St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-03-03
DAKOTA& MONTANA.
News Gleanings and Points Specially
Collected and Forwarded by Tele-
graph to the Daily Globe.
Fargo Special kilograms, March g, to the St
Paul Globe.
Dakota and Montana Notes.

Parties from New Jersey are arranging fol
colony north of Square Butte, in the Man
dan region. They expect to engage in the
stock business.
Paul Page, in Dawson county, is said tc
have the finest stock farm in Dakota. The
buildings for his short-horns are reported tc
have cost $50, 900.
The past week John McKelvey traded his
two farms of 1 200 acres, valued at $1,000,
near Grand Forks, to W. H. Hackney for a
cattle ranch in Wyoming.
G, W. Slocum left Ipswich for short visit
to Wisconsin recently, and returned with a
fair young bride. His friends take pleasure
in smoking at his expense.
Some of the farmers about Casselton are
| combining stock raising with wheat growing,
and are confident that it can be made sue
cess in the Red river valley.
John Silver and his new wife have re-
turned from their bridal tour by the way of
Washington, and are receiving the congratu-
lations of their friends at Casselton.
! The trustees Of the insane asylum at James
town have been in session the past week and
made arrangements for pushing the work
and exacting the building as soon as posi-
Bile.
A comedy and variety troupe, organized in
Fargo under Manager Welch, started for a
tour to the Pacific this week Harry Morton
and wife and Welch and wife are in the
troupe.
It is designed that work shall commence
on the $50, 600 wing of the insane asylum at
jamestown, May l, and the contract will re-
quire the mason work to be completed by
November.
1t is expected that not less than sixty
dwellings will be erected in the little town
of Mayville this season. This is only a
sample of what all towns in north Dakota
are looking forward to.
Bishop Walker will start this week on a
postponed tour through north Dakota He
expresses much surprise at the evidences of
culture and refinement in what he had sup
posed was somewhat rude, frontier region.
The report telegramed from Fargo to some
of the papers the past week, that portion of
the Ely block had fallen down, causing a loss
OF several thousand dollars, was a gross ex-
aggeration. Some of the brick veneering
fell of, but the damage was not more than
5000 or $500.
The jamestown Alert thinks the Broadare
starts in with more guns than it can carry
1t says: We are led to prophesy that in
about one month from date it will set about
twelve columns less of matter and change
its editorial force into a cannibalistic gang of
rustlers of yearly contract adds and subscrip-
tons if it lives.
The jamestown Capital is not far out of the
way in this Perhaps no man is so popular
in Dakota to-day for what he has done for the
territory as Col. Donan and Washington dis
patches state that he is a candidate for gov
ernor, but that it all depends on what follow
ing he can secure in the territory. The Col
onel would poll big vote here If the people
had the say.
There is much grief and lamentation
among the young men about Ipswich,
in Edmunds county. One of the
loveliest young ladies last month proved up
her claim, and visited her home in Mime
apolis, and the sad news has reached her Da-
kota admirers that she is married. Her name
was Evelyn Wetenhall when she left, but is
now Mrs. Julien NJ Bausman of Mime
apolis.
Jones Bros. are working up the new
freight and stage line between Dickinson and
the Black Hills. They have 900 horses to
put on the route, and have contracts with
siXty-five firms at Deadwood to handle about
twenty million pounds of freight annually
upon certain conditions, that it is said will
be complied with. 1t is claimed that by
actual measurement the distance from Dead
wood to Dickinson is 155 miles.
Hon. Mr.. Douglas, the Emerson member
of the Manitoba parliament, while in Fargo
the past week, said he did not think there
was anything in the alleged Fenian move
ment on Manitoba, but it was fact that the
people of that province were becoming work
ed up to a white heat over their alleged
wrongs, and the injustice done them, and
that none could tell what action they might
not take. There were symptoms Of a storm
brewing.
For new town in new country Wahpe-
ton has rare collection of beauty in the I'M
gathered female lire. Quite a number of
them selected on the soldierly principle of
physical perfection, are training brigade
with the favorite domestic ornament. The
Times says: The ladies who take part in the
broom brigade are studying hard and rehears-
ing their respective parts with feminine
vigor. They intended to make ''cean
sweep in the way of eclipsing former enter
tainments.
The first issue of the revived Noqmh-
westerm Farmer published at Far
go, appeared the first of the month
1t is sixteen page phamplet well
gotten up, and possessing an advertising pat
ronage that places it on paying basis. Il is
well adapted tothe wants ofthe Red river and
north Dakota region and will no doubt re-
ceive merited favor. Webb q Daily are the
publishers with large corps of noted con-
tributors. Two thousand copies were issued
of the first number.
There is good deal of opposition to the
proposition said to be preparing at Washing
ton to provide for leasing the school lands in
Dakota till the territory becomes state 1t
is supposed this will be some years distant in
north Dakota, and that parties who lease
them will aim to get all out of the lands pos
sible in the shortest time and leave them in
bad condition. They cannot be sold until
there is state organization. The revenue
from leasing, it is claimed, will not comp en-
safe for the damage to them.
Groton AdUocate: A farmer living near
UioIou "Ho stoleu oou bushels OF WneaI at
the elevator, wants to get out his bread and
seed, but cannot draw out his wheat without
paying ninety cents per bushel for it. The
storage tickets have clause printed therein
giving the elevator the option of delivering
the whe at or paying the market price for it.
Of conrse the elevator chooses the latter and
makes twenty-four cents per bushel by sell
ing the farmer back his own wheat for seed
Farmers who get their wisdom teeth cut this
year, will probably build granarfes and store
their next crop at home or sell it Immediately
after threshing.