The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1905-10-12
North Dakota
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"A blind pig at Balfour was burned.
Several towns in the state want city
nails.
A separator was burned near Will
Lightning struck a residence at Han
Griggs county produces some fine
A bridge has been built on Cut Bank,
uear Upham.
H. r. schriver is the new postmaster
at Wheelock.
Some fax near Medina went nine
teen bushels.
Fine yields Of wheat are reported
around Wilton.
A collector scared a McHenry coun-
ty farmer to death.
There is a protest at Courtenay over
the shortage of cars.
A lot of threshing rigs have been
burned over the state.
A rural mail route has been estab-
lished out of Wimbledon.
1t is said that Mohall is paying over
the market price for grain.
The Wimbledon city council is legis-
lating against pot gangs
Complaints are made by farmers OF
the damage to crops by blackbirds.
There have been some fakirs work
ing the bushes men of Devils Lake.
Dunseith wants another mail route
established, with connections at York.
The car famine is causing a lot OF i'll
convenience to the grain growers near
Courtenay.
The Northern Pacific extension from
Denhoff to Turtle Lake will be COM
pleted this fall.
Thresher men full of fighting booze
raise disturbances in some of the
smaller towns.
at Brocket, hobos became destroyer
GUS and one was shot through the leg
by the marshal.
Hail storms in September in North
Dakota indicate the good old summer
time is lingering.
Horse thieves are busy near the in
fernational line in the northwestern
part of the state.
There are complaints of great delay
In the arrival of trains on the Soc
branch to Bismarck.
The wheat around Lansford is re
ported to be averaging about twenty
two bushels per acre.
Lost, strayed or stolen-a bunch O.
chickens that some M was going t.
send the kernels man.
Near Milton, Matt Doyle had hi
right hand blown off by the bursting o
the breech of a shotgun.
At Antler two travelling men pickle
up. some rough women along the lin
and were refused rooms.
There will be some fine Shorthorl
cattle from Barnes county at the stocI
sale in Fargo this winter.
In Stutsman county near Clevelan'
one field of flax is reported to hav
gone tw%enty-three bushels.
A town on the Edgeley-Dawson eS
tension has been named after Streetel
This should be some reward.
The Stutsman reports ffty-fv
%threshing machines We're being opel
ated in the vicinity of Balfour.
Crane. hunting is the popular pas
time at Hampden, where they are sal
to be SO numerous they are pests.
Several instances are reported owe
the state where the crops this yea
will pay for the purchase Of the land.
Oliver county is said to have
wheat crop that is averaging fro1
twenty to t%hirty-five bushels per acre
The weather men are already CUES:
ing on this winter. AS usual, it will b
a warm, short winter and a long, col
one.
Bowbel!s has a family of toug
Youngsters who do not seem to be abb
to keep their hands off other people
property.
Lightning struck a big barn nea
Maxbass and destroyed the building
sixty tons of hay, three horses an
some machinery.
The state land department has i
: sued a bulletin giving a list of all cap
tol lands, sold and unsold, by countie!
together with a quantity Of useful il
formation concerning the manner {
~dispOsing of these lands. Attention
called to the fact that the capitol land
are in a class of their own, and do nc
come under the constitutional prov
sions which govern the sale Of othe
STATE lands. The lands may be sold o
such terms and in such name as tn
legislature may prescribe. 1t happen
that the legislature has prescribed tn
manner which is employed for the sal
of other lands, the same rules as t
time of payment, rate of interest, etc
governing. but the bulletin just issue
says that it is expected that the mex
Legislature will provide for the dispo:
al Of these lands for cash, or on shor
er time. SO that buyers may pay up a
once it they wish to do so.
North Dakota is getting some goo
advertising at the state fairs in Eas
ern states. The displays reach jul:
tho class of neoDla who will ha vol,