The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1905-12-07
| North Dakota
; q News Notes

night and day.
A new insurance company has been
organized at Harvey.
Minoters r still advised to boil
their drinking water.
Box a thieves have been busy in
the 500 yards at Minot.
Minot expects to be the largest town
in the state in ten years.
There was a big calendar of blind
pig cases at Minnewaukan. ID
Farmers are paying of old indebted
ness in great shape this year.
jamestown offers the 500 a depot
site if it will come to that city.
The blind pig situation at Lidger-
wood is still open to comment.
Landlord Hanson Of Casselton
caught a board jumper at Wheatland.
There is complaint at Grand Forks
because of too much work on Sunday.
The star mail route between Wal
halla and Neche has been abandoned.
Antler citizens decided to take the
preliminary steps toward %incorpora-
ton.
The farmer without registered thor
%oughbred cattle is not in the swim
these days.
Muskrats wrecked a dam at Bath
gate, and the officials are now damning
the muskrats.
The general impression seems to be
that there was a football game in
Fargo recently.
A hotel man at Maxbass skipped
out and the creditors are scrapping
over what's left.
The home of Rev. Ballestad of Wal
colt was destroyed by fire in the alb
sence Of the family.
A new telephone switchboard has
arrived at Hunter, and 200 instru-
ments will be connected with it.
Maddox had a %disgraceful scene in
which the lady guest at a mans home
was insulted by the head of the house.
The people of Devils Lake are en-
Unused over the new hotel proposition
and plan a building that will cost $751;
900.
Now is the time to purchase a farm.
Land will never be cheaper in North
Dakota than in the, year of our Lord
1905.
Complaint is made against a McIn-
tosh county physician because it is al
legged he refused to attend a dying
woman.
John White Of Bismarck decided to
pay his back license and the threat.
ened suit to test the validity of the
Ia wis off.
There was a threatened spasm of re.
form at Bismarck against the blind
pigs and the proprietors were busy
hiding their stock.
Some postmasters refuse to give out
mail to children under sixteen years
of age unless they have a written or
der from their parents.
1t is a rather peculiar coincidence
that the bridegroom at McHenry was
an oculist and the serenader who was
shot was hit in the eye.
A %landseeker named Andrew Austin
got full on Canuck whisky and was
run over by $500 engine at Portal and
will die of his injuries.
A blind pig spotter in the employ of
the enforcement league was arrested
in Benson county on the charge of ex-
torting money from blind piggers.
Hans Hanson of Emmons county
raised off of twenty-five acres of old
ground 512 bushels Of flax, an average
OF twenty-three and a fraction bushels
20 the acre.
A drunken thresher swiped a team
at Hankinson and was overtaken. He
demonstrated that he didn't know
what he was doing and was permitted
to leave, after he scbered up
It makes the merchants in the small
er towns indignant when box car deal
ers come along and get the cream Of
the trade, and frequently the store
Z. keeners who advertise least kick most.
Mcintosh county is reported to have
a resident who is the proud father of
seventeen children, all living. He
should have the endorsement of the
president for postmaster, or something
equally as good.
Land dealers find a great emand
for good farming lands from men who
want to become actual farmers in the
state. There is also a lot of demand
for land for investment purposes by
people with more money than they can
loan satisfactorily.
Valley City's street railway is about
ready for operation. The manage
ment will probably extend a general
invitation to the public to ride free the
day the line is opened, and may make
a social event Of it, with frappe in the
baggage car and souvenirs for the la
dies.
There is renewed talk of the extern
sion of the Aneta branch of the Great
Northern to some point northwest on
the main, line of the Great Northern to
run the passenger trains from the
coast through Fargo to Minneapolis
and st. Paul and cut off many miles
now taken via LarimOre and Grand