St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-01-15
DAKOTA& MONTANA
Collected and Forwarded by Telegraph
to the Daily Globe.
Fargo Special kilograms January IA, to the S
Panl Globe
NOrthtrestrr. Notes.

since the fire at Devils Lake city, July %
last, $50, 900 have been spent in new struc-
lures.
At La Moure the roller rink is used for
preaching on Sundays. No skating is allowed
during service.
large colony from the vicinity of Barn
ard, VT, will settle in the Bismarck region
in the spring.
Hon. Bartlett Trip is pronounced by his
friends the best lawyer in Dakota, and some
want him appointed governor
The Yankton militia also wants Sphinx
county to pay them, because they were will
ing TO go to the county seat war.
At the dedication OF Methodist Episcopal
church at Montrose, in McCook county, last
week, $3.50 was raised by the congregation.
A mass convention is TO be held at James
town January Il, to advance the movement
in the legislature TO secure an ''open wheat
market"
Tom Clark, former editor of the Centreville
Chronicle, is now running a saloon at Salem,
Oak. He is qualifying himself for an alder
man.
Judge Edgerton puts in some of his spare
time lecturing upon the sold and New
Washington or Washington under Arthur
and under Cleveland.
Grand Forks has an amateur dramatic club
which is giving entertain ments in superior
manner. Two or three leading actors are
stars of high magnitude.
Nearly $500, 900 have been paid the far
mers for fax marketed at Scotland, Bon
Homme county. 1t is good thing to fill in
the gaps left by wheat.
\ petition is being signed in Grand Forks
county asking the legislature to appropriate
$50, 900 for the drainage Of low lands in that
county. 1t will require big omnibus bill to
carry it through.
VIM. Root, of Wahpeton, went out to
Oregon TO look for a location, but has come
back satisfied that its advantages to farmer
are vastly inferior to those Of Dakota.
Vermillion, in Clay county, has the past
year shipped TO eastern markets 479.521
pounds Of butter and 142, 965 pounds of
eggs, showing that dairy aud ponltry inter
csts are becoming developed in south Dakota.
r. NJ. Evans, one of the regents Of the
university Of North Dakota, was married at
Mimic the past week, and the town turned
itself loose to do the people honor. The
board Of regents met yesterday and resoluted
their praises.
According to the record kept at Fort Tot
ten, on Devils Lake, for three years the aver
age temperature of the winter months has not
been more than ten below zero. In only one
month has the average been as low rs twenty
below
Reports like this from the Bismarck Blade
are extremely popular in Dakota at present:
J. A. surley, Of Emmons county, is in the
city; he came from Missouri to Dakota, and
SAYS he would not give one quarter section for
whole county in some parts of that ague
state.
The editor of the jamestown alert under
stands that Col. DOMAIN is about TO challenge
Senator Vest to duel on account of his
offensive epithets, and urges that a talking
match be substituted, in which ne believes
Dakota's champion will come off best.
The Pierre Signal, the Democratic daily, is
justly proud Of the fact that it has been
elected official organ Of Hughes county, but
is captious when 1t complains that parties
''are killing deceased cattle and selling the
meat around town" 1t no doubt thinks it
Is needless cruelty 10 kill deceased cat
tie"
Elder G. r. Hair, Of Fargo, lcctured at Lis
bon this week on Sermons in Stones" lie
is enthusiast both on the hard, practical as
well as poetic side of his subject, and has a
fine collection Of rare and curious specimens,
and his lecture was composite Of pathology
and humOr and very interesting.
The jamestown Capital says many of the
undertakers of Dakota are threatening to 90
out OF business unless business in their line
improves. Many Of the doctors have gone
to lecturng, farming or hunting Office. The
sections of several cemeteries report the
burials the past year not more than half
Of former years, and are becoming dis
couraged.
1t is claimed te be fact that the winters
In Dakota are becoming less severe AS the
country settles up and billiards. are hardly
more than tradition. A scientist in James
town regards them now as about as mild as
Illinois and Iowa, and when admission as q
state is effected and trees grown, he IS con
tdent they will be as enjoyable as those in
any northern state, If not more So
Col. Zieback. the veteran editor who is
proposed for governor, takes this view: A
lobby Of the wholesale merchants Of Mime
apolis and st. Paul viii work in Bismarck
this winter in favor OF the Dakota exemption.
These fellows will find out that they have
touched subject upon which the people OF
Dakota are very ticklish.
The lecture DR.. Robertson Is delivering
does not please all classes Of hearers on &C
count Of the lngcrsou tone OF the main argu-
mcnt. The doctor calls himself a Free
Thinker and regards the Christian religion as
the great bar TO progress. Some of his friends
are trying 10 persuade him to accept 8 prom
neut Office under Cleveland, bat the Dem
ocratic club is not enthusiastic in that direc-
ton.
The jamestown Art attributes the unusual
strength Of the lobby at Bismarck to the i'm
preston that sums from $500, 600 up are 10
be dispensed to promote and defeat certain
special legislation. The editor himself will
have frequent occasion to traverse the 100
miles to the river. He, however. deDrscsies
the suspicion ofintegrity in the third house.
Hot BLOOD
The BroOSings Se7'ino' explains: Dakota's
county seat WAITS only show the metilc Of
northwestern men. The fellows who leave
old home aud friends in the states are not
the gentle lamb ike men who sit sr4nirefv