Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-10-13
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Paul Globe.
Dakota Gossip.

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at Livingston.
The Livingston, Montana, Tribune wants
the fact noted that up to October there
had been no frost in that section.
A number of the leading citizens of
jamestown went to Fergus Falls during
the session of the Presbytery to work for
the location of the college at their city,but
no action was taken at this session, and an
adjourned session will be held at Detroit.
1t is related that some 5000 of the young
Indians of Standing Rock, on the Missouri,
recently went out hunting buffalo and cor
rallied LOO Of them, killing all but two.
1t was a needless waste OF game of this
kind that will soon be unknown in Dakota.
The hotel at Forest City, in south Da-
kota, was recently burned, the ladies escap-
ing in their night clothes, and the surpris-
ing feature was that the editor of the Press,
the local paper, lost $1,000 in money and
valuables. His diamonds were all con-
sumed.
Il is reported that the commissioners of
the new county Of Sargent have located the
county seat at Milnor, the present end Of
the Fergus Falls branch railroad. 4 fine
board Of county officers has been appoint
ed. There has been lively contest over
the county seat,
The corner stone OF Presbyterian
church was laid at Steele, a sprightly and
promising little town on the Northern Pa
cifc railroad, towards Bismarck, last Sat
urday. 1t is the first hoass of worship in
the place. although it was one CT the bid
ders for the capital,
The facilities for coal mining in the
Bozeman district are being greatly increas-
ed, and it is claimed that the product is
superior to the average bituminous product
of the east, with veins from nine to eleven
feet in depth, and it is claimed that the
towns on the Northern Pacific, least,
More than 600 citizens OF Fargo were
prevailed to take free ride to La Moure,
eighty five miles, Wednesday, to the sale of
lots by the Wells syndicate. The sale of
lots was not a Success, but the free lunch,
with beer and champagne weshings, was
pronounced success. A free ride with
lunch and champagne thrown in would
draw anywhere.
cash purse of $4,000 has been made
up and put in the hands Of the treasurer,
for prizes for trotting match, to begin
next Monday on the track at Fargo. The
fast horses that have been in the late races
at Winnipeg, Grand Forks and Crookston
will be here, and it promises to be an in
teresting and lively race. The parties in
terested talk of having this race upon a le-
gitimate basis, and everything fair and
square, whatever may be meant by sugges-
tions of this sort.
A Welsh gentleman is looking for a
location for a Welsh colony of thousand
persons, and it is t. ought they will settle
on the line of the Milwaukee road to be
extended to the Missouri river, in Wal
| worth county. A new map of the Northern
Pacific represents its Fergus Falls line as
! crossing the river in WaIworth and taking
the Fox Ridge route to the Black Hills.
The central counties along the Missouri
river are very little taken up, but the land
is said TO be good, and there Will be quite
an emigration there as the railroads ex-
tend.
The first of this month the James river
division of the c., NJ. q ST. p. railroad was
completed, and the occasion celebrated
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south terminus of this branch is at Nit
chell, on the line running west to the Mis-
souri, river at Chamberlain. The new part
extends south to Ashton, 80 miles, forming
direct line north through the central and
some of the finest of the new counties, to
Glendale, only % miles from the North
ern Pacific at LaMoure, with which it will
soon be connected, and also with the n. P.
OF II npsfrN Nv s L..
town Valley railroad, which is now being
graded. This will constitute one of the
principal lines connecting north and south
Dakota.
The grain raised in North Dakota this
year must be unusually heavy or people
are very careless in the construction Of
their elevators and granaries, for every
few days one of them falls from the weight
of its contents. That OF yesterday morn
ing on the farm of Northrope, in Clay
county, MINI, was fatal, although the
damage to property was not great. -Four
of the ten men sleeping on the first floor,
under The 1.400 bushels of oats on the
second floor. lost their lives. Their names
are: II. A. Rhodes, engineer of the thresh-
ing machine, of McVeyton, Miffiin county,
Pennsylvania; Charles Van Dorm, Of Val
ley City; Andrew Larson, of Moorhead.
The fourth mans name is unknown. 1t is
hoped the coroner's inquest will find who
Is to blame for the occurrence.
Investigating the Standard Company
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 12.---Ex-Auditor
General Sohell was the only witness ex-
amined to- day by the legislative commits
sion investigating the charges that certain
testimony against the Standard Oil COM
pany was suppressed in certain suits of the
State against the company. He testified
that when auditor general he made eyery
effort to have an examination of the books.
Schell said he never had any evidence that
the company declared any dividends, but
the impression in his mind was so strong
as to amount almost to conviction
and he had settled on that basis. The
commission meet at Harrisburg Wednes-
day next, General Emory, who made the
sfidavits upon which the Standard suits
we're based will be examined.
The Bag Trade.
New YORK, o.. l2.-The manufacturers
If bags, in conference to-day, declared