The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1908-12-17
BRIEF NORTH DAKOTA NEWS

Wo1uAn 4AS pcOQA0 A&NO Ou1p10tOO
a $4,000 sohol building.
Dickinson-The members Of Co. Il
gave q successful ball.
Mtnot-The enrolment Of the public
schools has passed the thousand mark.
Kenmare-The News has already
started another campaign for county
division out in Ward county.
Wapheton-The primary election
and the general election each cost
Richland county over $4,000. Onicials
come high.
Observation-Disclosures debating
societies promise entertainment for .
good many North Dakota towns for
the coming winter.
Williston-The crop Of deer harvest
ed out in the western part Of the
state this year is reported much small
er than in preceding years.
Fargo-The valuation of Cass coun
ty which was recently finished showed
a total valuation of $17,6s6.s51, as
against s%17,66o,1S2 in Ward county.
Sherwood-Alfred. ths ~9-year-old son
Of Nels Anderson, was run over on
Monday by a wagon load Of wheat and
had his right arm and left leg broken.
Fargo-Other state institutions have
dormitories-the legislature will no
doubt provide them for the North Da-
kota Agricultural college students this
winter.
Devils Lake-George Button, q
Great Northern engineer running out
of here had a strenuous experience
on a hunting trip out in the Williston
country, but he managed to secure .
fine buck as a trophy Of his marks.
manship.
Fargo-The Rockford Land com.
pany Of Rockford, Ill, has purchased
county from the Owens company for
a consideration Of 500, 900. 1t will be
divided into small tracts and resold
to farmers by the new owners.
Fargo-Cecil Rhodes is a free man
as a result Of the failure of the com.
planning witness, Miss Anna Keeper
nick, to appear against him. Rhodes
was a t~elegrapher and was arrested
on complaint Of the girl, convicted and
sentenced to ten years In the peni-
Tertiary.
Fargo-The United States marshal
seized a large quantity Of catsup this
afternoon on complaint Of DR.. q. F.
Ladd, state pure fod commissioner,
who alleged that the manufacturer had
persistently ignored all notices to the
effect that the state law was violated
as to false label.
Devils Lake-W. w. Cook, president
Of the State Game and Fish Protective
association, has been at work for some
time drafting a bill for a new game
and fish law, which he has nearly com
pleted and which will provide for
some very desirable changes In the
present regulations.
Fargo-Since the county division
idea in this state became so epidemic,
it is reported to have attacked the PEG.
pie Of staid old Walsh county, and q
movement is on foot to divide it so
that Park River, in the western part
of the county, will be the seat OF
government for the new county.
Grand Forks-A. l.. Woods has com
piled and published a list Of the teach
ers of every graded school In North
Dakota so far as it has been possible
to ecu the information. The d.
rectory shows that there are now over
800 graded schools within the state
with over 1900 teachers, which mean
a remarkable gain in the past few
years.
Fargo-After a continued debauch OF
several months, following the death
of his wife, James Williams suicided
in the Great Northern depot In Moor.
head yesterday morning by taking
strychnine. He was nearly 70 years
old, and formerly conducted a dairy
at Lakota, N. D., where his son re.
sides. He has a brother at Sabin,
MINI.
Dickinson-The Rockford Land com
pany, Of Rockford, ILL.,, has closed a
deal for the Owens Cattle and Live
Stock company's township Of land,
twenty-five miles north Of Dickinson,
along the line of the new Northern
Pacific railroad survey up the Knife
river valley, paying therefor, 800, 900.
The company gets 1880 acres. and
will retail the land to Illinois buyers
the coming spring.
Kimball-Father, daughter and
grandson are married in the same
week. Former Senator John Wilkes
married Mrs. Emma Stevenson al
Chamberlain, the event being followed
by the marriage Of his daughter, Mist
Lena Wilkes to Guy Frick of the same
city. This served as inspiration tt
young Wilkes, who hied himself t
White Lake and brought home a bride
in the person of'Miss Lucy Vice.
Washington, D. C.-The general lant
Office has adjusted its account will
the state Of North Dakota for the ds
cal year ending June 80, 1908, showing
8 per cent Of net proceeds Of the sal,
Of public lands in that state. Tn,
gross proceeds from sales Of publ,
lands were 3734,818, from which
amount is deducted a Or0 rata aha RI q