St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-09-10
DAKOI'A& MONTANA
Collected and Forwarded by Telegraph
to the Daily Globe.
Fargo Special kilograms September 8, to the St
Paul Globe.
NOTthtcestern Notes.

CElnDlna.
Very fine water melons have been grown
and ripened at Steele on the Northern
Pacific
Worth Harris, popular young merchant,
has gone to Kentucky to marry a lovely and
noted belle.
Tire wearisome county seat case of Trail
is before the court this week and is expected
to reach a conclusion.
Competition among buyers of flax in Scot
land, in south Dakota, has run it up from 81
to Sl.25. and as it is q big crop in that Sec
ton there is quite boom there.
The first Democratic meeting ever held in
Foster county was last Saturday, to appoint
delegates to the convention at Sioux Falls.
There was good show OF members.
OF the tLirty-uine counties in Judge Fran
nis' Sixth Judicial district, only four have
vver had a court held in them, namely, Nor
on, Burleigh, Stutsman and Barnes.
1t is regarded as a very important item
hat the government survey corps have found
coal in the Sioux reservation, one vein three
feet and lower one seven feet thick.
Col. Steele's farm at Steele, in Kidder
county, will send to the New Orleans EXPOSE
ZION a turnip that weighs seventeen pounds,
and is thirty-six inches in circumference.
a Democratic county convention has been
called for Pembina county Sept. "a. A full
legislative and county ticket is to be brought
out. 1t is thought they will carry that
county.
The Mandan Pioneer says: Gan Indian
papoose carried tenderly in her arms yester-
lay pet skunk. OF all the pets in or out Of
cake"
Huron expected cheaper insurance when
they got water works, but the companies
have added l per cent. and some of the dis
gusted local agents talk Of taking down their
shingles.
The Hn2sboro Ba,0,er says: ''NIr. Charles
Paulson informs US that his farm,
about three miles north Of this city, has
yielded average Of Uhirty-five bushels on
1870 acres"
a choice musical and dramatic entertain
meut is to be given Tuesday night as bene-
fit to T. A. Colby, a local dramatiSt and
comedian who has lost mis- health and needs
to 20 south to recuperatc.
The Casselton Reporter says: IA Maple
river farmer brought load of large, fine
watermelons into town last Saturday. and
those who sampled them were loud in their
praise Of native Dakota melons"
The Signal service report for August, at
Bismarck shows the highest point reached
by the thermometer ola, which is about four
degrees higher than at Fargo. The lowest
point was 1872. Total rainfall :. 50 inches, a
little more than half that at Fargo
The Marion Sentinel somewhat unfairly
says the support of Raymond in the south is
confined among newspapers to the Yankton
Press and Chamberlain Hegister, edited by
po-tmasters. There are a number of other
editors who hold post offices or hope to.
So far as heard from Douglas with eight
votes is the only county in south Dakota
that has instructed for Raymond. In the
north 50 far or counties have elected dele
gates opposed to him. The nomination lies
between Raymond and a south Dakota man.
The local papers are spiced with reports of
wheat yields, rarely any reported less than
twenty bushels per acre. The largest recorded
is given by the Lisbon Clipper, which says.
David Ash threshed forty-three bushels of
'''NAA
D. r. Getchcl, the city editor of the Val
ley City Times, distinguished himself in the
rescue of a companion while fording the
Sheyenne, recently, on hunt. Both horses
were drowned, but he saved the game. He
is a Bogardus with the rifle and a champion
swimmer.
A dedication takes place at the church in
Avon, in Bonhommc county, next Sunday,
and the presiding elder announces that the
day before there viii be grand jolification
and the biggest crowd ever seen in the
county. lie promises them "dead loads of
fun beside a sermon.
The Ga-ete in Foster county says of the
north: The Dakota corn crop is
decided success this season, and in fact
has only missed one year out of five. The
seed now used is from corn raised in this
northern climate and will produce a large,
solid ear in ninety days"
The common practice of leaving machines
exposed to the elements prompts one 10 saw
''The self binder now peacefully rests in its
old place in the field corner and fifty millions
of Dakota hens wear contented look as they
piacidly roost on them until the billiards.
drive them under cover next winter"
The attaches of the press in Fargo and
Moorhead met Sunday evening and organ
lied press club. There is material in the
dual city for useful organization if it can
be brought together. \ banquet is pro-
posed upon an early day with Col. Donan.
Col Guttrippale and others as speakers.
Sir James Dapples, an English gentleman
who has shot bears, buffalo and alligators in
this country, lions and tigers in Africa, and
all sorts of game i'll Europe and Asia, is now
bagging prairie chickens in Dakota, and pro-
nounces it the finest sport he has ever had,
and Dakota the greatest country he has seen.
\ south Dakota paper reports Delegate
Raymond with lady guard from the United
States marshal's office, going about among
Ne farmers singing: @
'Howde, howd'e, howd'e do,
How's your wife and how are you,
1t fits my fist as no other can
The horny hand Of a Raymond man.
The Progress reports small Mormon set
Nement in La Moure county. 1t says: ''Per-
haps but few of our La Moure people know
that MormOnism has fOOthold in our county,
but whether these people in 1866 practice
or believe in polygamy, they are under the
direction of Al elder and observe the Norm On
creed
The Darlington Gazette takes this view:
1.-THE only thing Dakota politicians have to
ight about is our delegates to congress, and
they are doing it in every sense of the word.
The inevitable result of the present cam paign
will be a general newspaper war, aud now,
even before the music has commenced, they
are at it tooth and nail.''
j. VI Deyine. one Of the great stumn ora