The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1910-09-29
Flickertail Facts
North Dakota State News In
Condensed Form.
Condensed Form.

number of special assessments for
water mains.
Bismarck.-A couple of box car
thievee were recently rounded up in
this city after a lively chase.
Carrington.-The "Pick and Shovel"
day resulted in vast improvements to
the roads of Foster county.
Grand Forks.-This city will extend
an invitation to the M. e. conference
to hold the next session here.
Pembina.-This city will be a candi-
date for county seat honors and is talk
ing the legal measures to get on the
ballot.
Val.eye City.-During the past week
Wylie Nelson marketed a load of flax
that lacked six inches of filing the
wagon box for $317.
Minot.-Bishop Wehrle visited this
city Sunday and confirmed a large
class. 1t is the first visit of a bishop
to this city for some time.
Valleye City.-Julia Stack, the IS
year-old girl reported missing at this
place, is said by her father to have
eloped to Minneapolis with a baseball
player.
McKenzie.-Hans Larson, butter
maker at this city, recently won first
prize in the state competition for the
best butter made with an average of
92.7 per cent.
Devils Lake.-The 500 has obtained
practically all the right Of way needed
in this city and the surrounding coun-
try and will be ready for construction
work in the spring.
Bisbee.-A number of minor acct
dents have occurred around this town
the past week or two in one of which
four horses were lost in a water hole
in a coulee near town. g,
Minot.-Seven convictions were OBJ
tanned out of eight cases brought
against parties for the illicit selling of
liquor. There are thrifty three cases
pending before the court.
Fargo.-A banquet was rendered DR..
Leonard, the pastor Of the First M. E.
church of this city, who is leaving for
the pastorate of a church in Minneap-
oils, last Friday evening.
Dickinson.-The sum Of SIS, 900 has
been appropriated for the purpose of
making better roads in Stark county.
There is a demand for road improve
ments in all parts of the county.
Bismarck.-Dr. Danford, district SUI
peru tndent of the M. e. churches Of
the Bismarck district, reports thirteen
new churches and six new parsonage
erected in it during the past year.
New Leipzig.-The steel on the N. P.
branch has been laid to this town and
the event Of the strel laying gang was
tn occasion Of a big gathering from
town and country to watch the work.
Bismarck.-A drunken man OCCASION
ed considerable trouble here by rum
ming away with a hack that was
standing in the street, giving the own
er a lively chase before, he recovered
it.
Observation-Disclosures brought word
to this city of the murder of Del Grove
by a member of a gang that went to
his place near Concord to get a horse
that was claimed by one of it's mem
bers.
county and his deputies recently made
a raid on the blind pigs of the town
and made several arrests. The deputies
came to town in the wagons used in
bringing the children to school.
Fargo.-Charles King, the negro that
recently shot another in a Joint on
Front street, and who made a getaway
from here, was captured by detectives
in Minneapolis after a lively fight dur
ing which he was wounded in the leg.
Devils Lake.-Capt. VIM. Burr of the
Salvation Army was held a prisoner in
the county Jail for four hours recently.
He was holding the usual services there
when the turnkey went away for a time
and forgot his presence in the building.
Beach.-From present indications
Yates, Montana, just across the line,
will succeed to the liquor business that
will be driven out of Moorhead Mime
sofa. 1t is a small town Of twenty
fie inhabitants and already has five
saloons.
Kenmare.-A most distressing acct
dent happened near this place when
Peter Peterson, a 1~5-year1-old boy had
the tines of a pitchfork driven through
his head. He was using the fork near
the belt of thresher and it was driven
into the skull with terrific force.
Harwood.-Drillers in a we'll near
town struck a small supply of natural
gas at a depth Of fifty feet. It caught
fire from a lantern, but was extinguish-
ed by plugging the hole. There is a
considerable flow Of gas and the quail
ity and pressure will be further in
vestigated.
Bismarck.-Mrs. Ben Greer of Hart
ford had a narrow escape from burn
ing In a barn where she had gone to
let out some horses. These crushed
her against the side of the building and
her clothes caught fire. She does not
know how she got out. The fire was
caused by some small boys PLAYING
with matches.
Energy.-This new town had a. bar.
becue Saturday at which time the cor
nerstone for the new linen mill was
laid. This town is in the heart of a
vast scope Of country underlaid with
coal n proposes to develop power
from the same for the use of manufac-
turers. Senator McCumber, Congress-
man Hanna and other noted speakers
were present on the occasion and made
addresses.
underwood.-That this town is IN.
oer!ald with coal has been demonstrate.
ed by John Schafer who found a four
teen-foot vein at a depth Of 10 feet
while drilling a we'll.
Wheelock.-While playing with dy-
n6mita canc fhof %L,., c-