Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-11-29
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Fargo Special kilograms, Nov. 81, to the st.
Paul Globe.
DAKOTA and Montana Notes.

ing rink tonight was race for lads under
fifteen years OF age.
Judge l. e. West, the revenue agent for
north Dakota, has gone to ST. Paul to meet
his family, and will reside in Fargo.
Gov. Austin's family have arrived in
Fargo and taken possession of the splen-
old Polk mansion on Thirteenth street.
There were thirteen applicants for tie
vacancy caused by the death of Sheriff
Larcom. of Moorhead, but Capt. G. P.
Sloggy,sof the Key City hotel, was the
favorite of the county board.
Appomatoz, the new town in Potter
county, claims the champion lady skater
in Mrs. Bishop Gleason, who received the
premium in Chicago for her grace and &C.
lerity on the ice.
1t is said that the surveyors will soon
start to survey railroad line from Wash
ington, in Mobiles county, Mimi, to Bis
marck. in the interest of The Burlington,
Cedar Rapids & Northern railroad.
Ben. Hogan, the reformed pugiIist, has
been carrying on religious work at
Silver City, Montana, recently, and seem
quite an extensive subititution of religion
for rum.
The past week the rails have gone down
rapidly on the Helena & Jefferson County
railroad. Jefferson City was reached Fri
day, and 1t is expected TO be completed to
Wiches to morrow, and the cars running
by December 1st.
4 party of engineers passed La Moure
the past week running a railroad line
from some point on the Northern Pacific
200 miles or so south, but they were re-
luctant to give definite information, if
they knew themselves.
The city council Monday night granted
the Fargo Southern the right of way
down Second street to Broadway, and the
llckers failed to stop it. This will give
the road as convenient access TO the bdsi-
ness as the other roads hare.
Gas is being put in The offices Of both
the daily papers in Fargo this week. Some
of the ill-humored critics attempt to dis
play their wit over the matter by the sug-
gestion that the papers seemed to have a
liberal supply of gaseous and inflammable
matter on hand previously.
Rev. c. @. Golf, the newly called pastor
of The Congregational church at Grand
Forks, is TO be installed December s.,
when many prominent diyines are expect
ed from abroad, among them Rev. Mr..
Dana, of St. Paul. The society is quite
enthusiastic over the new pastor.
A company Of Iowa men said to
have capital OF 100000 has been Or
genized to mine coal in Mclean county.
just above Bismarck on the river, and ex-
peot to supply north Dakota at a much
cheaper rate than has been had. It is
claimed to be a good quality of coal.
The general manager of the Fargo
Southern railroad, w. A. Kindred, who is
statement that the road will be open from
Fargo to Wehpeton by Christmas. Still
it will be safe to give a margin to New
Years. Much depends upon the weather.
A few evenings since there was coils
ion on the Moorhead Northern, about two
miles from Moorhead between boarding
car of a construction train and a caboose
of Il freight. Aside from pretty rough
shaking up of passengers and the wreck
ing of the boarding cars, little damage
was done.
Among the results of the late term of
court at Helena, Hector Mclean goes to
the penitentiary one year for stealing a
letter from the postoffice. Chas. Mayo,
John Ryan and James Clarke go up for
three years, and William q. Smith, an Hi
nois man, who was convicted of stealing
two horses, he's three years also.
G. S. Cleveland, who started the first
paper in La Moure county, has now reaped
the reward Of his enterprise and nerve by
the hand and heart of Miss Julia Wild
mayer, of Dewitt, Mich. The junction was
effected at La Moure, and all the indice-
tons leave no room for supposing di-
vorce will ever be needed, although it is
said that risks taken in newspaper men
rank in hymenial circles as extra hazard
GUS.
In the township of York, Dickey county,
which IS all taken up by fine class of
settlers, Charles Birdsall has recently be-
come one Of the parents OF the fist child
ever born IL the township, so far as there
is historical evidence The town author
tiles h2ys sst aside and viii deed the boy
one OF The finest lots in the township. 10
relieve the town from unjust imputafions
it should be stated that the first settle
ments were made the past year.
W. P. Kelley, one of the early settlers
and most esteemed residents of Fargo, has
five sons among the popular business men
of the city, and although he has far passed
the MONDAY OF life, is still as athletic and
vigorous as any Of his boys. He is
familiarly known as 'Pap Kelley" and bis
excellent wife as "Mother Kelley" The
world is as bright to them as in the heydey
of youth, when they started on the pros
porous journey of life in the old home in
The east.
The acceptance by Gen. Haupt of the
presidency of the Tower City & Sioux City
railroad, called the Great Southern, de-
stroys confidence in the scheme in quar-
ters where it was before we'll thought of.
There seems no good reason to doubt the
claims of it's friends that it is to be con-
structed and put in operation the coming
ear. 1t taps the Northern Pacific forty
miles west of Fargo and runs through
fine agricultural country all the way to
Sioux City.
great number of young men who have
been holding down claims in north Dakota
have gone back to the states to spend the
winter, nominally to visit friends, but in
the great majority of cases to secure wives