St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-08-13
DAKOTA { MONTANA
Collected and Forwarded by Telegraph
to the Daily Globe.
Fargo Special kilograms August 12, to the st.
Paul Globe.
North,ceatern Notes.

NortI,ceate1n Notes.
There will he general going for prairie
chickens after the fifteenth. They are said
to be plenty.
On rebuilding Devils Lake City, a line
limit has been established and only brick
buildings allowed.
The territorial encampment of the G.. A.
R. at Yankton in September, promises to be
one of the greatest ex-soldier gatherings ever
held in Dakota
The assessors report the total value of all
property in Beadle county, of which Huron
is the metropolis, at $780, 62.75. The
numl or of votes is 2, 100.
1t is claimed that the last vein of coal
struck at Yankton is eleven feet thick. If it is
verified and proves to be a good quality of
coal, it will be worth more than gold mine.
Wheat cutting is well under way in Trail
county, and the Banner thinks the average
OF the county will exceed twenty-five bushels.
tits great wheat section.
The freighting business from Belford to
the Black Hills is getting well under way.
Some 400, 900 pounds have been shipped, and
teams are being put on the route in large
numbers.
Mrs. S. A. Williams, deputy Grand Worthy
Chief Templar of Dakota, is traversing South
Dakota, giving lectures on temperance and
organizing lodges. She talks well, and is
pleasant, motherly lady.
Commissioner Mcfarland has Cancelled
twenty-one homestead proofs in Brown
county because the claimants did not show
any cultivation of their land according to
the new ruling requiring crop.
A Bismarck paper reports corn cut from
the Apple Creek farm, in that county, that
measured eleven feet in height
1t is the early Minnesota variety Step lad
adders are used to go up and examine the
ears.
The Glendale Leader learns that the village
of Dunbar, Sargent county, is to be vacated,
al the residents and business men, includ-
ing the Item, will move down to Forman,
four miles, which will be made the county
seat this fall.
Last week Robert Cook Of South Pembina
while out hunting undertook to take a load
from his gun with the muzzle at his mouth
and the breech swinging over fire. The
powder took fire and part of the charge went
into his mouth. He died two days later.
The Yankton papers state that the better
element of the commercial travellers all
come to that place to spend Sunday instead
of Sioux City on account of the superior ser
mons. 1t should be added that Sioux City
is in Iowa where there is prohibition.
n
argus, has gone to his early home in the in
terror of New York state to spend three or
four weeks. The impression is current that
he will not return alone. He has built
house recently and is not married. Before
his departure he was presented handsome
gold watch by friends.
Among the sufferers at the Devils Lake
fire was the talented newspaper man and
county commissioner, James w. Connella.
He was away laying out the county seat for
another county, and lost everything but the
clothes he had on. He was especially
grieved at the loss of a package of love letters
from his best girl in Indiana.
The jamestown Capital proposes that the
friends of Col. Raymond charter steamboat
and go down to the Pierre convention by
river. If Col. Raymond will secure the boat and
make it free to his friends they will be found
numerous and jealous. The opening of the
Fargo Southern has somewhat reduced the
distance to Pierre by rail, but it is still very
circuitous.
The culture of flax is being commenced in
north Dakota. The Morton Pioneer says:
The flax crop of Morton county is very good
this season. Both the seed and the stalk are
fine. The fiber of the latter is very valuable
when it is understood how to utilize it, and
it seems rather too bad that the flax is raised
only for the seed here. and the most valuable
part the straw, is thrown away.
Plats of these lands have been received at
the Bismarck land office, and they are now
open to claims. They are in Stark county in
the Bad Land region: Township 1876 north,
range IS west; township 146 north, range SO
west; township 13S north, range 80 west;
township 40 north, range 81 west; town
ship 1873 north, range 90 west; towns ship 1873
north, range go west; township 1873 north,
range 90 west. Also one township in Suits
man county. Some of them are said to be
desirable land.
The Jamestown Capital is so furious par
tisan of the sitting delegate in congress that
he takes as personal affront the statement
that there is formidable opposition to the re-
turn of Mr.. Raymond The editor, it is said,
would not refuse postoffice. This depart
ment has no interest in the choice of can
didate, but likes to see things lively with lots
of fun. The editor of the jamestown paper
has the reputation of being the handsomest
newspaper man on the Northern Pacific line,
but his moods are so variable as to frequently
mar the beauty nature intended as q COM
pensation for other DEFICIENCIES.
There is great deal of strong language,
some of it favored with profanity, expended
upon Land Commissioner Mcfarland on ac-
count of some of his recent de-
cisions, in regard to claims. If the local
land officials were not more liberal not half
of the claims could not be proved up. He
decided that breaking and ploughing ia not
cultivation, a crop must be sown. To OBJ
viate this requires the purchase of package
of turnip seed which is scattered on the land
The ruling in regard to remaining on claim
or not being away, is not so easily gotten
over. 1t is the theory among claimants that
hard swearing in proving up will be fitted
among the venial sins. On account of the
decisions made and apprehended, it is
said that nearly all the eastern parties have
withdrawn the money sent out to be loaned
to persons proving up. This is especially
true in the range Of the Grand Forks and
Devils Lake land Offices.