The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1885-07-03
DAKOTA PARAGRAPHS.

Like county IaFMero nave 6OWn as mucn
flax as wheat this season.
A. J. Sawyer, Of Duluth, is building 20,
600 bushel elevator at Valley City.
The barley crop in Mercer county will aver
age about forty-five bushels to the acre.
H. K. Merriam, Of Grand Forks, has been
appointed clerk Of court Of Walsh county.
A colony of 200 hundred families are seeking
homes in the south part Of Etnmons county.
The ladies of the Baptist church in Mitchell
cleared 800 by the festival in behalf Of the
church organ.
Eddie Russell, son or Thomas Russell Of
Davenport. Iowa, WAS drowned at Yankton
while bathing.
The Russian colony in Mcpherson county has
sown some ten thousand acres of fax andit
promises we'll
The gypsies have followed the tide to Dako-
ia, and several Of their cavalcades are roaming
the the territory.
While digging cistern near Caledonia last
week Mr.. Bish struck frost at the distance of
five feet from the surface.
There is no question asst the success Of tame
grasses in all parts Of Dakota. Timothy does
better than in most Of the States.
The Fargo Republican has been shown sam
pies of growing wheat from Sheldon with well
advanced heads four inches in length.
Horace White, the editor of the New York
Evening Post, is among the recent visitors to
the North. He has relatives at jamestown.
The town Of Koto, Mcpherson county, needs
doctor, wants q lawyer and must have
newspaper and saloon before it will be hap
py..
The Belle Fourche roundup has been closed
with satisfactory results, as the loss will not
reach pei. cent, and will probably be much
less.
The receipts at the Fargo land Office for the
week ending June 26, 1885, were $3,172.66.
Number Of final proofs, 80; number Of con-
tests, "a.
The Lawrence County Agricultural society is
on good footing, and at meeting lately held
decided to hold fair at Spearash the coming
September.
The recent rains have raised the Red river
some ten feet at Grand Forks. In some places
it has been out Of Its banks and damaged
wheat fields.
The unusual amount Of rain in Dakota is
favorable for tree growing, and has been i'm
proved to much greater extent than in any
former season.
P. p. Goodman, of Sheldon, threhed nearly
thousand bushels Of oats last Saturday. They
had stood out in stack since last harvest and
vera net injured in the least.
]. NJ Twohy, who was appointed Judge Nc
Connell clerk Of tho court at Pembina, was the
first Democrat of Fargo to receive an appoint
ment as q result Of the election.
Faulk county, one of the newest in tile Mis-
souri, river region, has organized an agricultur-
al society and will hold a fair this year. 1t
may have fine display OF local products.
As Ed Oney, Of Clearwater, was taking
valuable bay team from watering to the barn,
one Of the horses, for which he had been offered
$500, stepped into hole and broke its neck.
The crsameries established In Dakota all fluid
good market for their products aud will rap
idly increase In number. The dairy c0nven-
tion at Moorliead will give the production quite
an impulse.
The trustees Of the territorial school Of mines,
located at Rapid City, having secured grounds,
are now trying to cotract for building. They
have rejected the first proposals and have ad-
vertised for new ones.
D. Brdsell, Of Salem, brought home some
cotton seeds from tue New Orleans expositl0fr
and planted them Oh his farm. The cotton
plants are growing vigorously, and he thinks
Of trying for crop next year.
A man, his wife and three children reached
Ipswich last week from the state of New York,
having Travelled the entire distance on foot, the
head OF the family pushing hand cart that
carried all their worldly possessions.
The man known as "the Duke of Argyle"
Special Land Agent Jaycox's chief witness in
certain cancellation cases, was, at Aberdeen,
recently, bound over to the district court in
$500 on the charge Of manslaughter.
A young lady teacher, near Mitchell, on the
approach Of a storm last week, dismissed her
school in body to nsighboring tree claim
and stationed each pupil at stout cottonwood,
instructing them to bold on In case of blow.
A special car reached Morton county on the
24th of June filled with immigrants from
Chicago, who come to settle on the rich lands
of Dakota. There were sixty people in the
party, all bright, intelligent and energetic.
They come to stop and are well to do.
A herd OF forty or more buffalees was report
ed day or two ago some forty miles west Of
Jamestown. There were cows calves and bulls,
and they were very fierce, some Of the bulls
running the party discovering them into shelter.
They are supposed to have strayed from the
Standing Rock reservation into the coteaus and
out on the prairies.
The German named Chris Wachtes, whs is
reported as having suicided and losing leg by
the cars at Fargo, came from Jamestown. DR..
Baldwin and DR.. Cloes amputated the limb
crushed by the cars in yards here, says James
town special. The man admitted, thinking he
was at deaths door, the murder Of friendless
stranger in Duluth and the accompanying rob-
berry Of small sum.
A. N. Morse, the Big Spring rancher, was
the first man in the Black Hills to introduce
German carp. Two years ago. April last, he
placed nineteen minnows Of that variety, an
inch and a-half in length, in his pond. On
April he drew off the water and found the
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