The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1911-05-11
FickertaQ Facts
North Dakota State News In
CONDEMNED Form.
Condensed Form.

A. OF the state in this city was a high
ly successful affair.
Minot.-Julius Olson was struck by
a passenger train in this city near the
flour mill. He was badly bruised, but
will recover.
New England.-The annual meeting
Of the Missouri River association of
Congregational churches will be held
in this city.
acknowledgements county is prepar-
ing to recover from former county Of
icers the fees that were not turned
into the treasury.
Fargo.-The lecture by Judge Lind
say at the agricultural college, was
largely attended and the judge an en-
thusiastic reception.
Hillsboro.-This town will celebrate
the fortieth anniversary of its found
ing. Committees are at work on the
matter and June % has been named as
the day.
Streeter.-The work Of rebuilding
this town after the recent fire are go
ing steadily ahead and the town will
be more beautiful and substantial than
heretofore,
Charlottesville latest reports show
SAA~S IN 64ooCAo ol Xix plOpOSCo ASW
line from Fargo to Minot are encamped
in Wells county ready to begin work
on that project.
Dickinson.-Alois Ridl, a farmer
living seven miles southwest of this
city. killed himself with a shotgun. He
loaded the gun so heavily that it ex-
ploded, badly mangling his body. De-
ceased vas twenty-nine years of G
and there is no known cause for his
act. !.
Oakes.-The annual meeting of the
Woodmen of this state was recently
held in this city with delegates from
forty three counties in attendance.
The next state meeting will be held in
Bismarck. The meeting closed with a
banquet in the afternoon n a dance
in the evening.
Grand Forks.-The Northwestern
Hotel Mems association, comprising
the states of North and South Da-
kota, Minnesota, Iowa and Nebraska,
will meet in this city some time in
August and the local hotel men are
making great preparations to enter
tain them.
misunderstanding to the fact that
the expenses of printing in the Cowan
impeachment case cannot yet be &C
curately given it is impossible to give
an exact statement of the expenses of
the trial, but the statements given out
at the state treasurer's office indicate
that the estimate of 100000 is substan-
TALLY correct.
Devils Lake.-Judge Cowan, recently
cleared by the senate of the state on
charges of impeachment, was accorded
a remarkable ovation on his arrival
here, delegates from nearly every town
in his district being present. At many
of the towns on his route home large
crowds Of citizens gathered to con-
graduate him on the verdict.
Misunderstanding in the central
part of the state has been finished so
far as wheat is concerned and the
farmers are putting in the other
grains. A large acreage has been sown
and the farmers have profited by the
information that has been furnished
them and are doing better farming,
which means they are conserving the
moisture.
JamestoWn.-Five young men re-
Gently found their way into a freight
car at Fargo and when onc COM
fortably inside a brakeman locked the
door n brought them to this city.
They were brought UP before a magis-
trate and pleaded guilty to vagrancy,
but insisted that they had no idea of
larceny. Their hearing was postponed
for thirty days.
Valley City.-One hundred members
recently met m completed the or
ganization of a Chautauqua associa-
ton in this place. The first meeting
will be held July z and will be a labor
picnic to be addressed by John Mitch
ell. The sessions will close on July II
and w. J. Bryan will be the speaker
on that date. Twelve acres on the
banks of the Sheyenne river have been
secured for the grounds and a guaran-
tee fund of $4,000 has been secured,
Minot.-The specifications for the
new Carnegie library of this city show
that the new building will be a thing
OF beauty and that the interior will be
admirably adapted for library pur-
poses. The plan were taken from the
model Wisconsin library. The build
ing will be faced on the outside with
Hebron pressed brick, a North Da-
kota product, and the trimmings will
be Bedford Oolitic limestone. Work is
already under way on the foundation.
Bismarck.-John Grass, chief Of the
Sioux Indians on the Standing Rock
reservation was in town during the
session Of the senate as an impeach-
ment court and was invited to address
that body, which he did, making an
eloquent talk that was interpreted to
the members Of that body. He was
much pleased that the presiding Of
f1cer, Senator Burdick, understood his
remarks in the original language. His
talk was mainly reminiscent and he
told Of hunting on the Missouri river,
carrying only a gun and told Of the
first time he donned clothing of the
white men on the occasion Of a visit
to Washington. He told the senators
that he was advising the young peo-
pie Of the reservation to adopt the
white mans ways n clothing and to
get an education. This speech was
without precedent in the history of
the country and at times the Indian
orator was highly enthusiastic.
Minot.-Work mas peen begun on
the new Carnegie library in this city.
Carrington.-A reservoir has beer