The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1886-09-24
DAKOTA PARAGRAPHS.


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Tho yield Of flax In Lincoln county Is fifteen
to twenty bushels per acre.
/ Hay Is being shipped from South Dakota to
Montana, as well as from the north.
There are ten candidates for the Office Of
register Of deeds in Brookings county. j
Gerald Pierce, son Of the governor, has Re
signed as deputy territorial treasurer. IS s.
The corner stone OF the new Dickinson
county court house was laid last week.
Domestic help at Rapid City is 50 scarce that
$25 month is said to be no indncement
Miner county farmers have been compelled
to stop plowing on account OF the dry ground.
The Iriquois Herald vouches for the killing
OF sixty birds by two shots in fock-blacks
| birds.
Extensive peat beds, it is claimed, have lately
been discovered in the hills west Of Glendale,
In Dickey county.
Some two hundred families of German
speaking Russians are expected In Mercer
county, west Of the Missouri river.
Seymour Burnett committed suicide byhang-
ing to stairway banister, at Ipswich, on the
18th inst Temporary insanity was the reputed
cause.
Large quantities of Catawba and Concord
grapes are marketed in Springfield by the Men,
nonites, who grow fruit extensively at their
ranch near Bon Homme.
Rev. Emma -gale-book, who has had charge
OF the Episcopal mission at the White Earth
agency for seven years, has been Clergyman
for twenty-six years and speaks English flu
cntly.
The Huron artesian well Is now 76O feet
deep, and flow Of water has been struck
which proves to be very satisfactory. Tie
water is said to be lhe best yet found in South
ern Dakota.
Most Of The papers in South Dakota have Sc
| cured gorge Of watermelons by offering the
paper as premium for the largest melon.
Some Of them had wagon loads OF this sort Of
fruit turned in.
The Brookings Press has abandoned its daily
and the YanktOn Press, after years OF trial, has
given up its associated press report. The am
btion to run metropolitan journals in small
| communities is generally costly.
Editors Campbell, Of the Sterling Farmer, in
Burleigh county, and Corwin, Of the Steele
Ozone, arc among the sufferers from the more
stringent rulings Of the land department, hay-
ing lost homesteals by non residence.
The Nelson county Republicans have nomi-
mated the following ticket. Treasurer, W. c.
| noNi cfo nP Do
iff, F. Mccoy; probate judge, II. D. Fruit;
superintendent Of schools, j. NJ. Myers; attor-
ney, NJ. N. johnson.
1t Is stated that Charles Carson, held at
Chamberlain on charge Of stealing horses at
Pierre, turns out to be noted highwaymau
and desperate who has been operating south
of the Black Hills for number of years, and
lie is also wanted in several other places. He
was taken to Deadwood.
1t has finally been decided by the Manitoba
railroad to make Glendale Its western terminus
for the present. The contract for grading be-
tween Ellendale and the Jim river has been
let to Winston Bros, and work commenced
with the expectation that the first train WILDE
in Ellendale b, fore the snow flies.
Fargo Argus: The boring machinery on the
Monson farm is in motion. The magnitude
of the preparations may be imagined when it
is understood that the derrick ia seventy eight
feet high, one Of the pulleys is nine feet in d.
ameter and the drill is forty five feet long and
weighs 1,S00 pounds without the two inch
cable by which it is suspended, with other ma
chnery in proportion.
A young man at Niche, this side of the Man
itoba line, wanted to marry girl at Gretna,
Oh the other side. Her parents were opposed
and forbid her leaving town. So she stood Oh
the Manitoba side and lie in the Un:ed States,
and the preacher stood with one foot in the
queens realm and the other in Uncle Sans,
and the marriage ceremony was performed,
but they have since had apprehensions that the
matter may not be legal. They live in Dakota,
and Jud LaMoure advises them to be married
over, although they have entered upon their
cOnnubial duties.