The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1910-09-08
Flckertal Facts
North Dakota State News In
Condensed Form,
Condensed Form.

Beach.-This city now mas a flowing
well at a depth Of los feet.
Towner.-The Commercial club has
selected a design for a boosters but
ton.
Bismarck.-Ten counties of the state
have so far failed to send in the school
census.
Minot.-several thefts of valuable
hunting dogs have been reported
around this city.
Bismarck.-The firemen of this city
want a new home and the question of
a $15O,OOO bond issue is being consid-
cred.
Beach.-The high school of this city
has received school apparatus to the
value of $3.50 for use in the physics
department..
Belield.-The dining room of the
hotel at this place has been closed on
account of the inability of the landlord
to procure help.
the state will hold a meeting in this
city on September 16, the last day of
the Morton county fair.
Fargo.-Government landofice rec
ords must be in black or green inks as
they are photographed in Washington
and those are the only colors which
will reproduce distinctly.
Bismarck.-A charge has taken place
IN the state department of insurance
and COMMISSIONS Cooper has appoint
ed w. A. Falconer of Bismarck as
his deputy for the balance of his term.
Ryder.-H. L.. Baldwin, government
surveyor, and a force of twenty-five
men are at work on the survey of the
Fort Berthold reservation that will be
opened for settlement in the near fiji
ture.
Granville.-An old man was picked
up out of a straw pile near here and
cared for by the town authorities. He
had been shipped in by an agency for
harvest help and had failed to make
good.
Powers Lake.-This city is to have
no railroad this year. This is the lat
est announcement and it is believed
10 pc correct. 1t is epected that the
o will be pushed through early next
season.
Crosby.-There is an effort being
made to get a high school started this
fall. 1t is recommended that the school
start with a two-years' course and
it would soon grow into a full course
high school.
Devils Lake.-Two e~cellent pieces Of
land. lying only twelve miles from
Grand Forks, were recently admitted
to homestead filings. They were the
last pieces in the Red river valley and
had been overlooked.
Blsmarck.-On Sept. 10 there will he
trleo before the commissioner in ST.
Paul a case where parties seek to put
INTO 1orce a rate on cream and milk
similar to the prevailing rate in Kan
sas. Inc case is against the N. P.
railroad, but affects every line of rail-
road in the state.
/ Fort Indian bearing the
name of Joseph Iron Heart, who lived
ABOUT fifteen miles east of this MIA 100
went to Devils Lake last Saturday
loaded up with fire water" and on
MS return his team ran away. he wa
thrown or fell out of the buggy and
suffered a broken neck.
Blsmarck.-The state engineer is re-
celvlng many inquiries from Ward
county in regard to irrigating projects
ana Will make a tour of that county to
ADVISE the inquirers. During the past
year about 1000 acres were irrigated
with such good results that manv 9TH
ers are making preparations of the
same kind.
Minot.-George Ramos, a Crock Ia
borer, has started suit against tho
Great Northern for $4,000 damages
clalHed as the result Of injuries re-
celved near Denbigh last August. The
creek claims that he was hit by ties
IRON a work train n that he was AL
lowed to lie in the ditch after sustain
ing the ininries.
Fargo.-For August, 1910, the Office
OF the register of deeds has shown q
bigger increase than has been known
In years. The gain over August Of 1909
Is almost SO per cent, amounting TO an
increase of $1,000 in exact numbers.
n fees for the month just expired
were $4,000, while the fees for the
corresponding month of 1909 were
$37s.7O.
Schafer.-The State Historical So
city, aided by SIS. Campbell of SEN
tinel Butte, has located the site of the
battle with the Indians in 1864 in the
killdeer mountains. The society pro-
POSS9 " q IIlOIluIuenC on the site
OF the battlefield. The troops number
ed 1000 and the Indians G,OOO in th,s
fight, which was the largest a
ment ever fought in the state and the
beginning of the campaign which Gull
minated years afterward in the Custer
massacre.
Bismarck.-There will be but one
ale of school lands his fall n that
will be held in Billings county near
Beach. The board Of school and uni
versity lands wrote to all the county
auditors in the state asking their opin-
ion of the ACCESSIBILITY of holding sales
of school lands this fall and almost
without exception the board was ad-
vised to postpone the sales until next
fall. The idea in doing this is to give
the farmers themselves a chance to get
the land. Were the sales held this fall
there are a number of farmers who
would not feel like making the in
vestment, but there is no doubt but
what the spectators would consider
it a good chance to get some cheap
land and then in after years make
the farmers pay a good price for it..
Observation-Disclosures of Dickey coun.
ty have decided to get into the political
game this fall and the central commit