St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-03-18
Dakota and 7Mo,tana Votes.

The sportsmen of Valley City propose to
organize club for the enforcement of the
game laws.
The Yellowstone has been higher at the
mouth of the Rosebud the past week than
ever before known.
Sanborn has counted its noses and finds
about 500, including few to be born short
ly, and proposes to incorporate.
The Ursuline sisters of Grand Forks con-
template establishing an academy near Har-
risburg, on the shores of Stump lake.
A Fenian desires to have it stated that the
British detective who paid $50 for supposed
give away of Fenian secrets was not named
Matteson.
The Plankinton Press mentions the arrival
at that place of family of Hollanders bound
for Douglas county, that consisted OF the
father, mother and twelve children.
The dwelling of A. A. Booth, Sanborn,
was burned the past week, with loss OF
several hundred dollars. The house was
owned ny A. NJ. Pease, and was insured.
The indications in the Red river valley are
that the snow will disappear very soon, but
expect to commence seeding by April l.
The Baptist and Methodist churches are
holding union revival meetings at Wahpe-
ton, and much good is being effected. Sew
eral hardened cases have been reclaimed.
The Mandan Pioneer says: The stock on
the upper Missouri ranches is reported in
fine condition. Although the winter was
severe, less than four per cent of the stock
was lost.
Grafton said 20 or more-not 1000 mem
bers. The latter figures are calculated to
throw doubt upon the accuracy of the in
formation.
1t is not expected that Judge Hudson will
return from his trip east to hold court before
the Sth of April, and not then unless his
health improves. He is run down with hard
and too much work.
The first leap year party ever given in
Wahpeton was held Friday night at the Ope-
"a house, and the ladies did the honors in
the most delightful manner. One or two
engagements are reported since.
A reward of $500 is now offered for the
return alive of Ed. F. Knapp, at any station
on the Northern Pacific. He is the young
man lost in the storm in December, near
Dawson, Of whom no trace has been found.
There is quite delegation of Bismarck
citizens still in Washington. Col. Louns-
berry, Mckenzie and Hannifn are among
them. They are no doubt there to avert
attempts to appoint them governor of
Dakota.
The Moody county Enterprise says: B. E.
Pay, of Volga, has been mentioned as dele
gate to the national Republican convention
at Chicago. By. Pay has lots of friends in
this part of the country who would be glad to
see him thus honored.
The chamber of commerce of Bismarck
has made an urgent appeal to congress to
pass the Strait bill reducing the price of
government land in the railroad limits to
$1.25 an acre. They want the ST. Paul and
Minneapolis boards to join in the effort.
Readers of Dakota papers will always see
noticeable that the minimum weight of the
new citizens is ten pounds, the maximum
about sixteen pounds. There is no other
section where the climate does so much.
The spirit of Robert Emmett, the Irish
patriot, is reported to have materialized at
a spiritual seance in Fargo recently and
grated in very eloquent vein. The delivery
was taken down by short hand man and is
being cut up into editorials for one Of the
evening papers.
NJ. Stern, of a leading clothing house in
Wahpeton, returns from Germany this week
with an accomplished and fair bride. There
will be general alacrity to aid in disposing
of the boxes of fine cigars he will bring
from the old country, in commemoration Of
the marital incident.
1t is proposed to organize the county of
Billings of which Medora, the starting point
for the Black hills, is the capital, and for
some unaccountable reason, parties are OPP
posing it. The county is now under the
jurisdiction of Morton county, and all cases
of law breaking must be taken to Mandan,
156 miles,
Huron has arranged for grand celebra-
ton on Arbor day, and has fixed upon May
1 as the day. The business houses are to be
closed upon that day, and everybody is ex-
pected to spend the day in planting trees.
The scheme is a good one and should be fol-
lowed by every town in Dakota, away from
the few timbered sections.
The Cor Boy says there are now in the
Bad Lands many cattle men who have had
experience in every cattle country in the
United States and who own from one thous-
and to fifty thousand head of cattle. We
have questioned many of them and the in
variable answer has been that nowhere in
the United States is there a better cattle
country thau the Bad Lands.
The Sargent County Teller has this: It is
said the chairman of the Rchland county
commissioners is now county charge. Sud-
den reverses of fortune and falling of health
have reduced him from the once proved
owner of a fine Opera house and store build
ings in Wahpeton to the financial level of
many another ambitious pauper.
VIM. Reystech, on the Cheyenne river in
Benson county, got tired Of trying to split
log with his little axe. He tried powder,
and as the first fuse did not go off, he got
down to blow it. About that time the powder
went off, and William went off also. He
was found unconscious and taken to town.
1t is believed that he will recover his sight,
and know more than he did.
The Mapleton Times says: "a fatal acct
dent occurred to one of Frank Neum ans
boys, ten years OF age, frluay laSu. IL seems
the boy was hitching up spirited team, and
in passing near the heels of one of the horses
the latter kicked the boy, striking him on
the temple, smashing it in. He was carried
into the house as dead, and yet he breathed
Five pieces of bone were taken from the
wound. The operation occurred Saturday
morning and the boy died Sunday evening.
The funeral occurred Thursday, the remains
being laid away in the cemetery at Berlin.
&c. W. Co. writing from Eagle City to
the Butte Miner, and giving an exhaustive
description of the Ceur d. Alene region,
SAYS: 'tPeople in that country are wild, and
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