St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-05-02

DAk OTA.
Dakota NeMsIefs.

Dr. richmond OF Roscoe has gone &c
Adams Mass, it is said to look Tor wife
Two OF the most eloquent Jesuit mission
aries will open a mission at White Lake,
June Z.
Tuesday some fifteen cars of horses and
mules, with Seventy-tive men, We're shipped
from Fargo to Winnipeg.
Raymond, in Clark county. is one of the
few towns without a bank One would
find good opening there
The Bismarck Tribune appeared in its
new panoply Sunday, and is now even
handSomer than before the fire.
The Fargo broom brigade give their last
entertainment in Moorhead Thursday
night. They will be mustered out of ser
vice then.
The past month there have been forty
nine poStoffices established i'll Dakota,
which indicates something of how it is set
Ting up.
The Chicago & Northwestern railroad is
about to plat an addition to Watertown OF
fifteen acres, which will soon be needed, as
the place is growing rapidly.
There is field for some missionary so
ciety at Dunseith. The Catholics have q
priest there, but there are many Protes-
tantS in that section and no preacher.
Two cars of fat sheep sent to Chicago
from Bon Homme the past week We're the
first of any consequence ever sent from the
county. 1t is rapidly developing crop
there.
1t is generally understood that the most
reliable information from Washington lndl-
Gates the Inauguration of a new governor
soon after the expiration of q years service
of Gov. Pierce, or about the 1st of July.
1t is rare to find a Dakota statesman who is
not an expert euchre player, but it is claimed
for Congressman Clifford that he has a rare
faculty for raking in the chips. He is well
qualified for diplomatic mission abroad.
Rev. A. r. Riggs of Santee has con-
Structed and owns telephone line between
that point and Springfield, crossing the
river. 1t cost him $500 and saves him
much travel in visiting some of his flock.
Karl Winter, the treasurer of Hutchinson
county, is visiting in Russia, and his friends
are glad to learn that the report that he had
been gobbled up as nihilist is untrue. He
rep ortS the war feeling intense among all
! classes.
Miss Fitz, the champion skater at the
roller rink at Fargo the past few nights, Is
resident of Jamestown who has just re-
turned from instruction at Chicago, and her
friends insist that her skill is only equaled
by her beauty.
1t is learned that the forces at Fort Tot
ten, on Devils lake, are kept constantly
ready for movement, although it is given
out that the half-breeds are not caring
much about the Riel war. The troops are
to prevent their going north.
The weather and ground have been per-
feet for seeding this week, and in North
Dakota the wheat is nearly in, with a
slightly increased acreage over last year.
The conditions and prospect for fine
wheat year could not be more favorable.
Recently the bodies have been removed
from the original cemetery at Bismarck
and out of fifty buried there ten were chill
dren, and the forty adults all died ''witf
their boots on" between 1872 and 1875.
That was the only way of filling graveyard>
in those times.
For the benefit of those settlers who dc
not want to take the chances of holding
their claims on the reservations in Potter
and other counties, they can find equally
good land, not much mentered but aban-
doned tree and homestead claims, and
moderate sum.
There is disposition among home-seek-
ers to go to the far West or North, as fol
instance, Devils Lake and Jamestown.
The papers insist that better land and bet
ter advantages can be had without pushing
to the frontier. This fact is apparent to
every town that sees the newcomers go
past them.
There is a speck of war between the
Methodist and Baptist pulpits at Jamestown,
growing out of the statement of the former
that the immersion brother drilled his can
didates before the public dipping. This the
latter Indignantly denies and intimates that
he is an expert, who is willing to compete
with any one.
The new brewery will furnish market
for 100, 900 bushels of barley. The i'm
pre- sion that river water only needs color
ing and little doctoring for fair beer is
denied by the Bismarck papers, which en-
plOy experts on the beer question. Book
beer day will be one of the great days
! there.
Brown county voted on the division two
| years ago and it was beaten TIA votes; al
the late election the adverse majority was
nearly 1000. The vote has increased il
two years from 1916 to over 1900. 1t is a
fine county, but has ambitious towns, and
most of them want to be the political me-
| trOpOliS.
Wagon loads of fish have been found in a
depression near Clear Lake, not far from
Dell Rapids, stranded by the receding
water, having forgotten to swim back in time
II fish are good brain food, they don't dis
play much consumption of them themselves
The presence of Gov. Pierce and staff
Maj. Warnock of the jamestown Alert
and a carload of less eminent editors and
statesmen from other points, gave great
eclat to the rendition of the daisy wal
drama, "Under Which Flag" at Fargo
Tuesday night. All were delighted will
| the performers and play.
Editor Warnock of the jamestown Alert
returned this week from months visit tt
Southern Illinois, and reports that in the
counties he visited the wheat is entirely
killed. This is too strong statement fol
all that section, however. His friends gave
him an ovation on his return.
The growth of the order of Grand Army
of the Republic in Dakota the past year has
been remarkable. There are now eighty
eight posts, comprising at least 5000 ole
soldiers. 1t is arranged that the census
enumerators will gather the number Of
veterans this year, and also the Confeder-
ates, of whom there are large number
A small colony from Browns Valley
Mimi, has located at or near Roscoe, il
Edmunds county. They intended to &C
further west, but like the appearance Of
things there. For town twenty miles be-
You'd railroad Roscoe is certainly prod
ICY. A colony from New Y ork is expected
there this week.
j. D. Pratt of Ipswich is among the frs
to secure desirable postoffice in Dakota by
the removal Of the Republican incumbent
The first was perhaps in the Republican
| editor at TNndall Cant Wilcox Now that