Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-12-07
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CUR NORTHWESTERN NEIGHR0RS.
News Gleanings and Points Specially
Collected and Forwarded by Te,e-
graph TO The Daily Globe.
Fargo Special kilograms, Dec. 6, to the St
Paul Globe.
Dakota and asentana Notes.

Paul Globe
Dakota AID Montana Notes.
On Monday young man named Hans
Hansen was killed by falling tree near
Rolling, Clay county, MINI.
Re3feld wants an artesian VIII and city
heu, bat concludes that the well is most
urgently needed. Il is estimated to cost
$4,000.
The Glendive Times says that plenty of
deer are foand within half mile of that
town. There is an abundance OF other
smaller game.
New hose companies are being organ
lied in Fargo, and moro efficient steps
taken to save property at fires. The in
surance agents have been kicking over the
thing.
Grand Rapids lost one of it's most inter
esting young ladies' the past week. in the
marriage of Miss Clara E. Worthington to
j. B. Kelsey, of Mount Vernon, in Dawson
county. "A
W. Fl. Speaker has sold his interest in
the bright AID handsome little Euening
Capital at Jamestown and will return to
Chicago. He has probably found profit
i'll the paper.
few days ago Jacob Argue, yard
switchman at Brainerd, fell from freight
car and crushed his legs so that both were
amputated. He will probably recover
He was married few months since.
The candy pull at the Methodist church
in Fargo Tuesday night brought to the
fore rare amount Of the saccharine mat
ter. The susceptible young men thought
that the girls in their tasty aprons were
genuine tatfy.
The La Moure papers insist that trains
will be run through daily to that place on
the Fargo Southwestern branch of the
Northern Pacific during the winter re-
CARELESS of snow or weather. There is
no doubt that every effort will be made to
keep the line open.
GAINESVILLE is out of humor at the Man
itoba railroad for building its depot,
round house and machine shops mile
from the existing city. The depot is quite
stylish one, and it is supposed the town
will be drawn toward it regardless of the
plants of the property owners.
Cliff. Whiting, who was acting as wheat
inspector at Buxton, and was SO terribly
jammed between cara, has been brought to
Grand Forks for treatment. but there is
little hope of his recovery. His father,
who is superintendent OF an elevator sys-
tenn at Minneapolis, is with him.
The new Methodist church at Lisbon
was dedicated last Sunday by Presiding
Elder Hair, with interesting ceremonies,
among which was the raising of several
hundred dollars to complete the payment
on the ediice. It is a neat and conven-
lent, but hardly large enough house for a
locality that has SO high anticipations.
Among the social novelties at James
town was ''dust cap and oyster social'
held at the Dakota house on the evening
of the 9th. 1t was one of the most elabo-
rate and unique entertainments of the
church variety ever held in the place, and
the results were extremely invigorating to
the NJ. E. treasury, and the large company
found abundant enjoyment.
1t is reported that the preachers at
Grand Forks last week got together and
drew straws to see which pulpit each
should fill on the following Sunday, and
the result was kept profound secret.
Church goers were unable to tell who they
were to listen to until the service begun .
But there was no serious mixtures of the
theologies.
Wednesday an excursion train took Mr..
b. Tanner, of Buffalo, N. Y, prominent
stakeholder and capitalist, over the sixteen
miles of the Fargo Southern completed
from Fargo, with number of gentlemen
and ladies of Fargo, and newspaper men.
Refreshments were provided by Frank
Tanner, and all had pleasant time At
Hickson, sixteen miles out, there was the
indication of nice little town, and at
Riceyille two saloons and large store.
1t is reported that an eastern syndicate
has purchased the six townships lately
Withdrawn from market by the Northern
Pacific railroad. Some of these are III
La Mouie. 1t IS hoped that they will be
sold to settlers and not made bonanza
farms. These immense farms SO often
found in the railroad limits of the North
ern Pacific may have been useful in the
past as advertisements of the country, but
they are great detriment to the region in
which they are located. They are opera
ted by large gangs of transient hands and
prevent the settling up of the country.
There has for long time been a gang
of thieves infesting the Bear creek region
in La Moure county. They have had caves
made in the side hills in secluded sections,
and have done large business in the
way Of stealing horses and wheat. The
last team of horses stolen was found in an
underground stable. 1t has been very
easy to steal wheat as it is generally in
granaries remote from the residences of
farmers. One man who appeared to be an
honest claim holder, named McCann, has
been arrested, charged with stealing
wheat found on his premises. The evil
dece is not sufficient to charge that he be-
longs to the gang, but he has been bound
over for trial in $500.
Among the new roads that have been
given birth on paper at least, are one
from Buford to Steele, with its headquar-
tiers at Steele, with capital stock of 3d.
100000, and the Dakota d Minnesota rail
road, which is to run from some point on
the James River Valley railroad. either in
Stutsman. or La Moure county, through