The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1886-03-26
DAKOTA PARAGRAPHS.

rebuilt. -'''' '''A
Valuable deposits Of tin have been found
| near Custer.
There are three new hotel enterprises on
foot at Watertewn.
Hon. Frank Pettgrew is announced as a
candidate for congress.
Bangor has voted the Wolsey i Bismarck
railway $4,000 and right OF way.
The Dakota Veteran is published at Madison,
in the interests of the old soldiers.
Union veterans lecture to the school children
at Yankten on the history Of the war.
The Mitchell post0f1ice will be made second
class April |. Salary, $4,000 per annum.
Two or three strong companies are begin
ming to bore for oil near Spearfsll, in the north
part Of the Black Hills.
In the Woods murder case at Bismarck the
jury brought in verdict of murder in the first
degree: motion for an appeal will probably
be made.
Applications for admission to the school of
mines already overrun its accommodations,
from the next legislature.
Fifty families are reported coming from ono
locality in Manitoba to the Dunseith region this
spring. The migration from over the line is
expected to be large this year.
Numerous wagers are being made that the
Manitoba railroad will build ninety miles west
Of DEVILS lake this year. The Dunseith Her
aid regards it as a safe way to bet.
Bishop Hare has written from Philadelphia a
very touching letter to the Episcopal congrega-
ton in South Dakota on the occasion Of the
special mission services which have just begun.
Parties are arranging for a large colony from
Illinois to locate in Campbell county. It locks
| rs If the region beyond Ipswich would get a
great portion OF the immigration this year as it
did last year.
Two OF the doctors Of Altoona, O'Brien and
Potter, were arrested the past week aud taken
I "a qn,.f fIn Mo,
on charge OF prescribing too much liquor for
their patients
David Conway died suddenly of bronchitis,
at Hurley, aged seventy-two years. Mr.. Con-
way was one Of tho Oldest Odd Fellows in the
United States, having been a member of the
order for over fifty years.
Rev. Stewart Sheldon, for the last sixteen
years general missionary and superintendent
of home missionary work in South Dakota, has
been appointed to the field secretaryship Of the
Congregational Union Church Building society,
Boston.
Hillsbor Banner: Mr.. Leon Levisee, Of
Portland, hns been sworn IN as commissioner
from tho Portland district. An order from
Judge Mcconnell seated Mr.. Paulson, but there
are some men III Trail county unaccustomed
to regard Judges decisions with either respect
or reverence.
A large meeting of taxpers was held at VAL
ley City on the 18th instant for the purpose Of
| receiving tho report of a committee appointed
at former meeting to Investigate the muni-
| cipal atfairs OF Barnes county. After a lengthy
| report in regard to the affairs of the county,
number Of recommendations were made by
the committee, including the following resolu-
| ton, which were adopted by the meeting:
"Resolved, That the dealing in county secu-
rites by any county official, deputy clerk or
| other attache Of county Office is contrary to
the public interest, and we deem it the duty of
every citizen to notify any official of any such
| dealing on the part of attaches of his office,
and after such notification, such official shall
| be tied accountable to the people the same rs
| though he himself was the sppculator. And
| the carrying on of this business through out
side parties will not excuse the official in cases
where there is reasonable ground to believe
that attaches Of the office are participators in
| the profits"