St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-03-08
Dahotn and Montana Notes.


east with his wife to spend the winter, is
dead.
A contract has been closed for the erection
of hotel to cost $50, 900 at Minnewaukon
on DEVILS lake. Parties from Buffalo, n.
T., are to build it.
DEVILS Lake City claims 500 Inhabitants,
and year ago had but one house. There Is
no doubt that it will have fully 1,5O0 inhabi-
tants before July.
The proposition to call the south half OF
Dakota Garfield or Jefferson, and leave Da-
kota for the north, meets entire acceptance
i'm north Dakota.
The Masonic temple to be erected at Hele-
ma will be one of the handsomest edifices in
the city. Four tn ousand dollars was paid for
the ground last week.
The young ladies of Huron have adopted
as the motto of their leap year club "when
you see what you want ask for it." The
young men are anxious to be seen.
Meetings have been held at Helena to form
q home company to build railroad from
Helena to Benton It is believed this will
prove of great benefit to the place, and the
prospect is fair for its success.
The La Moure Progress says: The North
ern Pacific people, we are told, will dig down
in the snow within the next two weeks be-
tween Lisbon and La Moure to see if any one
has carried off their ties and rails
If the wild geese that have been seen fly
ing north the past week are in search of
warm weather, they are evidently geese,
for the crack in the backbone Of winter has
not been seen or heard yet.
During the heavy blow of last Sunday the
dwelling OF Henry Hanson, farmer near
Sheldon, in Ransom county. took fire, and
was burned with nearly all IFS contents, the
family barely escaping with their lives.
A farmer named VIM Keohler, near An
vile in the extreme north OF Dakota, has be-
come violently derangcd through religious
excitement and taken to the asylum at
Yankton. His screams were terrifying to
all about him.
Jas. Campbell and Gid Hiles, popular
young society and business men at DEVILS
Lake City have recently returned from the
states with blooming young brides and are
the envy of the other young men who are
not so fortunate.
The governor Of Montana exercised the
pardoning power for the first time in the case
Of John Ryan sentenced five years for bur-
glary 1t was believed that he was innocent,
but had the misfortune to be caught in bad
company when drunk.
The DEVILS Lake Pioneer Press has infor-
nation that one of its prominent citizens
has been offered a position in the invading
r.cr, ff, f.l1- M -,
probably dumb or deaf. He may have an
army lid away in his shack.
The La Moure people suspect that the
branch Of the Northern Pacific to their little
city is allowed to remain blocked all winter
on account OF the aid the place has given the
James river line The Northern Pacific has
put down the price OF tickets to settlers and
land seekers from st. Paul to Lisbon and La
Moure to $3.50.
The Jamestown Alert prouounces the local
telegraphar of the Pioneer Press at that place,
an amateur idiot. with special reference to
TIL e absurd story OF the blizzard there. The
fact is, the usual Dakota blizzard must be
painted in strong eolors or it is a tame af-
fair. In the towns where the wind does not
have full sweep, it rarely amounts to much.
absence of Col Donan In his difficult search
for the best types of American beauty to re-
port that his address before the Washington
committee, which was telegraphed as bomb
shell, was published without delivery, like
many of the speeches in congress II so the
committee missed the best statement of the
Dakota ID after made before them But the
story is not credited.
.
Young Gctchell, The gay bachelor local edi-
tor OF the Valley City Tinliw modestly con-
firms the rumored result eff his month in
Fargo in this: 'sDame Rumor has it that
two weddings of considerable interest will
take place in Valley City SOON One of the
dates, it is reported, is Easter Sunday, and
the other is some period when the Nav flow
ers are in bloom, when all nature is in keep
ing with the loneliness OF the bride to be''
day or two since at a meeting of the
capitalists and rrlstlcrs of jamestown, a
stock company was organized with capital
OF s25, 200 TO build . tirst-class hotel which
the place greatly needs 1t was decided to
locate 1t on Fifth and Pacific avenues. 100
MAO feet. The house is to cost from S25.-
600 to $50, 900, besides the grounds. and the
enterprise Of the leading citizens of the
beautiful town leaves no doubt as to its
speedy erection.
Frequent outcroppings like this from the
Fairbank .Setgs show that the delegate is Civ
ing much satisfaction in south Dakota and
can probably secure reelection if the north
does not throw him: We would like to see
John B. Raymond governor OF Dakota He,
more than any other man in Dakota, can
harmonic the discorlant factions and bring
us to peace and contentment. He is no pol
icy man, and has the confidence of north
and south Dakota.
A brother of P. V. VI. Raymond, the whole
sale grocery dealer of Fargo, whose failure
has attracted so much attention, is in the
city to aid him in his legal difficulties. The
brother carries very large wholesale grocery
house in Lincoln, Neb., and states that
crookedness in dealings has never been
known in the family. He is confident that
his brother has never intended to wrong any
one, but has attempted to carry too large
business for his capital, and that bad debts,
shrinkage in values and the interest on
$50, 900 or $4,000 of borrowed capital, have
swamped him.
In response to suggestion in this depart
ment that the jamestown Alert had allowed
its Logan enthusiasm to ooze out, that paper
explains that the political editor ''is absent
on a visit to. his home in Illinois, and that is
the only reason why the home organ has
kept so quiet upon all matters pertaining to
that gentleman's department" 1t is some
what OF long range operation to have his
home 700 or 800 miles from his place of bust
ness, but there is no intention to callhis ''de-
pertinent into question. There are few
more racy and Independent writer's upon the
Dakota press than Mr.. Warnock.
There is general demand by the journals
OF north Dakota that the price of government
lands in the railroad limits shall be reduced