The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1900-04-26
News In Brief.

While standing in front of a team
attached to a disc harrow, the 6 year
old son of Fred Nichols, living near
jamestown, was run over and severely
injured.
A force of carpenters are working
steadily in the lumber yards at Bow
bells building shanties which are load
ed onto wagons and hauled to where
the settlers choose to call home.
Lone Tree is the name of another
Ward county town-just starting. 1t
is located six miles east of Berthold
on the Great Northern Railway, and
20 miles west of Minot.
Fire in the barn of the Gull River
Lumber Company, at Bismarck, got a
good start before discovered; and only
good work on the part of the tiremen
prevented a bad blaze.
A man arrived at Minot from In
diana with grown up children enough
to take up 1000 acres of land. He
brought with him several head of
horses, a lot of farm implements and
$1,000 in cash.
An Iowa man will submit to the
council of Washburn a proposition to
put in an electric light plant.
In a case brought against a man in
Stark county for setting fire to an
other mans strawstack, Judge Win
chester ruled hat for the of
the statute straw is hay. The statute
makes it a felony to maliciously burn
a stack of grain or hay, but says
nothing about straw.
A Wheatland citizens complains that
his 7-year-old son was brutally logged
by two of the local school teachers.
A city baseball league has been
formed in Fargo, with the clubs from
the Y. M. c. A. and the four colleges,
including Moorhead, as members.
F. L. Ellis committed suicide at
Braddock by cutting his throat with
a razor. He had been suffering from
sickness and vas thought to be tenn
porarily insane.
The new time card has gone into
effect on the jamestown & Northern
n the trains r run so that there
is a daily train service to all points
as far as Leeds.
Before Justice Nels Bernstein, in
Silvesta township, Walsh county, a
fine of $40 and costs was imposed on
John Myers, a members of the school
board, for making an effort to prevent
the Aardahl children, whose father is
afflicted with Ieprosy, from attending
the district school. Mr.. Myers has ap-
pealed the case to the district court.
A young woman left a month old
babe on a jamestown doorstep, and
has disappeared herself.
Conductor Neal found a man riding
on the ~brakebeams at jamestown and
had him arrested under the new law.
He was convicted and sent to the
county Jail for ten days.
Herman Willink, a prosperous
young farmer of Ramsey county, COM
mitted suicide by hanging himself in
his barn. There was no apparent rea-
son for the rash act. He is believed
to have been suffering from tempo
1dly lliSdillty.
A young son of a Bathgate citizen
put on his fathers vest, in which he
found some matches with which he
set fire to Lewis Peavey's livery stable.
Timely assistance prevented a disast-
rous fire.
Chief Clerk George l.. McGregor, of
the Fort Totten agency, has resigned
his position. He has been there for
six years and resigned when ordered
to be transferred to the Santee
agency.
Two safes in Cakes were broken
into one night last week, but the
burglars took very little plumber away
with them.
The board of trustees of the state
penitentiary has fixed prices of Irvine
at 10N cents for carload lots, and II
cents for less than carload lots, fol
/ the season. The board has also pro
mulgated rules for the guidance o:
purchasers of Irvine.
A prairie fire in the vicinity o.
Churchs Ferry made things interest
ing for the farmers cut there las
week.
Over 10000 acres of land have beer
homesteaded in the Minot distric
since the first of April.
Governor Fancher has designated
| friday, Nav 4, as Arbor Day.