St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-03-05
Dakota nnd 1rontana Notes.

| The Bismarck Telephone exchange now has
eighty instruments, and the one at Fargo, 165;
Moorhead, twenty-five.
For the present trains on the Sanborn, Coop
erstown s. Turtle Mountain railroad make but
one trip weak, on Friday.
The ice is not so thick at Mandan but that q
team valued at $500 broke through the past week
| and were drowned. Murray Fraser was the
| owner.
The number of Indians at the Fort Yates
reservation is given at 4,573, which is second
only to the number on the Fort Totten reser-
walton
The dramatic troupe at Bismarck presented
Pinafore the past week to very large audience
and with high satisfaction to the hearers There
were some superior voices, and $50 net.
There is lively competition among the points
of departure for the Cour d'Alene mines on the
Northern Pacific. Some of them claim that Bel
KNAPP is swamp and cannot make town.
The revival services at the NJ E. church in
jamestown are attended with growing interest
and numbers are being gathered into the fold 1t
| is announced that they will continue to the last
days of March
Geo. H. Hale, a farmer five miles north of Car
rington, started from town at 3 O'Clock in the af
ternoon and got within half mile of home when
he was caught in blizzard. lost himself and
wandered all night, barely escaping with his life
and being badly frozen.
One of the papers in Fargo is publishing
obituaries or biographies of all the members of
the police force, and some imagines there is
special object in throwing taffy in that direction
1t is said that the members of the fire companies
will next be sketched.
In many of the schools of this section the
newspapers are used to some extent for reading
lessons. In a recent instance supposed novel
and scientific article engaged the deepest atten-
ton of the teacher and scholars until warmers
| Liver Pad was reached.
At Darlington there are quite a lot of eligible
| young men, and about one girl to three young
men. Most of the latter want to marry, but the
girls are so worried by them that they are afraid
to take any Of them for fear that the others will
do something desperate. More girls are needed
there.
The jamestown Capital has this allusion to
the somewhat extravagant professions of the
new paper, and the liquid vocation of its presi-
dent and fnancier ''lf the Democrat BrOadare
of Fargo, does all it promises, the metropolis of
the Red will, in six months, be free from all cor
ruption and vice, and there will be but one saloon
in the city,
In only five days in February did the thermom-
| etergo above zero and on only one of these days
/ thermometer was above nearly half Of the month
/ The inference drawn from this is that the ground
is frozen to much greater depth this year than
last, and wheat growers claim that the crop is
very largely dependent upon the depth to which
| the frost penetrates the ground. 1t is believed
that this deep freezing gives good ground for ex-
pecting more than usual yield Of No. hard
! next fall.
In referring to the reports about the losses to
stock By the severe weather, the Billings Herald
| says: Pilgrim cattle have done very fairly not
| withstanding the trying test the cold snap
subjected them to- The manager of a company,
whose range is on the Musselshell, and who
brought in last fall large number of young cat
tie from the east, informs US that the losses in
this kind of stock will not exceed five per cent
and that he is well satisfied with the way his ten
derfoot calves have stood the winter campaign.
Another Hebrew symposium in Fargo Sunday
night brought to town the chronic and wealthy
bachelor of Lisbon, attorney and Major Butts,
and he was the life and cynosure of the gather
ing. He kindly left with this department some
advance excerpts from the rare and exquisite
gatherings for the wedding feast" but coyly
bnfled inquiry as to dates. AS an attorney he
has made speciality and delight of securing d.
vorces, but his cynicis!n is evidently waning in
the radiance of the new charmer. He has com
petitors, however, az she is an heiress,
The capital commissioners advertise for bids
for the gas and steam fitting of the new capitol
The central portion of the edifice is enclosed
and under roof, and it is necessary to let the
plumbing work before the interior can be fin
ished. Chairman Hughes was in Fargo recently.
and stated that it was designed to push the work
with great vigor. The part completed he states
cost about S25, 900. There seems to be no lack of
assurance, since the appointment of Judge Pal
mer, that there will be smooth sailing in the
courts. It is probable that the ncandescent
l.1,a 10 1srrh%
gas.
The Billings Herald says of the recent flood
The ice in the Tongue river broke mp suddenly
on Monday and the result was partial inunda-
ton of Miles City, the water scoring foot higher
than in the memorable flood of 1881. The Tongue
river ferry boat was carried away. The water en-.
trely surrounded the Inter Ocean hotel and was
within an inch of flooding the first floor. In q
number of houses the water was knee deep The
stage for Spearfish started out, but owing to the
flood, had TO return. In one saloon there were
three feet of water, but undeterred by this
crowds OF customers came in RATS and counter.
acted the dampness outside by taking internal
liquid refreshments At Brill & Osgood's slaught.
.ering house thirty-eight hogs and eighteen sheen
were drowned.
In a discourse upon gambling at one of the
churches in Fargo Sunday night, details were given
that showed the most careful investigation of the
local situation. 1t was alleged that specific re-
ply could be made to the pathetic parental query
''Where is my boy tonight in the case of ey.
cry hayward who visits gambling rooms
The surprising statement was made that not more
than organization in the city had not repre-.
sentatives from it, members at the gaming
tables, and If there was any class
or profession in the community not so repre.
scented, possibly excepting the clergy and ladies,
the fact is rot recalled. If the picture was moi
greatly overdrawn it is not one that reflects de-
sirable moral hues. Probably, however, Fargo
is not an exception among the rustling towns OF
new countries in their formative period. 1t must
be said that it has admirable police regulations
and that its churches are numerous aud well sus-
tanned. If there is vice it nestes in secluson OF
wears the garb of virtue.
statement has been going the rounds about
company of Russians, Mennonites, in the ex.
treme south of Dakota, selling ont and going to
Kansas, assigning as a reason that the climate
SO far north too severe. There may have
been few removals, but the reason given is ut
terry improbable in the case OF parties from Rus
STA There is ON the northern boundary of Da
kota on the Manitoba side large tract of coun
try occupied by these Russian Mennonites, some
seYenty-five by ninety miles in extent This is
400 miles north of where these parties are al
legged to have suffered with cold The last issue
of the Marion Sentinel, in Turner county, says
Last Saturday about fifteen Russians returned
from Kansas after an absence of six weeks
They are now well satisfied to remain in Turner
county as they say it is superior in every way to
, Kansas both as to climate and productions. As
an Illustration we will cite the fact that several
of them who remained on Kansas soil foul
weeks were not recognized by their best friends
at first sight, on their return owing to failing
health. This speaks volumes for Dakota.
The wife of Acknowledgement Brewster is
r plump and handsome brunette: she ha:
! been more or less in public life ever since
her father; Robert ! Walker, was Secretary