St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-08-26
DAKOTA & MONTANA
Collected and Forwarded by Telegraph
to the Daily Globe.
Fargo Special kilograms August 25, to the ST..
Paul Globe.
Northwestern Notes.


The Dalrymples have cut 80, 600 acres of
wheat, which they estimate at nineteen bush
els per acre.
Cass county will of course instruct her
delegates to Pierre for Raymond. There is
no disposition to deny him the compliment
OF his own county.
The Valley City Times estimates that $780,
500 pounds of Irvine will be used in that
county binding grain this season. This cost
about $3.50 Quite little item.
On his way east the past week, Col. Donan
met at Chicago the official invitation of the
national committee, to- speak during the can
vass in any state where he thought he could
do BEST He will no doubt make few
speeches in the south.
The Democrats of Ransom county held
county convention Saturday and elected del
egates to the Sioux Falls convention. The
Republicans of that county are badly torn up
over the legislative matter and the factions
are getting too hot to hold together.
| Hon. D. M. Kelleher, the Democratic
wheel horse at jamestown, will publish a
campaign paper for his party. There are but
/
kota, but any number that are edited by
Democrats who will drop down that way
whenever Democratic president is elected.
| An observant settler of twelve years. ex-
perience in Lincoln, Union, and Sully coun-
ties, tells the blunt Times that the climate of
| south Dakota is changing materially. More
rain falls yearly; where he raised crop of
wheat ten years ago there is now lake, and
ground that would carry a loaded wagon
then will not now afford foothold for horse.
The police at Grand Forks recently drove
over 100 tramps from the place. They are
more numerous than ever before at all the
towns in north Dakota, many of them work
ing their way back from the Pacific regions.
Some of them have been offered work in the
harvest field, but refuse to work for less than
SO day.
There are eight territories in the United
States. The have o total of 455 newspapers.
Dakota has 202 of them-almost as many as
the other seven territories. The increase in
Dakota in the last year was S3-in the other
seven it was only 131. Only four states in
the Unon-New York, Illinois, Ohio and
| Iowa-had greater increase than Dakota
during the same period.
There is great dissatisfaction in north Da-
kota over the smallness of the reduction on
wheat rates by the railroads when the growers
! get only from So to Ga cents a hundred.
They think the roads should come down
more than one to two cents. The figures are
| from % to 80 cents bushel less than last
year, and one or two cents on freight does
not help out much. There will be an effort
made to bring the matter into the legislature
next winter in some shape.
Mr.. Burke, the editor of the jamestown
Capital, prints perhaps the neatest paper in
north Dakota, and is himself model for
Achilles He is referred to by the papers as
the Beautiful Burke. His picture is to be
sent to the New Orleans exposition as the
Dakota type os manly beauty. His modesty
is remarkable, so much SO that he always
bushes when an admiring lady friend re-
ports a son named after him. He is good as
well as handsome.
The jamestown Alert has this estimate ::
The aggregate assessed valuation of property
in Dakota this year is eighty millions, an in
crease of ten millions over that of last year
! This represents an actual cash value of not
| less than three hundred millions for every
body knows that property is not assessed at
one-third its value on an average. Besides
this there are perhaps ten millions of railroad
lands and town lots not assessed at all be-
cause exempt from taxation.
This financial feature is spoken of by the
Grafton Times: ga traveller, speaking in
cidentally of the large amount of cash on the
hands of the county treasurer of Trail
county, which is equal to the whole capital of
an ordinary bank, said it was in the hands
of the two banks, who were lending it out
again TO the farmers at about the rate of so
per cent. per annum, that is Trail county
people were paying so per cent. for the use
of their own money"
J. Devil'e Lake Inter Ocean: Messrs Z. NJ.
Prouty and L. B. Richardson, Sr., of Grand
Forks, spent week in the Mouse river
country recently, and expressed themselves
as being greatly pleased with what they saw.
Mr.. Prouty says he never saw such wild
meadows in his life and he has been through
the celebrated stock ranges of Montana,
Texas, etc. AS soon as he harvests his 800
acres of grain in the Red River valley he will
| drive 200 head of cattle he has on Forest
river to the ranges on the Mouse, and keep
there.
The Bismarck Tribune records this: The
first new wheat delivered at the Menoken ele-
vator this year was by Miss Bell, who yes
terday delivered 172 bushels OF No / hard,
the product of seven acres, put in by herself,
last spring. Miss Bell formerly taught school
at Sims, but believing farming more prof.
table, took a claim near the banner farm Or.
X. Marsh's) last spriTg with the above result.
She lives alone on her claim, and that she is
courageous and ahundantly able to take care
of herself is proven beyond doubt. She is
darling for some fellow, but he must be a
person industrious, ambitious and worthy in
every respect.