St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-09-16
DAKOPA& MONTANA
Collected and Forwarded by Telegraph
to the Daily Globe.
Fargo Special kilograms september15, to the St.
Paul Globe.
northeastern Notes.

to Sioux Falls.
One man in Turner county threshed 104
bushels of fax from four acres. 1t is the
paying crop this year.
One new paper has just been starte d in
Sargent, and another will be at Dunbar. 1t
only has seven or eight now.
A man in south Dakota who has a few
thousand bushels of fax is regarded as in big
luck. Wheat is nowhere with it.
Game is very abundant. On the numerous
lakes and streams ducks, geese and water
fowl furnish ample opportunities for sports
men.
Most of the delegates from the north to
Pierre reached Fargo Sunday night and left
on the Fargo Southern. Proxies were nu-
merous.
Geo. C. Min had a fine audience in Fargo
last night. He gave even better satisfaction
than when here last season. The company
is strong one.
A herd of about 800 hundred buffalo was
seen in the Bad Lands in west Dakota re-
Gently. A few scattering ones have been
seen east of the Missouri river.
The press club of Fargo perfected its orga-
nization Sunday evening, and elected Mr..
AFFORD president and c. E. Foote secretary.
1t is designed to give popular entertainments
under its auspices.
The Fargo pulpits have just received two
| new incumbants from the east. Rev. w. S.
! Stevens in the Baptist and Rev. G.. s. Dewing
in the Presbyterian. Both are good takers
and have popular address.
One party at Dawson on the Northern Pa
cific railroad claims to have grown excellent
sweet potatoes this year. 1t has been sup
posed they would not mature in this latitude.
In south Dakota they do well, it is said.
| At the skating rink at jamestown a few
evenings since there was a skating match
for 800 side between Mr.. Edmonds, of
Fargo, and Mr.. Goettlich, of Miles City. The
five miles were made in 2015 minutes, and
Fargo took the 800 by II feet.
Two eminent physicians from Boston, Drs.
Written and Dawson, are hunting on the
James, in Dickey, and among their achieve
ments they report that DR.. Dawson killed
| twenty blackbirds at one shot and sixteen at
another. They evidently admire blackbird
pie.
Mandan Pioneer: Our farmers are begin
ming to see that mixed farming is the only
sure way of making their business profitable.
There is more money in COWS, chickens, hogs,
horses and small fields of vegetables and the
different grains than there is in large fields
Of wheat.
A shooting match among the nimrods of
jamestown came off the past week. Eight
members of the sides brought in 226 ducks
besides few geese, chickens, snipe, gophers,
black5irds owls and skunks. There is
plenty of game in that section. c. n. Carr
| killed 6S birds.
1t is dull county this season where the
Republicans do not hold more than one con-
vention, generally on account of the rivalries
Of localities or factions. Nelson county, with
handful of voters, has three. and about
all the counties north Of Cass, in the Red
river valley, have two at least.
Alexandria Herald. The court house at
Glendale is to be built on wheels so it can
be moved out of the way of that COMPOUNDED
forty-sixth parallel" The town is all torn
up over the location Of the division line.
Some think it runs north, some think south
and others insist it cuts the town in two.
Farmers are careless about providing pro-
lection for their wheat stacks and even
buildings from fire, and number have sus-
tanned severe losses recently. The superin-
tendent OF the Fargo Southern publishes q
request to farmers to guard their property
along that road as sparks will fall from the
engine.
The grand tournament Of the Firemen's
association of north Dakota will be held in
Fargo the first three days of October. 1t is
expected that all the fire departments OF
north Dakota and north Minnesota will take
part. Liberal premiums are to be offered
and arrangements are making on a large
scale for the occasion.
The Sargent Item is happy in spite of low
prices on wheat. 1t says: "Blessed with
magnificent crops, with twenty-five new
school houses, good bridges, one railroad in
operation and two others building, Sargent
county's prospects appear fattering for en- =
joying, next spring, boom unprecedented
in the annals of the territory. So mote
it be.''
Spearfsh, in the Black Hills. recently had
as elegant and tony a wedding as could be
gotten up in any of the old sections. The
parties were Stocks Miller and Margaret
Richards, the latter bright aud accom-
plished belle, and the groom g wealthy
Scotch stock man Many of the relatives of
the bride came from New York state TO the
wedding.
Some Of the counties pay five cents a tail
for gophers, and paper in the vicinity re-
lates that in La Moure they pass as currency.
& man goes into a saloon and for his drink
throws on the counter gopher tails. When
the drawer is full they are taken to the
county Office aud redeemed or paid out II
looks a little novel in church to see the
gopher narratives going into the contribu.
ton boxes.
The Democrats are extending their organ.
ization into nearly all the counties in Dakota
aud win be in fine condition to control the
territory whenever their party gains the
White house. In the meantime many Of
their strongest men think it good policy Of
personally advantageous to act With the Re
publicans. There will be liberal sprinklinl
of Democrats among the delegates at Pierre
men like Harcourt, of Lisbon. late editor o.
q Democratic paper, and about to start an
, other. Such men as Haggart, OF Cass, and
La Moure, Walsh, Mckenzie and q host o.
others, particularly in the north, are Demo
: Gratis in feeling and viii flock to the partl
when it comes on top.
The Jamestown Capital says: "a Telegram
from Minnewaukan reports sad acciden
which occurred near that place on Thursday
A party OF ladies and gentlemen from tina
city, including about dozen people in all
have been in camp on Devils Lake at Deat
; Mans grove for the past week. One Of the
party, young man named McHenry, a ciyi
engineer from Cincinnati, was hunting
: short distance from the camp when his gur
was accidentally discharged, the content
passing directly through his body in the re