The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1885-09-25
DAKOTA PARAGRAPHS
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DAKOTA PARAGRAPHS.
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Whsatland has $500 sclooLhsuse.
Carthage has new sevenB-6vs.barrsl -four
mill .s
The Sanborn house, the largest hotel Id San
born, was destroyed by fire Tuesday.
ID. D. Carrington has presented the school
board OF Darlington with fine school house.
The inter-county fair to be held at Tower
City October l, : and premises to bs a suc-
cess.
The resignation Of Postmaster Lounsberry.
OF Bismarck, was received In Washington
few days ago.
Henry Clegg, while duck hunting near Kim
ball, was fatally injured BY the accidental dis
Charge Of gun.
The North Dakota Mission conference Of the
Methodist church met at Wahpeton Sept. "a,
Bishop Walden presiding. 5'.s
Jerry Cavanaugh, Of Dublin, had both Ieoa
cut off by train at Mapleton. He was trvinr
to ride on the break beam.
Frank c. Steve, editor Of the Wiufrsd. Lake
county, Dakota Leader, died recently Of an af-
lection OF the heart aged fitty-fssr years.
The expenses Of Griggs county for tho year
ending juno 80, 1885, amounted to $4O,572O4,
Of which $27,65s.2l were for court house and
Jail.
In South Dakota petitions are being very
widely and actively circulated by the ladies
asking the Sioux Falls convention to give them
the ballot
| The county commissioners Of Walwotlf
county have offered reward of $50 for the
arrest and conviction Of any person setting
prairies on fire in that county.
Sixteen eolorsd United States soldiers fred
ints Sturgis saloon in the Black Hills and
Killed cowboy. The cause of the shooting
was the election Of one of their number from
the saloon. Five arrests were made.
There is great enthusiasm at Colfax on ac-
count OF great flow Of water from an artssian
we'll bored by the Manitoba railroad company.
The vein was struck at 1l2 feet below the sur
face and flows from three and one-half inch
pipe six barrels per minute.
The jury in the case Of DALEY, charged with
! the murder Of Plummur at Clifton, last winter.
brought In verdict Tuesday of manslauphter
| IN the second degree. The case of Lovejoy,
charged with murder committed at the same
place, has been continued to a special term Of
| court to 10 named hereafter.
The Marquis de Msres, whs was tried last
week at Aandan for the killing of William A.
Lsffsey, at Little Missouri, June 20, 1883, was
acquitted. Tho jury was out only eight min.
utss, and only one ballot was taken. The re-
suit was generally anticipated by those who
were present during the trial.
dispatch from Tower City dated the 23d
says prairie fires near Kibby Monday destroyed
1000 bushels Of wheat for Harvey Williams,
all Of H. Loveland's and his house, barn and
contents, Mrs. Lovelana barely escaping by
running to ceols with babe in her arms.
West at Tower City DR.. Howard lost 600 BUSH
els; north Of Tower City John Charles lost 80
acres Of barley. Tower City had close call.
Five years ago the census man could find
but 50 persons in the county Of Miner, twenty
four by forty eight miles, and one Of tho finest
regions In South Dakota. This year the emu
merater reports 1925. In 1850 sanborn was
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Of what is now two counties, with 9,0Sl resi-
dents. which those whs like to figure By per-
ceptagss claim IL some 15 600 per cent increa1e
in the half decade.
Judge Mcconnell, in his charge to the grand
jury referred to the letter of Mr.. q. E. Bowers,
editor Of tho Hisboro Banner, a. published
in his paper, and said he was not extended the
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him, but was compelled to find out its sub
stance by accident. He called the attention of
the jury to the charges therein contained and
asked that the matter be investigated, and il
found correct that indictments be brought
against the offenders.
st. Paul Globe: T,- ;Hagglsh young fellows
at Hope the other day played little JOKE v1
one Of the big Bonanza farmers who drives
rapid nag. He came into town to celebrate
the completion Of harvest and while he was
filling with bug juice tho large wheels were
put in front and the small ones behind. When
well warmed internally he came out, did not
see tho change and speeded his trettsr all over
the plase, with the people all laughing. When
hs discovered the change his exhibition Of
wrath increased the hilarity, but he finally 'set
'sm up'' fer the town and laughed at the joke.
Larimore Pioneer: woman known as
"Queeny," claiming 70 be from Grand Forks, a
ysung woman Of the dsmi-monds class, aged
perhaps about twenty years, died in this city
Saturnay evening from the effects Of liquor.
She 10 said to have been In the habit Of getting
beastly drunk and remaining 50 for several
days, and the last one ended her life. A COM
panion, also said to be from Grand Forks, paid
the expense Of hor burial. The real names Of
the dead girl and her friend are both unknewn.
The affair is sad warning Of the ultimate ef-
feots Of downward course when once begun.
Secretary Lamar has sustained the decision
Of the general land of1se in the contest case
Of the heirs Of Ward boys against John ]. Bell.
The land in dispute lies Just east Of the plated
portion Of DEVILS Lake, and is the claim upon
which the Ward tragedy occurred in April,
1883. Tho secretary holds that Bell could ac-
quire no rights under the law by virtue Of his
settlement prisr to the filing Of his declaration
Of intention to become citizen, and, finding
that Ward initiated valid settlement prisr to
such declaration, and that by reason Of duress
he was excused from residence on the land,
that under the law the guardian has now the
right to ile the dsclaratsry statement and to
perfect the claim.
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