St. Paul daily globe., 1885-07-27

ably he VIII take new wife in the West,
and Is no doubt headed for Utah.
Some of the inspectors sent out by the
land department, to ferret out frauds by
land claimants, are making themselves ex-
tremely unpopular. 1t is conceded that i'm
most cases there have been some technical
Irregularities in securing claims. but when
men occupy the land and carry out the
spirit of the free-land policy it is not re-
garded as desirable TO annoy them. There
are abundance of real frauds which honest
people are glad to aid in exploring.
In the vicinity of Mitchell yesterday nine
sheriffs and deputies eorralled two cowboy
travellers, heavily armed, for whom one
man near Pierre had offered $500 reward,
suppOsing they had stolen some of his fine
horses. They had with them three ponies,
and had been tracked several hundred
miles They did not resist to the death, as
expected. Horse stealing is quite an avo-
cation in some parts of the territory.
One of the most flOuriShing camp meet
ing in the territory has been held the past
week at Spirit Mound, near Vermllion.
The services were held in an immense tab
ernacle tent and several thousand people
have attended the meetings. These insti-
tutions are growing in popularity, and seem
TO meet the demand for summer recreation
and religious dissipation.
The deeadenee of the roller-skatmg-rink
furOr is seen in debt of $500 for the stock
holders of the rink in WahpetOn to adjust.
Even progressive euchre does not draw to
church sociables any more, and the people
are falling back to the standard recreation
of plain poker. This only means when
pockets are empty.
There has been pretty warm weather of
late. even in the extreme north of Dakota.
put the only man known to have Succumbed
TO the heat was the president of a temper
ance society at Grand Forks. He was eX-
travagant in the use of water. but his ex-
ample has not proved contagious in this
locality.
In hingSbury county, a man who is
nervous about storms has built a cyclone
cellar, arranged with trap door and a sys-
TEN of pulleys, so that when he hears a
storm coming in the night he can pull a
cord and his bed will sink through the trap
door into the cellar. He has not taken out
patent on il.
j. f. Cooley, near LarimOre, was one of
the largest sufferers by the recent hail. He
says the hail lasted but three minutes, but
in that time it destroyed his crop to the eX-
tent of II. 900 bushels of wheat. 1000 oats,
and 500 barley. He is plowing the land
struck by the hail.
In the south part of the territory, where
diversified agriculture is the rule, farmers
have an abundance of ready money. III
Vermillion some $1,000 was paid out in one
day the past week for cattle. This is rap
idly becoming the case in all parts of the
territory.
A colony of some fifty families are on
their way from the region of the late Riel
war to the Turtle mountains in Dakota, and
some 800 are expected to come from that
region this fall. They complain of bad
crops and bad government up there's
A man in Clay county, about six feet tall,
is sending out as an advertisement of Da-
kOta photograph taken July 1, standing in
a field of corn reaching above his head.
There could hardly be finer prospect for
corn than in the south counties.
In one of the most pOpulous districts in
the Red River valley a census enumerator
worked eighteen days with a team. and was
paid S24. This shows that the pay was too
small to secure full cOuut in the space re-
quired.
On Aug. and Grand Forks is to have
grand firemen's tournament, to which all
the North is invited. a large number of
HAiLCo dAC ohClChs anu illduN OlilCI SDOIlS
and attractions are on the programme
Meetings have been held in Grand Forks
to secure the closing of the side and back
doors of saloons as well as the front on
Sunday. 1t is thought some will object
even to the use of the windows.
Parties have recently come to BroOkings
county from La Crosse, Wis, to regain i'm
paired health by the advice of physicians.
-, haaop,incr trnHar.cf.nI hot n
climate is very beneficial 10 invalids.
Judge Abbey of Mitchell claims to be the
champion knot tier, having married sixty
the increase of population as already over
200 in consequence of his services.
The artesian we'll at Scotland is down
over three hundred feet with a five-inch
hole. 1t is expected TO strike the water at
500 feet. Sixty feet of the hardest sand
rock has been encountered.
James Mccarthy has been sent to the in
sane asylum as a result of his trouble over
the reservation question and the depreda-
tions of the Indians on his claim on the Win
nebago reservation.
There are native strawberries enough in
the Turtle mountains to make quite a for
tune if they could be gathered and sold, but
they are too far from railroad 10 have a
market for them.
In the absence of the editor on the st.
Paul excursion, the boys in charge of the
Ipswich Gazette, published that Dakota 8
per cent. bonds sold at SO per cent. pre-
mium.
Mitchell is one of the towns that is quite
satisfied with the count of the census taker.
He gives 5000, and there are but about
half-dOZen town with larger figures.
1t is proposed to serenade and banquet
Hon. Mark Ward at Kimball when he re-
turns from Vermont with his singing bride
who Tilted the Mitchell Crow.
Parties who want to see Dakota in its
beauty and glory will not find better time
to visit it. There could hardly be finer
outlook in the grain line.
A typographical error said no fine beer is
made in North Dakota. 1t is claimed that
this is one of the products not eXcelled in
any part of the country.
Capt. Vallandigham of the Valley City
Democrat has new potatoes 6x7 inches in
circumference. He is scientific farmer as
well as editor.
Horse thief vigilance committees are being
formed in many sections. and they do not
propose TO put the people to the expense of
trying thieves.
Fargo has never made such a display of
the signs of mourning over any man as over
Gen. Grant. Nearly every business house
was decorated.
Silver has been found near Spiritwood
lake, in the James valley. and it is believed
in sufficient quantity TO work proftably.
1t will be tested.
The sheriff of WalwOrth county lately
captured three deserters from Fort Sully,
who will probably get two years at Fort
LeavenwoTth.
1t is believed to be settled that the Chi
capn Milwaukee, Il ST Paul will NOT hnild