The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1884-09-12
DAKOTA PARAGRAPHS.
Flax sells readily for sl.o2 per bu,hel at

W oAsuRlu& tuI06 uuuQI6Q nat cars 70 D0x cars.
The Seventh Day Adventists have located a
depository at Villas, Miner county. Buildings
will be put up at once.
AtGroton, two children of Mr.. Rolschel were
accidentally shot BY their elder brother, and
both will probably lose their sight.
| An apparently inexhaustible vein of water
said to contain medicinal properties, has been
struck at White Lake, three hundred feet from
the surface.
stage line has been organized by MARQUIS
De Mores to run from Medora, on the Northern
Pacific railroad, to Deadwood. Tho distance
is 100 miles and tho trip will be in fifty hours.
The United States geological survey corps,
now prospecting in the Sioux reservation, has
found coal sixty miles northwest Of LIE Beau,
on the Moreau river; enc vein being seven feet
thick and another three feet.
Five hundred people Of La Moure county
have signed petition ordering the county
commissioners to call al election to vote on the
relocation OF tho county seat This il consid-
cred victory for La Moure.
Fifteen Congregational ministers assembled
al Huron Oh Sunday, organized the new Con-
gregational church and ordained j. Spencer
voorhees, to the ministry, who has beon called
to and accepted its pastorate
The corner stone of the main building of the
Dakota Univsrsity was laid September 8, in
presence OF large concourse of people, by
Bishop Andrews. The university will be un
der the supervision Of the M. E. Church.
bismarck Tribune: Dr.. Weschler, Of St. Paul,
is in the city looking after his people, the Jews
OF the Painted Woods district. They have good
crops this year and will need but little more
assistance. These people, it will be remen-
bered, are exiles from Russia.
+. E. Jones, bonanza farmer at james,
town, put In his Saskatchewan wheat with
drill and has just threshed ever forty -ons bush
es to the acre OF No. hard. 1t 10 thought the
mode OF putting in the seed had something to
DO with the magnificent yield.
| The citizens Of Wahpeton, to the number of
l6o, accompanied by the Wahpeton Silver
band, were recently given an excursion to Or
tonville and return over the Fargo l. Southern
railroad. At Ortonville the excursionists were
treated to free ride OH the lake, and free beer
on board OF the steamboat. Invitations were
Issued in the name Of the Fargo & Southern,
through the Wahpeton chamber of commerce.
Watertown dispatch, Sept. 6: Tho heaviest
rain that ever fell in this portion of Dakota
since its settlement, came last night. Reports
show that tit extended With equal violence from
the jim river to Gary. In this city considera-
bic damage was done by the flooding Of cellars,
etc. Tho greatest damage ID to the crops in
shock and stack, which cannot be estimated
at this time
Barnes County Record: Bi-sulphide of car
Bon is said to DO destructive to prairie dogs.
The method Of using 1t Is to saturats balls of
cotton or rags with the bi-sulphide ian inl-
pure and cheap preparation will do) and push
the balls far down in tho holes, and then stop
the entrance with earth firmly packed. The
bi-sulphide quickly evaporates forming heavy
gas Which is promptly fatal to animal life.
Let some OF our farmers try this remedy on
the gopher pest and report the result.
Luverno Herald: Tho construction Of the
new Bismarck extension Of the Burlington,
Cedar Rapids Il Northern il now completed to
Luverne. The track is laid to distance OF
about mile and q half north of town. The
telegraph poles have been set as far az Luverne,
and the wire will be strung to that place in a
day or two. The track is now laid about
twenty miles north of Pipestone, and by the
time the iron is laid to that place from the
south, the road will probably be nearly CON-
pleted to Watertown.
Mitchell Republican: A couple of BruIe
county capitalists are preparing to establish
canning factory for corn, tomatoes, beans,
peas and other vegetables, They will have the
vegetables raised on their own land, manufac-
ture the tin cans and fill them for consump-
ton in the Dakota market. Canning factories
arc probably among the best paying invest
ments Tho ease with which vegetables are
raised in this country, is also an incentive to
the business. A canning factory of large ca.
pacity would find ready market for its goods
in Mitchell.
Mrs. Frank Ennings, Of Sioux Falls, poured
kerosene OIL her kitchen fire. The can OK
ploded the bottom Of the can flying and the
burning oil satlrating her clothing. She
rushed out Of the house, and when neighbors
tried to tear her clothes off she rushed back
into the house and caught up her baby and
carrying it out at armslength, handed it to a
neighbor saying, 'Take my baby" Having
done this she fell down overcome by the flames
The fire was put out by throwing pals Of
water upon her. Her flesh was literally baked
and sho lived but few hours.
During thunder storm at Sioux Falls on
the morning Of the Sd, lightning struck the
house Of J. c. Eldridge near by. Mr.. and Mrs.
Eldridge were thrown down flight of stairs
and their clothing torn from their bodies. An
old lady lying on bed In the lower story was
slightly injured and her clothing and the bed
clothes badly demoralized. Two children
sleeping In the upper story were not injured.
The house was damaged to some extent. All
Of the injured parties will recover. The light
ming set on fire hay stack just outside the city
limits, but did no further damage.
Fargo Republican: About O'Clock yester-
day morning Eugene Cummings, section
hand Of the Northern Pacific railroad, while
engaged ia uncoupling cars near the freight
depot, met with an accident which, later in the
day, resulted in his death. He had just un-
coupled freight car, and in getting out of the
way Of passing engine stepped on the track
Immediately in front of another engine whose
rapid approach he had not noticed. He was
| struck bV the cOw-catcher and fall in oucb a