St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-11-04
Dalkota Nexyslets.

The legislature elected in South Dakota
Tuesday is to convene at the town that had
the most votes for the capital on the first
Tuesday after the first Monday in January
and among its first acts will be the election of
two Republicans as senators, who will go to
Washington and lobby for seats IN the senate.
Should they be admitted the North will soon
follow with two more of the same stripe-but
even the most sanguine would not wager
much on the admission of the South aspirauts.
Clifford and KanOuse, congressman, Republi-
cans and ProhibitiOniStS, will also be active
members of the third house.
| Last week and this Referee Mabey and a
corps of attorneys took evidence at Forman
in the Sargent county case to show that
Minor did Snch voting as is rarely seen, ex-
cept in county seat contests, and next week
the hearing will be at Minor and that place
will tell how honestly it took in the ballots of
q vast number Of temporary residents and
how FOrman perpetrated frauds. There is
the usual amount of bad feeling in the case.
and Minor is confident that it can tell the
best story.
Delegate Clifford has taken his wife and son
with him to Washington, where he will at
once inaugurate the winter campaign in Da-
kota matters. He will have kilograms sent
out occasionally that he is sweating over the
task of pulling the South side state through
congress-a task that he believes utterly
hopeless. He does hope, however, to secure
the opening of the Sioux reservation, and
favorable attention to several measures he
thinks will be popular with his constituents.
The Gum Valley Sentinel, near the reser
yations, says: If the Indian is ignorant he is
no fool. They are now busy hauling wood,
selling it, and laying in a supply of food and
wearing apparel for winter. If the govern
ment would allot to each head of family 100
acres of land and compel them to earn their
living the same us q white man, it would be
just as well for the Indian and save the gov
eminent millions annually
Among the sporting fraternity at Fargo
considerable interest was excited by the ar
rival of Tom Cannon of San Francisco. the
champion all-round wrestler of the Pacific
coast, and Adam Butler. champion light
weight, who gave exhibitions of their proves
two nights at the Coliseum this week. Mana
ger Davenport has a purse of $50 for any man
that Cannon cannot throw in five minutes.
They go to St. Paul.
In Bookings county the county commits
SlOnerS took so little stock in the Sioux Falls
movement that they refused to call an cleo
ton to vote on it. The committee named by
the president of the convention arranged the
matter, and some of the people went through
the motions, but the legal sanctions were
quite thin.
Fred Watson at Wheatland, the other day,
discovered that keg of powder, even after
being exposed to the weather some time.
would burn. He stood near it when spark
from burning brush dropped into the keg.
His clothes were torn off and he will furnish
long job to the doctors to repair injuries.
iona Brennan, a travelling ''skatorial ar
fist, in an exhibition of lack of skill and
grace at Columbia, fell backwards. and was
carried off in an unconscious condition.
Many of these professional attractions at
Kinks accomplish more with their faces than
feet.
Hog cholera has been quite fatal in some
parts of the South, and doctor at Vermil-
hon is at WORK upon the theory that he can
head Off the disease by vaccination with virus
as in smallpox. The result OF his experiments
is not fully shown as yet.
J. G. Holt, of Long Pine, Neb., came up to
Ticeville, in Dickey county, and married Miss
Emma Towne, and the guests were surprised
to see another couple-Ed Flanders and Mar
Cha Herring-follOw them into matrimony
making double wedding.
The artesian well at Scotland has perma-
nently stopped at $50 feet on account OF the
granite struck. The flow is nearly 400 bar
rels a day. which will answer the present
needs of the town.
The net proceeds of the Catholic fair at
Flandrau last week were 81, 005. o. which for
three evenings might be taken to mean that
theology touches the pocket there. 1t closed
with grand ball.
It is a mystery how fire caught in the
granary of Louis Challin in Hanson county
last week, but he had only time to rescue his
horses from the barn. He lost $4,000, with
$1,000 insurance.
A farmer in Walworth county this season
tried the experiment of sowing oats OF the
unbroken prairie and then turning the sod.
He reports fair crop of oats.
The new Congregational church being COM
pleted at Columbia is claimed to be the hand
soonest church between Huron and James