St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-05-16
DAKOTA.
Dakota NeWsIets.

Some farmers in Sphinx county have not
fed their stock since the last days of Feb
ruary.
Alderman Collins, a veteran bachelor of
jamestown, visited Bismarck recently and
surprised his friends by bringing back a
wife.
The two Democratic papers at Bismarck,
the Blade and Journal, have combined, and
will make a first-class sheet, daily and
weekly.
A man digging well in Nelson county
reports the ground frozen nine feet. 1t is
this deep freezing that helps the wheat, it
is claimed.
The BARRIERS of Redfeld publish an
agreement to ply the razor and lather no
more on Sunday. 1t is supposed they want
to go fishing.
Mrs. J. w. Wright, from Southern Min
nesota, is tracing stray husband in the
Bismarck region. She does not reveal the
cause of his flight
Dakota exhibit at New Orleans, has gone
back there, after coming home to seed a
few thousand acres of wheat.
All the new breaking in. Turner county
will be sown to flax. That crop will be
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year, with quite sprinkling in the North
The White Lake Times reports Hyslop
crabs only 2 years old that are in bloom
and likely to bear fruit, and regards it as
a tribute to the climate.
Edmunds county voted down the PROPOSE
ton to issue bonds to build court house.
Roscoe, and the regions west, think Ips-
witch too near the east line for the per-
manent county seat.
The street car track is being taken up on
the two principal business streets in Fargo.
as it obstructed grading. Still there is little
doubt that line down Broadway and ex-
tending to MOorhead would pay.
The Bismarck Tribune reports Cherokee
Tom, so long the terror of the upper Mis-
souri,, as visiting that city and proposing to
join Riel if the lynching cowboys who have
hunted him do not get on his trail.
Nearly every day a body is found at some
point floating down the Missouri river.
One of the latest not fully identified is
thought probably the son of Mr.. Ryan of
Minneapolis, who was drowned last fall.
The Bismarck Tribune thinks the squabbl e
between the council and mayor of Fargo is
great discredit, and takes strong ground
with the mayor. The editor. Col. Plum
mer, has been Fargo editor and statesman.
Delegate Clifford has telegraphed fir ON
Washington for Col. A. Boynton, a promi-
nent Democrat, to come to his aid. 1t is
not definitely known whether it is the
reservation matter or some of the offices
that are involved.
The amateur dramatic company of
Jamestown has accepted an invitation to
present the ''Spy of Atlanta" at Bismarck
soon. The governor stopped to hear them
at jamestown and was delighted with the
performance.
The dwelling destroyed at Belield by
fire last week was spoken of as the finest
residence west of the Missouri river 1t
was worth about So, 500, and Belfield is one
OF the newest towns, very promising
one.
The Democrats of Turner county have
perfected their organization, and propose
soon to designate to the president their
men for all the offices in the county. They
are also in favor of F. M. Ziebach for
governor, Morris Taylor for surveyor gen.
eral, and Capt. Marratta for marshal.
There is good deal of rejoicing in
Walsh county over the 600 majority against
division. Some regard the new county
scheme as an effort of the member of the
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county seat on his claim.
Many of the papers in the South have
supposed that the delegates to the Sioux
Falls convention to erect state -- was
to be in September. The convention meets
Sept. 8, and the election is June 80. The
Prohibitionists seem to be the most active
in providing for it.
j. w. Lipscomb of Jamestown, whose
house was burned some time since, in
sured for 1926, but because he had not
quite paid all the monthly installments on
the lot, the Dakota company would consent
to pay him but $500. That company will
not be likely to increase its business by the
transaction.
Parties from Pennsylvania have Just Sc
cured large tracts of land in Logan county
and are going back to organize colony.
Logan is the least settled of any county
south of the Northern Pacific and east OF
the Missouri river. It cast but seventeen
votes last fall.
Capt, Murphy of the Grand For ks Plain
dealer diselaims any apprehens ion at the
remarkable development of the Democratic
party in the North, but indica ties dispo-
sition to- move with his excel ent daily in
the same direction if even Macedonian
whisper reaches him from that quarter.
W. E. MOultOn, who has been connected
with the Windsor house at Larimore, while
in the hands of an officer on charges affect
ing his honesty quietly slipped away, leav-
| ing several parties out of pocket. He will
probably take in some other locality under
another name.
| Maj. Pichler's home paper claims that he
and Col Smedley of Grant county are the
only legislators from the center that their
constituents hOnOred with ovations on their
return. In some of the counties Maj. Pich-
| Ter could easily secure coat Of tar and
feathers on account of his action in a
county division matter.
| John White, an old frontiersman, about
month ago started in small boat from
the head waters of the Missouri river to &c
down to Sioux City. He reached Bismarck
the past week, and reported cold rough
time, but took ON a keg Of the new brewery
beer and continued his journey.
Letcher Blade.-The productiveness OF
this county in its various phases was exem-
| plified last week few miles Northwest of
here The matrOn of Norwegian family
presented her happy spouse with pair OF
| twins in addition to seven already on deck:
| the cow, emulating the worthy example,
added her pair of calves and the modest,
retiring little sheep, determined not to be
outdone, came to the front with two bleat-
ing lambs.
Hon. B. G. Gibbon, the Chicago agent
of an immigration association, has been
through the region west of Ipswich to see
| how many settlers he can locate there. He
expects to send great number. 1t is esti-
mated that Q, 900 Russians will be located
| in that section this season. It will be filled
to the Missouri river, with lively sprink-
ling in the counties north, as far as the
| Northern Pacific railroad.
The syndicate that Is building towns and