St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-12-16
DAKOTA DOTLETS.
News Notes of Ali Sorts From the
Land of No. Hard

| Land OF No. 1 Hard.
The man Stephens, in Cavalier county, who
was shot by Sheriff Hawks. died three days
| after. Before his death his sworn statement
was taken. He said that chattel mortgage
| for some S23 had been foreclosed. and he was
| hauling load of barley to Neche in order to
pay off the debt, when the sheriff overlook
| him and attempted to take the team. Hawks
held the horses by the head, when Stephens
| got out of the wagon and went toward him
! Hawks then fired at and fatally wounded him.
The general sentiment is that there was no
| considerable provocation for the shooting.
| 1t is only claimed that it was done to scare
| Stephens. Hawks is in custody and has ap-
pointed deputy sheriff.
Joseph La Per of Spring Lake, in Brook
| ings county, aged 80, lately induced Miss
Barnes, a miss of II years. to leave home dur
| ing the absence of her mother and marry him.
| When her mother returned, a few hours later,
| she fastened to the scene Of action, the resi-
dence of the groom's brother, and found her
truant child just tucked in her little bed, the
groom not having retired. She took the
| fourteen-year-old Mrs. from under the cover
! and home with her, regardless of the pro-
testations of the husband, who does not know
| just how to establish his rights as married
| man. He doesn't like to venture near his
mother-in-aw.
| In regard to the proposition to give the
Democrats one of the United States senators
to be designated at Huron, Mr.. Parshall,
prominent member of the last legislature
expresses the general feeling of the Repub biz
can politicians when he says: 1T is too
late in the day, Mr.. Day, for the people
! of Dakota to entertain any proposition to
bride Democratic administration to extend
| to US the conceded right of admission to the
galaxy of states"
Gov. Mellette cheers his fellow-workers with
| the opin Oh that in three months the state
machine will be in full operation, and he will
| he
| official crumbs 1t is also given out on the
program if congress adjourns without ad-
hitting the state to put its machinerv into
operation and attempt to exercise all the
powers of state, as it is claimed was done
In the case of Michigan. There is something
of menace in this to congress.
The iovial boniface at Chamberlain was par
alyzed last week to have his daughter. Miss
Minnie Bronson, one of the leading and most
accomplished society young laiies of the
| place. return from weeks visit to Iowa
| with marriage certificate. The lucky young
fellow is named Potter, merchant at Cam
| bridge. Wis. In spite of the reported eager
demand for wives in the territory, many eligi-
bic young ladies go away from Dakota and
marry, often without serious protest.
Mr. Crawf ford, the newly appointed post
master at Sioux City, in March 1854. proved
up claim in the Mitchell land district to a
| choice quarter section. which the land de-
partmeut has just had cancelled on the
ground of insufficient residence and nom
| compliance with the law. He swore that he
visited the claim once in thirty days. There
are thousands who have made the same sort
of proof as Mr.. Crawford.
Judge Moone of Cavalier county recently
Visited St. Paul in the interest of railroad to
us county, and was Informed by Mr.. Marvel
Of the Manitoba that arrangements were be-
| ing made to push north the Park River
branch some fifty miles to Langdon, the