The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1901-05-16
NORTH DAKOTA NEWS

NORTH DAKOTA NEWS
Indians May Visit landau.
The quarantine has been taken off the
Standing Rock Indian reservation. and
the Indians are now permitted to come
to Mandan occasionally. The quarantine
has been in force on the reservation since
the; first Of the year. Parties who bad
been in business at Fort Yates were CONF
PEELED to procure a permit before they
could visit that place, and a great deal
of Inconvenience was experienced.
The steamer Expansion is now. ready
for work on the Missouri river. o
Bloodgood, the manager, is making ar
engagements to haul freight from Everts
to Mandan and up the river points.
New Town Laid Out.
A townsite has been laid out in oliver
county, covering about fifty acres. The
new town will be known as GAINESVILLE,
after the colonizer, A. D. Gaines. of Min
neapolis. A large two-story store build
ing has already been erected, and lumber
and material has been purchased for the
construction of a large hotel, two
churches. and a blacksmith shop. A stock
of general merchandise has been received
and will be opened as soon as another
store building can be erected. A large
number of Minnesota people have settled
in that neighborhood and they intend
to build up the country.
A Thistle blockade.
The, 500 Line Pacific Coast Limited
was delayed for one hour between Har-
vey and Lemert. N. D.. while east bound
recently. The loss of an hour between
these two stations. which are only thirty
one miles apart, was caused by the
Russian thistles which were piled along
the tracks. The thistles were as large
as fences which have been erected along
the right-of-way and which in places
were completely buried from sight.
Struck by Lightning.
During a storm lightning struck n
killed two horses on a farm about five
miles northeast of Wilton. A young man
by the name of Cleveland was engaged in
plo wing with three horses when the light
ming struck, Frustrating the animals and
plowman. Two of the, horses were in
stantly killed, while the other and the
young man sustained a severe shock.
Killed.
The 4 year old son Of Jacob Kischh-
mann, who lives six miles southwest of
Harvey. was fatally shot by a revolver
with which he and another fellow had
been playing. 1t is not known which Of
the children had the u when the fatal
accident occurred. The bullet struck the
child over the left temple, penetrating
the skull and came out at the back of his
head.
ANIce Donation. e.
A gentleman who does not wish his
name made public has donated to the
committee on live stock exhibition at the
street fair at Dickinson two magnificent
silver cups. valued at 500 each, to be
given to the cattle and sheep exhibitors,
the classes that these prizes go to to
be decided by the committee. The cups
will be suitably engraved.
K News Notes.
At Sharlow, in Stutsman county two
of Henry Stanton's horses got to fight
ing and one committed suicide by jumping
head foremost into a well thai was TWEEN
ty-fve feet deep.
Twenty-six horses disappeared from the
Jackman ranch in Kidder county, and are
supposed to- have. been stolen.
Captain Smith, of Lisbon. the first
notary public of Ramsey county. has just
been appointed by Gov. White.
The new school house at Wilton will
be ready for occupancy within a short
time.
The meeting of the Tri State Drainage
association in July promises to be the
biggest ever.
The Lake View creamery, in Ramsey
county, will establish a separating station
at Grand Harbor.
The shirt waist man appeared at a
jamestown dance. and nearly caused a
riot.
Chas. McIver, who had his arm torn off
I'm an accident at the Pembina Portland
cement works, died from the effects of
his injuries.
Gen. Washburn is plating a new town
midway between Wilton and the coal
minc. The town will be named Chaplin.
The contractors for the wells at Fort
Lincoln has been let to Swenson, of Min
neapclis, Bids for sewer and water works
systems were recommended, and new
bids for the rest of the plant will prob
ably be invited.
A state bank is about to be established
at Kathryn, one of the new towns on
the Dickey branch. running out from
Casselton. The organization will be per-
fected soon.
Robert Stewart, of Sargent county, sent
to the penitentiary in connection with the
celebrated gopher tail frauds in that
county last year, has been p%ardoned.
Morton county has a wolf killing club
that pays a certain bounty on wolves
killed and prescribes strict regulations.
In addition the county also gives $40 be-
tween Oct. l and April 1 for each timber
or buffalo wolf and between April 1 and
October l, S. for each cub and $40 for
each full grown wolf killed in Morton
county.
Prof. Taylor, principal of the Bath
gate city school, has been offered a posi-
ton by the government in the educational
department of the Philippines.
A little girl at Walhalla had her
shoulder broken by running against an
other girl while playing.
DR.. Baldwin. of Jamestown, found three
cases Of smallpox at Spiritwood.
Mrs. George O'Lary, near Minot, was
attacked by a steer and knocked down.
She had sufficient presence of mind to