St. Paul daily globe., 1885-02-03

were good Indians who were encouraged In
this way, having been industrious during the
last year. The crop on the reservation was
| II, 500 bushels Of oats and $1,000 bushels Of
wheat.
This statement gathered by theoHSierx
Falls Press indicates general fact as re-
CARDS Dakota that has much other coufrma-
tion: A st. Paul loan agent who has made
5000 mortgages on farms In the northwest,
| says that he has never lost dollar on Da-
kota loan, and that there has not been a year
in the past ten in which the interest was SO
promptly paid as 1t is this winter.
The Sully Watchmsn encourages the woman
suffrage movement in this, which finds no
dissent in any of the papers: The ladies are
going to tackle the Dakota legislature on the
suffrage question. That's right girls Go
for 'em and don't let up un til they say you
can vote We would rather march up to the
polls with good looking lady by our side
than in the company of an election bum
| mer. sses ~
Petitions are circulated for the appoint
ment of W. G. Judd as postmaster at Fargo.
He is a son of Hon. S. Corning Judd, of
| Illinois, a member of the Democratic ma
tional com mittee. and his standing will, it is
supposed, give the applicant fair show. w.
| G. has been a resident of Fargo several
years, is prominent merchant, and has aver
aged Democrat more than most now of that
| persuasion.
AS the gambling houses Of Fargo are sup
posed to be all closed, there is doubt what
the Canton News can refer to in this: The
members of the legislature saw the sights of
Fargo while on their way to the capital.
Judge West acted as generassimo, and
piloted the bows so that they safely mean.
| dered the ''ways that are dark" but the
''tricks that are vain" were ''too many'' for
some of the boys.
Col. J. D. Benton, a leading attorney and
Democrat of Fargo, has spent most of the
winter within easy radius of Albany, n. Y,
and gathered i'm IMPRESSIONS during his sojourn
there that have IL duced him, since his re-
| turn to become q candidate for United States
marshal. He is lawyer Of good standing
and has an imposing personal presence, in
fact, there are few men of more attractive ap-
| pearance and address.
Items like this are very popular In Dakota
papers. The Sanborn Enterprise says: Some
time ago a young man well known in this
section became disguised and dissatisfied
with hard times in Dakota. and departed for
that paradise lin his mind) for poor men,
Michigan, where he expected to revel in
wealth. Word has just been received by his
old neighbors that he is now saving wood
for the princely wages of thirty-fve cents
| per cord.
The Lisbon Herald and several other pa
pers strongly urge the legislature to grant
| female suffrage and make women eligible to
all county offices. In several counties they
make excellent superintendents of schools,
and Judge Smith has set the precedent of
appointing them clerks of courts bill has
been introduced comforting the suffrage, and
| II the ladies who favor it will send an effec-
tive and attractive lobby to Bismarck there is
| little doubt that it will pass.
! There is entire unanimity of feeling among
Democrats in Dakota in favor Of this policy
noted by the Wstertown Democrat: Anum-
Der of the leading Democrats of the territory,
notably John X. Wilson, are now in Wash
ington, and are urging the idea that Dakota
offices should be filed by Dakota men. This
| is right gentlemen, and We trust you will
succeed. If the president elect would only
bear this in mind, and make appointments
| from among our own people he will earn the
gratitude of the whole people Of the terri
tory.
The editor of the Pioneer In Walworth
county Is believed TO make modest mention
OF himself in the following under the per-
sonality of a cowboy. At all events, he has
been unable TO sit down for some time past:
| An inexperienced cowboy some days ago
concluded to go prospecting on one of the
snow covered hills. He had with him
copper pan. To expedite his descent he
thought he would sit down and slide part of
the way in the pan. But be discovered be-
fore he reached the bottom, that he had for
gotten TO remember that snow friction would
heat a copper pan seven times hotter than it
could be heated by fire, and there was weep
ing and wailing and gnashing of teeth.
If the Pembina Tribune is authority Peck's
bad boy has relative In North Dakota:
There is boy in Neche tha, should be killed.
Last Sunday he crawled under the sofa, and
when his big sister and her best young man
we're sitting as close together as possible,
rugged slip knot around their feet When
the old gentleman came into the parlor to
| look for cigar they thought they would
occupy separate pews. The young man fell
over the center table and Mary Ann sat down
on the floor with 200 10 the inch concus-
sion that dislocated her adjustable bangs.
The old gent thought Adolphus was drunk
and hit him with his cane sixteen times be-
| fore he could tear himself loose and fall out
OF the window. The match is declared of.
Some Of the Dakota papers attribute the
recent advance in wheat TO the effort TO In
duce the farmers TO continue to raise wheat
chiefly. The Glendale Commercial remarks
| In regard to It: We firmly believe the only
safe course 10 be q conservative one, and
such diversified farming as shall tend to make
each farmer raise the greater part of his own
vegetables, meat, milk, butter, eggs, poultry,
hog feed, ETC., and such surplus as he can
readily dispose OF In the home market. Un-
| ill we have free market for grain, and a
reduction Of the present extortionate freight
rates on staples, we are completely at the
mercy Of a vast combination, which will prac-
tically tax the products of our industry more
| heavily than is known elsewhere in the civil
lied world.
Monday night the citizens OF Neehe, on the
Manitoba border, gave Hon. Jud La Moure
grand banquet and ball over his notable vic
tory in securing his seat in the council after
the committee had unanimously reported
against him. II was one Of the most signal
triumphs of skill and 6nesse, and the ban
quet was a most enthusiastic and brilliant
affair. La Moure is personifcation Of the
the geuius OF that region, with the improve
ments of modern civilization. Neche Is one
of the few points where are seen the evil
dences of Red river pioueerism Of quarter
or half century ago. The half-bree1s come
in from the mountains with their two wheel
OK carts, which are put together like Solo
mons temple, without iron or the sound of