St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-10-22
DAKOTA & MONTANA
COLLECTED and Forwarded by Telegraph
to the Daily Globe.
Fargo Special kilograms October 81 to the St.
Paul Globe.
North,restcrn NOES

ST. Lawrence is to have roller skating
ink
Judge Chords wife has gone to Ohio to
remain while he stumps the territory for con-
gress.
Bismarck paper offsets the six marriages
In Fargo in one day by five births in the cap
ital city in day
Ed. Harper, young man at work on the
new elevator at Gretna, in Pembina county,
fell some As feet and was so wracked intern
ally That he died in few days.
Treasurer Mccoy has been delayed in re-
moving from Yankton to Bismarck by one
OF the little domestic incidents so numerous
In all Dakota towns. He is good natured
over it, however.
The White Lake Dispatch says that there is
vigilance committee being formed in this
township for the purpose of prosecuting and
Furnishing any one who may be so foolish as
to set prairie fire.
Not having any preaching there the people
In the Turtle mountains mingle their devo-
tons in this way; Last Sunday about
seventy-fve Indians gave a war dance in full
war costume at Dunseith.
county was created two years ago out of
Grggs and Trail for the sole purpose OF
making Hope the county seat. Now the
young town Of Pickert will make fight for
the capital, as being nearer the center OF
population and area.
Some of the papers in the south, ike the
NeanS at Canton, the home of Judge Clifford,
oppose the proposition for the legislature to
provide for a con stitution and state organiZa-
ton for south Dakota They say that it will
amount to nothing as congress must initiate
the matter by an enabling act.
There is good deal Of kicking, even
among Methodist people, in south Dakota
over the resolve of the recent conference at
Mitchell that it will not consent to the ad-
mission Of a new state unless the constitution
contains prohibitory clause. The people
down there want to get loose from the north
more than they want to regulate their drink
ing habits.
The Butte hlder says: Thursday morning
there were large crowds attracted to South
Main street by the beautiful mirage which
could be seen for a couple of hours. The
banks of the Missouri river, full thirty miles
10 the south, could be distinctly seen, and all
between could be seen in proportion. 1t
seemed that the Bijou hills were only south
OF the fair grounds.
The Graphic at Kimball has this singular
statement: Long lake, which Is fifteen
miles north of Scotland, was perfectly dry
prior to 1870. 1t has no outlet or inlet and
is situated fifty feet above the line of the Jim
river from which it is distant four miles. Al
the present time the water in the lake covers
200 acres andis literally alive with fish,
Miller Press: a noble specimen Of gray
eagle, that measured nine feet from tip to
tip, was captured last week about seven miles
northwest of Miller by Geo. Milten berger. II
was caught in wolf trap by one toe and
even that toe, when loosened, was not broken.
He was tied in the blacksmith shop one night
with an inch leather strap wrapped around
one leg twice. In the morning he was run
ming loose in the shop, having torn the
leather to pieces with his beak. He is a
splendid bird, and is in good condition to be
sent TO the New Orleans exposition.