000 bushels of
grain in the dirt.
! Some well diggers found a good
quality of Ignite coal eighteen feet
down, near Lawton.
| There Is difference between Bis
marck and Minot. At the latter place
the blind piggers are convicted.
Several localities in the state seem to
be endeavoring to claim the coolest
temperature of the late unpleasant
ness.
Last summer the Red river vale,
was long on rainfall and this winter
it promises to get an extra amount OF
snow.
Trainmen had tough time during
the cold snap. Frozen feet, frosted
faces and hands are common COM
| plants.
| Some of the former Populists of the
state are indignant and claim the in
surgents are endeavoring to steal their
thunder.
Draymen in small towns are protest
ing against farmers going in and doing
such work at cut rates during the win.
ter months.
| The Northwestern Telephone com.
pany has completed it's exchange at
Mimic and the people are helloing in
great shape.
The season for evening entertain,
ments is now open, such as dances and
parties. There is where an evening or
full dress suit comes handy.
The Cavalier county commissioners
have settled with the bondsmen of ex-
Clerk of Court Truax for two-thirds
of the amount of the shortage.
| The rest of the state is somewhat
surprised at the sudden interest evinc-
ed by Mandan people in water. They
certainly don't need it to drink.
| Strangers in North Dakota can't rec
oncile the statement that this Is the
healthiest state in the Union with the
unusually large number Of drug stores.
A Mayville man broke his arm in a
threshing machine this fall. The other
day he fell over scuttle of coal and
the arm was again broken at the same
place.
There is considerable kicking over
the state because of the inability to
secure information from agents re-
garding delayed trains during the
| storm.
A stock train ran into an open
switch at Lehigh, near Dickinson. En-
gineer Flanagan Jumped and was
slightly injured. No one else was
hurt. IL
At the siding near Hillsboro, r. L
Riley q Great Northern brakeman