St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-09-17
DAKOTA& MONTANA
Collected and Forwarded by Telegraph
to the Daily Globe.
Fargo Special kilograms september16, to the St.
Paul Globe
Northeastern Notas.

The corn crop in hughes county was i'm
men8e and is out of the way OF frost.
The BARRIERS OF Aberdeen have resoluted
to shave no more on Sunday. They want to
60 to church.
Chicago parties have recently purchased
several sections of land near Hope, in Griggs
county, and viii improve them,
Oats are being hauled from Pierre to the
Black Hills and retail at Deadwood at s2.5O
per 100 and $3.50 at Custer City.
The machine men at Cooperstown this year
sold $50 binders against 80 last year, which
shows the increased acreage in Griggs
county.
The new penitentiary at Bismarck is to be
turned over by the contractors to-day. 1t is
large enough to accommodate the entire leg
isature.
An association of the old timers has been
organized at Helena. There are some hun
dreds Of them who came to the territory from
1862 to 1864.
a buffalo killed near Steele, by David Rus
sell last week, is said to be the only one
ever known to be shot in that county since
It's settlement.
j.. t. Berry, a farmer in Pembina county,
claims that The frozen wheat sOwed in that
section matured as good crop as the most
carefully selected seed.
The North Dakota Democrat is announced
10 appear at Grand Forks this week. 1t will
be the only straight ont Democratic paper
north Of the Union Pacific.
The first wheat threshed in Pembina
ie 10 4 oI,aI 10, ba
acre. With yield like that farmers can af-
ford even the present prices.
The Montana fair at Helena last week was
quite success so far as attendance was con-
cerned. Not much interest was excited in
any department but horse racing.
1t is estimated that 2,OOO,O 900 bushels of
fax seed will be harvested in Dakota this
season and sold at from S1.00 to S1.10 per
bushcl 1t will be a handsome item.
Supt. Graham, of the Northern Pacific,
with friend or two, went out before break
fast in Griggs county and shot forty chick
ems, which are plenty in that section.
Hon. Martin Maginnis represented Mon
tana in congress ten years or more, and
others now think they ought to have chance.
Martin don't care to 90 to Washington any
more.
Rev. A. P. Graves, an evangelist from
New York city, has been holding revival
meetings in Brookings with such effect that
81 times even the saloon keepers closed their
shops to attend his meetings.
The number OF cattle on the ranches of
South Dakota are greatly in excess of what is
needed TO supply the home demands and the
quantity shipped to tine eastern markets this
fall will be considerable item in their ex-
port trade.
Senators Dawes, Of Massachusetts; Morgan
Of Alabama; Cameron, of Wisconsin; and
possibly Vest OF Missouri; are expected at
the new Crow agency, in Montana, some
time this week. where they will hold coun-
ell with the Indians in regard to the opening
Of portion of the reservation.
Col. Ziebach, the boss Democrat Of the
south, receives the convert in this way: j.
L. Hall, formerly of the Fargo Republican,
has seen the error OF his political ways, joined
the Democratic forces and taken editorial
charge of the Democratic BroGdGre. He
gives good reasons for his change of faith.
Mitchell ROu5licaa Deacon Simeon Bid
well has begun bis eighty-seventh year by
making a tour of Mitchell with his horse and
carriage and counting the houses. He re-
ports 74S houses, not including those in pro-
cess Of construction. He regards this as a
wonderful showing for a four-year old town.
1t is reported that the party of Chicago,
Milwaukee ~ st. Paul railroad men
which left Pierre recently, os-
tensibly merely for trip to the
Black Hills is now actually at work with
az n tbn tyullav IF h.
eau river. It is supposed their road means to
be among the first to get to the Hills.
The Dakota Republican says Bishop Marty
has ordered a Catholic church to be built in
Vermilion, and steps will soon be taken to
see that it is done. In connection with the
church there will be parochial school. This
is the result of having the university of
Dakota here, aud will be another step in
making Vermillion the educational town of
Dakota.
Chamberlain Register: Mrs. Abigail Sharp,
formerly Miss Abigail Gordon, the only sur
vivor Of the Spirit Lake massacre in 1856.
was in Chamberlain Saturday. She was
looking for further information relative TO
the history of that memorial tragedy Wau-
Durl-Hauki or End-of-the-Snake, the chief
of the tribe Me-da-wa-kan, gave her war
cup of fine cast and manufacture.
Mitchell Republican: General Emigrant
Agent Powell sent word to the ReltlJlicdn
that he will be in Mitchell in few days.
His special car will be filed with party of
English and Holland capitalists who WILCOX
through the adj emit country with view to
settlement aud investments. They are pre-
pairing the way for large emigration from
these countries to Dakota next season.
There is probably no section in Dakota
where there is finer hunting than in Mclean
county, north Of Bismarck The Wasburn
Times states that the hoeks of ducks and
geese near the lakes darkeu the sun rs they
fly, and prairie chickens, deer and antelope
are plenty. Hunting parties are unable to
bring in all they kill The editor of the
Times took in eighty ducks in few hours.
The Keystone CommerciGl says: THE
secret cause OF the failure of r. L. Wallace,
the jamestown banker, was because he in
vested $50, 900 in the streak of dirt properly
known as the James River Valley railway.
Inyeigled by his friends, he was induced to
contribute towards the enterprise, and had
the company been able to realize on their
bonds all would have been well, but with the
collapse of the railroad scheme, came the
financial embarrassment of all concerned
In it,"
This IS given by the Pierre Press to show
how rapidly the Indians are learning Chris
tan methods: At the show in Blunt yester-
day the Sioux Iudians were down from the
Wipuebsgo reservation In force to attend
An old chief and interpreter went to the
business manager Of the show to get reduced
rntes for tho nntire triha about ahn in mum,