St. Paul daily globe., 1885-05-22
will end the effort to build railroad over

! field, has been given mail service run be-
tween ST. Paul and Fargo.
| Several antelope have been killed neal
New Rockford the past week. 1t is 9
somewhat rare but choice game.
The Democrats of Sphinx county meet
| Friday to determine what attitude they will
take toward the Sioux Falls convention.
Hon.. G. Wellington of DEBORAH, Ia, is
an aspirant for United States attorney Of
Dakota and has strong support in his OWE
| state.
| The sale of twenty sections of railroad
land near La Moure to one man has started
| boom in land there, and soon there will
| be none left in that county.
| jamestown has reform board that does
not encourage amusements. Sells circus,
next month, is charged 800 license, and ii
is proposed to assess the roller rink 5000 a
year.
Russia in Europe and Russia in Asia will
hereafter be supplemented by Russia in Da-
kOta. The large section on the Missouri
slope being settled by Russians is called
Russia.
The Vermont colony will soon come on
with a special train, and the inscription on
the cars, vermont colony for Edmunds
county, Dakota" 1t is claimed that they
represent over million dollars.
A Devils Lake paper mentions that one
of it's bright young ladies, having missed
the stage, made the trip to Dunseith on
foot. It was nearly 100 miles, and shows
the pluck of the young lassieS there.
The Farmers Mutual Insurance company
organized in Ransom, takes in about all the
farmers in that and Sargent counties, and
unless some general disaster should occur,
will save them great deal of money.
One of the schemes to bring new. papers
into notice is to employ some one to bring
libel suits for fabulous amounts. A new
paper at jamestown has asS10, 600 suit. and
several others are investing in this way.
A great deal of young stock has been
shipped from South Dakota to Montana.
Most Of it is taken by rail to Glendale and
driven across the country to Jamestown or
some other point on the Northern Pacific.
The Ipswich Tribune quotes Gov. lie
bach as stating that when appoi nted gov
ernor he will work for the admission of Da-
kota as one state From his location it has
been supposed he was in favor of division.
Miss Katie Carson, & sister-in-law of the
noted Chicago statesman. Aid. Dixon, is
improving a choice claim near Ipswich.
hdltlCo VI oaC liiS uCOO oOdllull5 Ou1ouAS Y
in the cities find romance and profit in this
life asi9
The president of the Farmers elevator at
Melette claims they paid from to cents
more for wheat the past year than was paid
in other towns about, and still made so
much money that the stock has doubled in
price.
A corps of doctors and attendants have
11, 10 oh If
the patients to the new insane asylum at
jamestown. They are to be taken through
without change Of cars, by way of the Fargo
Southern.
The men who were to erect a fine mill at
Kimball, in Brule county, expected to find
plenty of water at 220 feet, but got none at
$50, and have gone East very much dis
gusted. 1t is expected they will return and
try again, however
Col. Richardson of the Valley City Times
has been out to the Duluth region the past
week, to look over the newspaper field. He
is a devout churchman and wants a loca-
ton where peace and Christian love congre-
gate about the affairs, as he expresses it.
. Capt Dan Marratta was interviewed a
day or two ago and said the marshalship
was the only position he cared for, and he
| did not want to be regarded as losing sleep
over this. He dislikes to have it thought
he was candidate for governor even one
day.
The law passed by the legislature reduc-
ing the salaries of the register of deeds and
| treasurers of Brown and Grand Forks coun-
| ties, is to be tested in Brown. 1t fixed
salaries at from 81, 500 to SO, 900 with clerk
hire, and of course does not pay as well as
n ha lori c1ofio ic
a decided nuisance and will no doubt be
provided against when state constitution
is formed.
Benjamin Glasgow of Hull, England, the
representative of the foreign loan company
that has $4 1000, 600 invested in the North
west, after going over most of Eastern Da-
kota, visited the Black Hills, and Rapid
City is proud of the fact that he bought
fourteen lots there, the only property he has
bought on this side OF the water. That is
undoubtedly one of the most promising
towns in the territory.
Among the special acts of the Legislature
was one requiring the county funds OF
Grand Forks, averaging about 5000, to
be deposited at whichever banks will pay
most. A Larimore bank took $4,000 at Z
per cent, and other banks the rest at pei
CSlt. LIS Will lllSthC ONCl pl, SOO lOl tilS
treasury year, and the banks that have
been using the money free don't like it.
The Flandreau Herald recently had an
excellent illustrated description of that
town, which it calls the gateway to Da-
kota. Gateways are numerous. 1t is a
prosperous and will be an attractive city in
few years, as the citizens have shown
good taste in setting out trees. 1t claims
rOn11iatior, arH hoe ifc
inventory five churches, two of them In
dian, two public libraries, five graded
schools, two excellent newspapers, the
largest military company in Dakota, and
early promise of one or two more railroads.
There has been no formal declaration of
the position the Democrats will take in re-
gard to the Sioux Falls convention and
division, but some inference may be drawn
from the utterances of the Sioux Falls
Argus, the leading daily of the party in the
South. 1t speaks of the convention as a
s'jOb lot of political children" who will
amuse themselves blowing bubble, and
says: 1t is found that the reasons for the
division of Dakota are no better than could
be presented for the division of Texas, Cali
fOrnia and other states, and if division is to
be made at all the forty-sixth parallel is no
longer the favOrite line. 1t is seen that the
East and West are quite as popular as the
North and South: and there is strong SEN
timent being developed favorable to three
states if a division be made.
East-BOund Passenger Rates.
Special to the Globe.
CHICAGO, May 21.-The adjourned meet
ing of the passenger agents of the Eastern
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