St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-07-11
Northwestern Notes.

1t is said that Blaine club will soon be
organized in Fargo.
Heber McHugh, joval young Frenchman
of jamestown, was married at st. Paul on
the 10th, to Mary Regain.
The new county of Benson already claims
700 resident families. 1t is in the DEVILS
Lake country.
In Brown county potatoes measuring two
inches in diameter have been grown in sixty
days. Vegetation in Dakota is always on
the BOOM
The Ipswich Gazette foots up s190,950 in
vested in building in that place since last
October. For town of that age they are
first-class figures.
Walter Bell, an eastern capitalist, is at
Plankinton ready to erect flax mill as soon
as the required land bonus can be had.
mixed accommodation train now makes
trips over the Fargo Southern each way three
times week. In a week or two it is ex-
pected that regular passenger trains will
run.
Miss Hannaman, who recently resigned
the postoffice at Aberdeen, has since mar
ried Hon. j. r. James, of Columbia. 1t is
believed that she has done well, and it is
quite certain James has. He is P. NJ.
Hon. E. P. Wells has called the Republican
territory committee to meet at Minnetonka
Saturday, and it is expected that he will pro-
vide steamboat and grand wine banquet
Tor the use of this committee on Sunday.
A number of gentlemen recently connect
ed with the press at Bismark have started to-
ward St. Louis in small boat. Their com
missary stores were all packed into jugs, as
they expect fish and game to supply the con-
diments.
The lightning has been very promiscuous
about Henderson of late and number Of
houses and buildings have suffered. One man,
John Hartly,a brother-in-law of the proprietor
of the Sherman house, had two horses killed
while he was standing between them. He
was killed too.
Dakota is bonanza to the manufactures
of harvest machines this year. 1t is footed
up that 900 machines will be sold by the
agencies and branches at Aberdeen alone,
and there are number of points that will
show much better figures.
Ipswich Gazette : A party consisting of
John W. Hooper, Erastus Covert, John Gov
ert and Phil Moreau, of Leola, Mcpherson
county, while on a trip to Fort Yates, ran on
to herd of twenty-three btffaloes, six of
which they succeeded in killing, Mr.. Hooper
doing the effective shooting. 1t happened
about thirty miles northwest of here in town
ship 1875, range ~.
Such reports as this by the Vermill ion
Plain Talk increase the satisfaction Dakotians
feel in their country: ga private letter from
Prof. Simonds to gentleman in town, says
that he arrived safely at his home in New
Hampshire. He writes that the best crops
were seen in Dakota and western Iowa; that
it is very dry in Canada and New England,
while the grass hoppers were so plentiful in
New Hampshire that his folks had caught
thirty-two bushels of them with a machine,
at two trials.'
The Keystone Commercial learns that c. E.
HOLSTER has received telegram from Wash
ington informing him that Commissioner
Mcfarland had reversed the decision of the
U. S. land officers and he would be allowed
to make final entry on his presumption The
application was refused by Register Austin
for the reason that the claimant was not in
Dakota during the publication of the final
proof notice and arrived only in time to
make his proof.
Bismarck Tribune: The surveyors Of the
Rock Island road are expected to arrive in
Bismarck this week or next to begin the sur
vey from this point and continue in south
erly direction to meet the survey from the
east. This report comes authoritively and
augurs well for Bismarck From the pub
lished statements of the Rock Island com
pany with reference to their operations in
the northwest, and the general tenor Of the
railway press of the country it would appear
that the Rock Island will lose no time in
building into Bismarck.