The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1885-02-13
ding and allowed to accumulate till stssil tin,s

ding and allowed to accumulate till stel tins
as 1t 10 found necessaIy TO remove it. Atm,d
with forks, the neighbors proceeded to remove
the debris and found, when the straw was re.
moved, that the earth showed signs Of having
been disturbed, aud upon further Investigation
the body WIS recovered, as also were two pil-
lows and q sheet Tie victim had been slot
through the head twice.
(, The crowd al once procured rope and re-
paired to the house and threatened to hang
Mn. Dill II she did not inform them who did
the shooting; whereupon she confessed having
done the shooting herself She claims to have
lad no assistance in the matter, aud says she
borrowed the hired mans revolver, shot tile
victim aud buried him herself, and that no per-
son was in any way implicated or knew of the
affair other than herself.
Mrs. Dill, the hired man and her two sons
were put under arrest and conveyed to Wall
peton.
Mrs Dill claims that her husband lad threat
ened to whip her and that this was what caused
her to do the shooting. She acknowledges she
is enciente by the hired man.
Excitement is running high and there is some
lalk OF lynchiug.-Forgo Republican Special.
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DoMan Replies to Vest.
Col. Donan writes to the Fargo Argus under
date Of Jan. q, "a reply to the recent attack
made upon Dakota by Senator Vest, from which
we make the following excerpts, whish will bo
lead with interest. The whole letter may be
found in the Sunday Argus, and will amply re-
pay perusal. We advise all who can to pro-
cure it, a. after reading it to send it to some
friend Id East. 1t is mastery defense Of
Dakota and her people, in the Cooneps llarpi-
est Wien:
Dakota, against whose rights and interests
he wages this senseless war Of filth aud false
hood, Is the largest and most important terri
.ory over which the starry banner Of the union
floats. With its 10000 square miles of area,
1t is greater in domain than all New England,
New York, New Jersey, Delaware and hall Of
Pennsylvania combined-almest equal to the
whole country from the st. Lawrence to the
Potomac, and from the Atlantic to the Allie
ghenies. 1t is $4,000 square miles, or nearly
2O,O0o,O00 acres, larger than all Great Britain
aud Ireland. As densely populated as Connec-
ticut, it would maintain 16, 965, ,OOO people; and
as densely populated as England, it would have
5S,S50,O0O.
Its resources are as rich and varied as its area
Is vast; and within its borders lie the grandest
grain-fiells and gold-mines on the globe, while
lts millions on millions OF acres of pasture
lands are unexcelled beneauth tho sun. 1t is an
empire more glorious than many old-world
kingdoms and principalities. Rich beyond all
comparison in soil, healthful in climate, and
blessed with population Of unsurpassed intel
ligence, industry and enterprise, Gods star
genled skies never dOmed nobler realm, or
one more fit for queenly membership in the
great American sisterhood of states.
In spite of congressional, senatorial and
newspaperial foes and malignery, its growth
has been unparalleled in the history of the
world. Less than fifteen years ago it was Off
clally pronounced ian uninhabitable akai
DESERT" and but eight years aud a-half ago
Custer and his battalion were Inassacred by the
Sioux just over Its western border, and savages
and wild beasts roanlod undisturled over near
ly all Its broad plains 4nd valleys.
In that brief period, scarcely clock-tick in
the worlds long march Of ages, hundreds of
fourishing cities aud towns have sprung up,
like magic exhalatious, from the wild prairie
grass. Electric lights send forth heir radiance
where, but as yesterday, unexplored darkness
reigned supreme. Long trains of palace cars
fly laundering aud slIrieking across golden
harvest-burdened plains where, but few
short months ago, the buffalo pastured, and the
gray wolf trailed his prey. Churches, schools,
banks, street railways and daily papers are
sown broadcast all over the feeding places of
Yesterdays antelope and red deer. All the
wild romances of the orient dwiudle into moth
iDgness beside the every day realities of Dako-
ta's progress.
From a population of l4,1SO in 1870, and OF
l35,UOO in 1850, the territory rose to 25O,OOO il
1882, TO 95OUOO in 1853, and over 400, O,CG0 in
1854; and the tide Of immigration still rolls in
with ceaseless surge, so that the close Of the
present year will undoubtedly fnd it with up
wards Of a half-milion people.
ln the four years from June 30, 1850, to June
l,3U per cent. In the same brief period its
postal revenues increased over 800 per cent.
Its banking facilities, 1900 per cent: It's
churches 100 per cent; its schools, over q
200 per cent; its daily newspapers, l,sOO per
cent, and its weekly papers 900 per cent; its
railroad mileage, 5O0 per cent, and the amount
OF land taken UP by settlers for actual cultya-
tion, over ], 300 per cent.
As shown by its vote at tho last election Da
kota has more population than New Ramp-
sphire, and nearly as much as two VermOnts,
two Floridas, two Colorados two Oregons, three
Rhode Islands, three Delawares, eight Nevadas.
1tproduced last year q, ,33O OOObuslleIs of wheat;
or more than thrty-three OF the states and all
the other territories. 1t has more miles of rail
road than fifteen Of the states and all of the
territories. It has moro daily papers than any
one of the southern states or any two Of tlleui,
excluding Texas, and more than six of the
northern states. It las more schools, and bet
ter school buildings, than any southern state.
II has moro banks and banking capital than
five Of tho states and all tha territories, and
pays more internal revenue than four of the
states. or two Of the other territories combined.
1t has more presidential postoffices than any
southern state except Texas, and more than six
OF the northern states, and furnishes more pcs
tai revenue than thirteen of the states and all
the other territories; and in every other ele-
ment Of qualification for reputable statehood.
its progress has been unexampled in human