St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-11-13


county, or about $50 came to the polls more
than one-third of the vote WAS against the
constitution
The Miller Gazette in Hand county says the
TOTAL vote cast in the South on the state ques-
ton Will not exceed rs, 900, and Gen. Camp
bell claims only $4,000. The majority for the
constitution is said to be some 10000, which
viii leave 5000 votes cast directly against
There are over 10000 voters in the South,
oi.OUO OF them voting year ago. 1t was un-
derstood that all who did not vote should be
counted with the adverse vote. The senti-
ment or the South on the question of division
and south side state may then be stated ap
proximatey as $4,000 in favor to $4,000
against--a two-thirds majority opposed and
IN fayor or remaining as one territory or adj
mission as one state.
The recent decision of Commissioner Sparks
reversing the rule that crops must be grown
on claims before they can be proved ND is.
perhaps the most popular one yet issued
from the land department. 1t was made on
an appeal by man who had log cabin aud
ten acres broken whose proof the local Off
cials rejected. This will enable many claim
ants who have lived upon their claims the six
months and made the usual improvements to
prove up at once and not wait till crop can
be grown next year. After they prove up
t iey can borrow money on their claims and
be in condition to cultivate their farms in
the spring, in the numerous cases where they
have little means.
In view of the fact that two-thirds of the
voters of the South have refused to declare
themselves for division, the Mitchell Daily
Republican says: The recent census is be-
fore congress, and the slender Endorsement
given the independent statehood scheme will
form striking contrast. The politicians who
undertake to pursuade the president and
congress that South Dakota is on fire for d.
vision and the admission of the south half,
Will DE- pointed to the census returns. What
Is congress to understand from such state
OF affairs, and what is she likely to do? Prob
ably nothing. Possibly admission as whole,
or with a slice of Indian country on the west
cut Off.
The News, published at the home of Dele
gate Clifford, does not think the vote on the
new constitution was a success Itsays: IF
half as much work had been done against the
constitution as was put in for it it would have
been showed under, not only in this county
out throughout tho territory. In Worthing-
ton. the only place in the county, so far as
we know, that meeting was held in opposi-
tion TO the measure, it was beaten by vote
Of 80 to H.
The statement of Judge Clifford that Hon.
NJ. H. Day has refused to accept anything in
the way of pay for services at Washington is
confirmed by several Parties at Fargo and
other points who thought that he should have
at least his expenses paid. He has sent back
checks and even postage stamps. Whatever
may be alleged Of his efforts to serve friends
CT his party at Washington, he should have
credit for an unselish spirit.
AS an argument to stimulate prohibition
voting in De Smet last week, the town bell
was tolled every eight minutes on election
day to remind the voters that drunkard died
every eight minutes. 1t was needed, and in
the sound of the bell 100 voted for the prohi-
ton clause and but 80 against it. There
were bells enough in the South that day to
carry majority for the clause.
Farmer Wallace, one of the most sagacious
agriculturists in the Bismarck region, notes
the rapid increase of the stock and dairy in
terest in the north, and says: II predict that
bF 1881, the stock, dairy and creamery center
of the West and Northwest will be North Da-
kota. Most certainly, Dakota will rival any
state in the Union in these demands
The Cando Tribune says that although the
ducks and geese have gone South there is
Still fine sport for hunters about there in the
way of jack rabbits and prairie chickens. 1t
mentions that one young lady. with her young
man to carry the game, shot twenty-one
plump chickens in a little walk mile out of
town. This is in Towner county, pretty well
north.
The county board of Hanson county last
week received the new court house at Alex
andrla from the contractor, and it is pro-
nounced the finest court house in South Da-
hOld. AlCA was OuO OF U06 COlQDelltOrS
for the capital of the unborn state, and
claims to be as saucy, handsome and indie
pendent as if it had secured the immaterial
prize.
Hudson, in Dickey county, has a Herald
nearly two years old and yet the past week
Mrs. w. A. Cross presented her husband and
the community with the first child ever born
in the place-a boy, too. 1t is a singular fact
also that the same lady was the mother of the
first child born in Glendale. The family is a
valuable one in starting new towns.
A much less number of people in Dakota
will go East or South to spend the winter than
heretofore. 1t is coming to be generally un-
derstood that the winters in the territory are
really enjoyable in the main, even more so
than the average of the country, and there is
better equipment for cold weather than there
has been.
Dakota dedicated Methodist church last
Sunday, Rev. d. c. Planctte of Grand Forks
delivering the sermon. 1t has also an Epis-
copal church nearly completed, built of the
granite boulders fonnd on the shores of the
lakes in that section, and it will be very
unique and attractive building.
Fred G. Hume went from Mitchell to Chi
cago to make quick fortune in wheat specu-
lation, and has already secured $7,0u0 worth
of experience. number of part e3 in the
North tried the same thing at Duluth re-
Gently and soon had light pockets One
sermons to replace.
As Sioux Falls did not get the capital it is
proposed to establish there a general matri-
maniel agency for South Dakota. 1t is es-
timated that there are 10000 marriageable
men in South Dakota and that 10000 need
wives imported from the states. 1t is pro-
posed to do commission business.
George James of Aurora county will be
lonesome politically in the state legislature of
the South should it ever convene. He is a
Democrat, elected by bolt from an Obnox-
ious Republican Candidate, and believed to be
the only Democrat elected to that body.
The statistics furnished by the assessor in
Bon Homme county, in the south, shows
acres. wheat, 5.436; corn, 1899; flax. 1888.
showing that fax is the chief staple in that
section, though it is believed no other county
has so large proportion of flax and corn.
The Republican paper at Tyndall, NJ. Fl.
Days county, has confidence in him and pre-
diets that he will be found to know what he
is doing, and. like the teacher in the Hoosier
last with plank over the chimney.
Two Germans named Bamber few DAYS
ago died in a well they were digging near AL
exander by inhaling the foul air. They had
found some pyrites of iron and imagined they
had struck gold mine, witch will now never
be found in that well.
A peculiar case is before the land Office at
Mitchell. A man sold the Improvements on
his claim, gave a REIMBURSEMENT and moved
off. His wife, who had left him. then moved
on to it and holds it as a homestead. She is
going to fight. for it.
8. s. Blanchard of Fargo, Boston scientist
and exponent of its culture, is delivering
lecture on Henry Wilson at most of the lead
ing towns of the north. 1t used to be spoken
Of as quite a brilliant effort.
A young child of Mrs Unuk died at the
hotel at Tyndal last week, choked to death by
a piece of liver. The doctors decided that the
only chance for It was to use the knife. but it
was not done. and the child died in great
agony.
In few points in the South where capital
honors were sought the Democrats nearly all
voted at the elections At Alexandria which