St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-09-12
DAKOI'A& MOuTAUA
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Fargo Special kilograms september11, to tho St
Paul Globe.
northeastern Notes.


The big corn crop and increased yield Of fax
help out South Dakota materially this year when
their wheat dent bring much.
Hon. L ". Barnum, OF Sanborn, cleared his
farm Of gophers by poisoning grain and placing it
in their holes early in the spring.
A new and highly creditable NJ. {. church, at
Washington Springs, was dedicated last Sunday.
Rev. PaTdee delivered the sermon.
paper balloon was lately found in Moody
county, with the date attached to it, ''Omaha,
July I, 1884" 1t had travelled about $50 mites.
Central Dakota has three candidates for del
legate-Mellette, Shannon and Hutchinson.
The latter is receiver of the Aberdeen land
office.
II. c. Cooper has taken a contract to grade 100
miles of the Dakota Midland railroad, and to
have 1t all ready for the iron by tho first of Au-
gust next.
Any resident of Dunseith, in the Turtle
Mountains, viii make affidavit that 1t Is the
prettiest site for town in Dakota. Nature has
evidently designed well and artistically for it.
At MInto in the north there is complaint that
the elevator men are trying to squeeze down the
low prices of wheat by charging smut. 1t is
admitted that there is little smut in good deal
of the wheat
Walsh county proposes to issue bonds for
$4,000 for county buildings. 1t is large and
well settled county for that region and can album
dainty afford the expense, and SO secure terms
OF court in the county.
There are three towns settledIn Towner county.
and it was organized six month ago, but has not
yet had birth, marriage, death, lawsuit, arrest,
fight, sermon or newspaper, but good crops Of
wheat and political conventions
Hon. Jud La doure and Geo. II. Walsh, former
members, are likely to De sent TO the legislature
from Grand Forks and Pembina They are
classed with the capital commission people and
anti-Raymond, although nominally friendly to
him.
Iany farmers are shipping the wheat to
market themselves this year, and claim quite an
advantage in it. One in Clark county says he
saved eight cents bushel. Judge Goodrich,
near Casselton, also reports several cents made
in this way.
The Canning Nesg8 reports that settlers
focking in on the Sioux reservation, which is not
yet open for settlement, and possibly may not
be. They are surveying claims and building
houses. party of seventy five went on this
week from Canning.
The Montana fair, the first ever held, is being
held at Helena this week. There is a fair display
of the enormous vegetables and fine grains of
that section, but the attraction is the horse
races. There are Il great number of the best
horses in the west there.
Valley City Times: About the most profitable
crop in Dakota this season is the wild plum,
which has grown in great abundance. While No.
hard wheat brings 50 cents per bushel, plums
are worth 81. Hundreds of bushels have been
gathered in Barnes county.
Among other curiosities that will appear in the
Dakota exhibit at New Orleans, this winter, will
be single stalk of corn grown in Bismarck
having on it eight well formed ears of corn
Another stalk having six ears on it will also be
sent from the same garden.
The removal OF the capital from Yankton
seems to hUye revived the energy of the people
and they have been trying to do for themselves
The result is quite little boom. Probably no
one of the larger towns in the territory has
pushed ahead so fast this season as Yankton.
Valley City Times: One OF the richest and
best cultivated farms in the territory is that of
White Bros, north of Valley City. On this
farm thre-hng has just been completed, and the
crop has been a large one. From 400 acres sown
to wheat the Yield is TO- 273 bushels, 200 acres Of
which averaged 80 bushels per acre.
The territorial authorities do not attempt to
equalize the assessments between the various
counties, which differ often so to rs per cent,
but they attempt to make the per cent of taxa
ton correspond approximately to the assessment.
Benson and Towner are as low TWO mills, and
Fall River and some others four mills.
The survey has been completed of tho railroad
from Dunseith in the Turtle mountains to Mime
wauken, on Devils lake, sixty-nine miles, and
the estimates for the grade are 1880 mile, or
100000 for the entire road in operation. The
maximum grade is one foot in 100. 1t is be-
lieyed the road will be built next season.
Deuel. is one of the few counties that
comedies a lighter yield of wheat than last
year. The Adcocase says: The average yield
rhinl, ic mt unit 10 To-
price OF wheat in the market is causing many of
our farmers to hold onto their what, and at
present prices only those who are obliged 10 do
so will sell their wheat now.
Miss Fannie Holiday, one of the teachers
in the public sc .oos Of Fargo, was married Sep
TENDER at the home of her father in Carlinville
H.. to Charles a. Morse OF st. Paul The bride
has been one of the most esteemed and admired
members of society in Fargo, and her husband
is fortunate indeed in obtaining so amiable, ac-
compilshed and charming wife They will take
an extended trip i'll the east before they return to
st. Paul TO reside.
The indications are that Hon. A. c. MoIleett
will be the leading candidate of the south and
center, at Pierre next week. His nomination is
highly probable. II may be set down that the
Red River valley will be a unit for Raymond on
the first ballot, and the Missouri valley nearly
solid against him. Many of those instructed for
Raymond will not stick to him longer than to
satisfy their instructions. They really prefersto
see him get left.
The Lisbon star says Mr.. Oliver In Ransom
county in the north is experimenting quite ex-
tensiyely in raising fruit in Dakota. He has sew
eral apple trees and grape vines, which were Set
out year or two ago and are growing nicely and
stand the winter well as in any climate Snd
chow no indications of winter-killing He is
confident apples can be grown In Dakota as well
az IL any of the other states, and intends to set
out several acres TO choice varieties another
year.
The VermiOn Plain 7dLk says: Dakota
beats the world for fruit Mr.. j. A Barnsback
gathered fifteen bushels of pums from tree on
his place Monday morning. The fruit was not
large but very ripe and rich, and very thickly
clustered on the branches. Mr.. Alva CARPENTER
brought some Of the finest grapes it has ever
been our good fortune to see. into our Office the
other day, They are of the Concord variety and
are rs good as can be produced in any OF the
older states Oh no, You can't raise fruit in
Dakota.
The editor of the Ordway Tribune in the James
valley the other day took dizzy whirl into the
country on his Yelocipede, and this is the way
things looked to his rapid eyes: The wheat
stacks were like the tents of Israel The cows
were fat The cabbages were uniformly troubled
with the big head. The beets beat the devil
The onions were green a politician. Turnips
al a distance cheered us with the hope that we
had discovered lake. The plowmau rode on
chariot wheels and whistled as he turned tho
golden stubble, "oweet day! SO col, so calm, so
calm, bright!''
AS the price of wheat slips down to the ffties
faces III the wonderland grow long and the task
of proving that the golden grain is bonanza at