St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-04-15
Dakota Notes.

Yankton cast 724 votes at its recent cleo
ton.
Larimore wants to invest 81, 900 in chem
ical engine and other fire apparatus.
The business men have arranged far new
elevator at Millbank in the interest of the
farmers.
The cloudy weather of rhe past week ag-
gravates the Dakotan who wants the climate
to do its best at present
Tower City voted down license rs to e.
1t puts more money into public library,
which has now 1921 volumns.
Millbank has ". C. T. U. of fifty-four
members, Temple of Honor of thirty-six
members anda band of Hope of sixty-four
members.
The command at Fort Sisseton will be
transferred to Fort Totten about the first of
May. There are two companies Of colored
troops there.
Many of the young men at Huron are en-
joying the mumps, and the singular feature
of the matter is that about an equal number
of young ladies are supposed to have caught
them from the young men.
The supreme court of Dakota will meet at
Yankton May Is, and it is supposed that the
capital commission bill will come before it
for consideration. 1t is doubtful, however,
if immediate decision is had.
An Iowa colony has settled near Dawson
in Kidder county, and a large number Of
emigrants from Ireland are coming there.
There seems to be an unusual migration to
Dakota from the Canada side.
The county commissioners of Griggs have
made all arrangements for the erection of a
court house at Cooperstown, to cost $50, O0O
with the jail This will be quite an acquisi-
ton to a nice little town. The place now
has daily train.
Lisbon polled 226 votes as the recent
election, and j. NJ. Allen now sits in the
highest official chair. The vote of most Da-
kota towns is reduced by the fact that large
part of the men have country seats called
claims where they suppose their residence
is.
Rev. C. S. Thompson, the able pastor of
the Presbyterian church at Casselton the
past four years, has received a call TO the
church at Salem, Oregon. His daughter,
and her husband, Rev. c. n Prichard, will
accompany him. Their loss viii be greatly
regretted.
Jamestown nurses the confident conviction
that in the development of the future and
the orderings of things, that city will, some
how, be the capital OF state 1t is elligi-
bly, located and has abundant natural advan-
tages; its dream may yet become history,
but NOT in the imm ediate
This is given as the effect of the ozone
and climate upon speech: ga Dakota law
yer was recently arrested for stealing wood,
but such was the power of his eloquence that
he made the jury believe that he was only
walking in his sleep and thought he was
placing flowers on the grave of his first wife.
Dakota has had very little mud this season
and can sympathize with places in the state
like this: 'sCaptain Hughes reports that he
saw in the street at Boone, Iowa, last Mon
day, spring wagon with six cans of milk in
it drawn by four heavy horses, it being i'm
possible for one team to draw it on account
of the mud"
Four young men from New York state
some time secured rich claims near Minor,
in Sargent county, and lived alone till they
got comfortable bird cages. Two of them,
w. E. Dada and N. NJ. Wright, have just
returned from the east with sweet little sing
ers for the cages, and the other two are as
lonesome as bachelors can be, and would be