St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-07-30
DakOfa NevVsIefs.

A man in Jerauld county is quoted in
that section as the meanest man in all
the territory. He has placed a barbed-
wire fence around a small lake on his
farm, and charges travellers a good price to
water their horses. As it is a long ways
between drinks in that section he is making
a good thing out of it. One of the papers
thinks he is little meaner than the Iowa
man who hanged himself because wheat
fell, and was cut down by his hired man,
and then deducted the damage to the rope
in settling with him.
Col. Little of the governors staff. the
past week, inspected the military compa-
MES at Valley City and Fargo, and ex-
pressed himself as more than gratified at
the perfection of their movements and
thoroughness of their tactical requirement.
Gen. Clark, the noted veteran tactician.
aided i'll the inspection of the Fargo COM
panies, and said they would do credit to
any army. Their uniforms are handsome
also. 1t Is evident there will be fine dis
play at the encampment.
According to the Mandan Pioneer. when
Senator Vest reached that point Saturday
he expressed himself as delighted with Da.
kota. 1t can hardly be insisted that the feel
ing was mutual, still if the distinguished
gentleman had stopped at the leading points
he would have been treated with the utmost
courtesy and his favOrite beverages, and
every effort made to give him more gener-
Gus impressions of the territory.
The jamestown Alert, whose editor Col.
Wamoch, is member of the governors
staff and a conservative, Christian gentle
man. insists that the Mormon missionaries
sent to Dakota should be run out or tarred
and feathered. They are not likely to
make converts in the territory, and will not
stay long if, as they claim, they are sent
without scrip in their purse; in fact, with
out a purse, depending, like tramps, upon
pickingS and faith.
The business men who recently met at
Huron to form a mutual insurance COM
pany for Central Dakota, to escape the
heavy tariffs of the old companies, found.
upon investigation, that there We're serious
embarrasSmentS in the way, provided by
the last legislature at the instance, as sup
posed, Of the foreign companies. Still an
other meeting is to be held in August, and
a method of procedure reported.
A number of Dakota parties report that
on the cars on leaving ST. Paul and Mime
apOlis recently some of the confidence
schemes have been attempted upon them.
One introduced himself to a stranger going
TO Fargo as president of the First National
bank, but failed to work his game. One
farmer from Sargent county was tricked
out of some $500.
The town of Fairbank in SuIIv county has
by the census about fifty men, women and
children, and yet it supports a weekly
paper. In the evidence before recent Jury
1t was stated that the good will and sub
scripton list of one Dakota paper was sold
for $3.50, and it had just fifteen subscribers.
The final-proof business was the induce
ment.
1T is claimed that the stock growers in
West Dakota on the line of the Northern
Pacific have quite an advantage in freight
rates over those in Wyoming on the Union
Pacific. The average rate per head of
cattle from Dakota shipping points to Chi
cago is put at S4.s3 and from Wyoming
points S7.22. In large herds this is quite
an item.
The four thousand or five thousand resi-
dents claimed on the Crow and Winnebago
reservations are reported to have shrunk in
the census nearly down TO one thousand.
Delegate Clifford says the senate committee
will advise the president not to modest them
and they will report in favor of opening the
reservations by congressional action.
c. S. Rowe of Chamberlain, who has
recently been appointed special agent of the
land department for the Aberdeen district.
has been a resident of Dakota nearly
twenty years, and has been a square-toed
Democrat all the time, which is a rare thing
in Dakota. He knows all about land mat
tiers. and is the right man in the place.
Valley City has base ball club that
claims the championship of North Dakota.
Last Saturday it played a Wahpeton club
at Fargo, but the latter soon threw up the
sponge. A game is to be had Aug 10 with
an Ada club for 5000 a side. if the latter
does not lose courage. 1t will be on the
grounds at Fargo.
The wild mustard question is now at the
front and most county authorities are try
ing to enforce the law, but many are at
loss how to extirpate it. 1t is believed that