St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-07-06
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ings commencing at Big Stone lake July z.
Col. butcher. of the Raymond Gazette,
has returned with the bride he secured at
Columbus, Wis, and his paper shows inn
prOvement
The Faulk Radiator reports that Treas
urer Seimer of Hope township IN that
county has abSconded with 500 TO 5000 of
the township school funds.
Little Shell. chief of the Turtle Mountain
Chippewas, has hauled several loads of buf-
falO bones down TO Minnewaukan. The
example is a good one for his tribe.
1t is claimed that the Pettigrew ticket was
left in the recent nominations for the con-
ventiOn at Sioux Falls. He is dubbed the
''pickerel statesman" by his opponents.
Apple and plum trees at Milbank, in
Grant county, are loaded with fine fruit,
the trees being set out in 1881. Ever
greens in that section also are doing well.
Dunseith had the first Fourth of July
blowout ever celebrated i'm the Turtle noun
tains. There is as much patriotism per
capita there as in any quarter OF the re-
public.
Some of the Russians in the Edmunds
county settlement claim that they can't
drive the American oxen they bought, as
the animals do not understand swearing in
Russian.
The survey is being made for branch
railroad from YanktOn to Centreville, in
Turner county. The business men of
YanktOn are pushing it, and will build 1t
this season.
Judge BroOkings has given the Yankton
band a 0uitclaim TO the $500 he had paid
out for their instruments, and they will do
their best TO blow him into congress when
state is admitted,
A man with his wife and three children
arrived I'm one of the central counties and
took a claim, coming all the way from New
York on foot, pushing u handcart contain
ing all their goods.
A. B. Bryan, one of the prosperous
young business men of Sioux Falls, was
married July 1, to Miss Clara K. Stevens,
belle of Clinton, Ia. They will be at home
TO their host of friends July 10.
Mai. Kinne, the Indian agent at Yank-
ton. appointed by President Arthur, has al
ways been a Democrat and it is believed he
will not be removed, as he is regarded as an
excellant man for the position.
Col. Plummer. the popular orator and
editor of the Bismarck Tribune, has been
invited TO the editorial staff of one of the
journals in the Red river valley. and, it is
believed. will accept the position.
A delegation of some fifty prominent
farmers from New York state is soon to
visit the Sioux Falls region with a view to
investment. Many of them will no doubt
find new homes in that inviting region.
s. Dunlap. the immigration commissioner,
has information that q large number of
Kansas farmers will remove 10 Dakota on
account of the failure of crops there. He
has deluged them with Dakota literature.
PickpOckets reaped a harvest at the
Sioux Falls tournament. Scores of the Wis
itOrs contributed their watches and pocket
books. One Canton man lost $50 and had
to depend upon his friends to see him
through and home.
The military company at Yankton is the
only one from the South assigned to the
First regiment, Dakota militia, and the one
at Valley City the only one in the North at
tached to the Second regiment They will
try to change places.
One who has made thorough test claims
| that the yellow locust of the Pennsylvania
mountains is the best OF all timber to grow
| in Dakota. 1t will grow fifteen feet in two
years from seed, and in seven years makes
excellent fence posts.
The AdventiStS had a very successful
camp meeting at Sioux Falls last week, so
/ far as attendance and interest are con-
cerned. The fact that Dakota is so fine 4
/ type of the ideal land, however, tempeTs
their zeal for translation.
! The Presbyterian church. which was re-
| Gently so badly damaged by hail at Ellen
| dale, has been taken down. Deacon Pugh.
the popular banker and statesman. will see
! that a much larger and more substantial
| edifice is put up in its place.
! Mayor Johnson of Fargo in an interview
/ denies that ne intends Is resign on account
| of the unpleasantneSS with the council. He
SAYS he should do so if he consulted his
| feelings only. but it would not be treating
right those who elected him.
The Indians in the SlssetOn reservation
showed their civilization by their eagerness
/ 10 go TO the circus when at OrtOnville.
| They sold wood, pipeStOne goods and trim
kets. and some of the bucks would have
sold their squaws to get there.
George w. Cass, the New York capitalist
takes great pride i'm the county which bears
his name, and which he did so much to de-
velOpe. The past week he took S10,0 900 of
/ its bonds at premium of "a per cent lie
offered As for SIS, 900 more.
Fargo recently had what the enthusiastic
local chroniclerS called a champetre, where
/ fairies and hours dealt out the viandS in
! III a way ~ N-NOAAC tAAN civ =
/ of the gods and gOddeSses. 1t was a church
moonlight lawn festival, mosquitoes free.
The scattering showers OF hail the past
/ few weeks were perfect bonanzas to the in
| surance companies. If their agents prayed
| for them, as some allege in one instance.
l the advantage of having officers like Judge
/ Fry. who are strong in prayer, is manifest.
The Glendale Commercial says the CEN
| sus people can't find over 3, 800 people in
/ that county, although the estimate was
near 5000. In some instances, however,
the figures are beating the estimates. On
the average they will show considerable
shrinkage.
] Now that Minnewaukan has the railroad
/ open and regular trains three days in the
week. it is happy, and will at once have a
40, OO0-bushel elevator and regular
preacher. 1t proposes to compete with
Devils Lake for the trade of the growing
country west.
Gov. Ziebach, whose opinions as the
coming governor are of value. expresses the
view that the government should adopt the
policy of placing the Indians on small res
ervations, compelling them to take land in
severalty, and surrounding them with civil
lied people.
The PRESBYTERIAN church among the In
dams at Flandreau has 100 members, and
the eleven churches of that denomination
have T54 communing abOrigines. AT the
one on Devils Lake the work has been
done entirely by Indians. They use the
Sioux language.
Some So, 900 to $4,000 was paid out in
one day recently at VermilliOn for cattle to
I'LL an Indian agency contract 1t is esti-
mated that 500 cattle and 5000 hogs have
been shipped from that section the past