The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1912-02-29
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Fllck<srr<ail Facts.
North Dakota 8.ate News In osn.
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Tagus.-A. fire department was orr
ganized here.
Taylor.-There are many rabbits re-,
ported around Taylor.
Bowbells.-Bowbells had q success
full farmers institute.
St. Thomas.-A sixteen-piece band
has been organized here.
st. Thomas. - The Sopher house
here was burned last week.
Kindred.--A commercial club has
been organized at Kindred.
Washburn. Washburn defeated
Wilton at basketball 80 to 3.
xGackle.-A German society was or
ganized here with H. F. Berlinke presi.
dent.
Carpio. - There was a successful
rabbit hunt near here. Five mon
killed sixty-five Dummies.
Fargo. - G. A. Hasselquist OF
Fargo, has been appointed collec-
tor of. customs at St. Paul.
Mandan. g. The people of Mandan.
want the Milwaukee to extend forty
miles and u into that town.
Fargo.-Students in the engineering
school at the North Dakota agricultur~
al college held an electrical show.
Minot.-Walter L. Houser, campaign
manager for Senator La Toilette, i'd.
dressed several hundred progressive
republicans here. He predicted. La
Toilette would hold the balance Of
power in the convention.
Minnewaukan. - A. E. Hutchinson,
OF this city, will be a candidate for
the republican nomination for COM
missioner of agriculture and labor.
". c. Gilbreath, the incumbent, has
already announced he is a candidate
for reelection.
Fargo.-Joe T. Purcell, a Fargo COM
mercial traveller, has announced his
candidacy for railroad commissioner,
on the republican ticket. He has
made this announcement public in
several places throughout the state
in the last fortnight.
Fargo.-A Cass county farmer will
raise a number of colts this spring,
has eighteen COWS giving milk, about
300 poultry, sixty hogs, and plenty of
hay and feed-and he doesn't intend
to seed a great deal of wheat this year.
He has solved the problem.
Drayton. There was a double
funeral here when the last rites
were offered for H. w. Wallace.
the banker, and his son, Rex Wallace.
who, after killing his parent, COM.
mitted suicide. The two bodies were
inferred in the Drayton cemetery. side
by side.
Fargo.-With the government Their.
mometers in the state at Is above
zero. the snoW. practically all melted
and spring three weeks off, the actual
work of the North Dakota Better
Farming association is actively under
way and seven agricultural experts
are in the field in their respective dis
tricts, getting the North Dakota farm
er started on a scientific basis for
this seasons crops.
Drayton. = Back of the double
tragedy enacted here when Rex
B. Wallace killed his father and
then committed suicide in the bank.
because his parent had refused to adj
vance him money, was an affair OF
the heart. A torn telegram, found near
the scene of the tragedy, leads to this
belief. When put together the name
of the person to whom it had been
sent could not be read, but the sense
OF the message was that young Wal
lace was to meet some woman in Fort
Worth.
Bowman.-Slaying a wolf with his
bare hands. Bert Thorson, a resident
OF this county, has sprang' into the
same class as former United States
Marshal Alternately of Oklahoma, one
OF Mr.. Roosevelt's friends
Thorson had set a trap for wolves
which had been killing sheep of late
in that neighborhood and when he
visited the trap in the morning found
q large wolf captive. He shot the
animal with a small caliber rife which
only melted the brute to break loose
from the trap; but rather than lose
his quarry Thorsone: who is a nan Of
powerful physique, seized the beast
by the hind legs. whirled it around hia
head and dashed it to the ground
Grand Forks.--The New Rockford
Commercial club has a plan of pro-
noting immigration which was
presented to the North Dakota Fed
Grafton of Commercial clubs at the
meeting to be held in Grand Forks
Feb. % and 20. This plan has been
worked ont to many details and the
New Rockford club will ask the state
organization to take a hand in carrv-
ing out the idea.
Among the speakers were Paul
Campbell. president of the Northwest
ern Development League; d. M. Neill.
Of Red Wing, Mimi, president Of the
Minnesota Federation Of Commercial
clubs; Thomas Cooper, director Of the
Better Farming, association Of North
Dakota, and G. M. Thurber, secretary
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