St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-07-12


en-, gives 537, an increase of 100 in a year.
The farmers of Brown and surrounding
counties held grand picnic at Ranlett's
grove on Saturday
Telegraph lines are being put up from
Aberdeen to Ipswich and also from Fargo to
Wahpeton, the latter on the Fargo Southern.
One man, Daniel Stewart, will be able to
prove up under the timber culture act in. the
Bismarck land district. He will be the first.
The Indian agent at Standing Rock says
that Sitting Bull has gone to farming for a
living. The crops of the Indians are looking
fine.
The statement Is going the rounds that
one Ed. Fornshee walked all the way from
Albany to Aberdeen, Dakota, a distance OF
nearly 1000 miles in just one month.
The Holly system, for uses at fire, does not
compare with the artesian well at Aberdeen.
The hose companies have tested 1t, throwing
streams through 700 feet of hose to height
of $40 feet
President Sargent, of the Fargo Southern
railroad has brought his family frem Chi
cago to Detroit Lake to spend the summer.
He will give his personal attention to the
road for time
d. d. Stetson, an old soldier, and captain
in Kilpatrick's cavalry, who came to Dakota
three years ago and located at jamestown,
fell dead without warning, of heart disease,
a few evenings since. He was held in high
esteem.
If the young sprig appointed as one of the
judges of Dakota had not promptly declined,
be would have had an unsavory lot of per-
sonal sketches to read had he seen the Dako-
ia papers He would have been egged out OF
the territory.
The La Moure Progress learns that work
will begin at once on the Jamestown q
Northern branch of the Northern Pacific. AL
the grading is finished to Minnewaukon, and
the iron is laid to within twenty-five miles OF
that point.
Col. W. F. Steele, one of the early settlers
on the line of the Northern Pacific. Is in the
field for delegate to congress. He Is said Is
be very strong in the Missouri river section,
and an untiring worker, but it would look as
if he came out too late.
The hanging of horse thieves in Mclean.
north of Bismarck, does not seem to have
interrupted the business. Five horses have
since been stolen near Washburn. One OF
the supposed thieves has been found buried
with his boots on, and probably without re-
ligious ceremony.
Norfolk Spy Waverly township, this
county, has seventeen young ladies holding
down claims. Clifton, Carson and Onida's
bachelor editors are said to have invested in
strays they invariably search Waverly town
ship first. One of them is reported as seen
driving calf in that direction in the night,
but we did not learn which one it was.
Horse stealing is confined to no part Of
the territory. The Kimball Lpder, in Brule
county, SAYS: ''Another horse stealing pic
mic has occurred JUST north of US. Last Fri
day night three horses and two mules were
stolen from W. E. Phillips, who lives on sec
ton 3, 197-67. No clue has been obtained
concerning the thief or whereabouts of the
animals
The people of Bismarck gave the new
Episcopal bishop, Rev. DIR. Walker, an en-
thusiastic reception at his recent visit there
The local papers say he was given model
banquet with the best music of the city, and
an evening of ''pure, whole souled Dakota
enjoyment Still, it is not supposed the
bishop will select Bismarck as his head-quar-
tiers and the seat of the educational institu-
tons.
The tendency in North Dakota is some
what slowly toward diversity of crops as in
the south. The Lamoure Progress says
''The introduction of large herds of cattle on
the prairies of Dakota marks new era in
the history of Dakota. We are no longer de-
pendent on cereals. The farmer with few
head of stock, sty of porkers and coop OF
chickens, is quite as well off as his eastern
brother and possesses innumerable more OPP
portunities to acquire wealth. In time other
lines of industries will be opened up in Da-
kota, and we shall offer as varied induce
ments as any state in the union"
Wahpeton 1Nercurg Gin the last issue OF
the Police NeWs there is startling picture OF
Bishop Walker stopping fight at Wahpeton.
The picture represents two wild looking COM
batants, one treading with No. IA boots on
the head of the other; huge crowd of COW
boys looking on, and man supposed to look
like Bishop Walker gesticulating with his
arms. In the back ground is a store, with
hardware and miners implements" for a
sign. What rubbish. Who ever heard of
mining in Richland county, or the terror o (
the praities-cow boys.