The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1903-06-25
News In Brief.


Local business men at Kindred are
constructing a telephone exchange.
The poles have been set and the sys-
tenn will be in operation in about a
weeks time.
Halvor johnson, J. d. Lanchiier
and F. Perault pleaded guilty at Penn
bina to violating the prohibition law
and were sentenced to ninety days in
the county Jail and 5000 fine.
Nine North Dakota boys stopped off
in Fargo on their way home for the
holidays from the South Dakota In
stitution for the Blind. They were
entertained in Fargo by the parents
of two lads.
Nearly all of the creameries in the
state are now in operation, and the
prospects are for a good year.
From all over the state comes news
of arrivals of actual settlers with
stock, machinery and farming e1-
perience.
Several Pembina county druggists
will be tried at the present session of
court for violation of the prohibition
law.
The man who has been terrorizing
the inhabitants of Minot and vicinity
by appearing at all sorts of unlikely
places, clad only in the garb of ma
a mouse in the outskirts the other
night, keeping up the entertainment
until two o'clock in the morning. He
finally disappeared and although a
posse has been searching for him
ever since he has not been located.
Willard Relaine, of jamestown, was
killed in an accident in the railroad
yards at Green Bay, Wis.,, where he
was working.
The % rifle in the hands of the
small boy has become a nuisance
and a menace in Jamestown. One
young lady had the back of her neck
grazed by a bullet and the officials
are called on to put a stop to the
practice of shooting within the city
limits.
The Red River Valley Baptist asso-
citation brought to a close the greatest
gathering in it's history in the Bap-
fist church at Hamilton.
j.. w. Skinner, chemist at the Bah
cock cement mine west of Hensel,
committed suicide by shooting him
self in the head with a revolver. He
had been in poor health and was de-
spondent.
The Great Northern passenger sta
ton at Devils Lake was badly dam
aged by fire started, it is supposed,
from a spark from an engine. The
loss is about $1,000.
The promoters of the Shorthorn
sale at Fargo report that every ami
NAL exhibited was sold. The highest
price was p40O and the average $165.
This was the second. annual sale and
its success assures it's permanency. :
Sylvester Smith, of western Penn
bina county, is serving 60 days in
Jail for stealing school money out of
the house OF. the treasurer, Mrs. Nc.
kechney.
The reorganization of the state his
torical society was completed at a
meeting held at Bismarck. The so
ciety is 10Y in good working order
and great good will result from it's
operation.
The mayor of Darlington is seeking
to reform the town. He issued an
order giving gamblers, disreputable
persons and Migrants twenty-four
hours in which to leave, also that
gambling houses and disreputable re-
sorts be closed. sE
At a meeting of the directors of the
Red River Valley Old Settlers asso-
citation, held at Fargo on June 6, it
was decided that the influence and
AID OF the general association of the
hed River Valley be given to the var
'ous counties in their reunions and
auxiliary organizations, instead OF
having its anEMal reunion at Fargo
this year.