St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-05-12
Dakota News1ets.

attend session, of the supreme court.
A camp meeting on large scale is being
arranged for in Lincoln county in June.
Yankton is looking for some more dur
able material than wood for its sidewalks.
Asphalt is spoken Of
Ipswich has just erected fine skating
rink and inaugurated it last week with a
general run on wheels.
A farmer in Lincoln county claims tc
have discovered that flax seed eaten by
stock is fatal to them.
The papers in all sections speak of the
early-sown wheat as growing finely, and
from one to six inches high.
The Daily News at Devils Lake has re-
tired for year, leaving the field to the
Inter Ocean. 1t will continue as weekly.
The annual meeting of the Dakota Cen
trail Association of Congregational ministers
and churches will be held in Volga May II,
1885.
The past year 101 final proc fs were made
in YanktOn county. Probably most of them
were tree claims, as it is one of the Oldest
counties.
AS result of the efforts of Bishop Hare,
Episcopal churches will be erected at Mad
iSOn, Howard and WoOnsocket, in the cen
tral region.
The thriving town of Parker offers
81, of its gilt-edged water bonds for
sale. Some newspaper man would do well
to take them in.
The Russians who have been stopping in
the more southerly counties are pretty
much all moving further north, as they want
cooler climate.
The term of Surveyor General Fessenden
expires this month, and there seems to be
no doubt that Taylor of the Dakota Herald
will succeed him.
Parties in Faulk county are experiment.
ing with trees that do well in the high lati-
tudes OF Russia that are much colder and
drier than Dakota.
Careful observers in the Sioux Falls
region for several years have decided that
corn is the most profitable crop for that sec
ton and will plant largely this year.
The buildings burned at jamestown on the
9th will. no doubt, be all replaced by better
ones this season and the place will not
suffer, still it is having liberal share Of
fires.
Judge Francis prOnOunceS the act of the
legislature unconstitutional providing way
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was tried for shooting man and the jury
disagreed.
About Blunt, in Hughes county, there is
a third more land in wheat than last year.
1t is the increase in new sections that will
make up for the shortage in the older set
tied sections.
Sheridan Jones. the new school superin-
tendent has returned from Chicago with a
new cylinder press for his paper at Olivet.
He owns most of the townsite and fills sew
eral lucrative positions.
Superintendent Graham of the Northern
Pacific road visited Minnewaukon this week
to hasten the completion of the jamestown
branch to that place. The rails are almost
to the suburbs of the city.
Several kids who ran away from Madison
to go west and become cowboys, armed
with pistols and butcher knives, have been
gathered in on the way and escorted home,
blighting their heroic careers.
Efforts are being made to secure test
case in court in regard to the rights of the
settlers who took claims on the reservations
opened by order of President Arthur and
closed by President Cleveland.
In the older and diversified sections of
the South, dealers report that farmers gen
orally have paid their debts, and have
money, hogs and cattle left This will
soon be true of all parts of the territory.
There is some nervousness at Deadwood
over the discovery that no title has ever
been issued from the government to any of
the lands upon which the city stands.
There is promising work for the lawyers.
If the storm that struck North Dakota
Thursday had been month OF two earlier
it would have passed for the nearest biz
card known for a year OF two, but the snow
was too damp to blow much and melted
rapidly. 1t was good for the wheat and
gave visitors a chance to see what the ele-
ments can do, if they try, in that section.