St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-07-31
have been disappointed in not finding the
eagerneSs for wives expected.
Dakota NewsIets.

Dakota NeWsIets.
Parties are looking i'm the northern coun-
ties for locations for $50 families, who are
abandoning the Manitoba country in dis
gust They were in the region of the RieI
trouble, and were prevented from putting
III crop this year on that account They
complain also that when they did raise any
thing they had to haul il a great distance to
market and have had to sell wheat as low
as % cents. The Canadian Pacific. they
say. gobbles up the best land and imposes
all sorts of hardships upon settlers. They
see the folly of trying such remote regions
when free land is offered them i'm Dakota.
The young man who was picked up by
the railroad track near Sterling, H., hav-
ing fallen from the train on which he was
beating his way, and badly hurt, was Au-
/ gustuS Allen. an Englishman who had a
claim and wife near Blunt. Oak. He is
! graduate of Cambridge. England. but had
lost his money and went to Dakota TO make
a fortune. lie is said to have played the
double role there of nObleman and cowboy.
lie isnow in the hospital and talks of his
beasty luck, and wants TO get back to his
claim. which his wife holds.
The Rapid City Republican learns that
the Northwestern railroad has no intention
of building beyond that city for some years.
The track is 10 be laid forty-five miles by
Oct l, and the other fifty-Six by July l
next. Rapid City will evidently for some
years if not permanently, be the great rail-
road point in the Black Hills. 1t is not
probable that the other lines will allow the
Northwestern to have a monopoly of that
country very long.
Among the brightest young men admitted
to the bar at Fargo the past week was c.
] Han -
the GLOBE. Very naturally for a news
paper man, he has also frequently filed a
city pulpit He is singuarly versatile.
having also in amateur performances dis
played high dramatic aptitudeS. He will
locate in Fargo, and it is believed he will
go up many rounds of the ladder. where
Daniel Webster says there was always
! room.
Public meetings are being held in Grand
Forks TO secure the enforcement of Sunday
laws, and especially the closing of all the
doors of saloons on Sunday. Some of the
speakers assert that base ball and fishing
should be included. One of the movers in
the matter even objects To the regular visits
of newspaper men TO the brewery on Sun
day TO note the Improvements and sample
! the product.
There is much disappointment in Fargo
over the refusal of the Chicago, Milwaukee
d 81. Paul TO join the Northern Pacific and
Manitoba with a $3.50 subscription TO aid in
securing the military encampment. Since
the Fargo Southern was absorbed there is
much less interest taken in that line than
heretofore. and Fargo business goes more
TO other roads
Col. DOMAINS recent screed about the resi-
dents of Dakota. wearing buffalo robes i'm
shivering with cold, will hardly apply to
the past week or two. When the thermom-
eter stays in the vicinity of 100 several days,
II becomes warm weather even i'm Dakota,
but the nights are comfortable, at least out
doors.
Col. LounsbeTy has been appointed
chairman of the special board of civil ser
wee examiners, vino are TO meet Sept s. to
examine applicants for service under the
government. The fact that Col. l.. is Sc
lected for this position and the postmaster
at Fargo omitted is construed unfavorably
to the retention of the latter in Office.
The eXtravagant rates of insurance at
Milbank are, of course, attributed TO lack of
means of protection from fire. At public
meeting of citizens recently it was resolved
that an artesian well was the best recourse
and arrangements are being made to sink
one.
The blowing down of the electric tower
at Fargo by the storm Wednesday was a
disaster to some of the local reporters, who
are said to have never failed TO report visit
ors in town to ''bask in the rays of the
electric light"
Hon. NJ. III. Day, Capt. Mccormack and
other prominent Democrats have gone to
Washington to aid the president in making
selections for positions in Dakota. or rather.
to be convenient when he wants Informal
ton.
A small colony from Minneapolis has Just
located in Tower county, on Lake Snyder,
named after j. NJ. Snyder. the leader of the
party. They will send for their families as
soon as they can erect shackS.
LaMoure county paid out 50. 600 for
gopher tails at 5 cents each, and it was
thought a good investment. or would have
been had not the adjoining counties kept
up the supply.
Nearly all the Sunday schools at Fargo
joined in an excursion to Detroit lake
Thursday. They seemed to have a merry
time.
Nearly all the Dakota towns will hold
public exercises on the day of the burial of
Gen. Grant.