St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-10-21
.DAKOTA& MONTANA
Collected and Forwarded by Telegraph
to the Daily Globe.
Fargo Special kilograms October 20, 10 the St
Paul Globe.
Northwestern Notes.


militia company is being organized at
Yankton.
The new military company has been
named the Fargo Rifles.
DR.. Bently has been given six months in
the penitentiary for stealing wheat at Red
field.
AT Mitchell man was arrested for stealing
two carrots which are worth ten cents a
bushel.
The Brookings agricultural college has
some thirty five students and is getting I'M
der good Roadway.
The Catholic church being completed at
Wahpeton, viii be one of the handsomest
edifices in the territory.
Alex. McGiHvary in Potter county, claims
to have killed thirteen ducks at one. shot
with single barrelled gun.
coal merchant at Pierre offers to trade
ton of coal for ton of buffalo bones and
he is getting tons of business.
Thirteen new school houses have been
built in the neighborhood of Bijou hills
within year, at a cost of 200.
1t is stated as a sign of civilization that
hoys at the Indian school now go to Yankton
and call for swell beer like genuine Ameri-
can
party from Michigan have spent several
weeks hunting ducks and chickens about
Devils lake and speak of that region as the
sportsman's paradise.
Many of the merchants of Mandan propose
to take out their telephones. They think
that in town of z, 800 people, they are but
costly permanent outlay.
Cards have been issued for the marriage
at Yahkton, Oct. %, of Lieut.. Alex. Sharp,
q. S. army, to Miss Josephine, the lovely
daughter of ex-Secretary Hand.
Judge Hudson has appointed terms of
court at Pembina Oct. 81, Grand Forks Nov.
IL, Fargo Dec. 2. The supreme court will
hold its first term at Bismarck Feb. 13.
The Mandan Pioneer says a railroad Of
fetal brought in several launches OF venison
and claimed to have killed lot of antelopes
with his little gun. A farmer soon came in
and wanted pay for sheep killed.
One of the new Dakota towns puts forth
the claim in its local paper that there is
more building going on there than in any
place has four buildings and three more are
going up.
Devils Lake city has anew postofice fitted
up, of which they are proud. The Inter Ocean
says of it: The Devils Lake postoffice is now
as large in the way of boxes and distributing
apparatus as the postoffice at Pierre, city of
5000 inhabitants.
Brookings is in the smallpox district. Sew
eral young men from there have discovered
this, to their dismay, on visiting other local
tiles to see their girls, and finding Brookings
quarantined against and no admittance
allowed them.
The fire companies of Fargo elected new
chief the past week, the honor falling upon
A. Cantieny, by small majority. He is a
restaurant man and the delicious anticipa-
tons in connection with that popular resort
materialZed in votes.
Minnewaukan is wild with enthusiasm over
the approach of the Jamestown Northern. 1t
is confidently expected, but hardly probable
that the track will reach there before the
ground freezes. That place has reason to
look for big boom next spring.
A syndicate of young men has been formed
at st. Thomas, where there is great dearth
of young ladies, which will send a deputa-
ton to Boston to secure wives for the rest of
the members. 1t is expected that the local
demand will be fully supplied.
The proposed taking off of the fast train on
the Northern Pacific from st. Paul, is much
regretted, but travel upon it is said to be
light. The Fargo Southern and all other
Dakota roads will next month reduce the
number of trains where they have more than
one day.
James Davis, the worker of the scheme to
secure an appropriation from congress to
erect national homestead monument in
Dakota, has had draft made by leading
Chicago architect, and is very confident of
making it success, although Delegate Ray
mond will not give it much aid.
w, II. Burke, of the jamestown Capital
the envy of all north Dakota editors for his
manly beauty, has Travelled as far north as
Minnewaukan on Devils lake, to gather ma
terial for an illustrated work descriptive Of
of the upper James and lake country, 1t
will be an interesting and valuable book.
Gen. Beadle, the superintendent OF schools
recently visited the city schools at Huron,
and won the admiration Of pupils and pa
rents by stating that he had never seen such
promising group of pupils in any school,
Such compliments to the various schools he
visits make him popular and do not cost him
much.
The Pierre Democrats a new and spicy
weekly just started. 1t is a nice sample of
local and political journalism, but as the
place has four other papers, one of them
Democratic, the aching void to be filed is not
apparent at distance. Outside of Dakota
there are not many towns of 5000 popula-
ton that will sustain five papers, three of