The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1912-07-25
NOrthDakOta
News Notes

appointed assistant dairy commission
or by Commissioner of Agriculture and
Labor Gilbreath, has assumed his
duties under Dairy Commissioner
Flint.
Carrington.-Arthur Mclaughlin, a
farm hand of the Grace City neigh
borhood, waived further preliminary
bearing in Police Magistrate Pryor's
office and was bound over to the dis
trict court on the charge of SANDER
ing a female.
Anamoose.-Crops in this vicinity
are the best in the history of this
territory, and it is expected that wheat
Will yield an average of twenty BUSH
els an acre. A hail storm visited a
small territory about six miles south
east OF here, doing slight damage to
The wheat and oats crops.
Fargo.-There' are 5000 school chill
dren in Fargo according to the figures
which have been compiled by M. N.
Pope who has just completed the TAX
Ing of the school census. School chill
dren are rated as all children between
the ages of six and twenty-one and
tor this number the city will draw
funds from the state primary school
money.
Blsbee.-An unidentified man COM
mitted suicide just after boarding the
train at Russell, and the fact was not
known until the train had covered sew
eral miles. The man entered the toll
ct room as soon as the train started
and afterwards passengers recollected
that they had heard an explosion about
that time but thought nothing of It..
The body was discovered when an
other passenger attempted to enter
the room.
Fargo.-Pat Grant, a former men,
Der of the Fargo city police force,
was sentenced to thirty days in the
county Jail by Judge Hanson. Grant
pleaded guilty to a charge of beating
his wife. The couple admitted to the
cour that they have lived a stormy
welded life, but the judge didn't think
that was sufficient excuse for a man
to hit his wife with his fist and hence
Grant will work for the county for the
next four weeks.
Rugby.-Herman Schultz, who was
arrested some time ago on q charge
of murder, was acquitted by the jury
after being out three hours. The muir
der for which Schultz was accused
was committed in the Antelope hills
south of this city and on the Surrey
Rockford cutoff, about Jan. 16, 1912.
William J. Murray was an engineer in
the railroad construction camp. 1t is
said he took the first train over the
Rugby branch and was on this run for
several years. making his home at Bot.
tineau.
Grand Forks.-One of the biggest
real estate transactions ever executed
in Grand Forks county was consum-
mated when the Bank Of Gilby sold
2,104 acres of land to w. l. Forbes for
9 consideration of $4,000. All but a
quarter section of the land is located
in Wheatfield township, the other 100
being in Hegton. The average price
per acre in the deal is over $46 an
acre, a high price, when one considers
the fact that thirty years ago the
property could be had for the filing
and a nominal price a%fterward.
Devils Lake. - North Dakota's ma.
tional guard have gone into camp at
the Rock Island Military reservation
the troops marching from Devils Lake
to the site Of the annual camp. Spe.
cial trains carried the guardsmen to
the city. The camp this year is OF
one weeks duration, instead of ten
days as before, July % being the date
fixed for breaking up. The encamp.
ment is held inside the state on &C.
count of the presidents veto of the
army bill. Sparta. Wis, had been
picked for the encampment originally.
Dickinson. - The number of wool
growers in Stark country are getting
less every year but there are still
few men who find it profitable to raise
mutton and wool. Arthur Cooling and
N. G. Swenning, from south of Glad
stone were in Dickinson last Tuesday
to market about 5000 pounds of WOO
which was sold to a st. Paul buyer al
IJC pei pOuuu. AILiuf IOuluS Lac
$500 pounds Of his own, and stated
that his sheep sheared an average Of
about seven pounds this year. His
lamb crop was nearly 100 per cent
Mr.. Goring only farms t%hirty-five acres
but he says crops are looking as gooG
as he ever saw them.
New England.-Unless there is
decided reversal in conditions within
the next month, New England and the
surrounding country will show wha'
can be done in the way of producing
bumper crop. All over this great state
reports indicate that conditions are al
most ideal. Rain in sufficient guam
titles has fallen in practically every
portion and cool weather has given thu
proper opportunity for young plant de
velopment. This country seems tt
have been especially favored will
moisture and is one big garden now
the beautiful green fields stretching
for miles and miles, as far as the ey,
can reach in every direction.
Valley City.-After the Valley Cit.
normal and the state university tool
especial pains to have their school,
duly recognized at the Chautauqua as
sembly here other schools took sim
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