St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-03-07
Dakota and Montana Notes.

Dakota and Montana Notes.
It Is said that the leave of absence Of Gov.
Ordway expired on the 4th, and he will soon
return.
It is expected that the Northern Pacific
will follow the example of the Manitoba and
reduce the price of its Dakota lands.
The stage line from Waterbury to Kimball
has lady driver, Mary Osborn, fair and I'M
married, and good driver. The line was
never so popular before.
Kit Adams, the funny man of the Bis
marck Tribune, has returned from his ten
days absence with Bill Nye, in Wisconsin,
and st. Paul. and his columns shows the eff
feet of the collision.
Quite number of wolves have recently
been killed on the Kindred Bonanza farm
near Valley City, and they are said to be quite
numerous in that vicinity. They are not
dangerous except to sheep and small animals.
If the statement made in the pulpit last
Sunday is exact, there are nine establish
ments in Fargo where money changes hands
upon the turn of the cards, and speaker at
the prohibition convention credited the place
with seventy saloons.
The Dunbar school district, in Sargent
county, proposes to bond the district for
$25, 900, to build school houses. The school
district comprises congressional township,
and it is designed to erect several school
houses in different localities.
With rare delicacy and thoughtfulness, the
mem bers of the NJ. f. church at Valley City
have prepared luscious oyster supper and
merry banquet for their pastor Friday night,
on his return from burying son in Illinois.
1t is hoped to assauge his grief
A car load of emigrants, from Ashland,
Ohio, is expected to start on the 23d for En-
mons county, just south of Bismarck. They
will constitute colony of the most valuable
class of settlers, and it is anticipated will be
followed by large number of others.
Since the return of Col. Morton from his
tour east his friends are insisting upon his
standing for mayor at the spring election. 1t
will be at great sacrifice of personal feeling if
he consents, as his tastes and habits are all
averse to civic honors. He says that the
most congenial post for him would be as ed
itor of religious newspaper.
There is great deal of indignation on the
Larimore branch of the Manitoba system, at
the failure of the management to keep the
road open. They complain that there is lit
tie real effort to RUN trains regularly The
Leader says every cut between Grand Forks
and DEVILS Lake City had been even full of
snow three days without any disturbance of
it. 1t has since been opened.
The past day or two great number of cit-
zens of Fargo, chiefly Irish-Americans, have
appeared wearing badge or pin that has
mysterious signs upon it, all alike. There
is a good deal of curiosity to know what it
means, but no suspicious of dynamite or an
invasion of Canada. Some suspect that it
means the opening of Hut of the Oriental
Order of Humility, but the planet will re-
volve as usual, whatever it is.
On the alleged dearth of unmarried fe-
males, at Valley City, the young and gallant
local editor of the Times has spent great
deal Of time at Fargo recently, and it is
gratifying to his friends to find him in con-
nection with an intimation of wedding cards.
enabled to evolve from his emotions this
COUNSEL: "The Times would advise every
man who hasn't done so, to at once secure
the permanent companionship of some
blushing Venus.'
Parties from north Dakota who have been
instructing Washington people in the ne eds
and big largeness of Dakota, come in quietly
of late without sounding the bassoo, and pre-
fer to have it understood that Washington
was but leisure incident in schemes for the
benefit of this land. They intimate, how
ever, that much might have been accom-
pished had there been unity and harmony
among all those who assumed to repre-
sent the territory, but the other fellows were
cranky and would not agree to anything rea-
sonable.
The name of NJ. G. Mcclure, former
Irish citizen of Chicago, has been published
in some of the papers as the author of the
Fenian invasion narrative sent from Fargo.
In an interview he denies very emphatically
that he has ever had anything to do with the
matter, and has no information that any
revolutionary organization has ever been at
tempted here. He attributes the whole thing
to the exuberant Imagination of the night
editor OF one OF the papers, native OF the
green isle, who is in a position to utilize SEN
sational rumors to much advantage.
This is equally true of all north Dakota.
There have been no deep SHOWS, but for a
few hours on perhaps three or four days dur
ing the winter lively breeze has filled the
air with the fine dry particle of snow making
1t quite uncomfortable to face it, but it rare
" is very cold at such times. The snow is
so light that it drifts badly and causes some
annoyance to railroads, but it will be found
that there has been less delay to trains on the
portions Of the great lines in north Dakota
than on the roads in Wisconsin, Illinois,
and the Eastern states generally. The cases
of persons lost ON the prairies are not numer-
ous but are as liable to occur in any thinly
settled prairie country where there are Meth
er trees, fences, or buildings or other guides,
nor always well defined roads Quite as Sc
we're storms are experienced in almost any of
the northern states, and there has been more
suffering from cold weather this winter in
Missouri or Illinois than in north Dakota. It
is unfortunate that any news, dispatches or
correspondents should have sent out such
unwarranted and exaggerated accounts.
Ben Click, popular young clerk of the
house of Hunt, Holt g. Garner Bros, is noted
among his friends for his modesty. Last
week he had occasion to go from Larimore
out to Northwood in Pembina county, to col
1ect some notes among Norwegian farmers