Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, D.T. [N.D.]) 1878-1884, 1882-04-28
NEWS COMMENTS.

The Moorhead News refers to Fargo as
West Moorhead.
IT is said on good authority that work will
be commenced at both ends of the line this
year on the Fort Benton, Barker and Yellow
stone railroad. s*
The immigration boom is being felt in
every part of Dakota. The Watertown
News of the 22d, says that during the past
sixteen days, up to that date, ninety-six cars
of immigrant goods had arrived there, on
that date, this spring more of this kind of
freight has been received there than during
. all Of last year. .-
"a story is going the rounds in Fargo about
man seeing silk hat in the middle of the
street and goingIo Iout after it. On taking it
up he was astonished to see a human face
looking up at him. He offered to help the
unfortunate man out OF the mud and re-
ceived the reply: ~ amt stuck in the mud,
Pm sitting on the top Of an omnibus down
here"
HELssA HERALn IL: The misguided maid
ems Of Miles City are being lectured on the
eviIof their ways ~ Helen Mora. Helen said
she knew how it was herself for fifteen years
and has come to the conclusion that she led
life 80 wicked during that time that the
stain can only be wiped out by devoting her
declining years to saving the frall and the
fair &
MONTANA has considerable list of cattle
growers whose herds number from 1000 to
5000 head each. There are several company
ownerships supposed to reach as high as 49,
600 to 1900 head and two or more not to
exceed 10000. California, thus far, is some
what in the lead il this respect. Miller &
Lux have on their various ranges $4,000 head
of cattle and of sheep 10000 head. They
have 500 men in their employ.
HoRsEs are said to be very scarce in the
Benton market. The River News saws: Or
dinary cayuse bring from $75 to $3.50. The
prices on good horses run up in proportion.
This seems little odd that these useful ami
mails, in a country that has given its atten-
ton to stock growing for the last twenty
years, and where few years ago large
herds of horses roamed the plains and were
brought into Benton for shipment to eastern
markets, should become so scarce all at once
But such seems to be thec case.
COLONIES are becoming all the rage in Da-
kota. We have heard of Christian colonies
and all sorts of colonies, but the last one
takes the cake-its an old maids colony from
Massachusetts. Mack, the Yankton Press
correspondent tells of this colony as follows.
'"rhe other day thirteen old maids from Mas
sachussetts located in body in the northern
part of Brown County. Some of are
them quite comely lasses, and seemed
to strike so deeply into the hearts
of some old bachelors, and some
young ones too, for that matter, that
the boys are thinking of getting land up
there also. The chance to tumble into good
society and quarter section of land could
not be bettered in the west, and the ";an in
need OF the land and the hereditaments
thereto belonging, is BOBBY if he don't
plant himself in that Massachusetts colony
MAJOR j. H. DONOVAN, mention of whose
death was made in these columns yesterday,
was an odd character. While stationed at
the Cheyenne Indian Agency 1--WE think it
was in the year 1873 when the incident which
follows occurred) he hauled a six pound can
non early one morning in front of the COM
manding officers door and began lombard
ing his quarters with blank cartridges. A
few years before that date he was adjudged
insane and removed to the government mill
tary asylum at Washington. A certain we'll
known lieutenant was obliged to escort the
major Che was then known as captain) to his
destination. On reaching Sioux City the lieu
tenant became so mnch under the influence
of the rosy, that the lunatic was obliged to
take care of f4Aim., 1t was noYel sight to see
the lunatic trying to quiet his keeper. The
Army and Navy Journal referring to- the
death Of Major Donovan says: "Retired
June 2Sth 1878, in consequence of disabil-
ity resulting from fearful wound in the
head, destroying one eye, received at the battle
of Fredericksburg, and which finally, con-
nected with other ailments, eliminated in
softening of the brain, and ending his life as
stated above. Captain Donovan was brave,
warm hearted and impulsive, the latter quail
ity often leading him into scrapes during his
service in the army; but those who knew him
best will cherish the memory Of generous
and loving friend and companion. One who
knew him well remarked on hearing of his
death: Donovan was splendid soldier
and one of the best of men, His wounds