Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-12-27
DAKOTA&HONPA ANA
Our NORTHWESTERN NEIGHBORS,
News Gleanings and Points Specially
Collected and Forwarded by geIe-
graph to tlleIpanyIGlobe.
iFargo Special Telegrems, Dec. IS, to tho st.
Paul Globe
Dekota END uontGssa Notes.


Farmer" had fair audiences at Fargo, on
Christmas day and night.
Helena lost one of it's most valued clti-
zens in the death of Nicholas Miller, the
Big Boot" merchant, the past week.
A syndicate recently formed has pur-
chased tbs townsits of Milnor. the new
county seat Of the new county of Sargsns.
for $4,000.
On the 18th, at Fountain City, Wis,
Fred Vszgsii, prominent merchant of
La Aoure, married Miss Emma Lecken-
burg, and they are heartily welcomed by
their Dakota friends.
The houss Of Rev. E. E. Tyson was to-
tally destroyed by frs at Breckenridge
one morning the past week. The loss is a
severe one for preacher. A subscription
for his relief is being made up.
The surveyors of the Burlington extern
sion, from Pipes!one to Worthinzton, had
couple of their camping fonts burned
which contained all the papers belonging
to the survey, again at q cost Of some
$500.
Among those who were remembered with
gold watches in Fargo on Christmas were
Mayor Roper, of the Sherman hotel; Will.
Fenton, Of No. 1 hand hose company; and
w. e. Davenport, manager of the Coli
scum theatre.
The O., M d st. Paul have a travelling
agent with headquarters at Fargo and
Moorhead, which looks as if that great
corporation had an eye to the futnre in
| north Dakota and Minnesota. If the ST.
| Paul roads do not wake up little they
will ind good many Of their ches.nuts
pulled out of the fire.
A large number of the most prominent
farmers of RichIand county, met at
Wahpeton Saturday to perfect an organic
elton to subserve their interests in the
matter Of wheat grades and freight rates.
Samuel Taylor was elected president.
There is a general movement of this sort
III the couaties Of the Red River valley.
john E. Mccullough, nsw settler in
Wslsh county, lately left for months
vlsis to his old home in the states. He
wants wife, and expects to ind the
eastern girls SO eager to come to Dakota or
| get married that four weeks will be ample
time to make his choice and perfect ell
the arrangements. If he does Mos bring
back q fsmale woman il Will be because
| his hopas fail CT fruition.
Tks village Of Yorkton in Diokey coun-
ty was settled within the past year by a
| colony Of about LOO persons from western
Nav York, and has already developed into
q aouri.hing point wish promise of more
| rapid growth the coming year. It has a
beautiful location in the midst of some of
the best farming land, and railways are al
ready coming TO il. Its community COM
prisss probably more educated people
than can be found in any other new town.
En- another year it will have all the COM
forts and advantages of the best towns in
! the states.
The Montana papers have particulars of
the pursuit and capture Of the robbers at
| the store at Sseyensville, already reported.
a large party Of citizens followed their
trail through the snow, which was three
feet deep, and a correspondent of the Mis-
! scala Times, who was with them says:
About o'clsck a. m, Thursdsy, our party
camo upon tho thieves, who were in bed
and sound asleep. A command of throw
up your hands was given, but no, response;
| a second and third command was given,
| when one of them raIaed up and glanced
at the situation, our men still shouting
'haads up" The thief then dropped down
| in bed and raised up, with q revolver in
hand, and was in the act of firing when a
vellsy of nusketry soon dispatched him.
The other two jumped up and threw up
their haEds and surrendered. They were
then searched and the stolen treasures re-
covered. Their equip consisted of two
| old blankets, Elk sixshooters, one Sharp's
rifle (army style) one short double bar
relied shot gun, No. 10 CAL, and one Win
chester, IS cal.
The friends of Major Edwards express
surprise Tint the dispositions produced in
regard to the affairs of the Chicago Pro
lection Life Insurance company, in the
libel suit, show SO little. It appesrs that
| out Of aome S8,000,000 OF monies paid out
On losses, only about twenty cases are ad-
aueed where anything erroneous is alleged.
It seems from the facts developed and
known to many, thai good de&l of irepo-
sition was practiced on that company by
many Of its local agents in taking risks
in vast numbsr of cases persons in the
last stages Of disease ware drummed mp
aud insured, and in some instances dis
honest agents no doubt shared the &c oney,
1 shO IASuESu Ill VI law hlOH1 1bosoASSo AiOL
even beiHg aware that they we're insarsd.
The company naturally resisted tho pay
| ment or compromised these cases when
discovered in season One fact is beyond
dispute, viz: that Major E9munds lost all
the money that he put into the company
sad came out ut the bottom Of tha financial
! adder.
Dakota is in unique condition as regards
it's govsrnmses. It's seat Of aushority is bi-
faYcated. par. of the offoixls recognize
Yankton as the capital, aud tbs governor
and those imbued pith his Fpirit quarter
ss Bismarck. Governor Ortway isaues
| message or proclamation and dates il at
Bismarck, as the capital and
| the secretary Of stats sstesss
| il vita the seal at Yankton. The
beard Of equalization, which is required
to meet at the capital eonvers at Bis
| marsk. The sspssme court, which is aiss
required to hold lbs sessions at the capital,
still sits ss Yankton. A large majority of
the people of the territory hold to she old
| location and refuse to recognize
the msndsts Of the governor making the
new location. If the question is NOS pre-
| viously determined by the supreme court,
there will be very psrplexing compliea-
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