The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1888-01-27
TERRITORIAL eLEANINes

Judge Palmer at Sioux Tails on the 10th de-
clded the local option law legal. Saloon
keepers will take al appeal to the supreme
court.
At Eagan on the 18th the boiler Of a south
bound passenger train on the Milwaukee road
exploded, instantly killing Fireman Robert
Stewart.
young man named Austin near Church's
Ferry while out hunting on snow shoes accl-
dentally shot himself in the breast and now he
is In very precarlous condition.
H. G. Plumley, Of the Fargo Argus, has gone
to Syracuse to be married to Mrs. Green,
widow lady who formerly lived in Fargo, and
was very popular In society In that city.
A report comes from Church's Ferry that
two men living twelve OF fifteen mlles west Of
Willow City are missing since the late blizzard
and are believed to have persisted. The wife
Of one became insane through anxiety,
Secretary Mccormack, wife and two daugh
ters are in Washington, D. G., where they will
spend the balance Of the winter, tho ladies' en-.
joying the pleasures Of the capital, while Mr..
Mccormack will work for the admission of
Dakota.
The Manitoba road has purchased the right
of way from Grafton northwest to tho bound
ary line. Deeds for tho same have bsen re-
corded In the register of deeds office In Penn
bina. The survey runs parallel with tho old
Northern Pacific survey.
Cooperstown Coulter: James Drake, Of
Valley City, writes back from California that
most Of the Dakota fortune hunters from Da-
kota tu the land Of gold are anxious 10 return
that aftsrs xpslding their sisgsnt Dakots
dust they end 1t bard to live on climate.
An overland mail route has been established
between Watertown aud Gary, 40 miles east
on the Winona & St Peter. The railroad COM
pany being unable to fulfill their contract, the
department ordered stage service put on tho
line. w. H. Clark, Of Watsrtown, has taken
the contract
A man named Tlsand, living in Lake sina
township, near Brookings, went to the we'll
during the blizzard of Jan. 18th to water his
stock, and was caught IN the storm and per-
ishsd. He was 70 years old, and when found
was only IL feet from his house. He leaves a
family Of grown up sons.
It Is alleged that $1,000 warrants issued by
the city council Of Bismarck In 1883 to pay for
the site Of the North Dakota penitentiary are
illegal and pacuniarily worthless. They were
issued without submitting the question to a
vote Of the people and bear more than the
legal rate of interest. Tho legislature might
legalize the issue.
The welcome news has been received at
Aberdeen that the reported case Of freezing Of
q teacher and sixteen children in Edmunds
county was false. It seems that the entire
school remained In the school house the night
Of the storm, and at the time the report was
started that they wore lost they were on their
way home in safety.
DR.. Williamson and J. G. G. Rapelje, on
trial at Bismarck for assaulting D. F. Barry
with a blacksnake whip, were discharged.
Barry with several others circulated slander
and untrue story about Mrs. williamson.
The admission of Barry that lie had repeated
simply what had been told him seemed to the
court justification for the assault.
In Maj. Edwards contempt case at Fargo,
Saturday, Judge Mcconnell decided that the
motion Of the defendants counsel to Quash
was sustained in all proceedings except 10 far
as the published allegations referred to Dis
trict Attorney Pollock in person, and advised
that any further proceedings should be brought
against the Argus company and not against A.
w. Edwards.
gational churches, of which 81 are supplied
with regular pastors and II temporarily vacant.
The membership during the year has been in
creased 245. being now total of Lib. Re-
ports from IS Sabbath schools show men,
bership Of 1898, gain Of 1921 over last year.
Twenty-eight Of the churches report $29, 9,174.95
expended in self support, and $S96. Is given in
benevolences.
Two passenger trains from Minneapolis
reached Milbank, on the c., NJ. Il St. P. BY,
on the 21st, the first from the East since the
10th. Conductors reported drifts as high as
tanned that the road may be permanently
closed De1ore spring, IN which case much SUI
fering must be inevitable as there is less than
two weeks' supply of coal in the hands Of
dealers at Milbank and other stations are al
ready bare.
The Casselton Reporter learns that one of the
notorious Schwan brothers wac recently de-
tected in the act Of stealing wheat from the
farm Of j. G. Gill, southwest Of Casselton,
by the farm foreman, Thos. Hampton. Schwan
was taken to Wheatland, where some Of the
shot were extracted from his worthless ear
cass, and, for the welfare of the community
it is to be hoped that he will, in the fnture,
play checkers with bis nose behind the CRATES
Of the Bismaack penitsntary.
Larimore Pioneer: A section hand named
Ole Nelson was struck by snow plow near
Lakota last Thursday and his left leg badly
broken. 40 the train men could not see him,