The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1886-09-17


a plan Is on foot 10 connect Rapid City an
Lead City by q narrow gauge railroad.
Itcosts sea month each 70 educate the In
dian children Of the Turtle mountain reserva
| ton.
In Clark county three ladies are competing
for the nomination for superintendent 3!
schools.
Daniel VBealy, = Douglass county farmer,
had bis leg broken and was badly injured in 3
runaway.
Experimental tests Of the 6re clay found at
Rapid City have demonstrated it to be q first
class article.
The alleged suicide Of Hender Bass at Get.
tysburg, is being investigated by his friends,
who suspect foul play.
DR.. Galloway's house at Fargo was partially
burned. The fire started from the kitchen
stove. Loss, $500; fully insured.
c. Keller, Of CasseIson, arrested for attempt
ed rape on Nettie Hanstein, had lis examina-.
ton before Squire White, and was held.
At the late term Of the district court in Traill
county, party from Steele county was sent to
prison for four months for selling mortgaged
property.
Clifford has 81 votes out Of 96, and it is esti-
mated that he will get 113 out Of total Of 1856,
so that it is likely he will be nominated by ac-
clamation.
w. w. Warren, manager Of the Grandin
farm, has finished threshing wheat, and from
5000 acres they got an average Of twenty five
bushels per acre.
During recent severe thunder storm the
depot buildings Of the Manitoba road at Lakota
were struck by lightning, aud taking fire, were
partially consumed.
The Northwestern railroad has sent an agent
to Sully county to report the losses by prairie
fires caused by locomotives, aud 1t is said will
settle them promptly.
South Dakota politicians are said to be
scheming for the removal of the capital from
Bismarck to Yankton during the first days of
the Legislative session.
DR.. Lilley, president Of the agricultural COL
lege located at Brookings, has resigned, aud
Prot. NJ. Louth, Of Michigan, has been ap-
pointed as his successor.
Judge Church decided in the Beadle county
case that county commissioners have no au-
thority to employ additional counsel in the
prosecution Of criminal cases.
The Manitoba company has let the contract
for grading tho road between Glendale and
Ludden to Winston Bros, Of Minneapolis.
Right of way agents say trains will be running
in November.
1t is regarded as doubtful whether the $780,
600 voted to new railroads at Aberdeen, and
similar appropriations in several other towns,
will be legal under the per cent Limitation
act Of congress-.
About eighty thousand acres OF railway land
In Barnes county have not had the survey fees
paid, and If 1t 80 remains a while longer, the
company will escape taxation on its lands
for another year.
The Traill County Agricultural society has
let the contract for $780, 0C0 worth of buildings
to be used In the county fair to be held at
Hillsboro Oct s, = aud 7. The purses include
$3.50 for trotting
At the Grand Forks Democratic convention,
Hans Spelde was nominated.for tho council
and james r. Barry and G. L. GRADER for the
assembly. full county ticket was nominated
and delegation to the territorial convention
nominated.
j. B. Edwards has closed out the Nortlwood
Headlight, and will begin the publication of
new paper at Grand Forks called the '.Demo-
cratic Spirit Of the West" Which lie says will
be red hot, and the leading Democratic weekly
Of the valley.
A party Of southern gentlemen arrived at
Aberdeen on the 10th inst. with the remains
OF c. Hooper Phillips, ex-lnayor Of Nashville,
Tenn. He was accidentally shot by James
Rains at Five Mile Lake, north of Briton, while
duck hunting.
H. Albion White died at tie county hospital
in Fargo, on the 18th inst, OF consumption,
He was born In New York thirty-four years
ago, and had been connected with nearly all
the Chicago and Northwestern newspaper,
He said he had not a relative In the world 30
far as he knew.
The Ransom Gazette relates that the Lebc
Bros. bought some eleven hundred acres Of
NAL Wsnen, payable out Of the crop grown
on 1t at 81 bushel, and the yield was nearly
twenty-four bushels an acre, which pays for
the land, seed and all expenses, aud leaves a
margin Of about $4,000.
Ever since the reported suicide Of Hender
Bass, who was found hanging in an artesian
well tower at Gettysburg some weeks ago,
there have been rulnors Of foul play. He was
known to have received money from the East
the day before, and the affair points SO strong
ly to murder that Sheriff Lynch, with Bass
friends, is now investigating.
Casselton Blizzard: On Tuesday Of last
week, while three children of John Fiyie, a
farmer living about nine miles northwest Of
this place, were at play in their fathers gran.
ary, the building by some means caught fire,
and his little boy, about two and a-half years
old, perished in in the flames. Tho origin OF
the fire is not known, but it is supposed that the
, children were playing with matches.
The League Clubs.
The following table shows the standing Of
the league clubs at the close Of play last Satur.
day:
; Won. Lost. Played. Per CT
Chicago. .........76 Is 10l rs;
Detroit. 20 IOI M