Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-12-24


high point, held by Mr.. Dana, of Spring
has just finished neat frame house, where
he lives in good style with his lovely young
wife, whom he recently married in Topeka,
Kansas, just after she had graduated at
fashionable eastern school. I found her
dressed in the latest city fashions, but he
roically standing up to all tho work of
pioneers wife. A mile west of Dana's is
Simralps Point, picturesque ridge COM
handing glorious view of the lake for
nearly twenty miles east and west. There
is splendid beach in front of it and
groves of elms and oaks lend variety to the
scene. Mr.. Simralrs charming Kentucky
family went out there in June, and
every member of it is an enthusiast over
the country, the lake and the fun Of
roughing it. just northwest of this is the
projected Metropolis of Devils Lake city,
OF which Major Bsnham is the big boss
boomer, with staff of such able lieu
Bennett. The embryo 'c;ty" now con-
or sod mansions. Benham keeps the best
hotel in all the land of diabolical nomen-
clature. Here on the last night of my
Col. Uline rode down from their fortress,
accompanied by Charley Ward, bright
and handsome nephew of Charley Farwell,
of Chicago, whom I have promised to in
troduce this winter to some of our bewitch-
ing Fargo and Moorhead girls;
Bennett walked up from Dana's,
and number of the neiehbor
ing claim holders dropped in "sort o. free
oYd az iIA hoI
Just in front of the city is "Roaring
Beach" the claim of Zina Doty, of our firm,
where the surf rolls in with a real Atlantic
City or Ocean Beach thunder.
You haven't mentioned the newly pro-
iected town of Odessa; what of it?
hardly know what do think of it.
The site is fat point of sand and gravel.
lying on "The Narrows," a channel about
400 feet wide connecting the upper and
lower lakes. It is about four miles from
the southeastern end of the lake. Back of
it lies an alkali fiat or marsh from two to
three miles wide. To get to the place the
railroad will have to turn from the present
through range after range of high
and rugged buttes, and then build
trestle-work across the alkali flats of
which spoke. It certainly did not strike
me as promising site for a town. but
there is no telling what great railroad
and unlimited blowing may accomplish
IN the wonderland. The ''city" now con-
sists of four or five shanties, and a hotel in
two sections, the ''dormitory" or sleeping
den being about quarter of mile from
the culinary and masticatory department.
Spinning along between the two the other
morning before daylight in light open
wagon with Major Benham, we struck a
clothes-ine across the road, and instanta-
neously started the iveliest circus and
satisfactory you ever saw.
Now, what of the lake, itself?
Its very name is an outrage The In
dian word is "Minnewakan,'' which means
"Strange-Spirit Waters" or mysterious
Waters" The Indians have no devil though
they often raise it. The lake is about fifty
five miles long from southeast to north
west, and its widest place about eight miles
across. The water is salt and has all the
properties of sea water, though in di-
luted form, and is said to be effective in
curing rheumatism and various forms of
nervous disease. The beach is in many
places as fine as you ever saw on the At
| lantic coast, and the surf bathing is glor-
| ious beyond description.
1t is wild and picturesque. From any
high point on the north shore the eye
| takes in grand panorama of blue lake
| and haze-enshrinded mountainous cliffs.
| forest and valley and far-rolling plain.
Down at the east end of the lake is the
grand forest in which the old chief sIron
Heart" has his camp.
Away across on the south shore, tower
ing aloft like a mighty pyramid, is the
| Devils Heart" a mountain peak that can
be seen for forty miles; west of it is Fort
Totten, and skirting the inland sea for
many miles the white cliffs, the gravely
| beach and the waving woods. It is a land
of great expectations. If the anticipa-
tions of the people are realized the next
Fourth of July will find the whole shore
sown broadcast with mighty cities, Long
Branch and Cape May hotels will cover
every broad beach and magnificent resi-
dences crown every cliff, band stands and
royal pagodas will be as thick as wild
geese and mosquitoes, a thousand majestic
steamers flying the flags of all nations
will cast anchor in the
harbors, and the commerce of
the world will pour in by way
of Hudson's bay and Nelson's
river, through Lake Winnipeg and thence
by ship canal to DEVILS lake. The whole
air will be filled with music, and the cares
that infest the day will fold up their buds
like claim jumper's tent and as silently
steal away to the Indian reservation on
the other side. Universities, colleges, hos
pitfalls and cathedrals will rise like magic
exhalations, and the fashionable counting
couples or flirting pairs will drift in their
gay yachts or gondolas on every crested
wave.
And now, colonel one last question;
where is the town to be?
My young friend, if the forked- tailed
and double-tongued individual for whom
| the region is christened can tell that, he is
devil of a sight better informed than I
am. must get you to let me off for this
time.
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