Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-11-28
Dakota and AIostona No.es.

Dakota and 1LOs.t0na Nokes,
E. D. Foster, the pioneer editor Of
jamestown, has gone to Tacoma, Wash
ington territory, to grow up with the
country.
One night the past week the bridge on
the Manitoba over the Turtle river was
burned, being set on fire by an incendiary,
it is asserted.
Col. Donan has been invited to deliver
the Thanksgiving sermon at jamestown,
and will probably accept. His effort will
be in different vein from his banana
oratory.
Sheriff jerks has started on the long
journey from Grand Forks to Sioux Falls
with tho two prisoners, the latter, Frank
Keough and Frank Hogan, to serve year
and half or SO.
A large gang of men discharged by the
railroad at Livingston have been trying to
deadhead their way to st. Paul as they had
no money or work. The sheriff put them
Off the train in Custer county.
81. Higham has returned to Grand Forks
with the good wife he picked up in Mimi
esota. She was Miss Emma 3. Arnold, of
Lake City. She will prove valuable ad-
dition to the society of the place.
The Rowland house in Aberdeen, the
county seat of the fertile county of Brown,
was sold the past week. This is said to
be the Oldest structure in the city, and yet
it goes back little more than two years.
Grand Forks has lately shipped q large
lot Of -four direct to London and the Her
aid claims that it is the first city in Da-
kota to icaugurate expectation TO foreign
countries and anticipates largo trade to
grow up in that direction.
a large party, of which n. H Lowe, of
st. Paul, is one, are camped in the timber
some twenty miles from Brainerd for q
big hunt. They are equipped for bear
and large game, and have a good assert
ment of antidotes tor snake bites.
The Congregational church at Billings,
recently dedicated, cost $4,000 aside from
the land and is high credit to the place.
1t Is due to the liberality and munifcence
of Hon. Fred Billings, the millionaire OK.
president of the Northern Pacific.
M. p. Clark and wife and three
daughters at Ortonville, Mimi, recently,
barely escaped smothering to death from
coal gas from the stove. The noise of one
of the children vomiting awoke Mrs. G.
IN time to open the doors and windows.
The Marquis de Mo res was in Billings
recently and informed the citizens that he
would accept the offer made by the board
of trade and erect slaughter houses there,
and be ready to kill 10000 beeves next
year. The place is hopeful of large cat
tie trade.
Brainerd claims that it's Opera house,
which is being dedicated this week, is, with
two exceptions, the finest structure of the
kind IN the northwest. 1t is an institution
of which the city may well be proud.
Phosa McAllister has the honor of inaugu-
rating it.
Col. w. O. Plummer, the locally popular
candidate for governor of Dakota, has re-
Gently sold his La Moure botanza farm,
and will spend most Of the winter in the
east studying the agencies of the political
sooth sayers, and visiting the scenes OF his
carly life.
A slight injustice has been done the
hunters from Jamestown who went out
about Dickinson to hunt buffalo a few
weeks. They actually brought home with
them eight deers. There are plenty of
them found III the markets at Dickinson
and Mandau.
Highway robberies are becoming alarm
ingly frequent in Grand Forks and that
vicinity, and the papers there think the
place Is infested by a gang of desperadoes
who take advantage of the farmers, espe-
cially as they return from town with the
money for wheat.
Rev. G. F. Hopkins, of the Baptish
church in Fargo. rendered his resignation
Sunday night, fgreatly to the regret Of
most of the church, as he is quite popular
especially among the young people, of
whom he is one. Some of the ancients
think he is too lively for preacher.
VIM. Thomas and wife and daughter
have gone to Kasson, Mimi, to spend the
winter with relatives and will return in the
spring with quite little colony to settle
on the fine farming land near Portland
on the Goose, as the Dakota Portland is
termed on account of the small river of
that name.
Father Stephan has returned from
visit of some weeks at Washington. He
was formerly connected with the Indian
service, and he is sill interested in pro-
tecting the rights of the red men from t he
encroschment of whites. Sitting Bull re-
CARDS him as the nobIest pale face that
ever lived.
A Chicago man is in Brainerd gathering
facts to make up a criminal case against
Levi n. Ketchum, who sold property there
to Chicago parties as valuable and in the
city limits when it was beyond the limits,
and IN one case the block sold WAS G
worthless swamp. Ketchum is in Jail at
Chicago and not able to give bail.
OF the branches of the Northern Pacific
railroad, the one from Fargo to La Moure
ls said to be the only paying one. On the
Turtle Mountain, jamestown and Northern
and National Park branches during the
winter trains will run only two or three
times week. Business on them will in
crease rapidly as the country settles up.
Il is reported that Col. Lounsberry, the
30 pound official at Bismarck, who hsr-
dies letters for Uncle Sam, has conceived
the idea thet he can distinguish himself as
a skater. At his first attempt four men
kept the unbifurcsted part of the system
from sudden contact With the ice. Until the
ice ia a couple of feet in thickness he will