The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1884-06-13
DAKOTA DOTS.
The News of the Territory Done Up
In Paragraphs.

Aho OoAotd 1Jsiuus LOdu o. COdl company mas
purchased the town site Of LeBean for $500.
A Congregational. church was organized at
Huron last week with some seventy-6ve men,
bers. &
John Peterson, convicted Of arson at Wahpe-
ton, was sentenced to three years in the peni-
tentiary.
Mr. Hicks, OF Washington, was shot by the
accidental discharge Of his gun, on Saturday,
and died soon after.
The name Of Capt. N. Flick, Of Hillsboro,
Traill county, is mentioned in connection with
the governorship of Dakota,
At the municipal election a. Casselton the
past week A. H. Burhe was elected mayor by
l66 votes to few scattering.
New potatoes large enough for eating are
had at Lisbon, which shows that this cannot
be regarded as late season in Dakota.
The Jail Of Barnes county is now empty;
there is ample room in it for the defaulting
county treasurer If he could be found.
The present term of court ut Yankton will
be long one, lasting probably until Septem-
ber l. There is large number of cases on the
docket.
DR.. E. P. Ward, of Chicago, the father Of
the Ward boys, is at Grand Forks to aid in the
prosecution Of the parties indicted for killing
his sons.
Great enthusiasm was manifested at Lisbon
over tho nomination Of Blaine, and grand
ratification was held at which over 1000 per-
sons were present.
The rains in North Dakota the past week
were beneficial and quite general. The farm
ers' conventions strongly endorse the weather
arrangements this season.
The suit at Kimball against L. A. Foote
formerly cashier Of the Bank of Kimball, charg-
ing him with having embezzled S172 of de-
positors money, resulted in his prompt ac-
quittal.
A kind Of bug resembling the potato bug is
injuring the forests in some parts Of McCook
county. The young growing timber in some
OF the groves on the tree claims is entirely
stripped Of its leaves
1t is reported that tho specimens Of coal
brought from Turtle mountain indicate that an
abundance Of the best anthracite will be de-
veloped there If such should be the fact it
will be worth more than gold mine.
George Gibbs, an old resident Of Bismarck,
was shot and mortaly wounded by man
named Ansley, recently from Ohio, on Monday,
in difficulty in regard to payment for
lot Of bones which the latter had hauled for
the former.
Work was resumed on the capitol last Fri
day with large force Of men and teams. The
legislative halls will be completed and the
dome erected before the next legislative as
sembly convenes The capital commission
meets in Bismarck on the goth.
Report of the Fargo land Office for the
week ending Friday, June6: Number Of home
steads, 43; acres, $3.50; treo claims, 20; acres,
$500; declaratory statements, 65, 1,4OO; final
proofs, 50, $40; total, 1877, 2O,92O; total col
lections, $lO,49S19; contests, %.
Thursday morning, June s, while two men
named Anderson and Hardy were working in
ditch at Huron laying pipes for the water
works, the bank caved in, killing Anderson
and severely injuring Hardy. 1t took twenty
and five children destitute.
Pioneer Press: Emigration Commissioner
Groat yesterday arranged for all excursion for
June "a to Bismarck, Mandan, and other North
Dakota points on the line of the Northern Pa
cific, from points on the st. Louis, Keokuk &c
Northwestern, and Chicago, Burlington Il
Kansas City. The rates range from $20 to
$A.5O for the round trip.
The Jamestown Capital is in favor OF seeing
Dakota represented at the Worlds exposition
at New Orleans next winter, and calls upon
the press Of North Dakota to agitate the mat
ter. 1t says: ''North Dakota should at once
unite in movement looking to the securement
of proper space for display, and then see to
1t that display is made which shall give the
visitor at least glimpse into Dakota's great
ness and grandness."
A dispatch from Grand Forks dated June
7tb, says that a farmer named j. A. Mitchell,
aged about fifty-four years and living fourteen
miles west Of Norton, was struck by lightning
yesterday and killed. He had just brought his
two horses into the barn and was standing be-
tween them when a bolt came down the gable
end, and he and the horses were killed out
right. Mitchell had wife and daughter. The
remains were taken to-day to st. Paul for in
terment.
Fargo Republican: Nowhere on this broad
continent is the crop prospect more fattering
| to-day than in North Dakota. Vegetation is
nearly as far advanced in the Red River Valley
as in southern Minnesota, southern Wisconsin
and central Illinois, and by far more luxuriant
than in either Of those states All that is needed
to insure an era Of unexampled solid prosperity
for all the people Of this section is fair prices
for the grain harvested next fall and there is
no reason to doubt that fair prices will be se-
cured.
Larlmore Pioneer: The Fargo, Larfmore
Northern will begin surveying this week and
will grade from Fargo to point near the
Goose river between Mayville and Hillsboro.
Then, if they win the Casselton grade, they
will have butts or eight miles to build to make
them continuous line from Larimore to
Fargo. II they lose the Casselton grade they
will build on north midway between the latter
and the main line until near the county line,
and then divide, running one line into Grand
Forks and the other to Larimore and on north
west. This is an outline of the course now
intended. We are informed that 100000 is
now ready in the hands of Mr.. Kindred at
Fargo with which to build the road.
Grand Forks Plalndealer: '9The land Off
GERS at DEVILS Lake have decided the Ward