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

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! three inches tall
hon George H. Walsh commenced Wednes-
uay 10 cut 300 acres of wheat that he thinks will
exceed twenty bushels.
Grand Forks is at last to secure what is has so
long sought saw mill The mills at New York.
MIMI, are to be moved there
M B. Doyle of Mandan, states that there are
several caves in the vicinity of Stanton still more
curious in themselves and contents than the one
reported by McGrath
! Col. Richardson, of the Valley City Times,
seems to have the entire field as the legislator
ior barnes. He is pioneer, and like most
newspaper men has lots of horse sense
| few days ago Miss Cora Ingram the belle of
Ashton, was welded to the probate Judge CT
Sphinx county, A. A. Selech, one of the most
talented and handsome young men of the county
| Not long since seven more horse dealers in
Montana, Meagher county, were found orna-
menting trees. That seems to be the favorite
mode of giving the thieves rest from their abors.
DR.. Robertson, of Fargo, a brilliant stumper,
has invitations from both parties in Indiana to
take the stump there. He is Democrat in Da-
kota. but sometimes helps our liberal friends on
| the other side.
This week two young men of Valley City go
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exhausted. One of them is an old, chronic bach
elor, and both are fair material for husbands.
They have parties in view but not fully secured.
committee of business men has been ap
pointed at Valley city, TO interview President
Harris, of the Northern Pacific, and present sta
tstics of the wheat production eff that section and
convince him that they should have lower rates
An enterDrising trader in parts Of the north is
doing quite business selling wooden pipes that
are fine limitations of meerschaums. He lets
them go at SO as he is hard up and wants
to raise money to go east and see his sick
mother
| The Ashton Herald says: ''The St. Paul
GLOBE locates the county seat, and the capitol of
| south Dakota, at Redfield.'' For the relief of
the Herald, which is unhappy over the matter, it
has been decided to locate these institutions and
| place them at Ashton.
The Yerxa Hose company turned Quit full
force, and, in their handsome uniforms with the
city band at their head, to welcome home Mayor
Yerxa, with his and accomplished wife. He
was married in Chicago the past week They
! lunched at his expense with great alacrity and
| ability. They efficient as handsome, and
| the city is fond of them.
The Gary Interstate speaks of twenty acres of
corn in that vicinity that measures
seven feet four inches in height. 1t is good
corn year. John C. Black has corn of the white
dent variety on his farm in Barnes county, that
is really eight feet in height and furnishes five
roasting ears. Mr.. B. is confident that it can be
made a success even north of the Northern Pa
cifc railroad.
e. l.. Spence, judge of probate of Brown
county, is preparing work probate practice
in Dakota territory. The work will contain 400
pages, will contain the probate code, probate
practice of Dakota, with reference to the supreme
court decisions of states where similar system
| prevails, rulings of the United States land de-
partment in relation to the rights of heirs and
levisees in uncompleted titles to government
land over 200 blank forms. This is sort of work
much needed
Ashton is of the liveliest of the thriving
towns of central Dakota. 1t has a spicy local
paper, the Herald, which says: Buildings are
going up every day, and the demand for tene-
ment houses is really astonishing. For the cap
italists there would be no better investment in
| the west than to erect twenty-five fifty cot
tages in Ashton that would rent at price not
exceeding per cent. a month on the cost Of the.
| houses. ''.t
The Livingston Enterprise says: 'Artices of
| incorporation have been filed for the Butte &
Atlantic Railroad company, with a capital stock
of 49, 600, 900, and Butte its principal place of
business. The object of this company is to
build standard guage railroad from Galatin
City via jefferson valley and Pipestone creek TO
Butte, with a branch from about the mouth of
Pipestone up Jefferson and Beaverhead to Dillon
and another from Twin bridges up Ruby river to
| Virginia City!
One of the papers observes: s'North Dakota
farmers have come to the conclusion that stock
raising is more of successful enterprise than
wheat raising. Thus, IN time, they will all
conceive That is probably too broad state
ment, altho' at prevailing prices for wheat there
| is great inducement to add stock. 1t will not be
a misfortune in the end if hail and low prices
lead to general attention to stock business.
An inquest held at jamestown few weeks ago
over still born child, brought Dr. r, G.. Du Puy
| into trouble administering drugs to cause
abortion; also Andrew j. johnson as q party
| This was no made public till few DAYS since
| and the parties were arrested. johnson has been
bouud over for trial at the next term of court
| He was the father and came from Bismarck with
| the eftl'to secure the abortion The examine
ton of DR.. Du Puy is being had this week and
the evidence is quite positive against him.
The Enterprise says: The Sandberg farm, near
Sanborn, exemplifes what the Enterprise has
preached ever since it came into existence. viz {:
That all kinds of small fruits can as readily be
raised i'll Dakota as anywhere on the face of the
globe. Two years since this highly cultivated
piece Of ground was virtually prairie. Now can
| be found growing in profnsion strawberries,
raspberries, both red and black gooseberries.
| currants, varieties of vegetables, and in fact,
Eeverything usually raised in the northern states
The editor of the La Moure Progress is n
scientist and his opinion on these matter has
weight He says: ''Ha storms this year have
been widespread and general that in Dakota
especially, although the storms have as yet been
few, there is talk of reviving some of the hail
insurance companies that died for lack OF bust
| ness. We feel very certain that there are pecu-
liar atmospheric conditions at work this year TO
produce these storms that will not be felt again
for many years. The same disturbing atmos-
| pheric influences aiding to spread the cpl
denies, cholera, yellow fever, plague and small
pox, now 50 vlruent in European countries
Helena Heratd: ''Six soldiers went from Mon
tana in the Greedy expedition to the Arctic
region, viz: Second Lieutenant Kisslingbnry,
| Eleventh Infantry; Sergeant David H. Brainerd
| Co. L; Sergeant David Linn, Co. G; Corporal
Nicholas Major, Co. II; Private Julius Freder.
| icks, Co. i, and Private William A. Ellis, Co. G.
all OF the Second Cavalry. or these only Ser
| geant Brainerd and Private Fredericks were res
cued, the others having died Of starvation Kiss
| lingbury fought under Reno at the Little Bic
| Horn fight and was afterwards stationed at Fort
| Custer His wife died there leaving four child
rem. He was a brotherin-law Of Seth Bullock, of
| Deadwood, who has adopted one Of the children
| Most people regard the decision Of the land
Office in regard to the tree claim proof as harsh
| and unreasonable. IL was in the Lake case
| ''Before can make final proof on tree claim
he must show that Z, 1875 trees must actually have
been growing for five years, and the remaining half
! 1875, for four years in the case mentioned
| proof was rejected although there were s,16O
trees one and a half inches in diameter, and six
and half feet high, besides $4,000 ash trees one
and two years old. Practically It makes little
difference what rules enforced although there
should be liberal inducements TO secure the
trees. Tree claims are usually held for specuIa-