The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1886-04-16
DAKOTA PARAGEAfMS.
Iron HilI stock has advanced 70 $50.

Iron Hill stock has advanced to $50.
Rapid City has organized a fair association
and secured 81, 600 tract Of ground for race
course.
The Bonanza Mining company has been or
ganized at Salem to work the silver mines IN
Minnehaha county. 3a
It is estimated that more than double the
acreage Of corn will be planted in central Da.
kota this year than was last.
The farmers Of the james river Wiley viii
meet at Aberdeen May IL to form an organiza-
ton for the Cooperate handling Of grain. 3
A large Welsh colony has been organized ID
pennsylvania to take up lands in Dakota. 4
ihey at hrst intended going to West Virginia.
The wife Of Lieut.. Penrose, Eleventh infan-
try, died at Fsrt Buford Saturday night Of
spinal meningitis. She was bride of three
months.
First Sergeant Brown, Of Company E., Fiji
teenth infantry, committed suicide Saturday
morning in his quarters at Fort Buford BY
shooting himself through the head.
A patient Of the insane asylum at James.
town, escaped recently and walked to Pembina,
distance of 150 miles. He was nearly cured,
and his capture was not deemed necessary.
The Red river is now open and one of the
steamers went up the river to-day after load
OF wheat. This is about two weeks earlier
than last year. There has been none Of the
usual overflow, the water rising but few
inches.
james D. Blade, to when suspicion points
as the murderer Of Jacques Lajorie, was ar
raigned in Bismarck Tuesday Afternoon before
Justice Joseph Hare on charge Of stealing
gun, the intention being to hold him until fur
thur investigation could be made into the mur-
der.
The Manitoba will hereafter run its. sleeper
on the train leaving St. Paul at 7:3O D. m.,
daily, except Saturday, over the Breckenridge
division, through to Larmore. It formerly
was taken off at Casselton. Going east the
sleeper will be put on at Larimore and arrive
at St. Paul at $3.50 a. IN. daily, except Sunday.
Conductor Lindsay, who has been in charge
of freight train on the Northern Pacific for
some time, met with very serious accident at
Dickinson. As bis train was moving out he
attempted to jump aboard, but through some
mishap he fell to the track, and the wheels
passed over his right leg, severing it from his
body.
There has been quite a boom Of late in GER
tain Black Hills mining stocks. Iron Hill, in
| which Gen. Allen Of Fargo some time since in
vested largely at slips, has gono as high as SIS,
and is on the up grade. Col. A. D. Thomas
OF Fargo, not very long ago sold some 5000
shares at about q cents. 1t would have made
| him snug fortune had he held on.
guileless school teacher in one of tho in
| terror towns Of Dakota answered personal.
in Chicago paper and finally went to Chicago
| to ind her correspondent. At the Union depot
police officer learned her story, laid trap
for the "masher," made him pay all the girls
expenses both ways, and sent the girl back
happy and wiser. She bad narrow escape.
Miss Lora Gibson, of Kilbourn City, Wis,
about four months since was married to Fl. G.
Merriott, Of Fargo, and a short time since she
| eloped with a gambler named Ray. They
were followed to Detroit Minn., by her hus-
band, where reconciliation was effected AS
soon as the husband was out Of sight the lady
and her lover again decamped. Merriott then
gave up, and will sue fo- a divorce.
Jacques Lejorie, Frenchman about so years
old, was found brutally murdered in his shack
near Bismarck last week. Lejorie came to
| Dakota about thee years ago with two COM
panions, one Of whom Is now dead, and with
the other he had since quarreled. He had
$1,000 on arriving here and had not been
known to spend any amount Of money, except
for proving up on bis claim and the purchase
of a yoke Of oxen. Deceased was found with
bis head bruised and battered with an axe,
which was found in the shack covered with
blood and hair and presenting most ghastly
spectacle. The sum Of $40 was found in an
inside pocket Of his overalls after death.