St. Paul daily globe., 1884-04-05

Morrison bill in congress. The Fargo Repub-
tican, Wahpeton Gazette, and other Republic
can papers are taking that ground.
Parties from Frederick City, Nd, were at
Dickinson, the past week looking for a loca-
ton for colony from their state.
A number of young men who had squat
ters' claims about New Rockford, went east
to spend the winter and came back to find
their claims jumped. In a contest most of
them will get their lands
The farmers in the Red River valley have
put in good deal of wheat the past week.
| The season is two weeks earlier than last,
and the prospect could not well be better
for big crop of wheat, and everything else.
Frank Smith, the young man who shot
himself at Jamestown the past week. had
been a resident of Dickinson the past year, and
was of good character, and well liked He
was temperate and cheerful, and his friends
there are much shocked at his suicide. He
had started to visit his parents in Mime
! sofa.
One of the papers says that Judge Palmer's
term of court, held in Turner county, has
impressed every person who attended there
| at with the idea that he will make one OF the
| most acceptable officials that ever held
position in the territory When he comes TO
give the deciding opinion in the capital COM
mission case there may not be quite so much
unanimity in the compliments.
The young society men of Grand Forks
are in quiver over another grand leap year
party to be given by the ladies on Easter
Monday. One of the local papers says it will
add another jewel to the diadem of the daz-
zling splendor of the golden circle of society
entertainments. The proximity of the gold
In the Turtle mountains gives somewhat of
an auriferous hue to local rhetoric there.
Sykeston, in Wells county, is to have a
bank. 1t has paper, and its pressing need
is said to be marriageable young ladies.
There are number of young men there,
and they are urged, as a matter of local duty,
to seek wives, and bring them, in order to
increase the population. They say they are
! willing, but don't know where to find the
needed fractions. Most of them can be
| recommended.
| The editor of the Forest City Press is taken
down with the Dakota complaint, and breaks
out in this way: ''Ye editor is burning his
midnight oil now singing Baby Nine to 4
elve.pound young lady who came to stop
with us last Tuesday morning. The mother
is happy and the father will pull through.
Now that we have a nursery attached to our
sanctum, we ara prepared to write most lu-
cidly upon all the higher and sublimer sub
| jects of life"
B. c. Tiffany, register of the United State
! land Office at Grand Forks, estir ates the
amount of land not yet filed on in the coun-
ties of Nelson, east of DEVILS lake, and Ram
sey, which includes most of the lake, at a half
million acres, nearly all of which is of good
quality, and well adapted to agricultural pur-
poses. He believes that it will be nearly all
filed upon this season. There is certainly
unusual attention being given that country,
and the indications are that it will have quite
boom This year.
This from the Mitchell Mail will be well
understood in south Dakota where there is so
much furor over the oriental order of humil-
ity: "Conductor Tom Lane, is a devoted
member of the Mitchell Hut His wife think
ing to get 'ghoak'' on the o. m, while rid
ing west, requested the young lady at her
side, companion du voyage, to call up Tom
and say o. NJ. A., to him. The bright young
woman did so, when the sympathetic con-
ductor quickly replied: ''What ails itl''
The Mitchell Mall says: "James O'Her-
| ron, young man from Buffalo county, was
brought in Friday night by Deputy u S.
Marshal T. II. Wilson. When arraigned be-
| fore U S. Commissioner w. G. Metcalf, by
Inspector James, he waived preliminary
examination, and was held in default of
| S1,CC0 bail. 1t was alleged that Mr.. OHer-
ron forged the name of Henry W. Luce to a
pre-emption declaratory statement. 1t is
averred that the defendant 'proved up' on
cIo al ha
cupies the steel chest in the court house lock-
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