St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-11-03
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terprises on their feet.
G. +. Vaandigham of Valley City, who has
special means of information, states that DR..
Mcconnell of Indiana. the father or Judge
Mcconnell, is confidential friend or Presi-
dentCleveland and had more than social mis-
sion in his recent visit to North Dakota and
intimates that his report will determine the
choice of governor and perhaps judge in
the bismarck district. The doctor visited
and consulted with the leading Democrats at
Fargo, Grand Forks. Bismarck, Wahpeton,
Valley City and other points, and manifested
peculiar interest in Dakota affairs, and it is
known, thinks the offices should be filled by
residents. Mr.. V. states that the delay i'll
appointing Il successor to Gov. Pierce is due
entirely to the inability of the president to
find just the right man--that he has offered
the position to two Dakota Democrats who
have declined it. Strange il true.
The claim of substantial Improvement in
financial and business matters in the Red
river valley and Fargo finds illustration in
real estate matters. In the Fargo land Office
the past week there were 92 quarter entries,
IA. 720 acres filed on, SO of them homesteads
and prescriptions, indicating actual settlers,
and 43 final proofs made. The registers
Office in CaSs county shows larger number
OF sales and transfers than for long time,
with an aggregate of $79, 800. Among these
was q section three miles from Fargo at
$4,000. The sales of farm lands amounted
in smaller towns $3.50.
1t is claimed that petitions were signed at
Watertown for the appointment OF Capt. Mar
rata as United States marshal upon the
understanding that he would make that
thriving city his headquarters. Bismarck,
jamestown, Fargo and various other points
are clutching at his coat tail and rendering
him the freedom of their municipality. Most
of them will be placated with deputies.
Delegate Clifford seems to understand the
art of advertising himself about as we'll as
Gov. Pierce. He likes to be interviewed, and
now has it given out that the president has
invited him to Washington 10 aid in preparing
that part of the message pertaining to Da-
kota. No doubt he will suggest the policy of
the administration.
1t is stated by observers that prairie fires
will not cross fields sown with clover or timo-
thy, as there is q green sprig at the bottom
that checks it. 1t is the dry buffalo grass
that the flames run in. AS the land is i'm
proved and tame grasses are grown this
scourge will be obviated.
Among the social devices by the ladies of
the churches in Fargo and Wahpeton to re-
plenish the treasury of the Lord and afford
pleasure are rainbow and pound socials. fancy
hat carnivals, knitting bees for gentlemen,
etc. But the chief and constant attraction is
the ladies' themselves.
young man arrived in Fargo day or two
ago with two ponies, one of which he had
ridden from Portland Or, leading the other
which carried his commissary supplies. He
left the coast Sept. l, averaged forty miles q
day and seemed to have enjoyed the trip
John Scott, an Englishman and brother-in-
law of Wri9htsOn the postmaster at Easily,
in the Pembina mountains, whose wife is in
England, lately attempted to cut his throat
with butcher knife but bungled the work
so he will probably recover.
Argus, is one of the guests of the Dakota
railroad commission in their tour this week
over the lines of the Northwestern railroad
in South Dakota These excursions are eX-
tremely popular with those who take them.
Capt. W. L. Sherman in Edmunds county
put up 200 tons of hay in July, but the rains
flooded the marsh and destroyed it. He then
put up fifty tons more and the prairie fires
took it. He is not bit discouraged, however,
but says he is gaining experience.
W. j. Hughes of Grafton is strongly in
dorsed for assistant United States attorney.
in place Of Murphy. the Illinois incumbent.
1t is claimed however. that the south should
have the assistant as MIR. Garland is from Bis
marck
Another carload of men and families have
arrived to join the Vermont colony in Ed
munds county. Every one of them will be a
missionary to convert those who remain in
the old rocky state to faith in Dakota.
A man lately died in Grand Forks county
of CHAMBERS, caught, it is said, 10y contact
with glandered horses, of which he had three
in his stable. 1t has been supposed by some
that the disease is not infectious.
Parties from Cavalier, Pembina and some
of the other extreme northern counties report
that the wheat this season was damaged by
early freezing to quite a serious extent.
Maj H. C. Green of Mitchell is the first
deputy appointed by Surveyor Taylor. He
has been assigned to the Turtle mountain
region.
Cavalier county will try to determine its
permanent capital at the election this week.
Langdon is a temporary arrangement.
Residents of Dakota for fifteen years speak
of the present fall as the most favorable for
work and enjoyment they have known.
H. E. Gibson and party of Mandan lately
killed sixteen deer and two antelope in the
Knife river country