St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-03-19

western elevator company at Mimic, has dis
! appeared. An examination of his accounts
! proves him to be short in cash at least 81, 900.
But the full extent of the deficiency will not
be known until the wheat in the elevator has
been delivered. General recklessness, inef-
nciency and inattention to business are suf-
fcient causes for this unfortunate result.
| The agents of this company at Hillsboro and
Grandin have also been discharged this sea-
| son.
There Is good deal of apprehension that
the James Kiver Valley railroad will be sold
to the Northern Pacific. The Grand Rapids
journal has such report and says: James
town people understand the necessity OF a
competitive line and now that so much work
has been done towards a southern outlet it
would seem improbable that the gentlemen
IN whom so much confidence has been placed
would oetray their neighbors of the valley BY
selling the line to the Northern Pacific.
This from the Mandan Times NAV be &
good suggestion at several points: A few
days ago business man of Nlandau. who
has given the matter considerable thought
asked why the farmers of Morton county did
not raise flax. He said that fax seed was
worth S1.50 per bushel in ST. Paul, and in
some respects it was preferable to wheat to
raise. When grown upon sod ground it will
cause the grass to die out, and put the ground
in better condition for sowing the second
year than anything else could. Linseed OIL
is worth ten cents gallon, and if flax was
raised to any extent, factory could be start
ed here which would consume all the flax
raised, and have good market both east and
west, for the oil.
The Dakota Tribune relates this touching
occurrence, which may perhaps contain
just such suspicion of distrust of the ac-
curacy of all the claims of dealers in land:
lone of the most heartrending incidents in
the annals of crime was a scene in Dakota
town the other day. A foot-pad from the
east held up Dakota land man, who adver-
| tised 800, 900 now on hand to loan in the
next thirty days. his bravery being re-
warded by find of seventeen cents and
bunch of tooth-picks. The expression of
disgust on the +. p's face soon softened into
pity. and giving the land man dollar, went
his way with look of shame depicted on his
countenancy at thus having belittled his
noble profession
This incident related by the Alexandria
Herald shows something of how the Indians
are catching on to civilized ways: While
north short time since we met very intel
ligent Indian. He was Brule and had
married Santee woman and was living with
his family at the Santee agency. He was
well dressed, had plenty of money and was
on his return from a visit to the tribes of the
| north. He said he had a son going to school
at Beloit, Wis, and daughter at Philadel-
phia, and that he was large stock raiser
and made the business pay. He asserted
in the most positive terms that
there was hard coal on the White river and
that he and his half brother was the only
ones who knew its location. Upon being
shown some hard and soft coal he readily
picked out the hard and said he had used
both and knew the difference Overtures
were made to him by several to guide the
party to the coal. In reply he said if the
reservation was opened the Indians would be
| allowed to pick out land and own it. If this
was so he proposed to own the coal land.
Some of these chaps are becoming civilized
much too fast.