The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1885-04-03


affected with what Is thought to be blackleg.
A building association, with capitel stock
Of $lO0, 900, has been organized at Brookings.
The Roman Catholic church at White Lake
has received two 1900 pound bells from st.
Louis
Frank Fassett, indicted for shooting William
Roe at charivari, was acquitted at Redfie,d.
Roe died on Friday.
Prairie schooners, containing emigrsnt out
fits, are now seen in all sections of the terri
tory, pointing northward aud west
widespread prairie fire has recently ragged
In Turner county, but beyond the burning of a
few hay stacks, no special damage is reported.
A surveying party in the employ of the
Northwestern railway company are reported
as running line westward from Centerville.
Trains loaded with emigrants are arriving at
1pswich and are received with great interest
and cordially. That 10 ono of tho favorite sec
tiors with new corners.
Mr.. John Ceaver, Of Valley City, has III egg
on exhibition, laid by one Of his hens, which
measures eight inches in circumference one
way and six inches the other.
The Farmers' association in Lincoln town
ship in Sphinx county have resolved to build an
elevator at Altoona or Cranton, probably at the
latter place, on the Jim River.
The government officers in tho Grand Forks
land district estimate the unentered lands in
that district at nearly a million acres. Most
OF it is tillable and good land.
Parties returning from the reservations new
ly opened bring many beautiful specimens Of
mica, which are thought to indicate that there
may be valuable minerals there.
At White lake, Elmer Wilson, of Blooming
ton, has been arrested and bound over in bonds
Of $500, charged with the seduction under
promise Of marriage, Of Miss Hattie Bailey.
In prairie fire near Larimore, Hon. w. Fl.
Roach, the handsome Democratic member of
the legislature suffered to the extent of 500
bushels of wheat which he was holding for 81.
Some Of the letters received by COL Donan
from young ladies indicate much business Ca
pacity, and recently two or three of the young
ladies have been rendered desirable positions
In Fargo.
The temperance alliance pronounces Spink
the banner county of South Dakota, having
never granted license. When the territorial
army was at Redfeld there was no SUSPICION
Of this fact.
twenty-five carloads Of emigrant steck
passed west through Fargo over the Northern
Pacific, Monday of last week, most of which
was bound for points between CasseHon and
Jamestown.
Gov. Pierce has pardoned Marcus Sverson,
who has served out fifteen months of two
years. sentence for stealing a shaak in Ransom
county worth $50 or $50. Tho penalty was
thought excessive.
Devils Lake Inter-Ocean: Miss Emma
Marvin, OF Sioux Falls, attended the services at
the Roman Catholic church, Sunday, and dur.
ing the service she got up and went out, since
which she cannot be found. A search is in
progress.
The miners at Deadwood recently found
amusement in preparing defunct canine for
burial, and securing preacher and undertak-
er who were ushered into the room to view the
corpse. They took the situation in with better
humor than the coroner.
The farmers' alliance in Disksy county pro-
poses to ask the county to issue boGds to croate
funds to be loaned to the farmers at Iu;- rate
OF interest," taking chattel security. The
scheme will hardly be adopted, however con-
venisnt it might bs for the farmers.
John r. Sweet president Of the Codington
Farners' union, loft St. Thomas, Ont, March
"a, with colony Of first-class settlers for his
county. They were expected to arrive at Water
town on the 9th of March, and the citizens
proposed to give them public reception.
The Russians who came to Hutchinson coun-
ty last year and stopped with their friends,
thousand or so, had the good fortune to be
ready to take advantage of the opening of the
Crow Crock reservation, and have secured
much Of the choicest land. They will have
strong colony there.
H. s. Mulligan, fns-stock man at Lisbon.
reports an unprecedented case, COW, part
Durham, that gives milk that cannot be made
to sour. He has tried every method. Some of
the fanciful attribute it to peculiarities of the
Dakota atmosphere or tho rare amount Of fem
mime sweetness in that locality.
Business Of the Fargo land Office for the
week ending March 27: Homesteads, II fill
ings, 2,72O acres; tree-claims, Is filings, 2,4OO
acres; declaratory statements, Is filings, 1000
acres; final proofs, II filings, 1,7eO acres total
acreage, IS filings, 10,SSO acres; total cash re-
ceipts, $1,S54.97; contest cases, 10.
Since Rapid City, in the Black Hills, has
taken the land Office from Deadwood, it is be-
coming ambitious and proposes to bs the Dem
yer Of the Black Hills country. Several hand
some new blocks are being erected, and effort
ia being made to introduce water-works and
utilize tho water power. Ithas great natural
advantages, and when railroad connection is
secured 1t will have boom.
A party Of twenty-five emgrants from Car
roll county, Virginia, arrived at Athol, Dakota,
4 few days since in pursuit of homes. They
had never been 60 far north before, but said
that it was hard werk making living from
the thin and rocky soil Of the Old Dominion,
and they had heard such favorable reports OF
Dakota that they would lseate in 1t. They also
stated that a car load Of others were coming
soon, and il favorable reports were sent back,
a great part of the populatiomof their native
county would follow. This is but one illustra-
ton Of the widespread tendency in the states.
toward the new Northwest