St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-03-29
Dakota and Montana Notes.

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the ground of locality in this: A brother
editor writes US to endorse Col. Lounsberry
| of Bismarck for governor of Dakota. With
all due respect to said brother editor and said
candidate for governor, as a South Dakota
man we are obliged to decline. North Dakota
has influence enough IN the territorial gov
| eminent already.
| OCol. Domains articles upon Dakota are still
going the rounds of the country press. One
of them the past week introduces his
Philadelphia memorial with the statement
that it is acknowledged everywhere, and by
everybody, to be the best article ever written
on peerless Dakota. Thus does the good
men do live after them, so to speak, the colo
mel having been absent several months.
A writer in the Grand Forks Herald booms
| Col. Doran for governor on the ground that
he has done more for the territory than any
other man. 1t is not believed, however, that
that fact will be of weight at Washington.
The offices in the territories are too conven-
| lent as asylums for political supernumeraries.
There are good men in most of the positions,
but they were not selected for the good of
Dakota. Doran would make a dashing ex-
ecutive.
| AT a farmers meeting in south Dakota
the other day this opinion was expressed,
which is no doubt true of that section:
Mr.. Hogaboom thinks COWS will pay better
than wheat raising, and if a farmer has to
| buy seed wheat to the amount of a COW, he
! will make more on the investment to buy
the COW. He came to Dakota eleven years
| ago and had started with one COW, and after
he had four COWS to milk did not run any
store debts; when prices on butter were low
he packed it. He prefers to have his cows
| fresh from the first of March to the first of
May.
Geo. Knott, who has just returned from
the interior of southern Dakota, reports to
the Sioux Falls Press that the immigration to
that region is simply immense. The incom-
ing railroad trains are all crowded with new
home seekers, and all are bent on penetrat-
ing as far toward the frontier as possible.
In this respect land hunters are like sheep
when they get started for section nothing
of an ordinary character will stop them. Mr..
Knott met one tenderfoot who had paid $500
for. a REIMBURSEMENT to tree culture claim,
and who expressed himself as fortunate in
getting the land so cheap.
Among the curiosities of local politics is
the fact that the two morning papers of
Fargo, after supporting the same candidate
for mayor nearly week, have now united
upon a common ticket for governor, General
Allen, the popular United States marshal.
The self-abnegation of Col. Plummer in this
is one of the brightest stars upon the es-
cutcheon of his fame. He puts aside his own
name and aspirations and hauls out of the
way of his cherished Pennsylvania friend,
Hon. Pettis. The selection of Gen. Allen would
probably come as near placating all the ele-
ments in Dakota, not excepting the gentle
man himself, as any that can be made.
''Barkis is within +" He is good man for
the place.
In their fight against railroad and elevator
monopolies at Grand Forks, it is discovered
that too strong a tale was put out as to the
extent of the suffering. Frank Viets, one of
the old pioneers, has returned from visit to
Ohio and says in regard to the effect down
there: Had the agitation confined itself to
facts it would not have been so bad; but the
reports really drew such picture that it did
present the appearance of an unenviable
country to live in. The exaggerated reports
were meat for the newspapers down east, who
were suffering on account of the western
emigration, and they published them right
and left, and the result is, that wherever
these newspapers reached, you could not hire
emigrantS to come here.
An energetic effort is being made to secure
the erection of a new opera house, which is
one of the special present needs Of Fargo.
The old one is outgrown and quite insufc-
lent and inconvenient in every way. There
is not room for stage scenery and the hall is
too small 1t is out of keeping with the de-
mands and enterprise of Fargo The new
one it is designed to locate on Front in the
- e ~ Ia l;,a ,f
proposed street cars to Moorhead and
so convenient to that place
as to draw upon it. The Thespian club has
promised to take the matter in hand, but its
manager is so full of business that the reli-
ance is not the best. A bonus of several
thousand dollars can easily be raised upon
that street alone, and all that is needed to
push the scheme to immediate success is
proper. effort.
The Pierre Signal says: The other night an
exceedingly visionary gentleman from the
Hooser state came to Pierre with his mind
on fire, his countenance all aglow, and his
heart futtering with the magnificent idea
that, by taking his blanket, and sleeping on
quarter section of land one night, the next
morning, at the break of day, or at the
farthest just after breakfast, he could prove
up on the quarter and obtain complete
title to it by paying S1.25 per acre therefor.
But this was not all; that ethereal agent
imagined that this process could be repeated
for four successive nights, and in just
four days he could be the legal
owner of a full section of Uncle Sans
fair domain and could inside of a week, be
back in old Indiana, having in his pocket
| his patents for the land.
The gentleman was informed that night
that his idea was simply dream, and the
next morning, with heavy heart and sad
countenance, he left on the train for his
home in Indiana, never to return to Dakota.
| 1t is unnecessary to say that the self-deluded
gentleman will be busy for the next four
years telling sis Hoosier neighbors how sadly
| disappointed he was on his arrival in the
Gland of the Dacotahs," and how big are
| the lies and how colored the stories which
are told by the newspapers of Dakota.
Death on dogs is the spirit of mum cipal
| laws and an amusing controversy has grown
up in consequence at Casselton. 1t seems
that the ordinance makes it a misdemeanor
| subject to fine and imprisonment for the
owner of canine in that city to possess a
dog or even harbor one, without first having
obtained license. at a cost of So and SIS a