The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1911-06-02

from Lancaster, Glengarry Co. Ont.
Mr.. Wightman left for Vancouver on
Tuesday while the sister will remain for
longer visit.
The sessions of the Sunday school con-
vention will be held in the Methodist
church. The preliminary arrangements
have been made to entertain a large
number of visitors, and Pembina hopes
that all attendance records will be sur
passed this year.
Neche, N. D., May 31.-While driving
over rough country roads at the rate of
twenty miles an hour late Monday, Cal
vim Ferch and Jacob Hoehn were
thrown from an automobile. Hoehn re-
ceived serious injuries. He was hurled
through the air with terrific force, strik-
ing barbed wire fence.
Collector of Customs LaMoure made
trip to Cannonball, on the Standing
Rock Indian reservation, in the south
western part of the state, this week, on
business in connection with inspecting
and measuring boats on the Missouri. A
large part of the way south Of Mandan
was made by team.
Deputy Game Warden Dunlop, of St.
Thomas asks us 20 warn people from de-
stroyng birds eggs and killing birds pro-
tected by law. Particularly is this no.
tlce directed to boys who are in the hab-
1t of roaming around with small rifles
shooting promscuously at birds that en-
Joy the same protection as do the prai-
re chicken. The penalty is equally Sc
we're On destroying nests. Mr.. Dunlop
also warns people from setting gill nets
or using seines for catching fish, in the
Red river or its tributaries.
An argument was made by counsel in
the Icelandic church issue at Grand
Forks last week for the re-opening of
the case on the ground that there was
mistake in the assumption of Judge
Templeton that a certain numbered Sec
ton of the constitution of the local
church had been repealed, though it so
appeared in the evidence. AS this
clause of the constitution was the prin-
cipal foundation for the decision given,
rehearing might therefore cause
change in the previous judgment.
Attorney Laxdal was in the city Nor
day night on business connected with
the application for pardon of a man
named Flint who lived near Drayton
and was sent to the penitentiary for
twenty years for rape. This is the
least sentence allowed under the terms
of the law, bnt as there are extenuating
circumstances, those who are acquainted
with the particulars think that the sem
tence should be changed to five years
which would allow his liberation in Au-
gust of this year.
Flocks of wild pigeons have recently
been seen in this vicinity, and old tim
ers say they are the genuine article.
These birds were very numerous at one
time, but quite suddenly disappeared,
and the pigeon has been lost track of
: for many years. Probably these here
, now are only forerunners to get the lay
} of the land and investigate prospects for
!. a big immigration. They should receive
every encouragement to multiply in this
land of promise, and "gunnsters'' ought
\ not to waste ammunition in the destruc-
: ton of these birds.-Emerson Journal.
4 The Winnipeg Free Press says the list
of students successful in securing schol-
arships at Harvard this spring includes
Thosbergur Thorwaldson, of the MANI
! toba college, who secured the highest
. scholarship granted by Harvard, the
Hooper travelling fellowship Of e1,l50.
< Mr.. Thorvaldson is candidate for the
!, degree Of doctor Of philosophy in physi-
cial chemistry this spring, and intends
/, 70 study during the coming year in Ger
j many, doing researth work in photo
lshemistry under Luther 81 Dresden.