The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1890-01-03
DAKOTA 9LEAxINGn.
From EXCHANGES.

Grand Forks wants an electric street all
way.
Bottiueau county needs seed for 81, 900 acres
Of ground.
mandan has thief mean enough to stea,
the thermometer 10 front Of store.
Congressman Hansbrough on Saturday in-
troduced the bill asking for $500. 900. for the
construction Of locks and dams In the Red river.
Senators Pierce and Casey have returned to
Dakota for the holidays. Congressman Hans.
brouRh is visiting the homo Of his early youth
In Illinois.
Jamestown Alert: Sixteen patients from
Pembna county have been received at the in
sane asylum 10 four years. Walsh county
has even more.
Tne open winter has been a big saving to
farmers having stock to feed. Many have only
limited supply Of fodder and are letting stock
do their own ''rustluR."
Grtgga Courier: The boys were out playing
baseball yesterday In their shirt sleeves and
with bare hands. Row Is that for the 26th
day OF December. - down casters.
Tho Aberdeen Republican recalls that the
month Of December, 1881. WAS almost precise
y like the month just ended. The crops OF
1852 were the best ever known In Dakota
Fargo Republican: While South Dakota is
digging itself out Of snow drifts. thrra isn't
| emo 'ch Of snow In North Dakota, If 1t were all
scraped together, to grease solitary toboggap
| slide.
Bismarck Tribune: The people Of North Da.
kota want cheap fuel and 1t is In their power
| to have It. Nature has blessed the state with
inexhaustible quantities OF coal. All that Is
necessary is Development
State Commissioner Of Agriculture Helgesen
is Of tho opinion that 100000 which is pro-
posed by the bill introduced in thu legislature
to use In buying seed wheat, will not bs more
thai half enough to supply tho demand.
Editor Small, Of the North Dakota Rapubli-
can, has heon appointed postmaster at Cassel-
| ton. There has been great contest ever this
Office and thu appointment Of Small is great
victory for Col. Pummer, who is partner of
the o-bs postlnastsr.
| Kitlder county man has cayusa which he
waters once week, II he don't forget it. Ev-
cry Saturday night the mellow voice Of tho
animal telIs the nrighhorhood that IFS time
for him to drink.-Jamestown Alert.
| The elevator companies whose lines reach
across North Dakota can we'll afford to loan
seed wheat to those farmers who arc not sup
piled and have not thu means to purchase.
What say the companies? It's tho gonse that
lays the golden egg.-Fargo Republican.
Courier: liver Hanson. Of sverdrop, raised
100 bushels Of hne White Russian oats that
tested 40 pounds to the bushel. 1t seams that
the White Russian oat stands the drouh and
rust batter than any other variety tried in this
section.
Northwest News: The News cosnmcnds
the promptness Of Congressman Han4hrough
In asking $500, 900 for four dams and locks In
the Red River Of the North. Now push it
Henry, and. people Of thu valley, fire in
your petitions. Four dams will restore tho
Rad River valley to it, oldt time fertilty-aQual
! to the Milo valley.
u By the detalcat,on Of tho cashier Of the house,
. Congressman Clifford lost one months salary.
}, HI had been sick and couldn't draw it. Con-
8 gresham Pickler lost two months pay. He
. had been Federal official sone months before
! his election and didn't need 1t. Congressman
Hansbrough didn't less cent He is news
paper man and had cashsd his string regularly
p every Saturday night-Janestown Alert.
} Jamestown Alert: 1t is good sign to see
companies organizing to erect flour mills in
North Dakota. The roller mills OF the state
grinding the pure hard wheat will soon make
reputation for the product which will be
| diafiucf nd oona ia Pr,r 6irp
and will, before long. command higher price.
North Dakota is under the heel Of the Mime
apolls ahd Duluth grain corporations at present
but tho tima is coming for release.
Cattle shipments are In progress from North
Dakota, train load from Kidder and Bnrelgh
counties. the other day, containing aomp "xcep-
tionally large and fne specimens of steers taken
from wild grass pasture. Several head. be-
longing to !. A. Field, Of Bismarck, tipped tho
ton-each. A good many nne sheep are
going to market, fat from the ranges along
the Northern Pacafc west Of tho Missouri river.
Collect, the Arthur elevator man, who con-
fassad the elnhezzement Of some $4,000 OF tho
elevator company's fluids, short tim" ago,
and was allowed to 60 frea was arrested in
Minneapolis the other day at the instance Of
tho elevator company. on the charge of being
fugitive from justics. He had been shadow
sd since his removal to that city by a local de-
tective and they claim he had been guilty OF
eronkednsss previous to his emhezzlenen above
referred to. Collatt has since been rppas.d on
800 bail, and proposes to get back at the elc-
vAtor company by prosecuting them for conf
pounding felony.
The first term Of the supreme court for the
, state Of North Dakota will be held in Fargo,
beginning January l4th. Clerk Hoskins states
!, that term OF some longth is already assured ,
and that many OF the cases will bs of great
Importance There are thirty five cases already
entered for hearing. Taking It altogether, it
will he notable event in legal circles. Sever
, al OF the cases to be heard are those wherein
one or two Of the supreme judges have acted
, as attorneys In these cases tho bench will be
, completed By a reQuistiou upon the services CT
, the judges OF the district court.
; The perpexing Qusstion Of procuring seed
{ wheat for next season, that Is now confronting
4 embarrassed farmers, seems to be In fair way
to solution. A bill has been introduced i'll the
D house providing for the purchase, by the state,
! Of seed wheat to the amount OF $lOO,n0O This
, ! wheat ia to be sold to needy farmers, not to
u exceed IS bushels to any ono person, upon two
years time, at per cant interest, a seed wheat
lien to be given a. security. This is a meritor-