Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-03-27
OUR NEIGHBORS.
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Gov. Smith has signed Col. Calkins' little
claim bill.
-Four hundred and sixty persons have
signed the pledge at River Falls.
Diphtheria in violent form prevails at
Diamond Bluff and vicinity.
The Nationals propose to have something
to say about the officers of Ellsworth for the
coming year.
The Democrats of Milwaukee are propos-
ing to run Hon. Alexander Mitchell for
mayor.
One of the bills lost in the Legislature was
that exempting the lands of the Central Wis
consin railroad from taxation.
The Eau Claire manufacturers have been
getting "a good ready with the expectation
of lively seasons business.
The Buffalo county Herald feels to con-
graduate it's readers upon the prospects for
railroad through Beef river valley. if-the
people only vote "those bonds.''
Hon. 3. B. Bundy, the present Judge of
the eighth judicial circuit, and Hon. Henry
Cousins, have been placed in the field for the
Office at the forthcoming election.
The cost of the Legislature, this year, is
$4,000 against 100000 last year, and the
extra session to hear the report of the re-
vision committee, is yet to be heard from.
The county seat of Trempealeau county
was removed from Arcadia to Whitehall on
Friday last. The exultant Whitehallists
celebrated by the firing of ordnance, the
ringing OF bells and a grand illumination.
Arcadia and Gaesville are in mourning.
A notable event in the history of Eau
Claire was steamboat excursion to the
Dells improvement, the 18th inst The Dells
improvement consists of an artificial channel
eighty rods in length, by which about two
and one-half miles of river travel is saved to
the navigator It cost $4,000.
1t is announced that the proposed s.Chip-
pewa Valley railroad will be along the
Chippewa, from its mouth to Eau Clare.
thence Easterly to point somewhere in the
big bend of the Wisconsin Central, probably
Spencer, bi-secting Clark county. The par
ties mainly interested in the construction are
the Eau Claire numbering company, Knapp,
Stout d CO., and other numbering interests
OH the Chippewa and Red Cedar rivers.
Here are a few statistics from the Alma
Erprcss, showing the advancement of Buff
falo county since the year 1851. The first
farm opened in Buffalo county was in the
year 1851, and since that period there has
been an average of 1925 acres broken
yearly, making, in all, total of 8O.575 acres
up to 1877. The first State tax levied on
Buffalo county was in 1854, which was
$l22.5O 1t now pays the sum of $3,5SO.31.
The first school was taught in 1857; to-day
there are eighty different schools. The total
number of horses and mules foots up to
1888. Twenty-six years has made a big
difference in the county, and yet there is
room for many other advancements.
Bismarck viii soon have brick school
house.
A Catholic mission is to be organized at
Grand Forks.
The Bismarck Tribune says the 7th caval-
ry has been ordered to report for field SER
vice.
Over ten thousand acres of land we're
taken last week in the vicinity of Grand
Forks
The Benton transportation company will
make regular trips weekly between Bismarck
and Fort Benton until the close of nayioa-
ton.
BLACK HILLS.
There is but one Protestant church in
Deadwood- Congregational.
.Inhr, of
posure in the recent Black Hills blizzard.
The Black Hills people rejoice. The fall
of snow assures abundant water for mining
purposes.
M. V. Caster and others have located the
Bismarck lode near Central City.
Hundreds of new quartz locations have
bee made in the Black Hills lately and every
day dozen OF more new ones are noted.
The Central City Herald says the snow
was twenty feet deep in Sawpit and Hidden
Treasure gulches.
The Deadwood Pioneer reports the loss of
large amount of stock in the, Centennial
valley during the recent blizzard.
The Black Hills quartz mills are again in
full operation, the snow blockade having
been raised.
The Cheyenne coach was delayed five days
by the blizzard. The Sidney coach had not
been heard from six days afterward.
The placer claims on Deadwood creek
have already yielded $1, 900, and it is es-
timated that at least ST. 100000 more will be
taken out the coming mining season.