St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-03-26

now coming are people who formerly rented
farms in Iowa, Illinois, Ohio, Michigan and
other states east of here.
| Peck refers to a case alleged to have oc-
CURED at Fargo, in this: ''It isn't safe tc
sit on the grand jury in Dakota. A member
of one of the grand juries out there has been
| indicted for stealing kindling wood. When
a mans wife refuses to get the kindling and
compels her husband to go providing around
| the neighborhood after it, she and not he
should be indicted" With a few slight
| amendments this was true. The man was
| not married, was not member of the jury,
| and was not indicted.
The Flandrau Herald says the ele-
vator menand millers want the far
| mers Of south Dakota to SOW hard
| wheat Scotch, and they will pay them seven
cents more per bushel next fall, but they
want them to pay s1.10 per bushel to them
for the seed brought to them from the st.
Peters woods, which does not cost them more
than five cents freight from that place tc
Bookings, and will not pay the farmers but
sixty-eight cents per bushel for their crop.
Farmers cannot afford to pay such differ
ence between the wheat they have for seed
| and that which the elevator men and millers
| want to furnish them, and there cannot be
any money in it, when the Lost Nation will
yield from four to five bushels more to the
acre than Scotch Fife.
Now that the call for the Republican con-
vention to send delegates to Chicago is is
sued there is an immense crop of aspirants
springing up for the position of delegates.
! The territory is entitled to only two votes,
| but there is no reason why the delegation
should be limited to that number-one dele
! gate and one alternate from each section.
There might as well be ten or fifteen of the
leading citizens of the north and south sent
as delegates. They would not add to the
vote of the convention, but would give pres
tige to the territory and have moral effect
that would have advertising value and aid in
stimulating congress to pass some OF the
measures needed for the territory. There
are precedents for this course, and it is
thought that it might be adopted with both
the great conventions at Chicago to obvious
advantage.
A New Mexico paper has discovered this
and warns its readers: ''Don't be allured
to Dakota by the flashing railroad circulars,
the big wheat kernels and the promise OF
lands. There is seldom story told relating
to that country which you must consider. In
that territory more than six months is solid
winter, which abounds in billiards so cold
that the smoke freezes fast to the chimneys,
and so windy that unstopped key holes
| sound like steam whistles and barbs are torn
from wire fences" The writer might have
added that it is the frequent practice to place
chairs on top of red hot stoves to keep warm
in winter, and that hot coffee freezes before
reaching the stomach. But the reference tC
wire fences throws doubt over the state
ment, as no fences are known to exist in Da.
kota.
| The Mandan Pioneer says further in regard
| to tobacco culture in Dakota: A gentleman
of large experience in growing tobacco il
PENNSYLVANIA, and who has devoted consider
able time to the study of the character of the
| soil of the West Missouri country, says tina
there is beyond doubt a fine field here for the
| growth of tobacco. Tobacco does not re
| qnire long season, and natures best undel
the influence of warm sun and an active
soil. Both these requisites are with thu
West Missouri slope, and there is every rea
son to believe that our country is vel
adapted to the successful growth of this valu
able narcotic. Last season a few small
patches were grown by parties who knew
nothing about the cultivation of the weed
which yielded such returns as to justify thu
conclusion that by scientific farming tobacco
culture may become one of the Morton
county's most profitable industries.