The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1884-08-22
DAKOTA PARAGRAPHS

Thomas Roach, of Ransom county, raised
375 bushels Of peas on eleven acres.
Walsh county now claims $4,000 people,
Nearly all came in the four years past
dangerous prairie fires on lie bluffs near
Mandan were put out Saturday by rain.
Two years ago Ramsey county had only five
white residents; now it shows up $500 people.
The firstshipment of new wheat from North
Dakota was made last week, and went to Du-
lutli.
The Northern Pacific is building double
track from Fargo out to the Sheyenne stock
yards.
The vein of coal recently discovered at Yank-
ton Is over eleven feet in thickness 262 feet
from the surface.
A commandery of knights Templar was Or
ganized at Jamestown the past week with
nineteen members.
Five townships in Campbell county have just
cOmo into market. Some of them along the
river and fine land.
Sam Bear, q respectable farmer near Lisbon,
last week hung himself on account Of ilnagin-
airy 04ancial troubles.
Richland county has an assessment of 3d.
O49,G59 this year, and school pool of 1850,
gain Of 3S7 the past year.
George Gibbs, who was shot by Ansley at
Bismarck recently. died in that city OIL Tues
day from the effects Of Ills wound.
Threshing has commenced in good earnest
in Dickey county. The largest known yield
yet heard Of is thirty bushels per acre.
The annual reunion Of soldiers and sailors
of the war OF 1S6l-5 will be held at Yankton
on the 9th, 10th and llth Of September.
There will not be much to report in the way
of railroad building in Dakota this year, but
the prospects all look for big work in 1855.
This years appropriation for surveys In Da-
kota is $4,000, of which $50, 900 will be used
this fall and $40, 900 held back for future use.
Hon. Neil Gimoure, ex-state superintendent
of public instruction Of New York, has been
appointed receiver of the Bismarck land office,
Mercer county has been organized with
George Williams, Horace Walker and G.
Hawley commissioners, who will meet in
Stanton.
The ground for the railroad machine shops
to be built at Barnesville by the St. Paul, Min
neapolis 4 Manitoba company was located
recently.
Bismarck Journal The new pOstOflice ut
Hoskins Lake has been established. It will
be called Hoskins, the department declining to
attach the lake.
The first wheat threshing III the vicinity of
Bismarck was on the Cameron farm, and tho
yield was twcnty-One bushels Of wheat to the
acre, machine measure.
Governor Ordway is at his old home in
Warren, N. H. He is evidently taking no in
terest in Dakota politics. Four years of abuse
has evidently sufficiently amused him.
A territorial normal institute for all teachers
and superintendents who may attend from any
part of Dakota is appointed for the two weeks
beginning Aug. rs in connection with the Da-
kota university, at VerInillion.
Commissioners have been appointed for
TOwner county, but they have concluded not
TO organize, as the necessary cost of county
buildings, ETC., would be too great burden
for the few settlers in that county.
Mayvile Tribune: While horseback riding
Saturday, Miss Carrie Warren was thrown
from her saddle by the breaking Of the girtb,
and broke the smaller bono near tho ankle.
DE- Murray was called, who applied starch
bandange and the patient is now around with
crutches.
The Dunseith (Turtle Mountalns) Herald
says: Repeatedly within the last two or three
months choice specimens OF argentiferous
gaena and free milling silver ores have been
brought To our notice by half breeds and others,
who claim to have found them in the noun
tains near this place.
jamestown Alert: An emgran. outfit, con-
sisting of an ordinary wagon covered with
clapboarls, which converted the vehicle into
a perfect dwelling house, passed through
Jamestown on its way to Bismarck, recent
ly, having conveyed its occupants consisting
OF family Of ten, from Pleasant Falls, Mimi.
Bismarck Journal: Judge Drake, of Aber-
deem, has written to Bismarck asking the CO.
operation Of our citizens towards securing the
construction Of the Rock Island to Bismarck
via Aberdeen. They are now at work in Da.
kota, and will reach Watertown this fall. Pre-.
liminary surveys are being made for the exten.
sion to Bismarck. That will come next year.
Mandan Pioneer: Any soldier who has Hos,
his discharge papers can get a duplicate by
simply writing to the Adjutant General Of the
army at Washington, who will send him the
blanks to fill out. The blank will then only
have to be filled out and sworn to, when the
duplicate will he sent to him. The whole cost
will be less than IA cents, and it is worse than
throwing the money away to pay to any claim
agent IS or $40 to do what can be done 60
easily by the soldier himself.
The severest storm for years passed over
Belheld Monday afternoon. The morning was
very sultry and in the afternoon ugly green.
isll-lo0king clouds began to gather in the north
and west. The center of the storm struck the
town, and hail the size Of hens eggs fell I'll
forty minutes. Nearly all the windows facing
the north were broken. At the Riverside hotel
all the glass was demolished and the crops in
the vicinity badly damaged. The tIlermome.
ter, which had been playing in the nineties,
fell to 81.
La Moure Progress: Mr.. D. f. Salisbury,
who lives on section 4-l34-64, about sixteen
miles west Of La Moure, raised the best sample
Of wheat submitted to the government chemist
for analysis last year. Itoutgraded any sample
shown, and was perhaps the best wheat raised