The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1886-08-27
DAKOTA PARAGRAPHS.
Barnes county has a population Of q, $50. 4
Brown county has $4,000 cash in its treas

Barnes county has population Of q, $50.
Brown county has $2s, 900 cash in its treas.
ury.
Miner county will have ita first county fair
this fall.
A fourteen-foot vein Of coal has been dis
covered in Faulk county.
D. N. Clark, Jr.. has been commissioned
postmaster at Valley City.
Joe Kessler, who was shot by Nat Freeman
at Huron, August 2, died Saturday.
Improvements are to be made in the capitol
building at Bismarck before the meeting Of the
Legislature.
A man named Boheen, near Ipswich, drank
bedbug poison by mistake recently, and he will
probably die.
Farmers near Blunt who sowed some win
ter wheat last fall, ind it matured before the
drouth and is all right.
William Gedejohn, a German near Wabpe-
ton, nred rusty gun which recoiled on his
stomach, producing peritonitis and death.
The Northern Pacific elevator at Wheatland
burned last Tuesday with $4,000 bushels Of
wheat The building cost $4,000. Both in.
sured.
Another suit growing out of the taxation Ct
Northern Pacific lands has been begun at
Jamestown to recover $4,000 taxes paid under
protest.
A big vein of coal has been found in the
southwestern part Of Potter county, near the
Hand county line. 1t is equal TO the best ILL.
nois coal.
In storm last Friday a man named Beach
was killed by lightning near Bra,nhall, and
the same fate befell A. Tower, farmer living
near Highmore.
The law firm Of Miller & Green, Of Fargo,
has been dissolved by mutual consent, Mr.. Nil.
Ter continuing the business. Mr.. Greene will
open new Office.
George S. Barnes, of Fargo, rotires from tho
presidency Of the Northern Pacific Elevator
company, and will travel for his health Mr..
Fletcher is his successor.
Mrs. S. NJ. Dodd, Of Devils Lake, made
bold fight against burglar, who escaped only
after knocking her down and seizing her re-
volver. He was arrested.
Gottlieb Long, German farmer, living ten
miles northeast Of Devils Lake, accidenty fell
from his grain wagon, was crushed under tho
wheels aud died instantly. He leaves wife
and four children.
Grand Forks Plaindealer: Tho first car load
of hogs ever shipped from North Dakota
passed through the city yesterday. The ship
ment was made from Mimic by Mr.. Hudsor,
the well-known horse dealer.
Bismarck Tribune: As nearly all the cour-
ties III Dakota have already outstanding obIiga-
tions equal to 4 per cent Of the assessed yalua-
tion, and as any orders issued In excess OF this
amount are void, the seriousness Of the situs-
ton is apparent. The current expenses nuLt
be met, but howp
Fargo Argus: The whole northwest is loser
by the death Of President Hilps herd of in-
ported cattle, quarantined and killed at Mon
treal, on account of puro-pneumonia. Mr..
Hill, whatever may be thought of him by
farmer editors, never does things by the halves.
This herd Of Polled Angus cost him $3OO,O0O.
They were to come to Minnesota, and in the
very nature of things must propagate, spread
and benefit every community in the northwest
Prof. Denton, the great geologst, after weeks
Of investigation, says Of Dakota, ''You have
soil, or rather succession Of soils, insane in
stances eighty feet in depth, every foos0k which
is richer than the richest in New England.
Such soil is inexhaustiblo, and you only nepl
to plow deep and make your homes comforta.
BILE as you can with but little expense to be-
corIe the richest people on the face Of the
EARTH"
Wahpeton Times: Dunn e. Thomson, who
have leased the Wahpetou mill and elevator
aud the different elevators at Kindred, Minor,
Page, Erie and Clifford, are preparing to giyo
the farmers first rate deal in all business mat
ters in their line. We think Wahpeton and
the people adjacent to this line Of elevators are
to be congratulated on the fact that such ex-
perenced and financially able men have hold
OF this property. WIN. Dunn & Co, of Chi
cago, ,Sand A. D. Thomson Il Co., of Montreal,
are among the greatest grain dealers on the
contlnent,land are safe men with whom to do
business. These compose the firm of Dunn &
Thomson. y
Frank Les1Ie's Popular Monthly.
Charles Stewart Parnell is the subject of
brilliant article in tl,as Eet,fa,nlor numbar ne