St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-09-04
DAKOTA& MONTANA
Collected and Forwarded by Telegraph
to the Daily Globe.
Fargo Special kilograms September 8, to the st
Paul Globe.
Northicesteln Notes.

N0FthtceSteI1L Notes.
The Livingston Tribune has suspended, its
effects being absorbed by the Enterprise.
The twelfth biennial Republican territorial
convention Of Montana, convenes at Helena
September II.
Sorghum sugar cane has been raised with
entire success in Brown county this season.
There are some quite large fields of it there.
Alderman Dixon, the noted Chicago poll
tican, recently spent couple Of weeks with
his son, who is acquiring a bonanza farm in
Edmunds county.
Bismarck hauls most of its water from the
river. When the new brewery is completed
and beer reduced to living rates, there will
less use for river water
The tests made of the coal found near
Yankton show that the lowest vein is nearly
as good as the Illinois coal, and can be
worked with great profit.
Dickinson Press: Two years ago there
was only small station house here, now oc-
cupied by the agent as a residence. To-day
we have town of 700 population.
Montana is making very extensive
engagements to show up finely at the New
Orleans fair Tens of thousands of pamphlets
descriptive of the resources of the territory
will be distributed.
Raymond delegates from remote counties
who do not want to meet the expense of
trip to Pierre, will do well to communicate
with the gentleman. He has just harvested
big crop of wheat.
j. A. Burnett, of St Paul, in the interest
of the Northern Pacific, is visiting the towns
along the line to gather samples of grain
and grasses to exhibit at New Orleans and
the prominent fairs.
In south Dakota this year flax is much
more profitable than wheat The Marion
Sentinel says: The farmers will have to de-
pend mostly upon their flax this fall, as the
wheat crop is so large the price will undoubt-
edly be very low.
f. E. Jones, bonanza farmer at James
town, put in his Saskatchewan wheat with
drill nd has Just threshed over fortv-one
bushels to the acre of No. hard. 1t is
thought the mode of putting in the seed had
something to do with the magnificent yield.
A couple of Englishmen hunting south of
Livingston recently killed a monster elk, the
largest ever seen in that section. One Of
the antlers had twelve points, and the skull
and horns Invested of skin and flesh weighed
seventy-fve pounds. The head is being
mounted and will be shipped to England.
One of the papers says: 'Those farmers
who are trying to get two crops this year are
very jubilant over their prospects, as they
well may be- Mr.. Lewis, a farmer near
Devils Lake has sown his seed for a second
crop of barley, having finished harvesting a
good amount from seed planted in. April
He thinks it will mature before the frost
| comes.n
The Webster Farmer, in Day county, is
not entirely pleased with the write-up of that
section by the man sent out by the Mime
sofa Farmer, if an inference may be drawn
from remarks of this sort: ''With fine
array of facts furnished, the stupid asses
produced butchery, both in its Topographic
cal and written fertures that would be dis
grace to the veriest churl who ever presided
over slop wagon or junk shop"
The Dickinson Press has this novel infor-
nation: We understand that negotiations
are pending between parties who had horses
stolen from here last fall and the thieves for
the return of the horses in consideration of a
sum OF money to be paid the thieves and
nothing done to them. While persons NAV
justly be anxious to get their horses back, at
the same time they are simply Offering a
premium to horse thieves to continue in
their nefarious work and abetting them in
the same.
The Billings Herald says of wheat growing
in that part of Montana: 1.-THE hum of the
threshing machine is becoming everyday
music in this ueighborhood. So far the
crops have turned out well in this valley. II
is estimated that over 5000 acres will be
broken between Billings and Park City next
spring. The Hon. Frederick Billings has at
present 500 acres Of his land west of this
town broken, and will next spring SOW the
whole of it with fife wheat, which is thought
by many to be specially suitable to the soil
and climate of this portion of the country -
Even at the reduced railroad rates from
many sections of Dakota, it will cost dele
gates from $50 to 500, and nearly weeks
time to make the trip to Pierre. Unless
holding office through the member, or ex-
pecting repayment IN some way, very few
are willing to go to the expense. Hence in
numerous instances proxies are given. It is
alleged that one man in the extreme north
already has secured proxies from half q
dozen counties. Such man has CONNER
cial as well as political value. He can make
more out of politics than wheat this year
AT the late county convention in Cass nearly
all the country districts sent in proxies by
friends, and nearly majority were of thai
sort.