St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-03-31
Dakota and Montana Notes.

As there is very little ordinary sickness in
Dakota the medical men rely mainly for bus
mess upon the demand for their services in
escorting new settlers into the world.
E. D. Grinnell, formerly teller in the bank
of Lisbon, died the past week at Coldwater,
Mich. He was young man of promise, and
his death is much regretted at Lisbon.
The Valley City Times says that the charges
against Herbert Root, the bank president of
that place, are not connected with the school
order defalcation for which Capt. Northrop
is in Jail.
In further Illustration of the remarkable
effect of the climate, the Grafton Herald says:
Thirty births in Grafton in three months,
with several wards to be heard from. How
| is that for Grafton.
Chas. A. Bovine, the popular cashier of the
First National bank, at Larimore, has re-
signed to give his attention to more profit
| able matters, which are abundant in that
sention for men of capital
The jamestown Alert has about exhausted
| the Logan enthusiasm that the editor gather
ed in Illinois, and recognizes the fact that
the boom for the swarthy senator was but
little diversion engineered by Blaine.
Numerous car loads of horses from the
east are Qbeing received at the northerly
points and they are sold rapidly at good
prices. 1t will pay to ship almost any num-
Der of good farm horses to north Dakota this
spring.
The ladies at DEVILS Lake City are getting
up grand leap year ball. Owing to the
comparative scarcity of young ladies there,
the fellows go wild over them, and are now
all in d ferment at the rumor of the social
| fete.
| Over $4,000 worth of lots have been sold
in the town site of Britton, one of the towns
laid out on the line of the Dakota & Great
| Southern railroad. The directors claim that
work on the line will commence at Webster
and running north as soon as the frost is out
of the ground.
o. NJ. Towner, in the extreme north of
Dakota, near Larimore, is largely engaged
| in stock raising, and proposes to erect a barn
| 100X400 feet this season. He is satisfied that
will be paying business even in the coolest
part of the territory. That is fine country,
probably equal to any in the Red river valley.
According to the Garfield Gazette the we'd
ding festivities of Oscar A Trovatten and
Lena Soil at that place, were of the old
fashioned times, where spirits flowed freely
and the dancing was kept up till morn of the
next day. The happy couple were required
to participate to the end, not altogether to
their satisfaction.
Frank Schneider had $50 bushels of wheat
stolen from the granary on his farm near
Wahpeton. There was no one living on the
place during the winter, and he has no clue
to the thieves. There was great deal of that
sort of wheat gathering done in Dakota dur
ing the winter. In many sections parties
discovered at that business woulu be promptly
lynched.
The DEVILS Lake Pioneer Press foots up
nearly 700 900 acres of desirable land within
range of that place, that is open, surveyed
and ready for settlement Heretofore the
| settlers have been ahead of the surveys. Now
parties can 90 there and take claims, spend
the summer in a most delightful climate and
prove up before winter. 1t is fine opening
evidently.
There is still complaint of freight rates on
the Manitoba railroad. The Larimore Leader
SAYS car load of flour from Grand Forks
to Larimore costs $27. car load of bran,
shorts or feed is the same. A car load of
flour, bran and shorts mixed costs S43, near
" as much as a car from New York to Chica-
90. Such are freight rates the people of this
part of the country are compelled to pay. No
wonder that Touring mill is wanted.
Last week 81 900 bushels of wheat was
marketed at Grafton which for the time of
year speaks with some vocal rotundiUy. This
also in the Herald seems to have a healthy
look: During the year of 1884 there were
thirty births and two deaths in Grafton. We
heard one of our ministers say that in six
months he had not a funeral and by the
looks of his congregation it would be six
months more before he would preside at one.
The Larimore Pioneer says that two snow
boats have been used a good deal this win
ter southeast of that town, one belonging to
| the New York farm, and the other to the
DOYLE brothers. They are built and operated
on the principle of an ice boat and the sails
carry them over the snow clad prairies almost
like lightning. The only thing that prevents
their making long distances is the trouble in
crossing deep coulies, which are numerous
in Dakota.
The Hillsboro Banner SAYS: 1t appears that
a number of swindlers have been abroad
among the farmers of this section the past
| summer under the guise of agents for agri-
cultural machinery, and many citizens of
Trail find to their sorrow that without their
| knowledge, they have signed notes which are
now presented for collection and must be
paid One farmer, residing in this vicinity,
was in town the other day and related his
grievances, having been victimiZed to the
amount of SS5.
The outcroppings indicate vituperative
| and hitter contest over the mayOralty at the
city election. The unfortunate escapade
that got before the grand jury some time
since, in which the mayor and chief of po-
lice were alleged to be frolicsome partici-
pants, is already doing duty and will no
doubt present all its unsavory phases. 1t is
to be regretted for the good of the place that
a contest OF this sort should be sprung when
the newcomers are appearing so numerously,
as it will give them unfavorable impressions
of the moral status of the community.
This is the record gathered by the Mitchell
Repatblican in central Dakota: The Dakota
winter may now be said to be ended. 1t is
true we shall have few stormy days before
settled warm weather, but the rigor of the
season is over. Cold weather came with the
new year and lasted till about the 5th Of
March, when it moderated. Two months anC
five days of winter, with only eight inches Of
snow, compares well, we think, with any o.
the eastern states. For two weeks farmer:
have been following the pillow, and many
acres of wheat and other small grain has beer
sowed.
The papers are in doubt wheather to TAX,
stock in the rumors of gold in the Turtle
mountains or not. The Bathgate lSe,atine
saws: The Grand Forks Herald is authorit,