The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1884-12-05
DAKOTA PARAGRAPHS.

The Bismarck Journal will be issued daily
after January first
The trustees Of La Moure have voted $4,000
bonus for the erection Of Touring mill at that
point.
The residence of j. S. Morrison, Pleasant
Valley, Black Hills, was burned on Wednesday.
Loss, $1.5OO.
Mrs. w. Hldebrand, an estinable lady In
Hand county, while depressed in mind, last
week, hung herself.
In the contest at Sioux Falls between E. B.
Dcllinger, bicyclst, and w. H. Rounds, roller
skater, the latter won by nine laps.
AS route agents have been appointed on the
Fargo Southern, It is expected that mail SER
vice will soon be established on that route.
A citizen Of Wolworth county has made a
good article of what the Yanktou Press calls
maple" sugar, from the sap of the box elder.
The young ladies Of Pierre, as last resort,
organized leap year society, tho members of
which are pledged to marry before February
the 14tll.
W. W. Leveritt Of Grant county has had
stolen from his farm ITO bushes of wheat, for
which he offers reward of $3.50 for the arrest
and conviction of the thieves.
Lincoln county sends pumpkin to the Now
Orleans exposition which measures eight feet
one inch in length, six feet one inch in circum-
ference, and weighs 1856 pounds.
There is much indignation in some sections
OF Hamlin county on account of throwing out
the vote Of Garfield and Estellina townships,
thus giving Castlswood the county seat, to
which place tho records have been removed.
Several farmer firms of the stock sections OF
the western part Of the territory publish an
offer of $3.50 reward for information leading
to the arrest and conviction Of any person or
persons setting fire to the grass in their neigh
bOrllood.
The st. James hotel, Jamestown, was total
ly destroyed by fire, though the contents were
pretty much all saved. The loss was about
$1,000; insured for $4,000. The fire was
caused through the bursting OF coal-oil lamp
in an clubhouse.
Tower City Herald: During the past few
weeks the Tower City Roller Mills have had
large run of custom and exchange work. Par
ties have come from ten miles north of Hope,
two miles south of Casselton and about equal
distances from other points.
The organization Of Buffalo county has been
stopped by the governor. 1t was found that
one of the commissioners appointed lived in
New York and one in Ohio. 1t is not the wish
of the majority Of tho people living in the
county that it be organized.
A Rapid City paper says the prospects of
French Creek are attracting attention. Rich
specimens OF ore have been taken from one
mine, which, in addition to returning high
percentage of copper upon assay, also contains
a considerable amount of silver.
The citizens Of Woonsocket held an indigna-
tion meeting over the action Of the two COM
missioners, Tannehill and kodee, who, 1t is al
legged, in canvassng the vote for county officers,
threw out the vote Of the Woonsocket precinct
without cause and in defiance Of law.
4. Z. Carpenter, convicted of dealing in
fraudulent land scrip, has been sentenced by
Judge Edgerton to two years in the Detroit
house Of correction, and to pay fne of two
thousand dollars. A stay Of execution of SEN
tenee will probably be had until the supreme
court Of the United States can review the case.
The greenhouse Of j. G. Madland, in Fargo,
was pretty much destroyed by fire on Monday
morning, aided by water and cold. The loss
was estimated at $1,000, with no insurance.
Mr.. MadIand had it in contemplation to greatly
enlarge the business. He has been unfortu-
nate before, and this is very severe blow to
him.
G. S. Barnes, the well known elevator man
OF Fargo, has recently returned from an ex-
tended visit to the east and reports times much
harder there than In Dakota, and that there is
vast amount of unemployed capital which
will come to the northwest for Investment
He finds that there is great reduction in the
acreage Of winter wheat sown, and predicts
good prices for Dakota wheat for the next five
years.
Members Of the legislature, which meets in
January, are already trying to work up a
scheme to visit tho New Orleans exhibit In q
body, to show the multitudes what the famous
territory can turn out In the way Of statesman
ship. It Ia expected that some Of the leading
editors will he invited to accompany them. If
the two weeks il taken out Of tho two months
session, 1t will hurry the law makers to trans
act the necessary business Of the territory.
Work upon the jamestown Il Northern
branch Of the Northern Pacific is now nearly
completed. The tracklayers have reached the
south bank Of the Sheyenne river. The bridge
over the river has been completed, and as the
weather is fair it will not be long before the
tracklayers will enter Minniwaukan, the ter
minus of the branch. The lumber for the cul-
verts is all in place, and the piling Is complet-
ed for twelve miles in advance Of the tracklay-
erS.
The Elk Point Courier propounds the follow
ing queries: 'Dakota cast at the November
election over five times as many votes AZ the
State of Nevada. Nevada has as many United
States senators as New York and Dakota is
nothing but Territory. When will justice be
done to a long suffering people? Did any one
ever hear tell Of a congressman in the States
receiving 10000 votes. That is about the num-
Der put in the boxes for Judge Clifford in this
Territory two weeks ago Tuesday.
Bismarck telegram: The statement sent out
to the associated press from Yankton to the
effect that Bismarck will ask to be reimbursed
for the expense Of the capitol, and that a bond
ing bill to cover the same will be introduced in
the coming legislature, is false in every partic-
ular. Bismarck, in convention assembled,