The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1884-10-03
DAKOTA PARAGRAPHs.

Brown county has built forty eight school
houses this year.
The vote in Walworth county resulted in
lavsr OF LeBcau as the county seat.
Miss Cora NJ. shober has been appointed su-
perlntendent OF schools for Hyde county.
A South Dakota squash that weighed 1852
pounds has been sent to the Chicago exposition.
The first buffalo ever killed in Kiddsr county
was brought down by Mr.. Russell ono dsy last
week.
The Lari'nore Pioneer reports wheat arriv-
ing at that place at the rate Of l5, 900 to 10000
bushels daily.
Chief Running Dog was married to Miss
Eliza Sorrel Top in the parlors of the Brule
House at Chamberlain.
Sharp competition ran the price of flax up To
$l.l2 III the Yankton market on Thursday, but
the next day it fell to $l.OS.
La Moure county has paid premiums on
7,2S7 gophers since the premium was offered
some months ago. amounting to $s64.
The Valley City Times claims that the termi-
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be changed from Tower City to that place.
The Sioux Falls deaf and dumb institute las
twenty-seven pupils. There are 200 known
deaf mutes in Dakota between tho ages of six
and twenty-one years.
The grain crop of Hutchinson county for tbi.
year is estimated as follows: Wheat, 4OO, 900
bushels; oats, 200, 900 bushels; flax, 100000
bushels; corn, $4,000 bushels.
Gov. Pierce has received a series of re.olu-
tlons signed by twenty-five farmers of Minor
county, setting forth the fact that their crops
had been entirely ruined by hail, and appeal
ing Tor temporary assistance and aid.
'Dunseith Ito have Roman Catholic church
and sshool. Ths ground has been decided, and
the priest, Rev. Mr.. pHiver, is building house
and stable for his own use. The population
OF that regloa IL mainly Roman Catholic
Emulattng the kelletts neighborhood in
Sphinx county, the farmers of Huron propose
to build Independent elevators. The first-men-
toned get from 10 to 20 cents more Dor bushel
for their wheat than is paid at nsighbsrlng
stations.
William T. Montgomery has been requested
TO accept tho position OF commissioner for tho
colored department, to represent Dakota at the
Worlds exposition at New Orleans He has a
farm in Richland county. and is said to DO 8
worthy man,
4 boy twelve years old, namsd Ernest Boyer,
was terribly gored by bull In Bon Homme
county tow days ago. The horn entered the
boys mock, and passing upward passed through
tho roof OF his mouth. 1t was thought that the
wound would prove fatal.
An ofacer Of the Dakota d Great Southern is
emphatic in tho statement that his road will
DC put in running order all tho way from Slsux
City to its northern terminus on the Northern
Pacific, This Ia largo promise, but grading
10 going on and there il evident intention to
build the read.
The seventh legislative district Republican
convention nominated A. B. Smedley, of Grant
county, and d. V. Kennedy, of Brown county,
for mombers Of the council, and N. 7. De
Woorly, Of Ipswich, E. Huntington, Frank A.
Eldrldge, OF Big Stone, and H. G. johnson, of
Groton, for members Of the assembly.
La Mouro Progress; Tielh sfs numations
that the Dakota Midland railroad Is backed by
tho Manitoba. Al all events the grade Is being
pushed through with dispatch. If tho Mantle
ba has anything to do with it, it is In rstalia-
tlon for the Fargo i Southern scheme of tho
G. M. Il st. p. railroad for invading Manitoba
territory.
The Tower City Herald, directly sitsr tho
hail storm in July, estimated tho loss at 1000
acres. Threshlng out the partially hit fields
shows thai it would have been bettsr for those
farmers II the destruction had been total, az
their grain Is very inferior grade and the yield
not over six bushels per aere-not paying tho
hreshiDg expenses.
Grand Rapids Journal: 1t is rumorsd that
the G. d N. w. have purchased the Coopers-
town branch and It Il evident that they have
also 2egotiatsd for the J. R. v. R. B., and pur-
pose to make Grand Rapids junction and
branch off from the main line at this point.
1t was farther stated by the party that whom
the road was completed 1t would run due south
to Ordway and connect with the main line at
that point.
Cassslton Reporter: Mr.. Bsgtwsp, just
northwest Of this city, had the misfortune to
lose thlse stacks Of wheat, about three hundred
bushels, by fire last Saturday. A stiff wind
was blowing and sparks from tho threshing
engine ignited the grain. 1t required prompt
action to save the separator, the property Of
Mr.. F. H. Benson. Losses Of this kind have
been quito frequent among farmers in thla re.
gion this season.
Tho punseish Herald, In tho Turtle noun
tainS. says: W. D. Eaton, ESQ.,, Chicago, ono
Of tho officers Of tho Dunseith d Southern rail-
road, visited this point Monday and brought
cheering intelligence in regard to tho prospsc-
tive railroad, assuring US Of it's being somplst-
cd to the mountains early next summer, and
conveying the impression that with the COM
plstiop Of the railroad this country will enjoy
a boom unprecedented in tho annals of the
Northwest.
From the survey of the Dunseith Il South
eastern railroad, which is to open up the Turtle
Mountain, 1t is estimated that the cost Of the
grade from Dunseith to Minnewaukan will be
about $4,000, and the total cost Of the read
will probably not be less than $500, 1000. It's
entire length is sixty eight and one-half miles,
Grading is expected to begin some time in Oc,
tsber, and it is proposed to have It completed
next year. c. F. Peck, Of New York, is prssi-
dent of the road.
President Eddy, Of tho First National bank,
states that bis bank 10 paving out ssms $1O. .OO0