St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-03-22
Dakota and Montana Notes.

Inc mill at wentworth City, In Lake
county burns ton of hay day as fuel.
The water works company at jamestown
is arranging to push the construction at an
early day.
The winter has SO far passed in this region
that the boys bring out their marbles and the
constitutionally weary talk of spring fever.
1t is believed that the force on the line
now can open the track to New Rockford
from jamestown in about three or four days.
Diana is town three months old and has
eighty-fve houses, and the corn stalks from
last season stands in the middle of the main
streets.
A paragraph going the rounds says that
prohibition in Fargo is looking up" That
is probably the only direction in which it can
look for encouragement.
Sioux Falls claims to have spent $3.50
for amusements this winter. That is about
81 for each unit in the census, but don't in
clude drinks and counting expenses.
A Montana paper reports signs of petrol
cum in the cliffs of the lower canyon of the
Yellowstone. The coal formations there
are said to give ground for expecting pc
troleum.
The Dakota Leader says: s'Why don't
Mr. E. P Wells of jamestown call the terri
torial Republican conventions?' is a frequent
interrogatory. Well: Wells knows what he
is about.
Father Stephan, of jamestown, who is the
agent of an emigration society, states that he
has arranged with the superintendent of
Castle Garden, N. Y, to forward to Bismarck
100 families of the most desirable class.
The stock growers of Dawson county will
hold their annual meeting at Glendive, on
April 7th and 9Th, which will wind up with a
grand ball, to which every stock man in
eastern Montana will be invited.
The business men of one of the South Da-
kota towns have arranged to send out 1900
copies of the local papers each month, to
friends and parties in the east. AS the pa
pers are first-class and show live, rustling
town, large and profitable results will ensue
The town site company of Minnewaukan,
on Devils lake, the past week received an
order for 50, 500 of lots, in one day. That is
evidently to be leading and favorite point
on the lake, and will have lively boom this
season.
The Livingston Tribune says: Several
Montanians were possessed with the idea that
California would be an elysium where free
from the chilling blasts a season could be
spent most happily. Adverse reports are
coming back that Montana is preferable
either in winter or summer, and soon they
will return to their beloved adopted terri
tory.
Parties in Allegheny county, N. Y, are
organizing colonies for Bismarck and the
Missouri valley. They get through car rates
S11O, and passenger $3.50. There is said
to be lively competition in that and other
sections Of the cast between representatives
Of the railroads in north and south Dakota.
The latter have heretofore had the field pretty
much to themselves.
1t is said that some of the leading dealers
in groceries and heavy goods at Mandan and
Bismarck have made contracts with Chicago
parties and will have the goods shipped to
Pierre and then by boat up the river. It is
stated that there will be large traffic by
this route the coming season thM ever be-
fore. The st. Paul dealers and the N. P.
should be able to control this trade.
George Francis Train has sent a character
istic letter of congratulation and co-opera-
ton to Capt. B. Hagen, whose name was
published in the Associated Press dispatches
av elected captain of Fenian organization.
The captain is quite proud of the recognition
and if he survives the ''cruel war; over the
border, will hand it down to his posterity as
an heirloom and attcstation of the prowess
of their ancestor.
La Grace Courier: 1t now transpires that
the gentlemen who were arrested by the In
dian police for cutting wood on the reserva-
ton opposite the s.blue blanket'' and who
were taken through La Grace to Standing
Rock Agency were the sheriff and treasurer
of Waworth county. All the sympathy
which our citizens spent on the prisoners on
account of their poor families, poverty, etc.,
seems to have been wasted.
The Broadare, after truce of few days,
while resting from the exhaustion of its saw
age warfare upon Col. Morton, as candidate
for mayor, has come out squarely and boiling
with enthusiasm for him. Its CONVERSION
was not quite as rapid as that of Saul Of Tar
sus, but it evidently has seen great light,
and will now do valiant service in the wake
of the Republican in atoning for the sin of its
infancy, and beating the air.
The snow in the Red river valley has
wasted away so easily and rapidly the past
week, that only excessive and long con tinued
rains can cause any serious foods. A
scientist states that the dry atmosphere abb
serbs the water as the snow melts, so that
there is little to run off except in case of
heavy rain. He uses the figure of sponge.
Nothing yet discovered is too much for the
atmosphere and the ozone.
The facetious statement of Eugene Field,
humorist of the Chicago Nssss reproduced in