St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-03-06
Dnkotn and .Montnln Notes.


Montana has nine lodges of the Knights of
Pythias and they are praying for grand
| lodge.
Preparations are being made for an early
spring of the branch railroad to the Yellow
stone National park.
The San at Sun River in Mon tana, is a
new paper. The first copy was printed upon
satin and sold at $75.
Gary, which calls itself the ''gate city of
Dakota thinks its prosperity would be great
ty promoted by creamery in its midst.
1t is expected that excursion trains of land
and city lot seekers, will be run from st.
Paul to Bismarck for $40 the round trip.
| La Moure expects that the Burlington, Ce-
| dar Rapids 81 Northern railroad will be ex-
tended from Worthington to Bismarck. 300
miles, this season, and cross the James at
| La Moure.
It is said that the Northern Pacific has 100
cars of emigrant goods already contracted
to haul to Lamoure, and this is thought to be
but the first drop of the big shower coming
to the little city of the lower James.
| Stock in the Musselshell region in Mon
| tana is said to be doing well, and in good
condition, despite the recent severe weather.
The wind blew the ridges bare of snow, and
cattle had little difficulty in obtaining food.
N F. King, one of the most popular sing
ers and young business men of Fargo, leaves
to-day for Duluth to accept an important
position. He will be great loss to the
social, musical and religious circles of Fargo.
1t is said that the new check system intro
duced upon some Dakota railroads is not
very popular as the banks will not cash
them unless the men are identified by re-
sponsible parties, which are difficult to OBJ
tain.
| Moorhead has organized board Of trade
that seems to have a good deal more vigor
and life than the similar body in Fargo, and
if the place does not creep up on the blind
side of its bigger neighbor it will not be the
| fault of this organization.
The Bad Lands Con- Boy says that the losses
of the Marquis de Mores on sheep have been
greatly overestimated, and that $4,000 will
cover them. 1t says mistake was made in
| shipping them there late in the fall, and
making no provision for shelter.
Quite a delegation of young men of Fargo
| leave for the Occur d'Alene mines to-day.
| They are of the age when enthusiasm effer-
vesces, and any of them would feel insulted
at a doubt that before another winter they
can charter special trains of palace coaches
| to return in. But they have pluck and in
dustry and may draw prizes in the golden
lottery of the Idaho hills.
1t is stated that work will begin in April
on the James River Valley railroad, and that
sixty days will place the entire line from
jamestown to Ordway in the hands Of the
track layers Much of the iron has already
been purchased. That valley will get big
share out of the migration the coming sea-
son, and it is certainly very desirable sec
ton for new corners.
| The entire bar of Stutsman county, of
which jamestown is the metropolis, have pc
.titioned the president to appoint Geo. P.
Flannery judge of the new judicial circuit to
| be created in north Dakota. He is good ma
terial for the post, but it looks little previ-
GUS to ask the appointment of an office not
yet created, especially in view Of the proverb-
ial slowness of the president in making Sc
lections for any position.
A well-informed gentleman who return ed
from the Ceur d'Alene mines this week
states that the number flocking to the new
Eldorado is increasing every day, but the
great depth of snow and the difficult passage
of the trails make prices there extravaganza
" high, and the mining districts are desti-
| tute of many Of the essentials to health and
comfort. The exposure and lack of proper
accommodations and convenences are caus-
ing great deal of sickness and suffering.
The Livingston Tribune says: Last week
band of Crows, under Plenticoos, arrived
in Billings with about seventy ponies, which
they had recaptWed from some horse thieves.
Four white men ran off about 100 ponies
from the agency, near Saltwater. Plenticoos
followed them, and overlook them at Pole
Creek near the mouth of the Musselshell, and
stole off their ponies and the white mems al
so. They had notion to kill the whites,
but mercifully refrained. The Indians
seemed in high glee over their prowess in
outwitting the white thieves, and setting
them afoot.
The Missoula county Times says the block
ade last week between Heron and Trout
| Creek, on the Northern Pacific, was the
severest of the winter, and so far as known,
was the most troublesome and expensive in
removing that the company has ever expert
enced. The snow was not drifted much, but
an enormous quantity fell, and of a wet,
heavy character. Between the points men
toned it was from two feet thick to five or
six, and so wet that it rolled upin great hard
masses before the snow plows. A dozen en-
gines and some three hundred men were
employed on this side, and it is presumed
that the force working at the west end was
about as large.
The Medora Con- Boy is confident that the
Marquis de Mores, who has gone to Wash
ington, in the interest of the matter will sue
coed in making the leading over
land route to the Polach hills start from that
point 1t says: There is an abundance of
wood and water and the route as whole is a
model one, better even than the old Bismark-
Deadwood route except for the few hills en-
countered before leaving the bad lands.
Mail stations have been picked out and the
petitions have been forwarded to Washing
ton. By this time probably, they have
official sanction. They are three in number,
the first at Grand river, Billings county; the
second at Moreau, Harding county and the
third at Belle, Butte county.
| Uncle JEFF Smith, staunch farmer in the