The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1886-03-12

Of the estate Of Hon. John B.
Raymond, deceased.
At the election at Tower City tho license men
were victorious. Prohibition had had full sway
for five years previous.
At Sioux Falls the other day Judge Palmer
decided that the court had no jurisdiction to |
disbar physician from practice.
A Scottish loan company Is likely to take in |
the valuable fair grounds at YanktoH for |
debt Of $S,500-much less than Its value.
Five saloon keepers Of Edmunds county are |
in charge Of the sheriff at Ipswich, living off |
the fat Of the land at the expense Of the county.
The plant and franchises of the jamestown
Alert has been sold to Frank Tucker, of James
town, and w. R. Kellogg, formerly Of Fargo.
At Flandrau both elevators have been at |
tached by William Deering because the owners
purchased grain covered by chattel mortgages.
delegation from the Turtle mountain band
of Chippewas are en- route for washington TO
plead their claims to the DEVILS lake land dis
trict.
Charles Long, anight watchman at Yankton,
has just received $4,000, tho first installment
Of a large legacy left him by relative In Ger
many.
Parties who have recently come from Ver-
mont report that large numbers Of others are
to follow their colony to Edmunds county this
spring.
Judge Becker, secretary of the territorial
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dence from Glendale to Fargo, where he will
engage in the practice of law.
Arthur Dunbar, Of Elkton, aged thirteen,
supposed to have died on the 4th inst, proved
to DO case of suspended animation. The re-
mains were barely saved from burial.
The jury at Wahpeton in the Schoenemann-
Eckes case returned verdict Of guilty, which
cOnvicts Oscar G. Schoenemann of assault with
dangerous weapon with intent to kill.
I Mrs. Fosnaugh, who has been on trial under
the charge Of having retained $2,7O0 pack.
age delivered by the express company by mis-
take, was acquitted, at Huron, a few days ago
Some of the citizens in Watertown and farm.
ers in Coddington county have formed joint
stock company for the purpose Of holding
county fairs. The limit Of the capital stock IL
$4,000.
j. H. Amos, representing himself to be the
son of wealthy parents in Chicago, is said to
have obtained $500 under false pretenses at
Pierre and skipped out, but was arrested at
Tracy, Mimi.
The two prisoners confined in the Steele Jail,
one for arson and the other for murder, were
| caught hiding caseknife and submerging 1t
in water to harden it for the purpose Of saving
their way out of Jail.
Matthias Marty, Brule county farmer, has a
few acres of wheat up which was sown early
| in January. He also has three and a-half
acres of the same grain sprouting which was
put in about three weeks ago.
Numerous settlers are coming to the Turtle
mountains from Montreal. The Canadian Pa
cific brings them down nearly to tho line, seme
twenty miles from st. Jonh, for $52.25 first
class and S26.S5 for second Glass
| It is stated that the Sisseton Indians express
themselves as favoring the opening OF their
reservertion for settlement. They wish to re-
tain their farms and have land they have no
use for sold. They are now self-supportng.
At the preliminary hearing or Cummings
and the Byer brothers, the alleged horse
thieves from Wyoming, at Glendale, they were
discharged, notwithstanding that Chapman,
the owner of the horses, identified them by the
brand.
In the absence Of Rev. A. P. Jones, the
preacher at Frankfort, in Sphinx county, on q
recent Sunday, his wife preached sermon,
and the congregation now want the male Jones
to stay away all the time, or let his wife do the
preaching.
Parties who have been quarrying rock on 6
school section in Hanson county have been re-
quired to let it alone, but there is no serious
attempt to disturb the large farmers who arr
using 200 or more Of the school sections in tht
territory for crops.
Emigration to Dakota by the ''prairle schoon
err route has already commenced this season
several having reached Pierre, who report lot
more to follow. 1t is little early to trave
that way, but they report less discomfort travel
ing in Dakota than further south.
A farmer named David Griffith was foun'
dead about three miles east OF Aberdeen on th
End inst. He was walking to his homo, nea
Bath. Being drunk, he fell on plowed groun
and was smothered. He evidently died hare
He leaves wife and nine children.
The grand jury at Huron has returned indie
ments against John Blair, Charles Hitchcoc
and Frank z. Stevens for misappropriation
funds at the time the court house was bull
The two former were then county commi
sioners and the latter was county treasurer.
In some sections, where fuel is expensiv
farmers will next year grow an acre or tW
of fax for fuel, as 1t is said that flax straw
the best for that purpose. 1t is claimed that
ton Of the straw has more fuel in 1t than to
Of soft coal, and the new apparatus for col
> suming it is becoming very popular.
0 James Daily Of the second and Charles Flyn
of the fifth commissioner districts Of Barn,
county, resigned on the LIST Of March, and
: N. Green has been appointed to fill the vacant
s in the second district and H. o. Sterl instl
y fifth. The citizens committee are making
It thorough investigation Of county matters
: administered by the late board, and seem d
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