The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1885-02-06
DAKOTA PARAGRAPHS.

Dakota has surplus of $20O,O0O in tho
treasury.
The Plankinton Free Press favors the organ
ization Of building association at that place.
A new company has been organized at Sioux
Falls to work the granite quarries at that
point.
Ransom county's first term Of court is to be
held In Lipbon commencing on March 18th.
Judge Hudson will preside.
The Grand Forks National bank has been Or
ganized with capital Of $4,000. N. L. NC
Cormack was elected president and F. T.
Walker, OF Dubuque, vice president.
Barnes County Record: The Wass cases have
come 10 conclusion by the elopement Of the
defendant last week. He leaves about $4,000
in securities behind him for his victims to fight
over.
Larimore Pioneer: We are informed of
another ruling by the land Office at Washing
ton forbidding inal proofs before notaries and
requiring the testimony Of witnesses and all to
be taken before the land Office.
North Dakota Democrat: Ono day last week
DR.. DeVaux removed tape worm twenty-eght
feet in length from the stomach Of Mr.. A. L.
Holconb. The curiosity may be seen at Thomas
d Endress' drug store, Valley City.
Attorney w. K. Smith, Of Lisbon, has sold
something over 5000 acres of Northern Pacific
railroad lands in Ransom county, this month,
most OF tho tracts being quarter and half Sec
tlons. He says he anticipates a rushing busi.
ness during the spring and summer.
Mr.. Fisher, Of sanborn, has sworn out
warrant for Matt Lee, charging him will,
taking horse that was left in Fishers charge
and selling it. Lee and Mrs. Fisher left town
together, and there are rumors of an eope-
ment, but Mr. Fisher denies this and says his
wife 10 with her mother In St. Paul.
A'pre-elsption settler having fulfilled the law
as to settlement aud ontry, has thirty y-three
months in which TO make the six months resi-
dencs on which to commute, and he may
choose whether this shall be the last six or any
other, provided he does not abandon the land
In the meantime, is new ruling says the Ips-
wich Gazette.
A farmer near Madison, in Lake county,
claims to have solved tho fuel question. He
combines hay with other articles in a way only
known to him and on which he expects to Sc
cure patent. He forms blocks two or three
inches In diameter and stove length, which are
said to be equal TO hard maple, aud claims that
tho process IL cheap enough to answer all re-
quirements. He thinks there is fortune in it.
Senator Edmunds il reported to have given
Delegate Raymond an opinion sustaining Judge
Francis, Of the Bismarck district, in the view
that he cannot try cases that originated while
tho district was part Of the third district, but
they must 20 before Judge Hudson. The law
yers have nearly all taken different view and
regarded Francis a. cranky for refusing to hear
them. But Edmunds 10 regarded az about the
highest authority.
Fargo Republican: Gov. Horace Austin had
very narrow escape Wednesday from serious
injury, il not from death. He had occasion to
70 upon the roof Of the shed attached to his
house, and being too near the edge of the roof,
part Of it gave way, and he was thrown to
the ground, adstancu Of eight feet, striking on
his face. HIS face il badly bruised, and he was
tanned no permanent injury.
A Portland telegram to the Fargo Argus says
news has reached Us OF drunken row and
free fight at Clifford last night In the saloon Of
j. w. DAILY, In which one Loveioy hit Peter
Strand with billiard cue, causing fracture
of the skull from which Strand died to-day.
Lovs1oy hss been arrested aud bound over to
the court to answer for his crime. Strand was
farmer residing near Clifford, and Lovejoy
an engineer on J. F. Cargilrs elevator at that
place.
Western World: Land taken up under the
Timber Culture act aud planted in black wal
nut Ia likely to prove 4 worry valuable invest
ment in the future. Tho nut crop is becoming
valuable, and the market is by no means over
supplied with the timber. In twenty years
tree will grow to be ~ many iuches in diane
tor in rich soil. The nuts should be planted
with but little covering and in the hull. Wal
nut culture 10 said to he very successful in Da-
k0ta.
The Jamestown Capital says that the recon-
mendatisn Of Gov. Pierce as to the manner of
organic ng counties is meeting with much
iavor from the moro thoughtful and honest
members Of the press. To the new governor
it appears that the residents Of unorganized
counties should be granted the privilege of Sc
lectiDg their own county seats, and he asks the
Legislature to SO arrange the law that the ex-
ecutive will he relieved frsm the responsibility
Of selecting the first commissioners of the
county.
The Bismarck Tribune has come to the con
clusisn that moro nien have been raised from :
poverty to plenty in this Territory during the
last i've years than in any other country Of its
sizs in the world. There is not man in the
Territory to-day who has been here from three
to len years who cannot count from twenty
fiye to one hundred persons who came here
penniless and are now in good circumstances.
Thousands have walked to Dakota, but no in-g..
dustrious man was ever forced to walk out.
No better name can be given to the Territory
than the one 30 often used, ''the poor man's
friend"