St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-03-13
DAKOTA& MONTANA.
Collected and Forwarded by Tele-
graph to the Daily Globe.
Fargo Special kilograms, March IL, to the st
Paul Globe.
Dakota and aIontana Notes.

office is soon to be be established at that point
Mandan is looking for much advantage from
the opening of the traffic overland from tina
point to the Black Hills.
Huron wants $4,000 opera house with &C
commodations for 1 200 people, and the prospect
is reported good for securing it.
A new weekly, the Sunday Morning News, has
appeared at Lisbon. 1t is highly creditable
looking sheet and has the appearance of vitality
and prosperity.
jamestown is having a lively canvass for city
officers. Banker Lloyd and the present mayor
are in the field for mayor. The contest is per
| sonal, not political.
! The Episcopal society at jamestown has called
Rev. Eben Buchanan of West Virginia, as rector.
| He is said to be an able and brilliant man. A
| stone church is soon to be erected.
| There is an impression in some parts of the
east that very high rates are paid in Dakota for
| school teachers. The average the last year was
$50 for male teachers and $50 for females.
Col. James, the noted gas man and humorist
of Tenn, who is the head of the gas works at
Fargo, has just returned from two months in
| Tenn. and prefers the Dakota winter to that he
has suffered at his early home.
! The rush to south Dakota has already set in
About 100 passengers from the east got off at the
| little town of Blunt in Hughes county, one day
the past week. Most of them were new settlers
or looking for homes.
Over two-thirds of the voters of the town in
which Plankinton is situated have petitioned to
have the township called Logan, and it has been
ordered. 1t shows the strength of the Illinois
senator with the people, in some localities at
least, and may be used as a campaign straw.
The first number of the Ceur d'Alene Enter
prize is received. Its subscription is S., and
among its quotations are these: common lumber
5000 per thousand feet, potatoes and sugar 80
cents pound, butter S1.00, whiskeY, however,
is quite reasonable, two drinks for so cents.
Canton Nears: From present appearances
Southern Dakota will receive a tremendous vol
ume of immigration the present season. Every
train brings several car loads of emigrant's nova
bles destined for Canton or points further west
The rush to Dakota exceeds anything ever
known.
In February there were 52i entries at the land
Office at Devils Lake, comprising s5,O15 acres
| There are whole townships of first class land
within forty or fifty miles of Devils Lake City
! that have not settler on them, and claims can
be had still within or miles of the city. 1t is
not expected that much of it will be left in
! another year.
Blunt Times: II. B. Chandler, of Chicago, who
while ION the drum from that city years ago
had to append ''not of the Chicago Times TO his
name on hotel registers, has TUNED granger and
| taken claim in Potter. He froze his cheeks,
ears and nose last week. Now let US hear no
more of the impenetrability of a Chicago drum
mers check.
The value of good conscience is shown by the
Blunt Times i'll this: H. L. Graham, of the
Graham house, was lost during the storm of Sun
day, while returning from Potter. lie kept NOV
| ing and praying till p. and then he found
| shelter. He says his conscience was unusually
| active and acute during the time he was astray,
and though he expected to freeze to death he
didn't allow it to grieve him.
| Wahpeton is happy over the prospect of water
works the coming season. They weary of
hauling the desired element from the river. The
people there are not at all enthusiastic over the
| recent delivery of Col. Plummer's Tower of Ba-
| bel lecture there. They seemed to have ex-
| pected that the sonorous orator would make new
revelations in regard to the ancient work, and do
not appreciate u review of modern history in that
| connection.
| The west bound passenger on the North
ern Pacific on last Friday morning had q narrow
escape from a disastrous wreck at McHugh,
| about fifty miles east of Fargo. Some scoundrel
| broke the lock to the switch and displaced the
rails just in time to throw the train with its thir
| teen loaded passenger cars onto the switch and
| probably kill or main hundreds. The train hap
pened to be late and the matter was discovered
| in time to save it.
| The Devil Lake Pioneer Press is informed that
F. l. Kane, one of the proprietors of the town
| site of Lakota, has gone to New York, where he
will meet his afianced from England, and will be
| married at once Mr.. Kane is an ex-lieutenant
of the English army, resignmg his position to
come and cast his lot in Dakota. He is one of
| the many who has made big stake in fair
| land, and now claims his bride to share his hap
| piness and prosperity.
Blunt Times: Mr. G. s Thompson, while dig
| ging well on his place on section g. 113, r.,
| Banner township, Suly, found a very singular
fossil srustacean which nature seems to have gal
vanized with thin coating very much like nickel
! plate. The animal was of very low order of
| life, a sort of grub, which is very pretty in form
and perfectly petrifed Mr. Thompson also
| found a piece of wood forty-seyen feet under
ground in good state of preservation,
| A preacher who left Minneapolis Saturday for
Lisbon reached Fargo late Saturday night and
was compelled to remain there till Monday morn
| ing there was no train out on the Lisbon road
till then, reports that he charged storage for
| his baggage for that time. 1t was a small mat
ter, but it is hardly possible that the great cor
poration allows such littleness. The gentleman
was only able after all to 90 as far Sheldon on
the train as it sruck in the snow banks, and the
passengers had to go by sleighs the rest of the
way
The neglect of congress to provide
additional judges for North Dakota
is to be regretted and causes much
annoyance and injury. Judge Hudson has been
worked down in attempting to do the work of
| three or four men and has been forced to take Il
rest. A reference to the map will show the alb
surdity of expecting one judge to cover such a
Galj +l,a Of Oh.
be at least three districts established at once, and
even four will not be too many
The Devils Lake Pioneer Press says an ex-
ira train from the east has just arrived with
| large number of emigrants for that place They
are mostly Missourians and will locate in Town
er county. They are the best class of people,
| have money and stock and are prepared to do
| business on business scale On account of 90
| ing to press early we had not the opportunity to
give more extended notice of the first train of the
army of immigrants that will land ut Devils Lake
| the coming season.
1t is said that tobacco has been tried at st
Johns near Turtle mountain. Modiste Robert
came in to Devils Lake from there and the
Pioneer says: He brought with him specimen
of tobacco raised on his place near the town. The
| leaf is eighteen iuches long, and is well cured
| and of good Color Mr.. Roberts planted few
seeds last season as an experiment. He says his
plants did well, and he cut and housed 100
pounds climate and soil that will produce to-
bacco should certainly have but few terrors for
the timid.
JEFF Smith, of Grand Rapids, has been subject
ed to good deal of annoyance in consequence of
the romantic reports sent out by the telegrapher
| at La Moure that Smith and his wife were lost in
the blizzard the other day He has been be-
sieged by kilograms and letters from old friends
| in the states in regard to the matter He says
he was caught out in the storm with his wife and
that it was less disagreeabe and dangerous than
frequent storms in Michigan and Illinois. They
stopped at farm house, and were astonished
| when they learned the character Of the kilograms
sent out.