St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-08-22
DAKOTA & MONTANA
Collected and Forwarded by Telegraph
to the Daily Globe.
Fargo Special Telegrams August 20, to the St.
Paul Globe.
NortI,,pestern Notes.

The Bismarck Journal supports Capt. Ray
mond for delegate on the theory or pledge that
he will secure the passage of a bill in congress
dividing this territory and fixing the capital Of
the north at Bismarck
Preparations have been made for the accom-
mediation of the government soldiers at the
union to be held at Redheld during the week of
the county fair commencing Sept. TO- A camp
fire each evening. Reduced rates on all the rail-
roads.
F. W. Warner, who has fine gardens near lake
Kampeska in Coddington county, has among his
products this season cabbage heads weighing ten
pound He will have a nice variety of garden
products to send over the country az samples OF
what Dakota can do.
Among the fire departments that have accepted
invitations to participate in the fremens tourna-
ment at Aberdeen in September are those Of
Chamberlain, Fargo, Grand Forks, Huron, Mitch
ell, Pierre, Redheld, Sioux Falls, and Yankton.
Numerous others are expected.
Hunters report the appearance of quail in Da-
kota This choice poultry is supposed to follow
In the wake of civilization. Some OF them
brought from the east to the James valley are
said to be doing finely. Since the 18th sports
men are bagging quantities of prairie chickens
and other game.
The Dunseith Herald has kept the count and
says: Twenty-Five horse thieves have already
been strung up along the Missouri and Mouse
rivers, and unless the government takes quick
measures to protect the settler on both sides of
the line, horse thieves will be shot on sight with
out having recourse to the law
The Sioux Falls Leader has this summary of
the crops in that section: Wheat is not quite so
large yield as was anticipated, but the quality
is No. 1. Rye 25 bushels per acre-better than
expected Barley much. better than expected
40 bushels per acre, of the best quality: oats
very large yield. and of superior quality. All
growing crops are most promising, with pros
poets of large yield. The corn is the largest
ever raised in this section.
This is the report of one who recently re-
turned: 'Among other disguised returniug-p1-
grims is Bill Meserve of Bismarck, man known
all up and down the Missouri river He tried
Ceur d Alene, and says that the mines are fraud,
and that he never saw larger number of dis
gusted haf-starved and disappointed individuals
congregated in any place than in that region. He
says if God will forgive him this time he will
never leave Dakota again except to 90 to that
next best place when he dies
A paper at Ltchfeld, Mimi, has information
that crops are poor in Brown county, Dakota,
which prompts the Ordway Tribune to rise indg-
nantly and pronounce the story "a bare faced lie
In every particular. Brown countys average will
be nearly if not quite twenty bushels per acre,
and if we have had any cause to complain on the
rain subject 1t has been for too much. Certainly
we have hot lacked for it. Wheat has been in
more danger from smut and rust than from
drought
Grand Forks claims to be the only point in
Dakota where Gen. Sherman on his Devils Lake
trip, showed his skill in kissing ladies' The
Herald relates how it came about in this: Mrs.
Mayor Mccormack came forward and suggested
that the ladies thought he had forgotten to dis
charge his duty. The general saw the point
and sprang down with agility and discharged the
duty referred to, according to approved patriotic
style. Those unfortunate as not to have been
present are now objects of sympathy on the part
of the osculatory favored.
The Livingston Tribune says the greater por
ton Of the tourist travel to the national park this
season comes in this year over the Union Pacific,
the Utah u Northern via the Beaver canyon, and
return the same way. The Tribune thinks the
management of the Northern Pacific makes
mistake to allow it. 1t says: cit is now an
open secret why this route has, during the pres
ent season become popular Rates can be had
from Chicago and return for about one half the
amount asked by the Northern Pacific. AS a re-
suit the majority patronize the cheapest route
Still we sit in dumb amaZement and wonder why
the Northern Pacific should run so light