St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-04-22
Dnkotn Notes.

So far as any delegations from the north to
Huron have been instructed, they are for
Blaine. He is evidently the choice of the
mass of the Republicans of Dakota.
County Commissioner Kane, of Nelson
county, was married in New York recently
to Miss Marie Kinlock They are taking an
extended wedding tour and will locate at
Lahota.
Mandan is enthusiastic over the report
that when the Northern Pacific does build to
the Black Hills it will start from Mandan and
run by way of Fort Yates. This will take
the road through an agricultural country
mainly, and it is said presents few obstacles
to the builder.
There were eleven bids for the contract to
build the insane asylum at jamestown which
was awarded to A. a. Whitmore of Month
edo, Mimi. 1t is trife singular that bidders
should differ so widely in the cost of the
work. The highest was $34, 53S and the low
est 81, $40, difference of one-third. Work
will commence on it at once
The Hillsboro Banner says of Trail county
north of Cass: Seeding is now in full
blast all over the county and the seed will all
be sown two weeks earlier than last year.
Besides this the acreage of wheat put in is
about fifty per cent. more than it was last
year. Farmers are looking forward for
good crop of No. hard and lots of it."
party composed of old soldiers widows
located claims in Jerauld county last spring.
They were known as the Chicago colony,
with W. A. White at the head They have
come back from the winters absence to find
their claims all contested They don't pro-
pose lose them cost what it may, and jump
ers will do well to keep out of their range.
Some of those who have been so eager to
attend the territorial conventions are much
less so since it is learned that Manager Stin-
nett, OF the Northwestern, announces that
mis- road will not pass any one to either con-
vention. 1t is pretty expensive matter to
reach Huron or Pierre from the north. Most
OF those who do go will probably have pock-
cts full of proxies.
Mr.Manvel assures the people of that section
that the Manitoba will certainly be built north
from Larimore this year and reach Garfield
in season to move the next wheat crop.
That branch is already built to south line of
Walsh county. 1t is expected also that it
will be built south Of Larimore. The Mani
GODd Is covering all GudG SecIlOn anu EVIDENT
ly has great faith in it.
There were dozen or more men fishing
in DEVILS lake the past winter. One of
them, Fred W. Crafts, makes this detailed
report: ;'Number caught, 1,134; average
per day, IS; gross weight of fish, 1864
pounds; average weight of fish, 81 pounds !;
smallest fish caught, IL pounds; largest,
Az pounds; largest catch in one day, 40;
smallest, 4; number of days fishing, 60. The
fish were all of one kind-pickerel They
were taken with hook through the ice.'
Hon. D. NJ. Kelleher, of jamestown, has
recently been to Grand Forks and other
points organizing the Democratic party and
securing delegates to the convention at
Pierre. He reports that he is pleasantly sur
prised to find that there really are hosts of
Democrats all about, but they have not been
aware of their own strength and have beer
so quiet that it was not supposed that there
were any of them worth counting. He be-
lieves that with a Democratic administration
at Washington, Dakota will show up Demo-
cratic, the north part at least. r