The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1884-05-23
DAKOTA IN PARAGRAPHS.
The Treasurer Of Barnes County Gets
Away With $4,000.
Grand ENrl-c hos a b;ovolc nI,,h

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Touring mill.
The Broadaxe, Fargo's democratic newspa-
per, has suspended.
Work is to be resumed at once on the CAPT.
tol at Bismarck, aud will be prosecuted to
completion.
Estimates place the wheat crop Of Dakota
the coming year at 40, ,O00 900 bushels, or double
that of last year.
The stables Of W. T. Greer, of Acton, were
burned and $500 worth of his timber destroyed
by a prairie fire.
Mrs. Won Doren has surprised her creditors
in Bismarck by taking French leave with three
mortgaged horses.
Watcrtown is, for the present. to be
the terminus of the western extension of the
Minneapolis & st. Louis railroad.
Diana, Sanborn county, has an artesian we'll
only ono hundred and ten feet deep and a flow
OF twelve hundred barrels per hour.
Alexander Mofrat, of Sanborn, is tho success
full bidder for the building of the Griggs coun-
ty court house, $40, $40 being the price bid.
G. F. Kindred expects to 60 into the cattle
business extensively near Forsytle, Montana,
and is shipping his fne stock there from Valley
City.
A Holland newspaper is to be published at
Grand View, Douglass county. This will make
the fifth Holland newspaper in the United
States.
national bank will be opened ut Minne-
Waukan, the new town on the Jamestown &
Northern branch of the Northern Pacific, on
the goth inst
Miss Hattie Taylor, of Canton, who was seri-
ously injured in a railroad accident last winter,
has received $4,000 damages from the Miwau-
kee railroad company
W. H. Hackney, former Wyoming cattle
man, has purchased forty acres in the suburbs
of Grand Forks for an addition, at about $500
an acre, $2l, 200 in all.
An excursion was given the Wahpeton eti-
tors over the Fargo Southern, or a portion Of
it, few days ago. They report it quite smooth
for new, unballasted line.
The Fargo Larimore K Northern railroad
has given notice to a number of parties in the
neighborhood of Mayville that it has located
its line of road through their lands.
Evar Bjelland, Hoander, arrested some
time since in Douglass county on charge of
assault with intent to kill, has been adjudged
insane and sent to the asylum at Yankton.
Fifty townsiles will bo located on tho line of
tho Dakota and Southwestern railroad between
Grand Forks aud Sioux City and controlld by
a stock company with $l,OOO,OOO as basis
L. M. Curtis, in Clark county, last year aver
aged S15 bushels of potatoes per acre, and sold
them for thirty-one cents, or S2,S25 in all,
which with the easy cultivation given, pays
fairly.
Mitchell Republican,: The people Of buffalo
county are determined on organization. They
say that the item Of schools almost necessitatrs
organization, and they arc tired of looking 10
other counties to supply their numerous wants.
The farmers Of SPHINX county have sent
committee of ten to Milwaukee with documents
relative to their grievances to be laid before
the officers Of the G., NJ. d st. p, and Northern
roads. They have also organized a farmers
association.
Tower City Herald Tower City has a lady
shootist, Miss Olive Fry, who is q good wing
shot, and takes pleasure in going out to the
ponds near the family residence and getting
a mess OF ducks, which she does with the ease
of all expert.
III Kidder county the authorities have Of
fered a bounty Of five cents each for gophers
killed in the county. 1t is said the other coun-
ties along the Northern Pacific adopt sini-
lar course as stimulus to the boys TO extermi-
these little pests.
Gov. Orlway has appointed JAS Malloy,
Fred. Shuttle and Lemuel q. Milton to orgall-
ize the new county OF Roette, which confirms
the southeast portion Of the Turtle mountains.
This region is being taken up quite rapidly,
and there is need Of organization.
On the 10th the last rail was laid on tho
Fargo Southern between Fargo and Wahpeton.
Two new engines have been received from the
east, which have been put up and arc now in
use The rails will DO laid between Wai,peton
and Ortonville as rapidly as possible.
Pioneer Press: There has been very
perceptiblc increase in immigration travel in
the past few days. The Manitoba and North
ern Pacific yesterday took ont upward of 600
such travellers, and the day before equally as
many. Dakota points were tho general lesti-
nations.
1t ia expected that the parties charged with
killing the Ward brothers at DEVILS Lake last
year will ba tried at the June term of court at
Grand Forks. A corps of able attorneys has
been retained in the case, and it is expected to
occupy good deal OF time and cause much
excitement in that region.
The commissioners OF La MOure county, in
an unfortunate nlOnnlent, made an agreement
with glib-tongued agent 10 purchase two
steele cells for their Jail at cost Of 1900, a
snm large enough to build good jail. The |
people have put a veto on the project and the |
commissioners now know a little more than
they did.
Sioux Falls Press: The remarkable scarcity
OF servant girls is causing a good deal Of mild |
misery in the city. Several prominent gentle
men are now dividing their time between do |
ing their own hogisework and hunting girls OIL
the streets. A railroad car full OF girls could
find employment i'll Sioux Falls Immediately
upon their arrival here.
P. A. Schumacher, has just proved up on a |
claim near Mandan, which he took two years
ago. On his testimony before the land Office |
he made the statement that for every day OF |
the two years the claim had made him profit
of $50, and that he had paid entirely out of |
this profit 81, 500 in improvements He has a |
large vegetable garden That ia n sotisfactnrv