The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1906-02-01
Otherwise.

Plans for the expenditure Of $4,000.
600 in improvements have been ap-
proved by President and General Man.
ageT Britain of the Cotton Belt route.
Stafford NJ. Keenan,. a news agent,
is dead at Waterloo, Iowa, supposedly
from an overdose of morphine. He
was found dead in his room at a no
tel.
Andrew Graft Of the town of Lucias
has Just devised a new method of
%teMpering copper quickly. In one
second he can make copper as hard as
steel.
In wellinformed financial circles OF
Cleveland it is believed that the liza
bilities Of the firm of Denison, Prior
& Co. will aggregate not less than ST.
100000, and that possibly the sum may
be as high as $780, 0O.
1t is announced that the estate left
by the late President Harper of Chi
cago university is small and consists
almost entirely Of life insurance poll
cies. The entire estate is given tc
his widow without reserve.
Aurelio Herrera of Bakersfield, CAL,
knocked out Young Corbett in the fifth
round at the Pacific Athletic club pa
-vilion at Los Angeles. Herrera's vic
tory was easy and Corbett's exhibition
was correspondingly disappointing.
Many of Wisconsin's big steamer
fleets, valued at millions of dollars,
which have done SO much to add to
the marine prestige of Milwaukee and
other ports of the state, are expected
to give up these ports Of hail some
time between now and May / to get
away from the new ad valorem taxa
ton law passed by the last legisla.
ture.
Trappcrs along the Boone river in
Iowa say that there are a number Of
wildcats in the woods in the more Sc.
cluded parts of the country. They are
the descendants of ordinary house
cats taken out and dropped in the
timber many years ago. These cats
live in holes like other wild animals
and are fierce ana great fighters when
cornered.
Judge Munger, in the United States
circuit court at Omaha. has rendered
ali opinion in favor of the state in the
Burlington tax case. The Burlington
Railroad company brought a test suit
against the treasurer Of Adams coun.
ty. Neb., asking that he be restrained
from collecting taxes levied against
the company by the state board Of
equalization. The decision fully sus
tains the board OF equalization.
The American Reserve Bond COM
pany Of Chicago, formerly the South
ern Mutual investment company Of
Lexington. Ky, and It's former direc-
tors, have been made defendants in a
suit for q receiver. Sensational allie.
cations are made regarding illegal
methods and misrepresentation Of
funds.
Henry Smith has brought an action
in the supreme court at White Plains.
N. ". against Miss Helen Miller Gould
for $4,000 injuries he received while
spraying trees on her country estate,
Lindhurst. g lrvington-on-the-Hud
soE.
Rev. ". N. Cleveland; brother OF
former President Grover Cleveland,
died at Toledo, Ohio. from the effects
Of paralysis. He was seventythree
Years old. Former President Cleye
land has lseen notified Of the death.
Acting upon the instructions of the
Judge, g Philadelphia jury acquitted
John NJ. Hill. former chief of the A.
~tration bureau, who was on trial
charged With forgery and falsifying
the records of his bureau for the bene.
fit Of a firm Of contractors. sThe al.
rest was a feature Of the Weaver cam
paign.