Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-12-30
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OUR NORTHWESTERN NEIGHBORN.
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business, which will be six stories high. The
| GLOBE do boom.
An evidence of culture ard refinement in Mon
tana is seen in the celebration of Whittiers
birthday at Helena, on the 18th. The exercises
were good and interesting.
Eastern parties are iuve stigatiDg the feasibil-
lty of establishing smelling works at Helena.
There is good deal of kicking at the PROPOSE
| ton TO take them to st. Paul.
| public meeting was held at jamestown on
the night of the 9th to make provision for the
relief of the destitute, of whom there are always
large number in Dakota towns in the long
| wi'tsr, when there is comparatively little EN-
plsyment to be had.
| The patrons of the Grand Central, at James,
town, apprecia tie good table service, aspect
ally when the walters are pretty and smile east
| ly. One received Christmas presente amount
\ ing to $l22---that.w was ''Gentle Annie' Scholz;
Lizzie Murray $50, and SO on.
! Congressman Nelson Is said to have secured
| liberal allowances for the postofice at Fergus
| Falls, and it is soon to be removed to hand
some room IN one OF the most central locations
with various other improvements 1t is thought
| that he may succeed in also getting an apprepri
at on for building.
| The popular and handsome W. J. Farrell, of
the Chicago store at Fergus Falls, is to ineugu-
rate the New Year by becoming the husband of
the blithe Lettie Abandon. The example is
commendable, it furnishes some guarantee
for the integrity of the good purposes put on the
| mental blackboard generally by young men
the beginning of the New Yea;.
John Haier, who was reported stabbed in a
! saloon controversy at Casselton few weeks
| ago, died on the Goth. He was formerly deputy
/ DQrIff of MI
been orrested and are in jail. 1t is stated that
| SIX years ago five men who were associated
| lived at Winona, MINI. Four of the number
died by violence, and John AIaier was one of the
| four.
| number of the south Dakota rapers are dis
| cussing the name of Hon. Geo. II. Walsh, of
Grand Forks, as candidate for congress next
| fall. He is man of much force and would
| push Dakota interests no doubt to the best of
| his ability, but it would be stretch of magma
n nifty not to be expected of the south with two
! thirds of the votes, should again give the north
| the delegate. 1t would be taken is a further
| evidence that the north has the cute men who
pull wool over the eyes.
| Billings is callen by its enthusiastic citizens
the Magic City, and if it is a little extravaganza
it may be pardoned as an evidence of praise
worthy local pride. The place has some reason
for gratulations upon its prospects at Leaf.
Many handsome residences have been put I'D
| the past year and others are to be erected. The
Marquis de Mores will invest $4,000 or more
| there the coming season in his refrigerator and
slaughter house. A $4,000 school house is
| nearly completed. A Jail is being built for the
accommodation of cratic strangers, and the
place has two live papers, one daily and a
weekly.
The committee appointed by the chamber of
commerce at Grand Forks, has issued an address
| to the farmers and business men of north Da.
| kota, in which they allege that the farmers are
deprived of the legitimate reward of their labors
| by a combination of railroad corporations, ele-
| vators and Mi)lers' association, to control the
| grading and shipment of wheat. They state
| that this combination has resulted in the adop-
ton of system of unjust and unlawful grading
down, Irregularities and stealing Of weights in
the purchase OF wheat-that in consequence the
farmers have become embarrassed and unable to
meet their maturing obligations, and Shylocks
have taken advantage of their necessities and
| extorted fr.m SO to 300 pr cent. per annum
A convention is called to meet at Grand Forks
January 20, composed of delegates from the
several counties chosen "a the 24th, to devise
measures of relief.
Mention has been made of the arrest of M
Wettstein and his translation to Wisconsin to
explain financial transactions. 1t is alleged that
| which Mr.. Wettstein is part, having ramifica-
tons in Milwaukee, Chicago and other cities,
whose business has been to work sinuous
methods OF gathering goods. Wsttstein is said
to have failed twice the past year, and was
probably a success at failing. Last August he
| made statement to his creditors that his stock
| OF clothing was worth $4,000, with about 81
COO of other property, and owed not more than
| S2,20o. Under this statement he was given
| credit by Milwaukee parties for $4,000 worth
| OF goods. He gave mortgages to relatives for
| large amounts for alleged money borrowed. and
his stock dwindled unaccountably to about the
| size OF these mortgages The amounts still
| claimed by the Milwaukee creditors are about
| S5,O0O, and they are puzzled how to collect it
| unless certain alleged attempts to beat them are
| defeated. There are other parties to be arrested
Hearing las had the past week before Justice
| Hayward at jamestown in the case of Maggie
Robertson VS.. DR.. r. g. De Puy, charged with
| rape. The DOCTOR is a man of good standing,
| and has many friends who believe in his inno-
cence AID deep interest is taken in the matter,
as is not infrequent in cases of that character.
The crime is alleged to have beeu perpetrated
| about the 1st of July. Miss Robertson testified
that DE Puy was her doctor during an illness
! of several months. She claims to be approach
ing mate nity-only knew its cause by being
| told by DR.. De Puy, alleging Inconsistencies
| at the time. That he wanted her to use extreme
abortion remedies, and offered to pay her ex.
penses to Michigan or Scotland for that purpose.
She was positive that no other party could be
| held responsible for her condition There was
some circumstantial support given her chief
statements, bat the evidence was not fully de-
veloped at last accounts. The doctor takes a
very different view of the situation historically,
and there is quite feeling that his narration is
not overthrown, but the result will be given
hereafter
The Keystone Commercial, for unknown rea-
sons, seems determined TO spoil the sensation
that has given the St. Paul papers SO many dis
patches and much elaborate reliable informa-
ton about the great number of human STEELE
tons and remains of horses found In Dickey
county resumed to be the theater of any number
of known or unknown battles or massacres
The locality is about fifteen miles from Kew
stone, and the local paper cuts the story down
to two human skeletons and about forty horse
remains. There were few relics also found
such as piece of a saddle, common case
knife, a Ratchet, several horse shoes, a plan
ter's hoe, piece of a gun barrel, some tinware.
several steel arrow points, vertebra of a buff
falo in which two arrows are sticking, and a
horn spoon. All of these and one of the skulls
now adorn the sanctum of the Keystone editor
to show that they are Indian remains. There
is nothir remarkable about the matter as it il
no uncommon occurrence to find one or two
skeletons about the prairie in that section. Ii
referring to some of the speculations the editor