The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1885-12-31
DAKOTA PARAGRAPHS.

Hienuaie expended $4,000 for improve.
meats this season.
Bids for the territorial fair will be opened a,
Aberdeen, Jan. IL.
A farmers elevator company is to be orpan,
lied at DEVILS Lake.
The university at Mitchell has been present.
ed with $500 organ.
The artesian well at Bismarck is down i'm
feet, and no water yet
Inc saloon license at Rapid City has been
raised from $50 to $500.
Plans are being perfected for the erection Of
flrst-class hotel at Ipswich.
The Northwestern Mutual Insurance co,n-
pany has ben organized ly citizens of wahna
ton.
Dr. Ailoway has purchased 200 head of short
horn Durhams for his stock farm near Grand
Forks.
The United States military telegraph line be-
tween Walnduska and Larilnore is advertised
for sale.
inc new Episcopal church at Sanborn was
dedicated Oh Christmas day with imposing Ger
emonies.
Ihc warm weather 80 honeycombed the ice
IN the Missouri river at Bismarck that crossing
was reported unsafe.
Mr.. Eastery, the special land agent WHO has
been Investigating claims near Bismarck, has
been ordered to New Mexico.
Grafton elevator men pay within 10 cents
OF Duluth and Minneapolis for wheat, but will
not guarantee weights or grades.
Rev. George f. Neville fell and dislocated
the bones OF his foot while working on the
new Methodist church at Howard.
Ex-senator Window, of Minnesota. ia ar
lively interested in the German American In
vestment company Of Sioux Falls.
Flandreau farmers have combined to COM
pei the railroads to pay for losses sustaied by
prairie fires set by locomotive sparks.
William Jackson, known as "Aunt Rebeccao
In Northwestern journalistic circles, was mar
rled to Miss Ella M. Dalton at Northfeld.
Father Elmer, Of Standing Rock agency, has
been transferred to the new mission at DEVILS
Lake, and is succeeded by Father Martin,
The trouble between the grain buyers at
dralton, Auburn and st. Thomas has been set
tied, and prices are now tho same at each place,
Ipswich has shipped of this seasons crop
226,00O bushels Of wheat and IS, 500 bushels of
barley, and two-thirds Of the crop is yet in
farmers hands.
Brooks Brothers, Of Grand Forks, have built
new elevator and taken in over ten thousand
bushels OF wheat since their old house was
burned at Park River.
The town OF Miller Is trying to arrange the
necessary prelininaries to bend the town for
some $4,000 to raise funds to sink an artesian
well and secure a fire department
The proposition to organize social club at
Fargo Is meeting with epcourag sment on all
'ldes. The charter member fee is placed at
S25, and Initiation thereafter will be $50.
1t is said that secretary Manning has tele-
,raphed Ziebach to accept the receivership re-
'ently' rendered him, as it will net interfere
With his candidacy for the governsrship Of |
Dakota.
The Banner claims that Hilsboro can show |
$4,000 worth of solid improvements the past |
rear and an increase Of twenty -six-twenty-
'ne males and five females-to its native born
population.
A young man named Dickson forged check
On the Continental Cattle company, and, pre-
'enting it to the spearfish bank for payment,
was arrested by Cashier Summers and held
until the manager Of the company arrived.
The city auditor at Fargo has been informed
~ the Northern Pacific railroad land commits
0ner that he thinks the fee for survey and Sc |
ection of all lands included in the city of
Farge have been paid, and consequently the
axes are valid and can be enforced.
The bill introduced in the senate locating tho
and office at Pierre includes the counties Of
hughes, Potter and SulIy OIL the east side Of
he river, and Stanley, Pyatt, Sterling and
1owlin, the south half Of Presho and Pratt Oh
he west
Mrs. Dennis, Of Grand Forks, by mistake,
ave to her little daughter, aged twelve montha,
welve drops OF tincture Of accenite root-an
rdinary dose for a horse. In about ten min
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much difficulty the child's life was saved.
Hilsboro Banner: "Oh, where! oh, where!
3 the blizzard"' bewailingly sings the man Of
hymes in enc Of our exchanges. 1t appears
o us that old ''bliz" after rambling about over
ur wide praires for some time and finding
hat his old companion, 'the beautiful snow,',
las grown thin and emaciated in our sunny
lime, has filled up his lungs with Dakota
zone and departed, and is now, perhaps, gam
'ong over the snow laden meadows and fields
n the East.
Our Washington Letter.
[From our regular correspondent
WASHINGTON. Dec. %, 1885.
This week has been one OF preparation for
he holidays. Charitable clubs are busy with
for supplying Kris Kringles and
good things to the children Of tho poor. The
churches and Sunday schools are busy with
heir plans for the season; merchants and buy
rs are busy and prOmenaders are b,1sv razipo, |