St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-03-17

Dakota among the friends of the colonel al
the information that he has accepted the
position Of managing editor of the Eyenina
Critic, daily paper at Washington, as it will
take him away from the territory, but they
have assurance Of a powerful representative
of their Interests at Washington.
The Brule bader gives this statement of the
profit OF growing cattle in Dakota: o. Tur-
geon, who lately shipped thirty-fve head OF
cattle from Kimball to the Chicago market.
returned from the east Wednesday night and
expresses himself as well satisfied with the re-
suits of his sale. He received So per 100
pounds for the lot, which brought him the
snug sum of -, 656.25, making an average
OF 1861 IS per head. The cattle Mr. Turgeou
shipped were raised and fattened simply
upon Dakota grass and hay, never having
been stabilized" which speaks volumes in
praise of the nutritive and fattening qualities
of our grasses, and also furnishes good ar
gument in favor OF Dakota's merits as a
stock-raising country.
1t is one of the peculiarities of the local
and political situation in Fargo that the two
Republican papers have SO far bridged the
chasm between them as to both support Col.
Morton, the leading Democrat of the city, for
mayor, while the Democratic paper and the
guerrilla sheets are bitterly opposing The
BroGdo1e aims to take charge or the politics
| of the city and slashes around astutelv with
no apparent aim other than to individualize
| itself and make things lively. 1t would not
! be easy to select man who would WELD
the municipal baton with more vigor and at
the same time sit down harder upon yisiona-
ry schemes than Colonel Morton. He com
| bines prudence and economy with public
! spirit and viii no dt ubt do more for the
good of the city than almost any one that
could be selected.
The Hope Pioneer says: The Mayville
branch of the Manitoba railroad is practically
useless during the greater part of tie winter.
| there being almost one continual line of
snow banks along its entire length As
Portland and Mayville are but two miles
| apart, the railroad company manages to run
train to the former place, and wait on May
| vile by stage coach, and the two towns com
| bined being able to furnish a little more bus
mess for the road, the rolling stock naturally
rolls in that direction for the present It is
not just tie way fora railroad to do business
Our merchants have supplies on the road
which are needed, and, taken all together,
the Manitoba company should man
age in some way to give
US train. The plea that snow in the cuts
below Page causes blockade, is too gauzy.
All that is necessary is little investigation
on the part of Mr.. Marvel.
Father Stephan, who has lived among the
Indians many years, and is specially known
as the spiritual guide of Col. Donan, is de-
! livering series of lectures upon the Ameri-
10 I Of
town. In the first lecture he referred to Sit
| ting Bull and the Custer massacre, with that
old chiefs version of the unfortunate affair
His statement according to the Alert, was
this: Sitting Bull went to Gen. Custer and
asked permission to go on hunt with his
braves The general readily consented. The
Indians were encalnped in a gulch when
scouts brought in the information that Gus
ter's command was advancing for the pur-
pose of battle. Sitting Bull was 10th to fight
and stationed his braves in the gulch, with
instructions not to fight until they were fred
upon by the whites. The whites commenced
the battle which ended in such a sad result,
and which the Indians fought in self de-
fence. They were goaded to relentless en-
nifty to the whites by years OF abuse which
no race of men could submit to without sac
riicing all independence and manhood.
Hardly any questions stir up so much
local feeling as the location of county seats,
which statement is by no means confined to
Dakota, but there are many county seats to
be located IN the territory, and rarely is one
fixed without contest. Trail county has
been in a squabble over this question for
several years. Caledonia has been the coun-
ty seat, but at the last legislature special
act was passed relocating it, and providing
that the town that received two-thirds of the
vote should be the county seat. There was
real hard fight between the east and west end
and some magnificent voting done. The
west end pulled 1890 votes out of about
that population and a clear two-thirds vote,
as alleged. 1t is stated that high board
fence was erected about the polling booth at
Portland and Mayville to prevent the east
end men from seeing how the voting was
done. The canvassing board refused to al
low the returns and the case is to come be-
fore the court at Fargo on the 18th. 1t is
said that nearly 500 witnesses will appear
and good deal of time be taken up with it.