St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-07-19
DAKOTA& MONTANA
Collected and Forwarded by Telegraph
to the Daily Globe.
Fargo Special kilograms July II, to the St.
Paul Globe
Northwestern Notes

ttes Northwestern Notes
The Huron Times might omit southern in
this: Southern Dakota has not warmer friend
in tn Journalistic world than the st. Paul GLOBE.
| Major VIM Gilbert, of Yorktown, is designated
! as the Dicl<ey county member of the legislature.
He is gentleman of fine address and popular.
| The assessors report the population Of Dickey
| county about 500. Only one-sixth of the claims
in the county, or III. 600 acres, have been proved
| up.
| The Ipswich Gazette has this novel explanation:
| Our local editor has experienced religion this
| week, and consequently we are short of local
matter.
| Col. Ingersoll did not lecture in Mandan. He
does not dispense his theology for less than $500
| or $500 night and the people did not want so
| costly dose.
| In Brule the county board refused to order a
vote for the removal of the county seat from
Chamberlain, and Kimball don't like it, and will
| try another year.
| Venomous reptiles are very scarce in Dakota,
| but rattlesnake killed near Grand View, Doug
las county, last week, was inches in diameter
and had Is rattles
! President Gill, of. the Duluth, Fargo & Black
Hills railroad, states that they have the survey
made some sixty miles southwest of Fargo, and
have begun grading. He expects to have this
| part of the line in operation this year and the
| preliminary survey extended TO the Missouri
river.
Additional interest was given the weekly prayer
meeting at the N. E. church at Bismark Wednes-
day evening by ceremony that made VIM. Won
Kuster and Clara kindli a happy connubal unit.
If such exercises could be made more frequent,
the attendance at those meetings would be great
ly increased.
The Mimic Journal in the extreme north has
samples Of corn growing there forty five inches
high and tasseled. 1t says ''Mr. Russell has
quite patch of this corn and has no fear that 1t
will not get ripe before the frosts. Who says
| that corn cannot be produced in north Dakota?
1t is ordinary dent corn"
| Free Methodist camp meeting has been in
progress near Mitchell, for some time past, and
will close this week There have been dozen
| preachers and large crowds in attendance, with
sixteen tents and large pavilion. Rev. DIR.
Travis, of Chicago, has aided in the preaching
and secured many subscribers to his paper.
| Numerous converts reward their efforts, some of
| them parties from Mitchell WHO went to scott,
but remained to pray.
| The Black Hills journal as a political item
| says: number of rumors from South Dakota
sources indicate that the bosses are distrustful
| VI OiS uHotHSI, anu WuIG uil are CTylHS IOr u
solid south to elect legislature to undo the acts
of the last session, they have fears that the
northerners will secure sufficient aid from below
the forty sixth parallel to insure majority in
| The legislature favorable to Bismarck.
| The new Rockford TrdnScript is opening a
matrimonial bureau to secure wives for the
| young men holding claims in that vicinity who
| threaten to stampede to the east to spend the
winter hunting girls to marry. 1t invites all
| girls who will accept situations of this sort to
| send names and other information, and proposes
| to take care of colony of them. They are most
desirable young men and single ladies would do
| well to take pity on them.1
| A directory has just been issued by the Repu6-
lcan office at Mitchell, which is claimed to show
population of 1909. 1t is one of the most
| prosperous cities on the lower James. Some
| fine business blocks are being completed and a
cheese and broom factory are to be established.
the university is going up and the Baptist church
has put in fine new pipe organ. Business was
never more lively there. Editor McCook and
| wife have gone east for tour.
| Other information goes to confirm the impress
| sion Of the Fergus Falls Journal in this: Gre
Gently woman from Grand Forks made her APP
pearance i'll Fergus Falls in company with child
and laid claims to popular and efficient engineer
Of the Manitoba road, who has been driving a
| freight engine between the two cities. She pro-
| ceeded at2once to the engineers house and made
a scene. The gentleman has always held the best
of esteem among his fellows and there is strong
suspicion that the affair is muine case of
blackmail to obtain money
| The Foster County Gazette, one of the bright
est and most newsy journals in the north, re-
marks that it is little a year since the first
building in its town of Darlington was erected.
1t now has $4,000 in hotels, fine school house,
an elegant church, a roller rink, two live papers
| and all the condiments and appurtenances of q
thrifty young town. The first assessment of the
county has just been taken with footing OF
abont half million, and accounting 700 males
over 81, to $50 females A movement to equal
ize the number would be extremely popular. 1t
is singular fact that nature is doing its part to
secure equality, as under 81 there are 29S fe-
males to 235 males, and about two-thirds of the
births are females. Pretty girls there are like
honey flowers to the bees.
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