The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1884-09-05
DAKOTA PARAGRAPHS.


Highmore, in Hyde county.
The insane asylum at Jamestown will be in !.
readiness for use by October 1.
DEVILS Lake city il rebuilding rapidly, and
by snow time there will bs few signs Of the
firs.
Buffalo fish are said to bs 10 thick in the
Sioux river that they can be scooped out with
. shovel.
1t is said that South Dakota butter rates
half cent higher in the New York market
than any other grade.
A mail and stage route, 10 run twice week,
has been opened TO the Turtle mountains by
way Of Minnewaukan.
Cooper Brothers, Of Griggs county, are now
threshing, and it is expected they will have
14O, 900 bushels of wheat
Tho Yankton Insurance company suffered
losses to the amount Of $4,000 by the hail
storms Of the present season.
''Drakola'' Is tho name Of newly plated
town on the survey Of tho Dakota Il Great
Southern, in Kingsbury county.
A colony of about seventy-five Scotch fam
| lilies, lately from the old country, are expected
to locate in Edmunds county soon.
The barracks at Fort sully are to be rebuilt
and large quantities Of material are now being
shipped there by boat from Pierre.
Mrs. Michael Joice, of Washington, while
| temporarily deranged, took dose of Paris
| green from which she came near dying.
Yanton parties are thinking Of putting in
works for reducing flax straw, by new pro-
cess, into pulp for the manufacture of paper.
The artesian we'll at tho Indian school, Yank-
ton, is down 375 feet, and no water has yet
been found. The city we'll, on tho hill, is 400
feet deep.
| The Glendale Leader says tho Bismarck
stage driver saw herd Of seven buffalo re-
Gently when in the hills west Of Keystone, in
Dicksy county.
John Murphy, Of Waterbury, aged twenty
two, was suffocated by damp while digging
well. His was the first death that ever oc-
CURED in Waterbury.
The Foster County Gazette says the CARING
ton, Sanborn Il Lake Traverse railroad is to be
an accomplished fact The survey east Of San
born has been let for grading the entire dis
tance.
| P. H. Hayes, who left Dakota last spring,
says he hos been all through Montana, WASH
ington Territory and Oregon, and has no hest
fancy in saying that Dakota beats them all for
farming.
The recent hurricane seems to have been as
destructive TO property at Winnipeg and other
points a. in the Huron district in South Da-
kota. North Dakota does not appear to be in
the hurricane belt.
Miss Samuels has claim near Kato, and had
built shanty thereon to make good her title.
One night recently storm struck the shanty,
carried 1t out Of sight, and left her sitting in
the rain for the rest Of the night.
A violent storm occurred Sunday night OH
both sides Of the river near Grand Forks with
heavy rain and hail. In Minnesota, near
Grand Forks, farmers were busy Sunday and
part Of the night cutting wheat in fear Of hail.
In boring an artesian we'll in DEVILS Lake
the borers were compelled to drill through
eighty feet Of solid rock. The drill passed
through the rock at a depth of 146 feet, and
the water now stands twenty feet from the
top.
Alexander Mckenzie, Dakota's commission
er to the Worlds Fair, is making great exer-
tions 10 secure a crsditable representation of
the Territory at tho New Orleans exposition
this winter. He expects to visit every county
in South Dakota.
The gross receipts Of the Fargo postofflce are
greater than those Of Fort Wayne and Lsfay-
ette, Indiana, combined. Greater than either
Dubuqua, Davenport, and Burlington, Iowa,
and almost a. large as Quincy, Illinois, city
Of como 10000 inhabitants.
The Iowa l. Dakota railway articles of in
corporation have been forwarded to Yankton.
Surveyors are already in the field. Tho route
of survey will start in Sully county, and run
north through Potter, Walworth, Campbell
Emmons. and Burleigh counties
Sanborn Enterprise: Applsby, the inventor
Of the famous binder used by manufacturers
Of the prominent self-bnders now in use was
here during the past week testing newly in
vented harvester on the Boardman farm, which
is spoken Of as the coming machine.
The Bismarck Tribune says that a load Of
| "ho"e VSo OAoukue w eiSs City WLlCll tllo
owner supposed was No. i hard. Instead it
was rejected. It was threshed too soon. It
was not allowed to dry thoroughly in the
shock. This pointer is given for what it is
worth.
Itwould seem that all the wheat in the neigh
borlood Of Tower City was not damaged BY
hail from the reported averages of some who
have threshed in that locality: G. F. Clark, IS
bushels por aero No. i; G. w. Hill, 2615 bush
els per acre No. hard; J. J. Cornell, 20 BUSH
els per acre No. l. hard.
Sanborn Enterprise: D. r. Getchell, city
editor Of the Daily Times, G. w. Stanton, pro-
prietor OF tho Kindred hotel, of Valley City,
and boy named Carl Hansen, while return
ing from cunning expedition, attempted to
ford the Shsyenne. Both horses were drowned,
but the sportsmen succeeded in reaching terra
hrma.
Col. A. D. Robertson, Of St. Paul, an old
time horticulturist is making a study of the
climatic conditions Of North Minnesota and
Dakota as related to fruit culture. He has
been following the track OF hailstorms into
Dakota, and holds the theory that frequent
belts Of timber will dissipate and turn these
storms to rain.
Fargo Argus: Mr.. johnson the other day
sold 81, 400 worth Of threshing outfit and ether