St. Paul daily globe., 1885-06-16
Milnor for thirty of forty Ohio farmers

The past week train of tifty-three emil
grant teams reached the Mouse river region
and will help populate that inviting region.
A young son of Henry Williams, five
miles south of st. Lawrence, in Hand
county, was drowned while bathing in Tur-
tie creek the past week.
| The editor of the Hand County Press
holds postoffce and is quite sure that the
Democrats should be literally recognized in
the Sioux Falls convention.
1t is noted that as a result of tree culture
birds are becoming quite numerous in parts
of Dakota. In Kingsbury and some other
counties quails are making their appear
| ance.
|, The question is to be tested in the courts
whether the city of Fargo can be made to
pay the policemen appointed by the mayor
and not appointed by the council. Suit has
commenced.
AS indicating the rapid growth of plants
in Dakota, Judge Eldridge, at Yankton,
took an accurate measure OF an asparagus
plant and found a growth of So inches in
twenty-siX hours.
The new Catholic church at Bartlett in
the Devils Lake region will be used first
June 23. About two cars a day OF buffalo
bones have been shipped from that little
town the past two weeks.
The editor of the Sentinel in Pembina
county claims that he is able to read by
daylight at 10 p. IN. and 3 a. M, and gives
the climate credit Some might think he
was too near the north pole.
| A prominent lawyer of Watertown states
that it is the understanding in his section
that Delegate Clifford will support the ad-
miniStration and claim influence in the dis
posal of Dakota patronage.
In Lincoln county the Democratic and
Republican commissioners have united in
calling convention to nominate delegates
to the Sioux Falls convention. 1t is de-
signed to send one of each party.
A celebration was had at Washington
Springs the past week over the SSth birth
day of Rev. John Cross. He is as active
as most men in the states at 60, and it is be-
Ieved he will make the even 100 in Dakota.
! Hon. S. E. Stebbns the Wahpeton legis-
lator, this season planted two acres OF corn
as an experiment, but the gOphers took
most of the first planting. They are quite
fond of corn. and no premiums have been
paid for them in that county.
The gang of horse thieves that last year
made so much trouble in the Missouri river
country north of Bismarck are reported in
operation again. Ten horses have lately
been stolen in Mclean county. That
region is peculiarly adapted to their opera
tions.
A grocer in Miller, in Hand county, Of
fered purse to the party who would guess
nearest the number OF beans in package.
The guesseS ranged from 1,150 to $4,000.
The true number was 6, 525, and one lady
guessed 6, 533, and another 6,535, showing
that ladies have intuition, and know beans
in Dakota.
Saturday morning about half the invited
participants in an excursion from Fargo to
Ortonville on reaching the depot were sur
prlSed to find that the train had gone out on
time without waiting for them. The COM
mon habit in that section of going to public
gatherings late is not adapted to railroad
time tables.
j. II. Flynn, postal clerk between Chi
cagO and Cleveland, was in Dakota last
week looking after his tree claim near
White Lake, and fattered local pride by
| reporting crops promising better and more
| advanced in the territory than any section
he had seen.
Some of the North Dakota cities evidently
do not approve of circuSes or want to pre-
vent theic taking any money out of the
country, as they are imposing license all
the way from 5000 to $500. Itmay be that
the advance agents have failed to distribute
complimentaries judiciouslY.
There is some intimation that a promi-
nent capitalist from the East will give
$100,000 to the proposed Congregational
college for North Dakota, and it will bear
his name. The committee appointed by the
association last week is favorable to James
town for its location, but Fargo is to make
an earnest effort to secure it.
Gov. Ziebach expresses the opinion that
the members of the legislature were
not aware that they could not be members
of the Sioux Falls convention, or they
would not have called it. The fact was un-
earthed by newspapers, and many Of the
J legislators were in the field as candidates.
| The governor calls it playing at constitu-
tion-making," and anticipates for it the
same fate as had the one two years ago.
| The editor of the Bathgate Sentinel, in
taking the census in Pembina county in the
extreme north, notes the fact that the lack
hitherto of horses and meat animals in that
section is being removed. Nearly every
man now raises his own pork and beef, and
much attention is being given to the grow
ing of horses. This indicates that in the
future the farmers will not be subject to
the hazards of single crop and the papers
| be filled with mortgage sales, as in some
recent times.
A. Boynton, who has been reported as
appointed one Of the land officers at Aber-
deem, was member of the Masonic lodge
at Fargo the past week, and in an inter-
view stated that he had never been an ap-
plicant for the land Office, and thinks his
name was used to cover some scheme. He
does not think there will be any change at
present. Maj. Burke of Ipswich will no
doubt be one of the men appointed, and
probably Maj. Barrett.
1t is reported that the managers and at
torneys of the Chicago, Milwaukee g. ST..
Paul railroad are using active exertions
with the power at Washington in behalf of
the settlers upon the reservations They
claim to have received encouragement that
when the facts are fully presented the
claimants who have remained and shown
their good faith in their Improvements will
obtain their rights. A decision must soon
be reached as the, sixty days are about out.
A man digging well near Lisbon, Al
feet down, struck the branches of a box
elder tree, and below it depth of black
soil just as On the surface. A theory is
held by Dakota scientists that the original
garden Of Eden was in Dakota, and that it
was then tropical land. Some convulsion
buried it and the climate changed. This is
the view taken by Major Butts, Hon. 81. S..
Oliver and other men who have given the
subject attention. No relics of the first
settlers have yet been discovered
| Maj. Barrett, who bought out the Aber-
deem Republican. and changed its politics
but not it's name, has perhaps the best field
in Dakota for Democratic paper. He has
radius of about 100 miles in every direc-
ton entirely to himself politically. the coun-