The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1900-08-02

Five cases of typhoid fever at st.
Thomas are attributed to bad drinking
water.
The 5000 brook trout placed in Spring
Creek in Ransom county appear to be do
ing nicely.
c.. A. Lounsberry says: Taken as a
whole, there will not be rs per cent Of
an ordinary crop. North Dakota will not
produce this year 10000, 900 bushels of
wheat. I doubt if it will exceed Is. O0O.0 900.
Of fax there will be a two-thirds crop on
a largely increased acreage"
c.. c.. Young, of Dickinson, says sugar
beets grow we'll in Stark and Logan
counties, and beets raised in the state in
the past two years V tested q per
cent saccharine. He understands that
Senator McGillvray's br~other-in-law,
Chas. Montague, of Carroll, Mich, is to
put up factories at Jamestown and
Cakes.
Griffin & Co., of jamestown, offer $40
reward for the arrest Of the parties who
sold liquor to a 16-year-old boy, seen
drunk on the streets.
John Luthe, an escaped Minnesota con-
Wet, was captured at Minot. He had only
d OltI " La AooNSo ~ AuAA
away by another convict, whose term
had expired. The latter turned Luthe
over to the authorities for the $50 reward.
Over 10000 pounds of wool was markets
ed at Napoleon last week.
Eastman Burrows, of Grand Forks,
now a student at Cornell, who was one of
the successful candidates for a West
Point cadetship from this state, is UNI
able to go, and his place will therefore
by taken by Chas. Thompson, of James
town, his alternate, who is naturally
elated at his good fortune.
The secretary of the sta-e dental board
announces, that thirteen of the sixteen
young men who took the examination re-
GENTLY were successful.
Work on the N. p. extension from Cas-
SETON to Dickey was resumed the other
day. The railroad company paid in the
amount of damages awarded by a district
court jury in condemnation suits for
right of way and the amounts were
promptly paid over and the contractors
notified to resume work. Judge Pollock
dismissed the several injunction suits
pending against the company.
A fire, alleged to have been started by
workingmen smoking while stacking hay
in the big meadow near Englevale. four
teen miles southwest of Lisbon, destroyed
nearly a thousand tons of hay in stack
and on the ground. The principal suffer-
ers are Hon. T. J. Devine, p. W. Nook
and w. E. Long. The former is said to
have lost about 200 tons.
Fargo's tax levy this year will be about
5lx per cent.
Sheriffs and police officers throughout
the state have been notified by Warden
Boucher of the escape from the penitent-
larry Saturday afternoon of William Dona-
hue. who was sentenced two years ago to
a term of ten years in the penitentiary
on conviction Of the crime of rape.
Prof. Hall, of the Agricultural College,
has begun work on the geological survey
of the valley for the United States gov
ernment.
Reports from Wheatland state that |
George E. s. Tott. the well known farm
err north of that city, has struck a flow
ing well that ecliDses anything in mat
part of the country. 1t is said to be
running 5000 barrels daily.
Dinnie Bros, Grand Forks, were
awarded the contract for a new opera !
house building at Casselton to be put UP |
by s. H. knight at a cost Of $50. 900. It |
will be modern in its appointments.
A wise man never considers a woman,s |
age.-Chicago Daily News.
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