St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-10-07
DAKO7A& MONTANA
Collected and Forwarded by Telegraph
to the Daily Globe.
Fargo Special kilograms October 6, to the ST.
Pan Globe.
Northwestern Notes.

A colony from about Arthur, ILL.,, are look
ing for location in the James valley.
Bishop Andrews is defeating number of
Methodist churches in south Dakota.
Major VIM. Woods, at Bismarck. claims
that his wheat threshed forty bushels per
acre.
The rainfall at Bismarck during Septem-
Der was 2.3 inches and the mean tempera-
turc Sc.
Gov. Pierce is to make speech at an early
day before campfire of the G.. A. R. post at
jamestown.
Madison has secured 81, 500 creamery by
donating ten acres of ground. Work on the
buildings begins at once.
The agents of big colony of HoIlanders
are now looking for location in South Da-
kota They will be over in the spring.
The Bismarck Tribune claims that one of
the turnips, to be sent from that place to
New Orleans, will require derrick to load it
on the car.
The statement is made that no passenger
anywhere on the line of the Northern Pa
cifc has been injured in 1884 That is sur
prising, if true.
The Presbyterian church in Fargo Sunday
elected Rev. D. C. Bierce, of Beaver Dam,
Wis, pastor. 1t is said he will be quite an
acquisition to the clergy of the place.
P. e. Shebe, of st. Paul, with others, has
been looking over the ground with view to
building s15, ZOO mill at Montrose, in Nc
Cook county. A liberal bonus is proposed.
Dawson Globe: James McSweeney, O Bis
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of town and shipping to Fargo. He bags
from fifteen to twenty-five dozen per week.
The Wheatland Eagle reports that fifteen
miles of the grade of the Duluth, Fargo &
Black Hills railroad has been completed and
that track laying will commence in the
spring.
1t is stated as fact that ducks and geese
do fly against the sos feet high electric tower
and drop dead Numbers of dead birds are
seen there, but the game are all taken in by
the police.
The various lodges of the Masonic ord er in
Fargo have secured the third story of brick
building erected on Eighth street, 4Ox1OO
feet and fourteen feet high, and will make
one of the finest halls in the west, it is said.
The first child ever born in Koto, in Nc
Pherson county, is j. l.. Dow, Jr., dating
September 80, 1884. The place has one or
two newspapers, numbers of fair women and
aims to be the county seat Dow, ST., is the
proudest man in the place and the envy of
many.
John Wolf, young German ieweler and
matchmaker, recently departed from La
Moure, and it is claimed that numerous
watches and clocks in his possession were not
returned to their owners. His memory per-
haps was at fault.
Phillip Phillips, the singing pilgrim, now
in Dakota, reports that a heavy capitalist
of New York has half million dollars to loan
in Dakota at low interest as soon as it will
endorse prohibition. 1t would be well for
him to state the rate and security required
before the vote is had.
Two bishops preached in Fargo Sunday.
Bishop Fowler, of the NJ. E. church, at the
opera house, and Bishop Walker at the Epis-
copal. They are both able men and fine
speakers, the former said to be the most
forcible Dis UNCONVENTIONAL rank since
the death of Bishop Simpson.
The average weight of the members of the
Governors guard, who excited so much ad-
miration for perfection in drill at the com
potion in Fargo, is over $50 pounds, and
they are straight limbed, finely developed
and solid, handsome looking lot of young
men. The young ladies were captivated with
them.
The members of the popular fire company,
called Zerxa Hose company, recently had all
their photographs taken in uniform and the
best style of the art and placed in a large
elegant frame, at a cost of some 5000, and
presented to the mayor, who is a sort of
patron saint of the organization. He recip-
rocated with fine banquet, and bountiful
exchange of compliments. The members of
this company were selected as the elite of the
young men of the city, as regards physical
pulchritude and muscular development, and
this frame now on exhibition in the wigwam
attracts great attention from the admirers of
the best efforts of nature, and young ladies
throng the window where exhibited.