The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1888-03-09
DA1yorA GLEAKInGs.
A party is out investigating the alleged oil
discoveries west Of .Mandan.

discoveries west Of Mandan.
Ninety civil and tw>anty criminal cases are or
the district court calen,' Tar at Bismarck.
Huron jury awarded Avla Stearns, aged
Is, $1,000 Judgment for the loss Of foot b
the cars two years ago.
Hon. John E. Garland has heen confirmed
BY the senate as associate justice Of tho 50.
preme court Of Dakota.
Hot Springs in the Black Hills, and Water
town are leading competitors for the location
Of the Dakota soldiers home.
The president has nominated Hon. James
NJ. Corbett Of Grand Forks, to be register Of
the land office at Grand Forks in place Of B. @.
Tiffany.
The bill granting to the city Of Grand Forks
the right to build two free bridges across the
Red river at the most convenient points in
Minnesota has passed the house.
The war department will advertise for, and
purchase all horses for the department Of Da-
kota in Minnesota, provided they can be pur.
chased as cheaply as elsewhere.
1t is said that Mr.. Garland will accept the
appointment to the Dakota bench, and that
Mr.. W. E. Purcell, Of Wahpeton, will be the
next United States district attorney.
Dispatches from Canton and Pierre, in South
Dakota, to the Pioneer Press, dated March Z,
reported the people celebrating the passage Of
the bill opening the Sioux reservation.
Reduction works will be erected at Dead
wood. Certain ores can be reduced at 81 that
have heretofore been shipped to Omaha and re-
duced at profit at an expense Of $35 ton.
The Norwegian normal school has been To-
Gated at Sioux Falls. A bonus of $4,000,
including the building site, will be given.
A $l5UOo college building will be put up in
the spring.
Superintendent Mitchell, of Cass county, is
getting out new circular, containing the law
recently enacted compelling the teaching in
our schools Of the effects Of narcotics and spir-
Its upon the body.
Judge Palmer quashed the writ Of certiorari
in the liquor imbroglio which has divided citi-
zens OF Sioux Falls ever since the election last
fall, and the saloons have been ordered closed,
which order the proprietors intend to obey.
st. Paul Globe: Enterprising parties who
hoped to lnd the bodies Of Indians frozen in
the blizzard, to be utilized as tobacco signs,
have been sadly disappointed. The aborgines
don't seem to care for the needs Of white
people.
Maj. j. E. Kinney, of the Yankton agency,
who is credited with originating the exager-
ated stories about the blizzards in Dakota, has
returned to his post from California. Major
Kinney emphatically denies circulating the
reports charged against him.
St. Paul Globe: Dakota papers have numer-
GUS reports from parties who went to the
Pacific coast regions in quest of better land,
that they wish they were back TO lively and
invigorating Dakota, with It's unsurpassed op-
portunites for the poor but Industrious.
six-oared yawl Is to be placed on the Mis-
souri, at IT, Lincoln the coming season and an
ambulance kept on the Bismarck side of the
river to connect Herewith. This will facilitate
travel between the post and Bismarck, reduc-
Ing the distance to be travelled from twelve
miles to five.
| AS result Of the supreme court local option
decision the seven saloon keepers of Valley City
publish card announce their abandonment OF
their business to the drug stores and ''tfe low
est element of society,"" They propose to obey
the law in letter and spirit, but express the
belief that after one seasons trial the people
will be glad to vote 1t out.
complete series Of maps Of Cass county
have been made which give much valuable
information. There appears to be but LILO
acres Of vacant land in the county; 5,946 acres
are used for townslte purposes; railroad rights
OF way take 4,6OS acres; there are 81, OBS acres
Of school lands; 103, ,467 acres upon which set
tiers have not yet proved up, and 949, TAI acres
taxable, making total Of 1,126, 500 acres in
the county.