The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1901-02-28
NORTH DAKOTA NEWS
Indians v-accinnated.

NOl1lI DAhUlA NEWS
Indians v~accinnated.
Recently a general order from the
interior department was issued, re-
quiring the Indians on Standing Rock
to be vaccinated. This is
the first order of the kind in the his
tory of the reservation, and was re-
ceived during the temporary absence
of the Indian agent, Maj. George H.
Bingenheimer, but the acting agent,
Mr.. John Flittie, at once notified the
Indians to report to DIR. Dumble OF the
agency and to DIR. Wood of the Grand
River sub-agency and be vaccinnated.
Most all of them came in as ordered
and full explanation was made by the
interpreters. The majority of them
not being able to comprehend the mat
ter at once, had to have a few days to
think it over and talk about it among
themselves; SO accordingly numerous
councils were held and the large stone
pipe was smoked by all the members.
Within a few days they have COM
menced coming in and submitted to be
v~accinated. However. quite a number
refused for a time, but mild threats of
stopping their rations brought them
into line.
Keep the Old Charter.
Fargo will jog along, for another
year or two at least, with the charter
under which it is now conducting
its affairs. Upon the recommends
ton of the council committee, the
city council at it's last meeting de.
cided upon the withdrawal of the
bill, providing for the new charter
from the legislature. In its report,
the council committee gave several
reasons for making the recommends
ton and the council decided that the
points were we'll taken. In the print
ed copy of the bill, containing the pro-
visions of the new charter, there were
a great many errors and commissions
of words, which would necessitate a
great many changes and owing to short
space of time at the disposal of the
committee it was thought best under
all the circumstances to let the matter
go over until another meeting of the
legislature.
PostoficeM Matters.
Representative Spaulding has rec
omended new postofices in North Da-
kota as follows: Crete, Sargent county,
Charles Gray, William Krukenberg,
postmaster; David, Pierce county, Of
tus David, postmaster; Grand Lake,
Pierce county, c. H. Ellerton, post.
raStor Mr. Cro,,11iro will ooo~
mend new mail route from Little
Heart to Hobson Morton county, and
daily mail service between Mann Ha.
ven and New Salem and Bowenalice
and Wheatland, Cass county. He will
also Recommend a change in the mail
schedule between Rugby and Botti
a
A Challenge.
The chess club of Grand Forks has
issued an official challenge to the
State Chess club of St. Paul for Q
championship game of chess. The 10
cal club proposes to pit eight or nine
of its best players against an equa1
number from the sanity city. The
games will be played for the cham
pionship of Minnesota and North Da.
kota, and if pulled off will be governed
by the Pillsbury National Correspon'
dence Chess association rules. A for
NAL challenge has already been mailed
the club and a reply is anxionsly
awaited by the local enthusiasts.
Brief Notes.
Snow plows were sent out from
| {ho To-actou,~ 70 o1oo- SLo x.o1.~
the jamestown e. Northern and Coop
erstown branches on which drift
higher than box cars were found. TIL,
track is cleared with a Russell pillow
1t has not been found necessary to us.
the rotary pillow this year.. On tn
main line of the Northern Pacific
there has been no trouble grom snow
Last year 955 car loads of coal talke1
from the Lehigh mines were billed a
the Dickinson N. P. depot. A prett,
good showing along with the stock
wool and other shipments of the place
Little Velma White of Bottinea,
sampled the contents of a bottle O
earache drops, and the service of
physician were necessary to save he
life.
The city treasurer of Wahpetol
calls in a big bunch of warrants TO
payment on March l.
Twins have recently been born i,
Wells and Eddy counties, and Their
will not be even a state census for fv
years yet.
Dan Armstrong, of Jamestown, fel
from a load of hay and broke his col
lar bone.
Dan English, of Ramsey county, wa
before Judge Amidon on the charge O
selling liquor to Indians. He PLEADED
not guilty and was remanded to tn
Devils Lake Jail.
The Hughes company at Dickinson
is replacing their poles with 40 foo
cedar poles from the west.
Dickinson will hold a public meet
ing to make preparations for the fire
mems tournament that meets there IL
June.
The Oliver county company that ha'
been locating settlers has bought an
other large tract of railroad land an
will resume settling the lands in tn,
spring.
Cliff Slaton, formerly a resident O
Morton county, vas killed at Madison
KY, in a street duel with a drunken
man named Ferguson. Slaton wa
serving as a police officer. The othe
was fatally shot and died in a shor
time.
The new school building at Manda,
has been accepted from Contracto
McDougall.