St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-04-18
Dakota Newslets.

new episcopal church just equipped at
| Jamestown.
Frank Palmer has been at ST. Paul this
week to get material to build hotel at
Fort Totten, on Devail's Like.
The Fay Templeton troupe scored great
success at Grand Forks the past week, and
will visit Fargo and other points.
A farmer near Ordway, in Brown county,
wintered 420 sheep and lost but 3. There
Is no doubt of the success of sheep in that
section.
Grand Forks now requires a license Of its
roller rink, and other cities are following
the example, not to the qualification OF the
management.
NJ. c. Drake, the agent of colony from
Dickinson in Stark county, about the
great stock ranges.
The bankers of South Dakota have called
a convention to meet at Aberdeen June ).
An association is to be formed for mutual
interests and protection"
THE jamestown branch of the Northern
Pacific will have the rails laid to Mime
waukon, On Devils Lake, this week, and
will very soon be opened for regular bust
ness.
j good deal of sorghum cane is being
produced in Hughes county, and party
has procured mill for making syrup
This is a new thing in Dakota and an eX-
pertinent.
The plans have been completed for new
hotel at Milbank to cost S12 600, new build
1ngS for creamery are assured, and Maj.
Evans, the new editor Of the News, is quite
a boomer.
Clarence Higgins of Dickinson while re-
turning from the Black Hills the past
week, discovered four buffOlOes near the
headwaterS of the Little Missouri and
killed one. 1t is very rare to see one any
where in Dakota.
The people of BrOOkingS endorsed the
course of their member of the council at
Bismarck, II. H. Natwick, who has been
severely critiSed, by electing him mayor
almOt unanimously. The town cast 1872
votes, which is much less than the full
vote.
Nearly all the denominations have at
tempted to organize a church at WilmOt,
the largest town of Roberts county, and the
rival town of Traverse now offers to send
missionaries. They were the headquarters
of the opposing forces III the county seat
war.
IlC pcOplc VI CduUOl dlltl nave
received encouragement from the manage
ment Of the Northwestern railroad that it
will at an early period extend a branch from
its Omaha line through those towns, giving
them competition, if there was sufficient en-
enlargement.
a large number of the young ladies of
Fargo have left the past week to spend the
summer on claims they are making. Most
e mt in, ,,fx o,,I
vegetables. Some of them go to the new
and almost uneXploTed regions high upon
the Missouri river.
a large number of the athletic young
men of Fargo have organized a gymnasium
and acrObatic club, with E. b. Ward as
president. Only those who can pass the
army examation are eligible. 1t is designed
to give public entertainment after time
as few circuses visit the country.
The Bismarck Blade says there are still
some in that land district who follow the
practice of taking up homestead claims,
living in town and hiring some one to hold
them down until they can prove up on
them. The land detectives should happen
around there.
The jamestown militia company have
received their equipment of Springfield
county seat wars or to protect the northern
frontier. They will meantime take part in
the rendition of the military drama of ''The
Spy of Atlanta"
The advance guard, 40 strong, of the 500
families of Hollanders that are to settle in
Campbell aud Emmons counties has
reached Ipswich. They are an intelligent
and useful class of people, mainly from the
Grand Rapids region in Michigan.
The Aberdeen Gun club lately had a
match with the Ipswich club and scored 40
to II in favor of the latter which is re-
garded as large feather in their caps
There are some fine shots in Ipswich One
of them, a newspaper man, lately killed
three large geese at two shots.
The jamestown Capital has information
that in case the Rock Island railroad is ex-
tended to jamestown the Chicago, Mlwau-
kee Il st. Paul will push north from its
terminus at Glendale and cross the North
ern Pacific at Cleveland. some twenty miles
west of jamestown. If the Stagnation in
railroad building is once broken several
roads will crowd to the north.