St. Paul daily globe., 1884-08-09
DAKOTA & MONTANA
Collected and Forwarded by Telegraph
to the Daily Globe.
Fargo Special Telegrams August s, to the st.
Paul Globe,
North,rcstern Notes.

Eighteen dollars per. ton was refused by
Deadwood hay sellers last week
The arc two or three candidates for dele
gate to congress in Lawrence county.
Hon. Waldo M. Potter, of McHenry county
is among the candidates named for congress.
1t is thought the laugh is on the p. P. in
its endorsement of President Hits remarks.
The Deadwood Times believes that during
the wind and hail storm recently $4,000
acres were despoiled and the money value
Of the entire loss will be 5000, 900.
Judge Shannon will write a history of Da-
kota, its Indian tribes, settlers, ETC., assisted
by ex-Gov. Faulk.
The new paper in the Turtle mountains,
the Dunseith Herald has made its appearance
and draws glowing pictures of the future of
of that region.
The fat men of Fargo and Moorhead had
the second bout in their match game OF ball
Thursday, and did better work than in the
first. They will eventually make creditable
| exhibition.
Ed. Greedy, one of the early deputy sheriffs
of Custer county, Montana, lately returned
from Benton, and reports fourteen men
hung there for horse stealing. The stock
men are determin ed to make clean work of
this class of pests. There is little ceremony
when any of them are caught.
Col. Raymond is at home trying to get his
political fences in repair. He is beginning
to doubt whether his own county will be
earnest enough for him to have effect. It
willno doubt instruct for him, but instructions
are sometimes more complimentary than
valuable. 1t is said that Col. Steele has
offered to wager that Cass will not stick to
him at Pierre.
The jamestown Capital Hon. NJ. H. Dun
nell, wife and daughter, arrived from the
east to-day and continued on their way to
New Rockford. Mr.. Dunnell wears the white
Blaine hat, and in two weeks will go to
Maine where the campaign will be opened.
| Mr:Dunnel will spend the rest of the season
on the stump for Blaine and Logan. BY the
way, Dakota seems to be quite base of sup
plies for orators.
The Enterprise gives this revised list of Re-
publican aspirants for the nomination as
delegates to congress from Montana; W. F.
Sanders, of Helena, g. o. Eaton, of Cooke,
| u. w. piiSNcli, VI MlleS, a. -. DOlhlu, vi
Helena, George Steel, of Sun River, Tom
Power, of Benton, Caldwell Edwards, OF
Gallatin, valley, Judge Knowles of Butte,
Doc. Rotwitt, of White Sulphur, w. H. Hunt,
of Benton. The list will increase as time
passes. T. C. Power is the most ''likely'' OF
them all.
The stockmen in the Badroute are greatly
troubled with wolves. The Glendve Times
relates this: ''Doc. Mendenhall, the Bad
route cattle king, had an interesting fight
with wolves few days ago. He shot
one dead and wounded another. Fearing
the wounded one would escape he attacked il
with his gun, but the wolf took hold of it.
as Doc. thought with death grip. He could
not get the gun free. so pnlling his knife he
stabbed the wolf twice when it ran off. II
will die however,"
Canton NewS: The wife of the Mr.. Wei
berg, who was killed by lightning last week.
was SO affected by the loss Of her husband 1
that her reason forsook her. The board Of
insanity sent her to the insane asylum, and
Sheriff North returned yesterday from Yank
ton whittier he had taken her. He informs
us that she was tolerably quiet until they got
t6Marion Junction, when she became vo
lent, and it was with the utmost difficulty
that she was retrained One curious thing
about her case is that when in her right miut
she spoke very broken English, but when
violently insane she spoke very plainly.
No delegate to congress from Dakota ha
been returned from Dakota, and the Leadel
finds something of the reason in this: "Da
kota politics will be more mixed, and vii
raise the temperature higher this year than
ever before. We only have one oflice-con
gressional delegate-to fight over, and it il
always essential to make the most of that
Probably this is the reason no delegate from
Dakota was ever elected to a second term
As soon as one is elected the elements which
elected him proceed to combine with the op
position to prevent his return for another
trial of it.n
The SiftqgS at Minnewauhan, on Devil
lake, has completed its first six months, an(
It's history, related by Itself, shows how littl
support is requisite to sustain first class
local p@ PER in the life sustaining atmosphere
of Dakota. The SifhngS is a seven column
folio, neat and spicy. When started ther'
were. but seven buildings on the townsite
which contained about all the patrons of th,
, paper, and its only business the first month
was three-fourths of a column of advertise
ments. There are now thirty-seven build
ngs, five columns Of advertisements, anC
only a railroad is needed to bloom out as
metropolitan daily. 1t was expected that tn
railroad would be extended there in th,
spring, but it has not come yet. 1t is prob
able it may come this fall or early next year