St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-12-04
DAKOTA & MONTANA
Collected and Forwarded by Telegraph
to the Daily Globe.
yargo Special kilograms December 3, to the st
Paul GLOBE.
Norfhroesrern Notes.


The ice on Devils Lake is about eight
inches thick, and teams now pass over it.
In the north part of Hand county Rev
Barker, preacher, raised a squash that
weighed 1919 pounds. He divided among his
Gock.
The new bank building at St. Lawrence,
in Hand county, now nearly com pIcted, is
about equal to anything Of the kind in the
territory.
Hon. D NJ. Kellihcr, the old Democratic
war horse OF jamestown, calls them surface
Democrats because they have made their ap-
pearsnee since election.
There is good deal CT kicking in Dakota
towns over the recent increase Of insurance
rates. There is growing inclination to
support home companies.
number OF Fargo citizens have been to
Bismarck this week to testify 10 the Magii
trial that he has been peaccable citizen and
not likely TO kill anybody unless under great
provocation.
Redfeld has just discovered that by the
vote in 1880 it was entitled to the county
seat, and as it failed to get votes enough at
the recent election, 1t proposes to make a
contest ON the old figures.
4 Sioux Falls paper assigns Col. DOMAIN
this role at New Orleans, which will no doubt
be news to him: Col. Peter DOMAIN will
spend the winter In New Orleans as the pri-
yate secretary OF Joaquin Miller.
Some of the papers put down T. NJ. Pugh.
the member OF the legislature from Dickey,
elected on a boiling ticket, as Democrat
At the jubilee he was called out aud insisted
that he Republican and could not flop
so suddenly.
Since the location OF the county seat of
Jerauld county at Washington Springs the
place has quite a little boom, aud there is a
fine opening for those who have capital to
erect buildings TO rent. There are no vacant
buildings there.
A woman called Alice, kept by one Tony
West, gambler, died few days since, and
before her death stated that her fathers
name was Fowler, a wealthy and highly
reputable citizen of Hartford, Conn. He has
len telegraphed TO.
Register j. A. Rea is forming organizations
of settlers in the towns in the Missouri region
to promote his efforts TO secure a reduction
of the price of railroad limit land to Sl.25 an
acre. If he succeeds he will have a nice
little monument, if he don't live too long.
There is no encouragement to doctors in
this statement by the Pierre Signal; There
is nowhere on earth where the mortality is SO
small as In Pierre. Four thousand people
here give less for medical treatment than
any lille-sizcd town in the nation. Health is
better than wealth.
1t is expected that Dakota will have three
delegates in Washington this winter work
Ing for its interests. j. b. Raymond, the
hold over delegate, A. s. Clifford, the dele
gate elect, and j. r. Wilson, the Democi attic
candidate. who was not elected, besides DR..
Robertson and other citizens.
This stated by the Nurth6eld Journal seems
to apply to every locality: 1t is strange but
true that men who have worked in Republic
can conventions and been to all appearances
Republicans ever since they came 10 Dakota,
now turn out to be life long Democrats, and
all because Cleveland has been elected.
Hon J. J. Kleiner, the Democratic con-
gresham from the Evansville district Of IN
diana, after visiting north Dakota, went to
the Pierre region and gathered much infor-
nation about the country. He promised to
work for the opening of the Sioux reserva-
ton. East Pierre has sent a strong delega-
ton to Washington to aid congress i'll pro-
noting its interests.
This want, expressed by the forlorn bach
slor editor Of the Washburn Tanes. is not
confined to any locality: The fact is, we
want more girls up In this neighborhood-
some Of those with rosy cheeks and winning
smiles, with which TO eaptivate the hearts Of
,f,, h,.
they must expect to live in ''shacks'' and
meud OLD clothes, with Il hope of seeing
something better in the future.
The editor Of the Blade, the Democratic
paper at Bismarck, denies that he wants
Col Townsberry's position as postm aster,
and pays him this generous but deserved
tribute: His record in this city is one of
devotion to principles of right and justice,
Of purity in his private life, of integrity in
his business relations, and in many in
stances he has given of his scanty means
to feed or cloth those who have been de-
bauched and piundered by those who would
be glad to see the colonel meet With mis-
fortune.
A Dakota Democratic catichism runs thus:
Child-How many Democrats in Burleigh
county on election day, pal
Pa-one hundred and seveDty-one, my
child
Glow many two weeks after election,
when they found Cleveland was electeds
Pa--Just eight hundred more my child,
97l in all, or good big majority.
C-Where were they on election DAY, pal
Pa-Helping Tom Fortune and the other
boys elect the Republican ticket and beat
Wilson, the Democratic candidate for con
gress, out OF the Democratic vote.
The argument of the Ipswich writer that
Democrats should admit two states out of
Dakota territory because the Republicans are
strongly in favor of free trade. is not likely
to persuade Democrats to take that course.
1t is not remembered that any delegate from
Dakota has differed materially from his party
on any important questions. Most OF the
members of congress from Minnesota voted
for revenue reform, or at least TO con slider
the Morrison bill. but no Democrat is report
ed to have voted for them on that account
If there is any special point in that, why not
20 little further and agree to send Demo
Gratis TO the senatcl
Things at Grand Forks
GRAND EORKS ID II D.r And eth