St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-01-08
DAKOTA MONTANA
Collected and Forwarded by Telegraph
to the Daily Globe.
Fargo Special kilograms January g. to the
Panl Globe.
Norfhrcexfern Notes.

company of light artillery is being
formed in Lisbon. There will be no county
seat fight in that county but may be in La
Moure adjoining, unless this organization
deters the contestants.
Petitions for the appointment of Judge W.
B. Mcconnell to the bench in place of Judge
Hudson are being signed by men Of both
parties in Ransom county. Mcconnell has
been called to Indiana to attend big law
suit
T. NJ. Elliot, the bonanza farmer, who is
as great smoker as ever Grant was, has
taken pledge never to smoke cigar until
wheat is 81 bushel. He has laid in an in
voice of cob pipes.
The Democrat states that thirteen of the
fifty-six saloons in Fargo will not take out
license.
Willet Bronson, representing several
wealthy capitalists in New York, lately bought
| 1900 acres Of land in Ransom and Sargent.
He saysit is but the begin ming, as there are
millions of idle capital in New York that will
be invested in Dakota lands this year. Great
! activity in real estate is looked for in the
spring.
Major CIV. Buttz, of Lisbon, was one of the
losers in the recent SIC, 900 fire in Buttzvile,
as he was in the S25, 900 loss of wheat by
hail last summer He says he is like
st. Paul on a certain occasion, and that
''none OF these things move him." AS a
minor incident it is related as Christmas
gift he gave one of the Young ladirs who re-
sponded to his matrimonial advertisement a
dollar, and she ungraciousy took up with a
trpr ma wi HI, 6o6 he afI1rT,
| of the 81.
! j. R. Butt and family, of Lisbon, went to
! New Jersey to spend the winter, but he writes
that the weather is so dSagreeable that he
will return to the pleasanter Dakota climate.
The Store, one of the vaudeville theaters
in Fargo, is this week giving the drama Of
"The World'' to crowded houses. and it is
said the scenery and stage setting would dc
credit to any stage, and the company is
above the average.
The annual recently issued from the Argas
office under the special supervision of Gen.
w. I. Clark, the veteran soldier add con-
noisseur in art and taste, is pronounced the
! finest thing of the sort ever issued in Fargo
and does great credit to the general and his
assistants
An inch on a mans nose is said to be
very prominent matter. 1t is stated as a fact
that DR.. Harris, of Pembiua, in conference
with other physicians, is trying to devise
! some scheme to relieve devoted young man
whose best girl refuses to marry him on ac-
! count of the abnormal size of his nasal pro-
tuberance. The matter is attracting much
local attention as the girl narrdtcs it.
The recent advance in wheat is already
having an effect upon business. The mer-
chants feel better.
Taxes in Dakota become delinquent the
first Monday in February, at which time 5
per cent penalty attaches upon all unpaid
taxes, and interest the rate of / per cent.
per month is added at the first of each month
until the taxes are paid.
The Devils Lake NeuS figures up the trade
of that city in 1884 at 1868, 79O.32. For so
new a town that speaks well. As the country
fills up about it will evidently be quite com
mercial mart.
One of the finest social affairs ever known
in the southeast part of the territory was the
ball and banquet given by the Masons and
Odd Fellows at Dell Rapids, on New Years.
There were $50 couple, and the fraternity OF
the two orders was notable and unusual.
The judges have in many instances re-
fused to appoint the parties county clerks,
who were the choice OF the people, shown
by the voting. The people don't count
in territories politically.
The building statistics of these towns for
the past year are given by the local papers as:
Sioux Falls, $500, 900; Mitchell, 1888, 425;
Madison, $105,57
Judge Clifford reports to his home paper
that mOstof the northern Democratic con-
gressmen would vote or the admission bill
if not afraid the next administration would
80 back ON them. The judge is unsophistl-
| Gated.
Pierre is proud of the fact that one of its
most distinguished looking citizens, Judge
Merit sweeney, has received from the man
agement of the Mardi Gras at New Orleans,
an appointment as earl of Dakota, to attend
the carnival, on the staff of King Menus.
| He will have the freedom of the city and re
tain the title.
Co L unsberry's new daily at Bismarck
h n Feared and is model for its proper
tons.
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