St. Paul daily globe., 1885-08-20

that the Aberdeen gathering will be the
largest asSemblage of old soldiers ever held
in tine territory.
When the contractor with his teams and
gang OF men PIT in an appearance to COM
mence work from La NOure south, on the
james River railroad, the venerable. staid,
forty-yearS editor, Hon. Waldo NJ. Potter,
now of the La MOure Chronicle, became so
enthusiastic that he went over to the work
and gave three times three rousing cheers,
all by himself.
The little town of Park River, in Walsh
county, expects to market the products of
40, 600 acres of wheat, a million and a
quarter bushels, and claims to be the
leading wheat point of its size in the world.
1t has five or six elevators. A grist mill is
needed there, but in most lines of business
the merchants discourage further compe
titiOn.
Hon. VI. II. Day reached his home in
Bon Homme county last week, and the
mail bags to Springfield are now unusually
heavy. He is reported to express satiSfac
tion with the situation at Washington, and
that it is but matter of time when Ziebach
will be governor and Mccormack marshal.
He intends to remove his residence to one
of the central counties.
The ambitious town of Napoleon will
not be found on any map, but it is the
county seat and only town visible in Logan
county. A store has been erected and the
county officials all quarter in that, using
empty barrels and boxes for seats and
desks. A surveyor is laying out the future
city.
The pulpits at Sioux Falls had arranged
for a simultaneous effort last Sunday in
favor of early closing of stores, especially
on Sunday. But 50 many of the parties to
be reached happened to be in the country
that day that the discOurseS were deferred.
Lisbon papers report that the pioneer
editor, H.S HaTcouTt, is going to the In
dian Territory to reside. He is said to be
OF Indian descent, and in the costume of
the aborigineS could not be distinguished
from them.
Hon. Jud La MOure Is said TO have paid
81, 800 for one of Fargo's fast horses on his
recent visit. He claims that his bears can
make mile in three minutes, and he wants
to keep up with them.
A woman in Pembina county lately re-
recovered 500 from saloOnkeeper who
sold liquor to her husband after she had
given him warning not to. There remany
wives i'll Dakota towns who can find profit
in this direction.
Hon. c. G. Williams, the late land
register at WatertOwn, recently lost
$1,000 barn by lightning, and had no in
Surance on it. Like all the land officials,
he picked up some choice lands.
The editor of the ST. John Journal has
stalks of timothy grown thirty-tive inches
from seed sown June 24, and well headed,
all in less than two months in the Turtle
mountains.
The q. AR. posts of the North are quite
generally arranging to be represented at
the reunion at Aberdeen Sept. 15 to II,
but the nearneSS of the encampment to the
time will reduce the numbers who will go.
Mrs. MattSOn of La MOure displayed much
courage in going down into well and saw
ing her three-year-old daughter, who had
fallen in, holding her till neighbOrs came
with ropes and drew them both out.
7. S. White of Fargo, with another rep
reSentative of Scotch capital, are looking
for point to open a bank in the Turtle
mountain region.
Carl B. Pinney, Fargo gallant, has
gone to jamestown, y. Y, where il is said
he will marry former Fargo lady, Miss
Wing.
Hon. Jud La Moure spent several days
III Fargo this week arranging, it is said, to
exhibit his trained bears at the encamp-
ment.
La Moure county has so far paid cents
each for %, 009 gopher tails. The crop is
not exhausted, but the county treasury is.
The Fargo Argus estimates the wheat
yield of North Dakota at Is, 500, 900, which
are larger figures than in any former year.
The jamestown Alert is assured that
trains will run on the James River railroad
by the middle of October.
Dakota watermelOns are now in market
in the lower counties. a-r.