Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-12-14
OAKOqh&HONqAD
OUR NORTHWESTERN NEIGHBORS.
News GIeanings and Points Specially
Collected and Forwarded by Tele-
graph to the Daily Globe.
Fargo Special kilograms, Dec. Is, to the St
Paul Globe.
Dakota ana Montana Notes.

5O, UUt bushels OF gram III the burned elevator at
Ojata.
Billings too, is to havea skating rink of the
plans of Henry VOlkner and William Miller ma
terialize.
Mayor Mccormack of Grand Forks, lately
shipped carload of the roller fonr direct to
Glasgow, Scotland.
Bishop Marty and large number ~f the
clergy went from Fargo t., Holy Cross, ten miles
south, Wednesday, to inspect new church.
A trio of Dickinson hunters, Merry, Hursey
and Bunker, came in from hunt last week
with fifteen deer and cantelope. It was not an
unusual lot.
Tests made at Mandan of the water works few
days ago showed that water could be thrown
seventy feet high, which is sufficient for the
highest building Ii the place.
The movement to increase the population of
the Bismarck region is already bearing fruit.
On the train coming into Bismarck from the east
Saturday evening child WAS born.
Postmas. ec Tyner, of Fargo, has received
leave of absence to go cast couple of months
to have operation performed for a chronic
difficulty he acquired by service in the war.
The ladies of the Methodist church st Fergus
Falls, melted $500 out of their supper and bazaar,
which they regard as doing extremely we'll. The
occupancy OF their elegant new church has given
the society quite little boom.
The Colby benefit on tbs night of the 18th in
Fargo, promises TO be boomer. Numbers are
coming f ON all the towns about, and the
pieces selected for the 1nment are gems
in the dramatic and mu cretoire.
1t is reported that the Fargo Southern rail
road Will soon come in possession of the extern
size foundry works that have not been so man
aged as to keep free from mortgages. They
will make admirable shops for the new rail
road
The Odd Felows ball at Mitchell, on Christ
mas night is designed to be the most extensive
affair of the kind ever seen in Mitchell. Three
hundred invitations have been issued. new pa
per has been started at Mitchell. 1t probably
relieves aching void.
A dealer in Fargo lately received car of
fruit from Jacksonville, Fla, and the freight
charges were 1856 to st. Paul and 1905. IS from
st. Paul to Fargo. Is it any wonder that
new railroad Is wanted from north Dakota to
reach the eastern lines?
On the house of Ed. Fennell, rec5ntly burned
at Dickinson, six-months-old child: persisted
in. the flames, The mother, who was visiting in
the neighborhood, would have run into the
i1itLIOS LII WIFI SlAO
had she not been restrained.
South Dakota is kicking at the--ssslowness of
the president in filling the vacancy caused by
the death of Judge Kidder Hon. j. B. Ray
mold is now in Washington, and he and Gov.
Ordway together it is thought should be able to
accelerate the executive mind.
Jacob Krausse, an intelligent Russian, has
been visiting the central regions Of Dakutse the
past few weeks, and is SO delighted with the
country that he will send for his family and
forty more other families will come also. He
thinks there will be an enormous immigration
from. that country TO America at an early date.
There IL stalwart tport in running down bur-
talo, but there is little roughness to be expert
enced at times. George Dillon started south
from Dickinson to the limiting range, on horse,
and was lost in snow storm, had to sleep in
Snow bank, and froze his Ice. He finally
stumbled UPON a ranch and was carried home.
The fact that it is but half dozen years or SO
since the Indians were troublesome to settlers
in Dakota, is recalled by the case of Mr.. Dean
near Spearhsh. week or two ago he had a
bail removed from his arm, which was shot
there in fight with small band of Indians
near where he now lives, in February, 1877. He
was IN the act Of shooting when the ball struck
him.
The Northern Pacific railroad has recently sent
its agents to examine the town and region of La
No re, and their impressions ara evidently quite
elevated, as the company has ordered an increase
of 20 per cent. on all its lands there, and with
drawn six townships from market. There is
ground for the claims that the place will be
quite railroad center and one of the most -four
ishing towns in north Dakota
One of the men recently robbed on Main
street in Mandan, was Michael Kelly, who was
on his way from Moorhead to Portland, and was
stopping off day. In addition to the money
n med, he had draft for $500 issued by the
Moorhead bank, which was taken The grace
less thieves had the cheek to take his check
from his pocket and go to the hotel and get his
valise and overcoat. Payment OF the draft was
stopped and Mr.. Kelly had no means left to
travel with.
A company of newspaper men in Fargo re-
Gently, were discussing st. Paul as a newspaper
field and concluded that, while in the way of
morning papers, the field was amply flied, there
was a fine opening for first class evening pa
per. There was none, they said. there, or so
nearly so as to call for no Inodific ,tion of the
statement, and some of them are anxious to
open up in that quarter, if they can enlist the
requisite capital. 1t is certainly a matter of
surprise that such an opportunity has been over
looked.
The district court at Fargo convened tuesday
and will probably continue in session several
weeks. The case before it that will involve
most local interest is, perhaps, the libel suit by
Mayor Edwards against the Republican. This
has been deferred from term to term for year,
but it is said that it Will positively be tried this
term. 1t was called on Thursday. 1t Will be
protracted trial, the depositio- alone will en-
hven the jury for number of days, and some
of the most eminent attorneys of Dakota and
Chicago will be engaged on the case.
rhs ladies' of the Episcopal society at James
town are making an effort to raise means to
build chnrch edifce. They have secured some
snbscr ptions, and on Tuesday and Wednesday
eveIlings held fair and bezarin furthe rance of
the worthy scheme. There was coed attendance
ard vared attractions. Among the leading fea-
lures was the voting of gold watch to the rx ost
popular clergyman, and an oil painting to the
meet distinguished loo ing official. Quite a
neat Ettle sum was realized, and there is every
prospect that q neat little church will soon be
had.
very deep brunette gentleman of Fargo, this
week got up one morning soon after midnight
and hunted for justice in order to seek redres
of a personal grievance, or rather an infrsction
of nuptial law on the part Of sleeping car gem
eralssimo who oseillates between Fargo and
Mandau-a bright, chirIv, semi-colored irdi-
vidual who fascinates African wives and maid
ems By his b ass buttons and blue, ofiicer-hke
uniform. The woman and her azure-c ad friend
were charged with adultery and had an e1smi-
nation, in which the facts or prosecution were