St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-12-26

were given free dinners and lunch. wnlcn
shows that Grafton has live set of business
men.
Should all the delegates provided for in the
call attend the Fargo convention In January,
1t will be the largest delegate body ever con-
vened in Dakota. There are seventy counties
named, besides nine in Minnesota, with dele
gates from one to fourteen each. A good
many of them are unorganized aud unsettled,
and must send Indians or buffaloes II repre-
scented. As the Dakota matters pertaining
to division and statehood are put for the first
day, some apprehend that this will prove
somewhat of a dynamite feature, and should
the representation be general, this SUPPOSE
ton would be emnently reasonable.
Mr.. Ed Curtis, who has just returned to his
old home in Massachusetts to spend the Win
ter, is a representative man. He still owns
one of the finest farms in the East, but came
to Dakota two years ago. and, with his
brother, bought ACC acres OF choice land.
They harvested the past season 5000 bushels
OF grain, and he says he can make S4 in Da-
kota easier than 81 in Massachusetts,. He is
enthusiastic over Dakota, and it is expected
that scores of his old neighbors will return
with him in the spring.
While some papers criticise the omission
of Dakota in the presidents message others
regard it as judicious to leave the matter en-
tirey to congress without suggestion. 1t
would have been difficult to say anything eX-
C6pI TO reproduce STATISTICS UudC WOulu nave
satisfied all the elements.
A. W. Cobb. after his extended examina-
ton of Dakota lands. was so pleased with the
Missouri river region that he bought 5000
acres of the Northern Pacific in Emmons
county and will send out a settler in the
spring for each quarter section. Mr.. Cobb,
in published statement pronounces the
lands in that county the best open to settle
ment.
Commissioner Sparks will furnish business
for large corps OF attorneys If he pursues
the policy indicated in his letter to the
Mitchell land officers of Dec. IA, in which he
proposes to nave suit commenced against
parties who have secured patents by fraudu-
lent means.
The Redfeld Dispatch says the removal of
Judge Smith to his old home in Iowa was the
work of his frieds who were satisfied that his
mind was unbalanced and that he needed
Quiet and careful attention for time. 1t is
hardly probable that removal from office was
the only cause of his mental disturbance.
Ill health and over work have no doubt had
effect.
James Collins, one of the most popular
young merchants of Ipswich, has gone to
West Rush, N. Y, to spend couple of months
looking for material for wives for himself and
a half-dozen of his friends. He is expected to
bring back bevy of young ladies.
delegate GlHOfQ writes TO MS nome organ,
the Canton Advocate, in the most hopeful
manner in regard to Dakota measures at
Washington. He assures the people of Da-
kota that this neck of the new West is looking
up among Washington Democrats and that it
will be Dakota winter in congress. He feels
confident after talking with MANY influential
members that this will be very important
session for the territory, but he fails to ex-
press any decided opinion as to the fate of
the south state.
The friends of the Irish cause are worked
up to high pitch of enthusiasm over the
fervid and eloquent speech of Gen. Allen at
the Land league meeting Tuesday night 1t
was not known that the city had so brilliant
an orator.
George Suess. who was sentenced to the
penitentiary about three years ago for rape
on a twelve-year-old girl, has been pardoned
by Gov. Pierce. He was sent up for twenty
five years.
Judge Mcconnell had granted an injunction
prohibiting an election in St. Thomas on the
question of incorporation, but as the notices
were out the judges went ahead and took the
voieS and declared the result just as if the
judge had not put his foot down.
Miss )oheney went from Grand Forks to
Devils Lake three years ago and now returns
with the patents Tor $50 acres of good land
near Fort Totten, according to the Plain
dealer. There are few men even in Dakota
who could prove up on three claims in three
years. This lady now has snug little for
tune in the land and by holding it a few years
can get handsome figures for it.
Watertown has a home minstrel troupe
that it is justly proud of. 1t contains some
voices superior to the average of profes-
SIGNALS, and it is expected that they will take
a circuit of the central region.
Judge Smith has returned to his home in
Iowa, and it would be difficult for him to
establish residence in Dakota, still he does
not resign the Office of judge under the
Huron state machine. The duties of the
position, however, are not likely to require
his personal presence.
Terence Martin, one of the leading candi-
dates for the Fargo postofice the past week
sold his handsome residence to Attorney
Clapp for Sl0,500. Some infer that he hes
abandoned expection that Col. Tyner will be
removed from the postoftice.
Marshal Maratta has been looking about
Fargo the past week for a residence. but will
not remove his household there for some little
time.
A party of pilgrims from the Turtle mount
aims lately arrived in the Black Hills, having
made the journey in three weeks with the
vehicles known as the Red river CARTS only
found in that region and in the service Of
the Hudson Bay company, the wheels of which
are about five feet in diameter and the felloes
bound with stout rawbide to prevent the
swapping of the iron in the severe cold.
Col Thompson, the Bismarck pioneer and
Democrat, who has just returned from q
soiourn at Washington, is more than willing
to view the recent appointment of Gov. lie
bach to a land Office as an unfavorable show
ing for Hon. NJ. H. Day as a recognized Da-
kota authority at Washington, but this is not
the opinion of the friends of Mr.. Day. Their
information is that no man from the territory
iS consulted nv the admin ration
Since the river froze up wood sells at 81 a
cord. which does not indie ate extravagan
rates for fuel.
Many of the Dakota papers now run the
Louisiana advertisement. but one of them
has had 500 to pay on account of something
SAID 10 the statute book.
The editors of the county were appointed
committee to test the artesian well water at
Kimball, and after several experiments with
it they agreed that it was free from PERM
cious qualities. and 'resembled a beverage
they had some acquaintance with.
Plankinton is trying to secure an artesian
well since the remarkable success at Kimball
and Columbia.
Clifton, in Sully county, has lately been ia
vored with beautiful mirages, the buildings
at Fort SullY, twenty miles away, being dis
tinctly visible.
The Grand Forks Plaindealer, which has
moved toward the inviting opening for a
Democratic daily in the North, so far as to
see no difference between the parties so far
as Dakota is concerned. claims private ad-
vices from Washington that the removal of
Gov Ziebach from the field settles the COVER
norship in favor of Col Benton of Fargo.
The information is regarded as reliable as
the average of reports on the subject.
The bill reported from Washington dividing
the Fifth judicial district into three districts
meets no objection. but there is urgent need
for district in the North, west of the Mis-
souri, river. There is an extent of country
there about the size of Pennsylvania that has
no court west OF Mandan, and people have to
travel hundreds of miles to court. There are
nineteen counties rapidly settling that have
but one place of holding court.
In the great majority Of the tree claims in