The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1885-07-17
DAKOTA PARAGRAPHS

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Pierre has 262 school children.
Forest City folk think they have found coal
bank.
Mr.. Caldwell, Of Canning has set out 300 to-
bacce plants.
Apple and plum trees in Milbank, Set out ii
1881, are loaded with fruit v
The American Bible socisty's agent in Fargo
found nineteen families without Bible.
W. II. Woodcook. of Minniwakan, had a
sun-stroke Monday which nearly carried him
of.
Rock has bsen found on Two Bit, in the
Hills, which carries 40 to 50 per cent of first
class saltpeter.
Miss Attic Morgan, Of Plankinton, pulled alt
the mustard that was growing In a sixty acre
field Of fax in three days.
In Aurora county young man ruined a re-
spectacle young lady, and her friends gave him
coat of tar and feathers.
The residences Of John Slillsrran and August
Erickson, hear Devils lake, burned. Loss,
about $1,000; insurance, $3.50.
An Episcopal church will he built in Madison
this season. Bishop Hare will furnisl, s4C0
from the Episcopal building fund.
resident Of Nina, while OH his way home
from Aberdeen, was struck by lightning and
killed, as were also his two horses.
One day latoly Deputy Register Mcintyre, OF
La Moure. issued warrants for 1,79S gopher
tails, one man bringing in over nine hundred.
Tho Episcopal college in Sioux Falls is near
ly completed, and will be opened about Sept.
l. 1t isa fine building, 6Sx12S and 40 feet
high.
A returning outfit from the Black Hills tells
Of passing over 200 wagons loaded with emil
grants and household goods, bound for that
region.
One Of tho land officials at Grand Forks is
reported, upon high authority, to be among
the officials who will soon retire from public
station.
spearfish, In the Black Hills section, is said
to DO putting up 1000 pound bell to be used
to mitigate the torrOrs Of brass band being
organized.
Albert, the infant son Of Q. N. Erickson, Of
Flandreau, was drowned in about four inches
OF water, falling face down, and being unable
to cxtricate himself.
The commissioner Of the General Land Office
has directed that blank forms for homestead
applications be furnished only upon personal
application by actual entrymen.
Whilo excavating on his farm on tho Sioux,
about four miles northwest of Sioux Falls, L.
Fl. barrow discovered four-foot ledge of mica.
The mineral is remarkably slear.
The Pierro board OF education closed the con-
tract with Prot. Il, p. Holbrook, of Concord,
Mich, aa superintendent Of tho Pierre public
schools at salary Of 900 a year.
The artillery sompauy at Lisbon hare re-
eoivsd their uniforms, that Of United States
soldiers, and will be ready to mako good dis
play at tho encampment when held.
There are 5000 acres Of fax in Ransom
county, and those familiar with it estmate Tho
yield at from fifteon to twenty bushels an acre.
At 81 bushsl it will be quite an item.
One OF the Dakota papers has found Of lata
just eighteen hours Of daylight sufficient TO
read an ordinary Newspaper, and the territory
extends 800 miles north of that point.
The corOncrs jury investigating, the case or
Nels Peterson, whose body Was found in the
river at Valley City, returned verdict that he
had been saurdered by some unknown Marty.
The coroner's jury at Casselton, inyestigat
ing the death of Ceosaarad Gsrtha, found that ne
came to his death bya shot fron, a revolver
fired by himself, No cause is given for tho
suicide,
School Superintendent Jones has ileclcss
that in Dakota township schoo board 10 not
authorized to employ teacher in opposition
to the wishes of the patrons il they express
thernsslyea In public meeting
A farmer named Pritchard, nosr Clifton,
built fire in his stable to s,uulge out tho mos
quitoes, but loft soua embers which caught
the hay and not only drove out The mosquitoes,
but burned the barn and all his stock.
Nearly all tho Indians al Fort Bethold cs tho
uppor Missouri river havo gone out and taken
SA~Aa'S uu NO pubstbss llicuI uHuVI ChltN dllUils
This is believed to be the true way to settle the
Indian Questlon-maks them elf-supporting.
Rev. William N. Blackburn, D. D., late pres
ident Of the University Of North Dakota, at
Grand Forks, has accepted the presidency 81
Pierre university, and will at once romoye his
family to East Pierre aud enter upon the du-
tiss Of his office.
Fargo Argus: It's understood that the MAN.
itoba is talking of building from Casseton di-
rect to Rpsn, instead Of going by Everest and
Sidney. President Bill is now in New York,
and whom he returns may take up tie Ripon
and Fargo scheme.
Caasslten Reporter: VIM. Gill, father Of J..
9. Gill, accompanied BY his daughter, Miss
Josie Gill, arrived in Casssltnn from South-
western Missouri, Saturday last having in
charge shipment Of forty-fire heifsrs, which
are now ranging on Maple river.
Mrs. N. F. Thompson and children had a
narrow escape last Friday on their farm near
Letcher. Tho house and contents were blown
away and carried over mile. Mrs. Tkonp-
son and the little folks left the house before it
WAS injured, and threw themselves On the
ground, holding to the long grass.
An excursion train will leave Fargo over the
Manitoba road on the morning Of July Is for
Devils Lake, returning on the evening Of July