The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1909-09-02
Flickertan Facts
North Dakota State News in
Condensed Form.

Osnabrock.-The residence on the
Cleary farm near here was struck by
lightning and considerable damage
was done.
Fairmount.-The 2-year-old child
of Mr.. and Mrs. John Browner,
wandered into a field of grain
and was run down by a binder
driven by his father. One leg was
nearly cut off at the knee, and the
other was bailey cut a few inches
lower. He is expected to recover.
Monango.-The dedication of the
Whitestone battlefield monument has
been postponed until some time in
October On account of the delay in
the shipment of the monument. The
programme will be announced as soon
as the date is fixed, and notice will
be sent to all known survivors of the
battle.
Minot.-That the crops around
Plaza are going to be the best in years
Is the impression of A. E. Brown, who
a a fine farm lear that place. Mr..
Brown has travelled about consider
able and he says that of all the crops
he has. seen the grain at Plaza looks
the best and he predicts that the farm
ers near that place will get an ex-
cellent yield.
Bismarck.-City Engineer Atkinson
is preparing a print of the site of the
new government building, showing ell
evations and levels, location of sewer
and water connections and electric
lights and other details desired by
the government, which has made the
request of the city for a map. The
data is desired for the preparation of
plans for the new building by the
architects. I"
Minot.-The decision in the Boyle
divorce case was completed and John
Boyle, the defendant, was appointed
guardian of both children, with COM
plete control of the one in the hos
pital at Grafton. The little girl, who
is now 9 years old, is to be with her
mother until the age of twelve, when
she will be given to her father for
the rest of her life.
Williston.-Jack Winnifried, alias
Kid Trailer, now in the Williston Jail
awaiting trial on charges of horse
stealing, is wanted by Sergeant Lett,
of Estevan, Man., who has a warrant
for his arrest on a charge of murder
committed in the Turtle mountain dis
trict. Winnifried is we'll known at
Estevan, having made that town a
convenient stopping place in his wan.
behring's through the border country.
Minot.-The county commissioners
let the contract for the buildings which
are to be- erected N the poor farm
to Emmette & Bartleson of this city,
for $9,775. The plans were drawn
by R. T. Frost, and the buildings will
be excellent ones. According to the
plans the new structures will be of
brick, conveniently arranged for the
use of its occupants Separate rooms
are provided for the superintendent
and his family. The contractor will
start the work at once.
Ellendale.-J. G. Webster, of Cresco,
Ia, who for the past twenty years has
been engaged in the manufacture of
tow, spent a fcouple of days in Ellen
dale and vicinity looking up the pros
poets for flax straw. Finding usually
good fibre, he has decided to put in
a tow mill here this fall and tells the
farmers that he will pay them SITS
per ton for their straw delivered at
his mill and that they will be serving
their own interests by cutting their
flax as low as they can so it will keep
we'll and be easy to get at when win
ter comes.
Observation-Disclosures o. S. Johnson,
of the Great Northern Oil & Gas Co.,
received word of a new we'll that had
been struck near the Westhope gas
wells and which gives promise of be-
ing as strong as any in the district.
The new well is located about four
and a half miles closer to Westhope,
and is but half a mile from the gas
mains which are being laid into the
town. This will mea a big saving
in pipe and the new we'll will be de-.
yeloped at once. Present tests which
have been made recently show but
little decrease in the original pressure
OF the WeSthOpe wells.
Fargo.-The bankers Of North Da.
kota are extremely indignant over
what they term an attempted hold-up
game of Duluth bankers to charge so
cents exchange per thousand on North
Dakota grain checks. 1t is an effort
on the part of Duluth bankers, it is
said, to compel the small banks of this
state to carry a line of deposits there
instead of with Fargo and Grand
Forks. Local bankers met and select
ed a committee to confer with the Du-
luth bankers. If this plan fails it is
probable that Fargo and Grand Forks
will send a representative to Duluth,
who will look after all North Dakota
business and each day cash all North
Dakota checks, taking actual currency
from Duluth and shipping it to Fargo
and Grand Forks as a retaliatory mea-
sure.
Fargo.-Emmet Marks, q western