Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-10-20
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Our NORTHWESTERN NEIGHB0RSS.
News Gleanings and Points Specially
Collected and Forwarded by Tele-
graph to the Daily Glebe.
Fargo Special kilograms, Oct. 10, to the st.
Paul Globe.
Dakota and Montana Notes.

An inquest at Junction City, Mon, de-
cided that A. T. Moore committed suicide
shooting himself with pistol through the
head.
The continued and heavy rain has
played hob with the races at Fargo. Even
if it clears up the track will be too heavy
this week.
Mr.. Cafercy, a poet and lawyer, of Bis
marck, delivered en- entertaining and in
structive lecture upon the siege of Malta,
in Fargo Thursday night.
J. W. Grannis, of Cleveland, O., has
bought the interest of Mr.. Il. Stark in
the Northern Tier at Cfookston, and the
latter will go to Washington territory.
Fergus Falls, Mimi, broke ground this
week Tor gas works. Jas. W. Morse is
superintendent of the works and he ex-
poets to lay about three miles OF mains
this fall.
Messrs. Grant and Niche, near Lamp
ton in Walsh county, lost their entire crop
of hay and grain by prairie fire, supposed
to be caused by the cigar of some passer, a
few days since.
On the farm of Jerome Lamay on the
9Th steam thresher, owned by MoClain
Bros, one stack of wheat and one of bar
ley were burned from a coal dropping from
the engine and setting fire to the stubble.
The county of Mclean, on the Missouri,
north of Bismarck, has just been crgan-
lied and commissioners appointed. This
county has coal beds, and expects to secure
a railroad next year. Washburn is the
county seat.
The Marquis de Mores has made ar
rangements to establish an extensive
Strengthening establishment at Billings.
The people of the town have agreed to
give him 160 acres of land near town, and
an ice house with 5000 tons of ice.
E. J. Taylor, of Larimore, Oak, has
gone to Moorhead, Mimi, where, in con-
nection with J. D. Calkins, he will start
Democratic paper. 1t is believed there is
command patronage both sides of the
Red.
The ladies of the Episcopal church at
Grand Forks commence fair Wednesday
night with an elegant display, old fashion
ed New England supper and the original
Peake sisters among the attractions. The
results will be extremely satisfactory IN
less the weather is too bad.
Rev. A. W. Edwards preached his fare
well sermon at Crookston last Sunday,
as the conference has rotated him to Man
kato. His initials cause him to be taken
for the editor of Fargo paper frequently,
but the relationship of ths parties is only
through the ties Of religious fraternity.
The government superintendent OF the
Yellowstone park, Major Conger, estimates
the number of visitors to the park during
the past season at 10000, about one-fourth
of whom went by rail and stage, and the
rest by private conveyance. The antici-
pations for the next season are among the
large figures.
The bad weather delayed operations on
the Fargo Southern Wednesday, and the
first spike was not driven. The rails and
ties are coming forward rapidly, and the
work will not be long delayed, but it will
be nip and tuck between the track layers
and winter to see which shall get to Or
tonville first.
Sparks from passing locomotive were
the means of starting destructive prairie
fire between Egan and Colman, Moody
county. Stacks of grain and hay and the
residence of A. j. Waller were consumed.
Total loss $4,000. Suits amounting to
$500 have already been Instituted against
the railway company.
An extra force was put upon the peni-
Tertiary at Bismarck yesterday, and it is
designed to get in ahead of winter if pos
sible. The work on the capitol Is progress
sing and will continue unless there is a
failure to realize the means at the sale of
lots commencing on the Goth. The courage
and energy of the live men of the capital
CITY are equal to any emergency.
Surveyors are running the proposed line
of the Northern Pacific to the James River
at Grand Rapids and La Moure. 1t is sup
posed that it is the intention next year TO
build this line, which runs down the river
from Bismarck to Fort Yates, and it is said
that by building 125 miles the Northern
Pacific will gain sixty miles on the dis
lance from st. Paul to Bismarck.
Staples and Shannon, arrested at Still
water for completely in the robbery of the
Teller trunk in Montana, are held at Bis
marck and will have an examination theI e,
althou h Montana sheriff has appeared
with requisition to take them to the
county where the robbery was committed.
AS Bismarck parties run the thing down,
they prefer to have these parties examined
there.
A. J. Richards, who is one Of the dis
coverers and explorers of the Occur deal
enc gold fields in Montana, writes to the
Helena Independent, asserting that there
is large extent of country that give indi-
cations of placer mining grounds, and he
thinks will become one Of the leading
mining regions. He advises people not
to go there till spring as nothing can be
done in the winter.
Saturday night, near Northern Pacific
Junction, on the Northern Pacific railroad
in the darkness, the east-bound passenger
run over something on the track which,
when the pieces were gathered together,
proved to be an Indian and squaw and
bottle that held whisky. The moral seemed
to be that Indians when drunk could not
sleep on railroad track with auy more
safety than white folks.
The track laying on the Moorhead Nor
thern R. R., will only continue this season