St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-02-18

horizon of the north. The mirages OCCASION
ally seen from town mornings are phenom-
email wonders. Yorktown, Kimball, and
other towns are plainly Misunderstanding, rs
it were-in the clouds, and the spectacle is
grand to behold. The hills on the west side
of the Missouri river are also visible, and
afford the observer landscape picture, the
beauty of which cannot be described by pen.
Dakota Ne,cslets.
Mitchell is raising $500 for circulating
library
A board Of trade is being organized by
the live business men of Plankinton.
New boats and other attractions for visitors
and pleasure seekers will be had at DEVILS
Lake next summer.
The supreme court is holding its first ses-
sion at Bismarck. AS the law specifies
Yankton as the capital they still hold terms
there also.
The daily issue of the excellent Democratic
paper, the Signal, at Pierre, has suspended,
but the place still has two dailies and four or
five weeklies.
1t is believed that real estate in and about
jamestown will nearly double in value this
year. A large deal has lately been made
with st. Paul parties.
Lisbon has organizeda fine military com
pany, with the veteran and soldierly w. K.
Smith as captain. Elder II. s. Harcourt is
to be the chaplain.
The Albert Lea line has put most of the
Philadelphia speech of Col. Donan upon a
recent hanger. which is high compliment to
Dakots's fayorite and rainbow orator.
If the press of Dakota has influence, E. w.
Caldwell will certainly be appointed auditor
by the governor. Nearly every sheet in the
territory has joined in the call for him.
Judge Caldwell of Huron is gathering ma
terial for book on Dakota, which hewill take
to England to distribute, and establish an
emigration bureau there, in a few months.
Some of those who have kept observations
state that in five years there has been no
such protracted cold period in Dakota as of
late. There have been some colder days,
however.
= The Plankinton Aurora has changed to
White Lake and comes out squarely Demo-
cratic, with some change of management.
1t has been independent. A German edi-
ton will also be issued
j. D. Bloodgood, one of the leading society
and business men of Huron, has gone to
New York to secure a wife, and will take in
on his bridal tour the Inauguration, Florida
and New Orleans, spending several months.
The little town of Steele has established an
attractive reading room, and tits found to
be popular resort for the young men, and a
valuable institution. There are many towns,
some much larger, that would do well to es-
tablish like institution.
United States Marshal Allen returned from
Deadwood to Fargo byway of the new Medora
route and speaks highly OF it. But there is
not any special attraction in 300 miles by
stage such weather as of late.
Members Of the wealthy and industrious
community of Dnnkards or German Baptists
at Mt. Joy, Penn, arc coming to Dakota to
find location for q colony this spring. Sec
lions that want them should get on their
trail.
The jamestown Light guards now number
sixty men, and the local papers are enthusi-
astic over them. The officers are old soldiers,
and the ranks are filed with young men
selected with special reference to their shape.
Several newspaper men were rejected on ac
count of their awkward and scattering
make up.
A leading argument made for woman suf-
frage in Dakota is that great number of
women hold claims and property and ought
to vote as taxpayers. One of the speakers
in the legislature estimated that one in five OF
the claims are held By women.
II is reported that quite colony Of new
settlers from Roumania, on the upper Dan
ube, is on the way to locate in Foster county,
in the North. They are the advance guard
of a large immigration. They are regarded
as Il very desirable class OF settlers, and said
to be noted for large families.
Every Dakota town has been ready TO adopt
resolutions of coincidence and sympathy with
the storm ridden states OF late, and cheer
fully suggest that, aside from the absence Of
cholera in the atmosphere while the ice crop
was ripening, there has been the utmost
serenity and no storms, not even a small
blizzard even in this goodly land.
Plankinton has sent r. W. Welch to
Washington to work for the passage Of the
bill introduced by Delegate Raymond, doua-
ting a section of land adjacent to the town
for a reform school, 1t is expected that the
Bismarck legislature will make liberal ap-
preparation for it. Judge Edgerton is there
working for it.
The real estate men at jamestown nearly
all went into other matters in the fall, but
recently there are signs Of activity in land
and city property that indicate most pros
porous year. The prospect OF new railroad
OF two Is giving q rOseatc hue - anticipa
lions. It will be the metropolis Of the James
The Episcopal elurch at Valley City, about
which there is so much trouble, is probably
the finest edlice Of that denomination in
Dakota, is sef-sustainiug. and the wealthy
aud tony church OF the piac One of its at
tendauts remarked that it never meddled
with politics or religion, but that is evidently
an cXaggeration, when even clergy fight to
reach its communion service. Both sides
are under bonds for trial and 10 keep the
peace.
Batbgste in Pembiua county has recently
had q contribution to its population that ex-
cites special enthusiasm. Mrs. Turner Fad
den bad trinlets, all Weighing nineteen
pounds. Young Hoskins, OF the Sentinel,
having been married but few months, is
sued an extra over the event, and hand
some present is to be given the father. The
city council Is urged to keep standing pre-
mium of liberal amount offered as an en-
couragement.