The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1888-10-19

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thought to be deranged.
According to the HIllsboro Banner, Clerk of
Court W. D. Baker, OF Caledonia, wishes to
bet 500 that Cleveland will carry New York,
and q like sum on each Of ths following States:
Connecticut, New Jersey, Indiana and Califor-
MIA. The bet is to be for $500. but appor-s
toned among the i've States named.
Burglars went through the Minnesota house
at Fargo last Sunday night and succeeded in
getting away with a trunk hlled with clothing
and other articles EARLY Monday morning
they raided the house second time and robbed
the inmates Of $40 IL money, number Of
watches and other valuables. SeyGHl alli1ii
were made.
Hillsboro Banner: Clint DeGroat has ixed
up an ingenious contrivance whereby the plow-
Ing on the big eGroat farm is hereafter to be
done BY steam. He has attached three ordi-
nary gang plows to traction engine and runs
the same at an expense Of about $40 per day,
doing the work of fifteen horses and plowing
about fifteen acres daily. ..s
Dncseith Herald: In Towner county the
prairie fires have done much damage. @. o.
Olson had just threshed and placed in his
granary 1900 bushels Of No. 1 hard wheat
when fire came sweeping like the running Of
horse and burnt 1t all. Mr.. Hereford, north
OF Cando, lost 800 acres Of wheat in shock and
all OF bis buildings.
A AWebster hunter, says tbeFargo Republican,
wounded goose. He determined to use the
wounded bird as decoy, and took of gold
watch and chain and thus secured his victim,
using the chain for string and his jack knife
for pin. The scheme was not grand sue
cess as the goose jerked the knife from the
ground and started for the sunny south, taking
with 1t the valuable chain. The man who
owned the chain thinks the decoy goose busi-
ness js fraud.
Fargo Republican: James Holly, farmer
living few miles north of the city, is reported
to have lost his barn by IRE Saturday night.
In the barn were his horses twelve or thirteen
In number, and quantity Of hay, grain, etc.,
all OF which were lost except one horse which
he succeeded In securing from the burning
building. His loss is estimated at $4,000 or
$25O0, and nothing was insured, his insurance
Nothing positive is known as to the origin Of
the fire.
An attempt was made to rob the pay car on
the Black Hills & Ft. Pierre railroad near Lead
City last Friday. As the train was rounding
curve into Reno gulch the engine plunged into
gap in the track made by the removal Of two
rails. Three masked men assailed the pay car.
Paymaster w. A. Reemer opened fire with
Winchester with telling effect The robbers
attempted to escape. Two were shot, but the
third got away. John Wilson was captured
and is In Deadwood Jail. he was 80 badly
wounded that he cannot live. John Clark is
supposed to have died in the woods from the
effects Of his wounds The third robber, named
johnson, escaped.
The Minneapolis Tribune has been making a
comparison Of the yield Of wheat in Minne-
sofa and Dakota this year with that Of last
year. Speaking Of Dakota, it says:
I'm over thirty counties in Dakota the total
decrease as compared with the crop Of 1887
was 226s6, III. In nine counties there was an
increase Of SS0,529 bushels. Total crop OF
1887 compiled by the territorial statistician,
&c, 1854 494 bushels. Net decrease in the num-
Der of bushels, crop Of 1885, 81, SCI, ,lS8 leaving
the crop Of Dakota for 1855, IS, S,49S, ,3O6 BUSH
| els.
LAST year the total crop yielded In money
$50, 600, 900 in round figures. This year, taking
the crop at S8.49S, 900 bushels with the very
conservative average price of so cents per
bushel, the farmers Of the territory will re-
ceive $50, 798, 900, or more tran three quarters
Of million dollars more than last year, leay.
ing out Of course, bread and seed in both
cases.
Dakota has certainly touched the high water
mark in wheat production and from now on
| its wheat yield will range In the vicinity Of
| 10000 bushels. In 1885 the crop was 3O-
704, 900 bushels. In 1884 and 1885 there were
nearly $1,000, 900 acres of government land en-
tered and almost every settler proceeded at
once to grow wheat, and as result the wheat
crop OF 1887 was increased to over 60 0O0, 600
bushels, and now In 1888 falls back to below
100000. In 1860 Dakota produced 945 BUSH
els of wheat; in 1870, 17O, ,662; in 1850, $780,
2S9; in 1885, Ss, 1885, Ais, and in 1887, according
to the commissioner Of statistics, 6255S, ,499.
The entries Of government land during this
time were as follows: 1880, 2,26s, ,8O6 acres;
1881, 2,672,213 acres; 1882. 1886, ls1 acres;
1883, 7.Sl7, ,2S6 acres; 1884, 11,Os2,818.
'Then followed the bad prices Of 1885, 1886
and 1887, and the effect was marked decrease
on immigration, as shown by the entry Of pub,
Lie land, which was as follows: 1885, 4,547,74
acres; 1885, S,075,0S5, and 1887, 2,069, ,66S.
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