Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-09-15
FRONTIER JOTTINGS.

Jorkod or the Bench-Impr0vemonts in
Bismarok-A Premature Excursion.
Correspondence or the Globe
BISMARCK, Sept. Is. Court is over and the
cry of ''kenop' again echoes on the midnight
air. 1t was feared by the keepers Of gaming
tables and proprietors of disorderly houses
that this term of court would mar to some ex-
tent their prospects for another winters cam
paign. The grand jury was liberal one, and
aside from indioting several liquor dealers,
did but little toward the reform of the city's
morals. Bismarck is yet q frontier town, and
the cosmopolitan population do not fully agree
with the old ''blue laws of Massachusetts.
The railroad ejectment cases occupied consid-
arabic Of the courts time, but were decided,
without the voice of the jury, in favor of the
railroad. These land cases were from the new
town of Mandan, across the river.
The land upon which the town was situated
is claimed by the defendants on the ground
that they received their title to the land from
settlers who had actual title prior to the survey
greas. Although actual settlement on the land
u shown by the records of 1859, Judge Barnes
decided that a. they had abandoned the land
the title did not hold good. He considered it
matter of law, and therefore instructed the
jury to render q verdict for plaintiff, fixing
the damages at six cents, whereupon one of the
jurors, who has similar case on the docket,
injudiciously remarked that that might be his
lthe courts verdict, but it was not his. The
Judge became somewhat angered and intimated
that jurors had been
SENT UP FOR CONTEMPT
on smaller offenses than this, During
the session the court took occasion
to severely criticise the photographic
clerk, Stripe, accusing him of 'sgiving away"
items to newspaper men. He did not love re-
porters, and if he ever heard of any thing con-
nected with the court getting into print
through Stripe he would put him into the
Sweat box" for contempt. The Judge also
threatened to bounce from the bar the first
soil, and impaired the cheerful information to
another attorney that he did not know any
thing.
The several indictments found by the grand
jury against persons retailing liquor without
license were based upon the fact that a single
case of beer contained less than FIVE gallons,
therefore necessitating retail license. The
matter was Immediately fixed up, the whole
sale dealers obtaining their license and paying
their money to the county treasurer.
GENERAL NOTES.
JEWELS first directory and history of Bis.
marck, just published, gives the city popu.
laticn of 2,Sl6, making it the third city in the
territory--Deadwood being first and Yankton
second: The CITY contains 1,024 male adults
and $50 school children, and as an evidence OF
Bismarck's freighting interests there are owe,
| 2OO teamsters employed Almost every elias.
| of business is represented and over 800, OOC
we're expended in improvements during the
past year. grist-mill. the finest on the line
OF the Northern Pacific, having four run OF
stone, is being completed, and proposals are
asked for building $4,000 court house and
Jail, to be finished by October, 1880. A new
| Episcopal church costing $4,000 is now under
roof, and Methodist church will be erected
next year, which will give the city foul
churches. There are twenty-five saloons
but there has not been but on,
man killed during the past year from cause,
incident to these institutions. There are nov
six daily mails and the money order bushes.
of the postofice amounts to over $1OO,O
year. 1t will soon become second class Office
The track on the Missouri division now ex
tends thirty-seven miles and tho grading abou
| eighty. The first one hundred miles will b,
completed this fall. Bly's coal bank is on
feet. Good coal is being mined.
Bismarck is by far the greatest telegraph
center in the Northwest. A line has Just beer
4 completed to Standing Rock, and Lieut.. Grimes
! OF the signal corps. has charge of over $50
miles of military lines.
Inc river Is very low. but the Benton lin
advertise steamers for Benton as late as Octo
her 10th. The government freight for al
points above Buford has all been shipped, and
the warehouses are being cleared of privat
freight.
| Considerable breaking is being done in thi
| immediate vicinity and next year promises
| large immigration to this section. There i
plenty of the best farming land in Dakota t,
be had within few miles of this city. A
the contracting business begins to wane th
people are beginning to turn their eye to agri
cultual pursuits. The results this year hav,
! been astonishing.
The first passenger coach to CROSS the Mis-
souri, river on the Northern Pacific was tn,
Frank Thompson, Pennsylvania palace car, No
! 16O. party of Bismarokers took it on an ex
cursion to the end of the track on the exten
| sion. Frank Dilworth, Manager Sergeant
and others of the Northern Pacific feel some
what hurt, as they expected to make it grea
event. BISMARCK.