St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-03-04
MONTANA.
News Gleanings and Points Specially
Collected and Forwarded by Tele-
+ graph to the Daily Globe.
Fargo Special kilograms, March 8, to the ST
Paul Globe
Dakotn aud 1ronfana Notes.

| c. Wade, of jamestown, has gone to Michigan to
organize colony.
Neche is soon to have daily mail to Pembina,
and is much pleased.
| The citizens Of Bathgate offer a bonus of
81, 200 cash and 1000 bushels of wheat for flour
mill
| The Thermometer in February averaged IA de-
grees below zero, two degrees colder than the
average of January.
The blizzard on Sunday, according to the old
adage bringing in March like a roaring lion, will
let the month go out like juvenile sheep.
The ingenius postmaster at Fargo has placed
bells beside the delivery windows to be rung
when the young gentlemen clerks are absorbed
with the lady deputies.
Hon. Jud La Moure, prominent member Of
the north Dakota delegation to Washington,
has returned to Pembina, and is not at all en-
thusiastic over the work put in at the federal
capital
The Grand Forks Herald. has information that
a heavy capitalist from williamsport, Pa, will
probably accept the offer TO build n saw mill at
Grand Forks, for the bonus of a mill site and
SIS, 900 offered.
On Thursday last, s. Elwood Kepler, of Daw-
son, was married TO Miss Abbie Naylor, at Lum-
berville, Penn. There is more than one heavy
hearted girl at Dawson, who felt sure that Ell
wood would be her leap year victim.
Geo. S. Roberts, one Of the most popular
young business men of Dawson, in Kidder county,
will be married the coming week to Miss Mary E.
Matrock, of Philadelphia. The engagement Is an
old one, made before George came west.
A number of the old bachelors Of Drayton, in
Pembina, who spent the winter east looking for
wives, have returned unsuccessful. r. r. Smith,
| W. A, Anderson and A. j. Wallace are among
the number. 1t is hoped they will meet better
fortune at home.
The Charles Mix Record says that a calamity
befell the Episcopal mission at Santee agency re-
Gently, in the destruction by fire of all its build
| ings. Some years ago cyclone destroyed the
| property of the church at that agency. The
buildings were well insured and will soon be re-
built
The Dakota Republican is not the only paper
growing suspicious in this way: ''will that CEN
trail committee of which Mr.. E. P.Wells is chair
man, ever be heard from? II begins TO look that
way. Is the thing to be run in the interest of
somebody's promises? Give the people little
| show
Judge Cox, the ex-Minnesota Judge and attor-
| icy, claims 10 have scored a point over Gen,
| Campbell In that peculiar suit from Grand Forks,
in connection with which the grand jury was
treated by the party who escaped being indicted.
| Campbell threw up the sponge and entered q
nolle prosequi. The prisoner was discharged.
At the meeting of the farmers club at Tower
City the past week G. II. Ellsbury leading and
successful farmer, gave this as his experience
with poor varieties of seed wheat: Fife, IL TO
! Is bushels per acre; Russian and Defiance "a y.
bushels; Brooks, 81 bushels per acre. He will
| SOW the soft varieties in 1884. Prefers Defiance,
| but likes the Saskatchewan.
The Wheeler Record is the authority for this
interesting incident: Mahlon Gore, a cousin OF
Mrs. j. r. Lowe, of Bijou Hills, entered the first
| homestead in Dakota territory, in 1861 on the
Big Sioux river, but was driven therefrom in
1862, by the Sioux Indians, barely escaping with
| his life. He is now residing and editing news
| paper in Florida
1t is no doubt true that the order of the G. A.
R. is designed to be strictly non partisan but ii
appears to be a fact that an attempt is being
made 10 use it to some extent for Logan's in
terest. The Tribune, the soldiers organ at
Washington, eulogizes the senator extrayagantly,
and marked copy is sent TO every member OF
the G. A. r. in the country.
Judge Moody has returned TO Deadwood from
Washington, and says, that he has the assurance
| OF Senator Dawes that the bill to open the Sioux
reservation will be pushed through Mt once, and
that it win pass both houses with perhaps a very
| slight modific alton. The land in question will
only be opened TO actual homesteaders, under the
five year law, and will thus shut ont all specu-
| lators. -s
The new corners to Dakota are putting in an
appearance already The hotels at Mitchell, Bis
marck, jamestown, Fargo and other points are
being taxed for room. For those who intend to
go on land it is at least month too early. The
only really disageeabe part of the year is at the
| break up of winter. Those who have their first
| impressions of the country taken in the spring
mud are liable to lose some of their enthusiasm
! leap year incident of this kind is related in
Walsh county: A young man had choice pre-
emption claim, but had not quite kept all the
red tape straight and young lady jumped it
! filed homestead over him. Being nice young
| man and nice young lady, they cannot fight
and she proposes to settle the matter by marry.
ing him. He will probably consent, although
''girl he left behind him. in the states writes
fondly.
This statement by a Dakota paper, is worth
noting by those who come to Dakota in the spring
| and are likely to receive unfavorabe impressions
at first The truth of the matter is that Dakota
has Of the finest winter climates in the world
bright vigorous and healthfu. Its atmosphere
| is dry and warm. The very worst season in Da
| kota occurs from about the last of February until
| the first Of May. During this season Of two
months the spring rains commence, while it is
still cold enough to form wet, disagreeable
snow, which together with the March winds,
make the coolest, dampest and only unpleasant
portion OF the year.