The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1907-08-01
BRIEF NORTH DhkOTA NEWS.

Forman-The Northwestern Tele-
phone co. Is to rebuild Its system.
Grafton-The flour mill has been.
closed while new machinery Is being
Installed.
Jamestown-The fair management
had a bad day but the fair was a$suc-
cess Just the same.
Fargo-Washburn and Bismares
are both boasting of the quality of
the brick made there.
Northwood--The Red River Valley
Central Lutheran League held an im-
portant meeting here.
Jamestown-The block system is be-
ing successfully used by the N. p
between here and Dawson.
Grand Forks-EdWard Carr, who
was asphyxiated in a sewer trench,
left $4,000 In cash In the banks.
Dickinson-The Post understands
that a second r~oundhouse is to he con-
structed by the Northern Pacific.
Observation-Disclosures Of the fire de-
partment went to Hunter to assist in
helping exterminate the flames In that
town.
steele-w. "A. Eddingheld escaped
with q six months jail sentence for
shooting a neighbor in a row W
stock.
Tower City--The farmers interested
In their own elevator met and elected
officers. D.B. Shaw was engaged as
manager.
Rolette-B. e.. Jones, a drawman.
struck Gus Bohnsack over the head
with a dray stake and arrests are
next on tab.
Foreman-The bonds for the new
school could not be sold-as there was
no record of the organization of thu
school district.
Bismarck--Trains will be running
from here to Minot over the recently
completed Soc line within 80 days. 1t
is announced.
Observation-Disclosures is the name
of a local horse entered in the Fargo
interstate fair races. He should be a
popular %favorite.
Devils Lake, Fort Totten Indian
killed a prairie wolf near the Chautau-
qua grounds the other day, and got
the $4.5o bounty.
Fargo-Major Mclaughlin, govern
ment Indian agency inspector, is to
write a book on his experiences for
SO years with the reds.
Kenmare-Harry Hart imported a.
fine fox at cost of $50 and three min
utes after its arrival it got loose and
hasn't been seen since.
Velva-A nan named Farley, who
worked In the gravel pit, was run "
by a freight train and had both legs
cut off just above the ankles.
Observation-Disclosures men have es-
tablished a market day, and the peo-9
pie in the surrounding country ara
taking great interest in lit develop
ment.
La Moure-Liberal hearted people
sent a purse Of s131 to a former resi-
dent who had removed to Adams
county and met with temporary mis-
fortune.
Jamestown-Only two dipping tanks
will be operated In the northern part
of Stutsman county this summer, the
necessity for the use of the others
having passed.
Rugby-Orange Love, a young man
working On the farm of w. H. Wat
son, about nine miles northwest OF
here. was killed by lightning while
hoeing potatoes some distance from
the buildings.
Fargo-Nordahl Kopperdahl, who
confessed to stealing a bicycle, was
sentenced by Judge Pollock to the
state reform school at Mandan, and
with Abraham Snyder will be taken
to that institution.
Fargo-According to the returns OF
a special election In Mercer county,
the citizens Of that county refused to
issue $4,000 worth of bonds for a new
court house at; Stanton. The vote
stood As for and 222 against the propo-
sition.
Crown Butte-Near here a farmer
became angry with the hired man Of
a neighbor and chewed the hired mans
fingers so that amputation of three
was necessary. It appears that there
Is no muzzle ordinance enforced In
Morton county.
Fargo-The early settlers in Adams
and Hettinger counties, who made
communication proofs at. slips per acre,
will probably getSa refund from the
land office, now that it is known that
land comes under the 50-cent limit, be-
ing q part of the Great Sioux reserva-
ton.
Niagara nine-year-old son of O.,
Ch%ristianson, a farmer residing south
Of here. sustained the loss of a foot
In. q mower. The young fellow was
walking behind a mower; when it was
turned, the lad failed to get out of the
way. The foot was completely sew
cred, being left in the shoe.
Dickinson-George Frye has sold an
eight-acre tract of land to the Mis-
souri, Valley Milling Co., for the erec-
Etion of a mill and elevator and store
house here. The land lies just west CT
the property Of the Dickinson Fire and
Pressed Brick Co., and will extend;
from the railroad track on the north
TO the river.
Rock Lake-A stray bullet, careless
]y fired by some one apparently shoot
Ling at a mark, struck Mrs. William
Rice In the hip as she and her hus-
band n small daughter were walk
ing along the lake shore road. The
bullet came from the other side of tho
lake. and the person who fired it haa
not been identified. Mrs. Rice viii. re-