The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1903-05-28

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records for Yosemite park travel
when his coach arrived in Raymond
from Yosemite, where his train
awaited, inten hours of actual travel.
Miss Minnie Summers, "a years old,
died suddenly at her home in New
York while laughing.
Robbers wrecked the safe of the
Culver State bank at Culver, Kan,
and secured $4,000, escaping on a
hand car.
Gov. Yates has signed the Mueller
municipal ownership street railway
bill, which gives Chicago authority to
own street railways, but objected to
many features of it.
Champion Jim Jeffries and James
j. Corbett have signed articles for a
heavyweight championship fight in
San Francisco August IA.
Fifty Pinkerton watchmen in Chica-
go struck for 50 daily pay.
The gross earnings Of railroads in
the United States for the first week of
May are $7,555,311, an increase of 1874
per cent. over last year.
There is great alarm in the upper
ella valley, Arizona, over the ravages
of an insect pest in barley and wheat.
Former Lieut.. Gov. Knoblock was
shot and killed by James G~arault, a
barber. at Thibodeaux, La. Garault
claims he acted in self-defense.
For the second time this year the
Mississippi has risen so high at La
Crosse. Wis, that the water surround
ed residences in the lower parts of the
city.
For the first II days of May, this
year, SCOTT aliens passed through Ellis
island, n. Y, against 45,4S6 the same
time last year.
For assisting Ethel B. Dingle to COM
init suicide in Rochester, n. Y, Leland
D. Kent has been sentenced to 20 years
imprisonment.
President Roosevelt visited Sacra-
mento, Cal, and Carson and Reno, New,
making short addresses at each place,
and then resumed his journey towards
Portland, Ore.
Many veterans of the Spanish-Ameri-
can war are filing petitions for pen
sions.
The national bank of Southport,
Conn.,, closed it's doors as a result of
the cashiers defalcation, which is re-
ported to be about 100000.
An armed man was arrested in Sac
ramento just before the arrival of
President Roosevelt for making
threats.
The circulation Of national banks
has passed the $500, 900, 900 mark, the
largest amount ever before achieved.
The United States will insist upon a
fair chance at the markets of Man
churia, regardless of what nation ad-
ministers its politics.
Frequent strikes in Chicago have
caused the abandonment of many pro-
posed improvements in industrial
plants.
Forty-five families were rendered
homeless, 10 buildings were destroyed
and nearly 100000 property loss was
caused by a fire in Chicago.
Thirteen hundred slot gambling
machines, valued a.. about $125,OO0,
were publicly burned in Philadelphia
by city officials.
The Mossberg and Granville Manu-
featuring company in Providence, r. T.,
filed a bankruptcy petition, placing LA
bilities at $1,269,ooO; assets, 5000, 900.
Loss to live stock in northern Mon
tana as a result of aterrifc snowstorm
is estimated to be S. 1000, 900, cattle and
sheep on many of the ranches being al
most wiped out, and three men lost
their lives.
Washington Jarvis, a white man ac-
cused of murder, was hanged by a mob
at Madison, Fla.
The third biennial festival of the
National Federation of Musical
clubs met at Rochester, N. Y.