St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-03-12


be opened with a grand carnival.
H. H. Watson has erected an aviary al
White Lake, and has already gathered about
100 birds.
The board Of grain inspectors are visiting
the main points in southern Dakota, to learn
what complaints the farmers have to make.
At LIE Beau, in the Missouri valley, the en-
tire snowfall has been less than IS inches,
and in few sections of Dakota much more
than that.
1t is expected that Rev. Mr.. Wood will be
appointed superintendent of missions for
north Dakota by the Presbyterian board with
headquarters at Fargo.
Petitions are being numerously signed
asking congress to allow the school lands to
be leased. The opposition to the movement
is chiefly in southern Dakota.
G. P. Conger is arranging to put 200 head
of young cattle on his ranch in Kidder coun-
ty. He is satisfied that the country is well
adapted to stock and that it is safer reliance
than wheat.
Some of the suspicious fancy that the visit
of Major Edwards to Chicago has some rela-
ton to the Fenian movement upon Manito-
ba. But slight basis is requisite for volum-
inous structures in these days.
The editor of the New Rockford Transcript
took trip to jamestown, and the railroad
was blocked about that time. and it was near
" two weeks before he could get back, then
having to make the entire 70 miles in a
sleigh.
Mark Dunnell, of Minnesota or Washing
ton, who has been named for governor OF
Dakota, is expected at New Rockford soon to
remain during the summer and help boom
that town, of which he is one of the main
owners.
There is a good deal of dissatisfaction
among the Odd Fellows at Moorhead at the
change of the June session of the Grand
Lode from that place to st. Paul. 1t is
claimed that the hotel accommodations at
Moorhead are ample.
Lisbon is very anxious to secure the line OF
the Dakota & Great Southern railroad, but il
is beyond their means to invest 800, 900 in
its stock. They propose to raise what they
can and give it as bonus. 1t Is believed
they will get the road.
D. NJ. Kelliher, the leading Democrat OF
theupper James, announces himself as a
candidate for alderman of jamestown. He
will be in a condition to come up by easy and
sure stages. His friends predict that he will
yet be seen at Washington.
Many of the parties in Dicky county, who
went east to spend the winter come back and
find their claims jumped. That country is
nearly all taken up, and persons are on the
watch to take advantage of carelessness on
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tons.
A public meeting was held at Dickinson a
few evenings SINCE to forward the move
ment to induce congress to reduce the price
of government lands in the railroad limits to
S1.25 an acre. A committee was appointed
to present the matter to the house committee
on lands.
A new military company has been organ
lied at Bismarck the past week, and will
outshine anything in the territory in the way
of uniforms. The flower of the young men
of the city is enrolled in the company. Two
first-class military companies will speak well
for the martial spirit at the capital.
Rev. Thomas Sims, of Toronto, Canada,
has been secured to take charge of the Con-
gregational church at Valley City. As the
last pastor turned out a black sheep or goat
special care has been taken in the selection,
and Mr.. Smith has the highest endorseme
He will reach there in day or two, and
preach on the 17th
Dakota has number Of female orators.
Miss G. H. Howell, one of the most graceful
and fluent of them, of Aberdeen, lectured at
La Moure Saturday and Sunday upon Tenn
perance and Youth, and was seen and heard
with deep interest. The young men are
somewhat timid about making up to young
lady who has such command of the tongue.
A Montana paper says that the latest theory
advanced for the new disease among the
French marquis sheep is that of 'sdirt poi
soning.'' 1t seems that pilgrim sheep will
take to eating dirt when tired of rustling fol
bunch grass, and when the earth contains
much alkali, death is almost certain to ensue
with symptoms similar to those described as
affecting De Mores' band.
One G.. j. McCabe went to jamestown Sat-
urday to annihilate one Ed. Higgy, whom he
accused of having published q communities
ton in the Fargo argus abiding to him in
an unfavorable way. Higgy had warning OF
the onslaught, and was so well prepared that
McCabe was soon put on the retreat in great
disorder, as was also brother who came up
as reserve. Higgy now wears the belt as
the local Sullivan.
There are 40, 900 bushels of wheat stored in
the elevator at Niagara, in Grand Forks
county. The Times is not quite satisfied
with the efforts of the Manitoba to keep the
line open there. 1t says: "We are decidedly
under the impression that their policy is to
pretend to keep the track clear, while in re-
atty their efforts will not be forcible enough
to give us trains oftener than once or twice
each week.
There is a large colony of Russian Men
nonites near the north line of Dakota, and
it is related that they keep warm in this way
They build their houses of four rooms, all
cornering together in the center. Right there
they put up great big brick oven, with
thick walls. From the furnace door back to
the back yard is passage way. Every morn
ing noon, and night they lug jag of straw
in from the stack and burn it in the furnace.
The thick brick walls get red hot and stay so
for hours, warming every room in the house.
Even in the coolest weather three fires day
in the furnace will keep the house warm.
The chamber of commerce at Wahpeton did
a very sensible thing in deciding to take
5000 copies of one or both of the admirable
local papors containing matters of special
interest in regard to that city and county,
for distribution. There is no agency so eff
fective in securing the confidence of those
looking for new locations, as first class local
papers. Wahpeton is fortunate in having
two that are hardly surpassed in the territory.
When seen down in the old regions they car
ry evidence of solidity and enterprise that
enlists attention and must be productive OF
great good.
H. s. Denison, of La Moure, in an inter-
view with the Chronicle, contrasts the climate
of Dakota with that of Ohio in this way: