The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1886-10-15

tect onr Business we must grind your wheat.
We have endeayorBd to buy nom pour Yarious
wheat buying organizations but have never
succeeded iDgetting pure, unadnlterated No.
hard wheat raised in the Red River Valley
We would receive one bushel Of No. hard
mixed with four or five bushels Of softer yarie-
ty. Having resorted to every known measure
to get your wheat In its unadulterated purity,
and having failed, We now propose to come
into market and buy in person. We do not
propose to build elevators unless compelled to.
The laws Of your territory should compel ele.
vators to issue wheat tickets for wheat stored
In them guaranteeing wheat and grades.
These tickets would then be in the nature Of
certificates OF deposit and as readily bought
and sold as the wheat itself. The Mipneapo.
lis & Northern elevator company is the only
company in your territory that issues such GER
nhcates. We therefore will confne ourselves
curing the present season to the purchase OF
ucKets issued by this company; unless, OF
course, any other responsible elevator company
will issue similar tickets. We intend to create
such market for these tickets that in order to
get them farmers will either store their wheat
with the Minneapolis d Northern elevator com.
pany or else force other companies to exercise
the same fair and just policy of guaranteeing
their own weights and grades. We have de.
cided to locate our headquarters in your city.
1t Is the railroad and geographical center of
that portion of the Red River Valley lying
within the United States, and is therefore more
accessible, for our purposes, to all other parts
Of the Valley. We will be ready for business
about the first of next month, and will hereaf-
ter purchase all wheat tickets issued by the
Minneapolis & Northern elevator company we
can get. Our people recognize the superior
quality and greater commercial value of your
wheat, and are willing to pay for it, and propose
to get it."
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The Mayville Convention.
The Cooperstown Courier gives the follow
lug account Of the Mayvile convention:
The Mayville legislative convention was
quiet and creditable affair. The only strife to
make the proceedings at all exciting, arose in
consequence of the rival claims of Messrs.
Sprague and Majors to the representation of
Steele county in tho House. This was deter
mined in favor of Mr.. Sprague, Mr.. Majors
gracefully accepting the situation. When the
report of the committee on resolutions was
read, little war dance occurred over tile
whisky question. A prohibition resolution had
been deity inserted by Col. Plummer, which,
called out Editor Bowers and others, who were
afraid of the resolution, and questioned the
c0loners sincerity in introducing it. In de-
tense of this resolution, Col Plummer made
the speech Of the convention, in spite Of which
the clause was remorscly stricken out. The
resolution would probably have had no effect
on the action of the candidates If elected, and
would have been too conservatives what red
rag is to bull. Mr.. Selby is district attorney
for Trail county at present, fine speaker,
with the reputation Of being good lawyer.
Mr.. Sprague Is cultivated gentleman who in-
dulges in farming in Steele county, and will
undoubtedly be a credit TO his constituency,
while the genial editor of the Courier (pub-
lshed for the small price Of $500 per annum-
cash in adyance), will. il elected, hold chair
down in the Dakota parliament as well as any
ether man, and coue out in the spring as poor
as tho survivors Of the expeditions of 1882 and
1854.
Mr.. Chas. F. Powell, postmaster, Terre
Haute, O., writes that two OF his very finest
chickens were affected with roup. He satll-
rated a piece Of bread, half an inch square,
with st. Jacobs Oil and fed it to them. Next
day lie examined them and there was no trace
Of the disease remaining.
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The Hudson hay Route.
P. j. McIntire, who is contractor on the