The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1889-11-29
DAKOTA aLEA1rxes.
From Exohalees.

Oats 10 Iowa are selling at nom 10 cent. to
y cents per bushel. = The Dakota farmer gets
n cents for bis.
Dr. Krutz, Of Moorhead, reports there havo
'een 20 far nifty cases Of diptheria at George.
own and nine deaths.
Black Hills residents have already been en-.
oyinR sleighing parties. Winter docs not
,one 50 early In North Dakota.
The wandering Russian Jews who are lear-
ng Ramsey county are settling in South Da.
tota--in and around McPherson county.
1t Is given out from Washington that tue
census superintendent for North Dakota will
not be appointed until the 6rst Of the year.
The Hitchcock artesian we'll has been leased
% the parties who have built tho dns roller
mill there, for ifty years at the nominal rent
of 81 q year.
Work on the packing house in South Sioux
Falls is progressing fuely. Four hundred
piles arc being driven down for the support
Of the floor.
The young man giving his name as A. &.
Mason, arrested at Fargo for forgery, has
made confession saying that his right namc
Is A. H. Ferree.
Melton, the Fargo postal clerk, was bound
over to tho o. 8. District Court in tho sum Of
$1,000. The court will convene at Bismarck
some ti.ne In April. next.
A large bull buffalo was sesn about i've
miles from Bismarck last week. 1t was prob
ably stray ono from some small herd in
Canada or the foothills.
jacob Brauch. one of the oldest settlers in
Yankton and a member of the legislature
several times back iu the '7os. died on the 18th
inst Hc had lived iu Dakota since 1856.
In North Dakota It is estimated that consId-
erably over half the wheat has been marketed
and the farmors' loss Of faith in higher prices
is rapidly depicting the remaining surplus.
Tho occupation OF the members Of the leg
isature is ms follows: Farmers, 6S: doctors,
s; real estate, ioaus and insurance, 8; stock, 8;
merchants, 10; printers, 2; bankers, 8; law
yers s.
Fargo Argus: Eddy Christianson, aged ten,
Is tho name Of the boy who fell through The
ice, and Eddy johnson, aged twelve, is said TO
be the name Of the boy who pulled him out,
and probably saved his life.
Deadwood has been especially afflicted in
the prevalence there Of diphtheria. It has
lately broken out with fresh violence just when
the people were begging to assure themselves
that tho epidemic had been exterminated.
Within the last few weeks both the Missouri
river steamers, the Bachelor and the Missouri,
carrying cargoes Of beer between Bismarck
and Pierre, have struck On rocks and gone to
the bottom. The Missouri river seems to be
fond Of baer.
General Manager Todd, Of the Thompson
Huston Electric Company, OF st. Paul. was at
Grand Forks last week with a view Of intro
duclng an electric street railway there next
spring. Seven citizens have alreody offered
their elgnatures for thousand dollars eech as
bonus.
Cando Tribune: Notwithstanding Towner
county had no crop to speak Of, there has been
100000 bushels OF wheat shipped from Cando
this season. a nd the most Of our farmers hare
their wheat for aeed next year; beside quite
number will have seed wheat to sell next
spring.
Although Dakota is divided and two states
| admitted. yet the line of division beyond the
Missouri Is not established. Technically Da-
kota is not divided, and the President did right
In admitting then as twins. Not only are
they twins, but until the seventh parallel is
surveyed across the Sioux reservation they are
salnese twins.
The easteru papers continue to howl about
crop failures In North Datkota. st. Thomas
has SIX large elevators all filled with grain
| aud some closed on account Of a lack Of cars
| in which to ship wheat. II the stories circu-
lated apply TO other points as they do to St.
Thomas they have very little foundation.
! Thomas EddiugtoD, travelling agent for tho
Standard Accident Insurance Co., was found
dead in bis bed at the headquarters hotel,
Fargo, on the morning Of the 18th instant.
The cause Of death is supposed to have been
an overdose Of laudanum, taken for neuralgia
The remains were takou to Minneapolis for ill.,
ternent.
1t is claimed that soutl, Da kota has 1Sa,62j
which would keep twenty-five wooden facto.
ries running each day in the year. 1t is also
estimated that North Dakota has as many
sheep as South Dakota. and has only just srart-
ed In the sheep business. In few years the
traveller In North Dakota will SEQ wolleu mills
III every little town, aud SEQ tbo,n doing a
thriving business at that.
A funny incident occurred the other DAY at
Grand Forks. Widow Thompson, who ha
been county charge, made a complaint TO
the commissioners, that Mr. Koss had iu
ceigled her into signing away a 25-foot lot
that belonged to her. Tho commission had
Koss arrested, and he seeing no avenue Of cs-
cape, offered to marry the widow. The latter
is entertaining the proposition.
Commissioner Hagsrtys official denial Of
tho exaggerated accounts OF destitution in
Dakota is very timely. Lies about Dakota
have been sown broadcast over the country,
and the fact will not be lost sight Of that these
falsehooda emanated fgp the press Of the
twin Cities And yet the wheat fields Of North
Dakota contribute very largely to the CONNER
cial supremacy Of st. Paul and Minneapolis.
Capt May with bis artesian well.driIiine
apparatus has recently struck another fne
flowing well, this time on the farm Of Mr.. L..
w. Fisher, three miles from town. The we'll
10 $50 feet deep and throws an inch and a half
stream to height Of fifteen feet above the
surface, the volume being 100 barrels daily, of
excellent water. Thus tho Red River Valley
Is rapidly solving the question OF permanent
water supply.