St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-12-26
DAKOTA& MONTANA
Collected and Forwarded by Telegraph
to the Daily Globe.
Fargo Special kilograms December IS, to the
Panl Globe
North.resfern Notes.


governor and his army.
The merchants, OF Fargo, foot up to Christ
mas the best holiday trade for several years.
They begin to think it q mistake about hard
times.
The people of La Moure are glad TO learn
that orders have been given to keep their
road open this winter. but have little faith
that it will be kept open.
W. A. Fridley, the station agent OF Steele,
has gone to Chicago for a wife. He thinks
he has one secure. aud his friends will give
him reception on his return.
The Episcopal and Presbyterian churches
have pleasing entertainments Wednesday
night, mostly of musical character. Christ
mas promises to be as merry as ever
The iewelry firm of Crompton s. AiI1ens,
of Fargo, which was reported in the papers to
have made an assignment, has resumed
business, and claims to have gotten on solid
ground.
Theo. Roosevelt, the New York statesman,
returns east TO spend the winter. The con-
trast between life in New York city and on
the Willis OF western Dakota is q little too
great for him.
There were no votes cast for the Demo
cratic ticket at Flandrau, and yet there are
quite company Of staunch Democrats there
now, who will cheerfulIy aid the new admin
istrstion to 81 the Office.
A taxidermist at Yankton has stuffed
steer to send to the New Orleans exposition
as a representative of the ''cow eountiesn of
Dakota. The animal was a remarkably hand
some one and weighed 1850 pounds when
killed
At a meeting Of the;farmers in Kingsbury
county the question was; ''ShaIl the farmers
of Dakota continue to raise wheatl If not,
what shall they raisel' The prevailing opin-
ion was To raise less wheat, and more oats,
corn and barley.
The local paper has taken the census of
Medora, Marquis lie Mores town, and re-
ports l46 men, 80 women and 66 children,
% of the latter Of school age. It will be seen
that there is scarcity of women, but for
their numbers they are contributing hand
somely 70 the census.
The case of Al. Haas, on Trial Tuesday at
Fargo, took only about ten minutes for the
jury to find a verdict of acqutital Haas
testified that he shot Clarke, who was in
trusted 10 his care by the police, and tried to
escape. He thought he had a right to shoot
after he had warned the man aud he would
not stop, and the jury agreed with him, aud
no one regretted the result of the shoot
ing.
After several contradictory statements it is
definitely stated that work has ceased on the
branch of the Northern Pacific from James
town to Min newaukon, with the track laid
about four miles from the latter place. 1t is
claimed that the extreme cold weather made
1t impossible to work. 1t is an aggravation
to the citizens, but they will be connected
with the world early in the spring.
Recently VIM. H. Callamer died in a sa-
loon in the Black Hills, and was buried in
pauper and drunkard's grave. In early times
he WAS mayor OF Yankton. a member Of the
legislature, and one of the brightest of the
politicians Of the territory. and his wife one
OF the most beautiful women. He contracted
his incorporate habits in making a canvass,
his wife secured divorce, and Callamer has
for seven years been common drunkard.
In noting the fact that the unfortunate
county seat outbreaks are being used in con
gress against Dakota, the Hfr0l.ite throws
out this suggestive hint. II the whole peo-
pie OF Dakota are to be continually held re-
sponsible and denied their constitutional
rights because CT merely and comparatively
trivial troubles, they may finally conclude
that they may as well be ''killed for sheep
as lamb, ;" and assert themselves in way
that will not be misunderstood.
One of the novel suggestions of a Dakota
paper to secure attention at Washington is
for every publication in the territory to be
sent to each member of congress, until they
are driven to desperation aud vote whatever
measures may be wanted. This would be a
heavy tax on some of them, and more than
double their circulation. III some method
could be devised TO compel the Legislators To
read all of them, they would soon be brought
70 terms.
This is not new point stated by the Park
River Gazette, but is one that Dakota people
like TO have understood abroad: It is well
known fact that the physicians of the eastern
states recommend their patients who are
afflicted with pr mOnary symptoms to try the
climate OF Dakota. The chief merit of Da-
kOta's atmosphere is its dryuess. When the
thermometer indicated 80 degrees below zero
in Dakota it does not incOnvenieL &C per-
son or animal SO much as zero would in any
OF the middle or central states.
Capt. H. T. Elliott, large wheat grower,
makes this statement to the editor OF the
La Moure Progress to show how proftabiy
pork can be produced in the north when
there is little corn: He put some $40 into
pork, part Of it in the form of home grown
corn, the balance representing the cost of
the pigs. This winter be has sold S41.75
worth Of fine pork; be has put down some
500 pounds OF pork for his own use, also I25
pounds OF lard and some fifty pounds of
sausage; he also has several pigs to carry
over for breeding next year. 'ADd," added
the captain, ''the $40 / put ia hogs has
yielded me larger and better returns than
any twenty-five acres of wheat raised this
year"
1t was mentioned recently that the cen sus
at Mandan showed about forty bachelors to
twenty manageable women, and that the
bachelors had organized with view to i'm
porting enough females to go round. This
has provoked action on the part of the maid
ems and they have organized also. They
have resolved that there shall be no more
importations until the home supply is ex-
exhausted, and 4 motion was made To send
the surplus bachelors to Utah, but withdrawn.
The conclusion was that not more than
twenty of the bachelors we're worth having,
and the rest might look abroad or 90 with
out, The most difficult question now before
them,is how 10 divide the twenty eligibles,as
in some instances four or I'VE girls want the
same man. They viii probably agree 10
draw lots.
Ready for the Leap.
The Enterprise at Flandrau is a represen-
tative of growing sentiment in the more
central counties which does not propose to