St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-05-04
spent several DAYS in Fargo last week, Civ

OLD continental, Iii which lie is greatly In
terested. 1t is hoped his efforts will make
the project materialize.
Gov. Ziebach's home, Scotland, has re-
Gently made up 5000 for an academy, to
be built this season. The governor is one
of the old pioneers, but strong friend OF
education and culture and has given liber-
ally to aid this movement.
Some of the papers in discussing the
reservation matter, note it as surprising that
Mr.. Day should have been able to reach the
land office at Mitchell the exact
day ON which President Arthur
signed the opening order. They think his
relations with the late. administration must
have been quite intimate.
1t is claimed that the railroad from Me-
dora to the Black Hills would be well under
way if the merchants in the Hills had kept
theirpromises to ship by the Northern Paci-
iic. The capitalists were discouraged by
their dropping off. Still there is an effort
being made to induce moneyed men to take
hold of it.
1t is not quite true, perhaps, that the
Dakota insurance companies employ
preacher to pray for hail. but few brisk
ilurries of hail, properly distributed, would
be quite little fortune to them. There is
large money for them in insuring crops
against hail, as they limit the amount in
locality so that only remarkable storms
could materially affect them.
The Canton Advocate estimates that
eight-tenths of the business men in Dakota
towns are under 80 years of age and COM
prise the quickest and best blood OF the
land, assuring it's development and pros
perity. The figures are rather too low, but
it is no doubt true that it is to remarkable
extent the land of young men, and young
women, too, though more of the latter are
needed
Petitions are being circulated in the North
for the appointment of Gov. Ziebach as
governor and generally signed by Demo-
Gratis. Mayor Mccormack OF Grand Forks,
Col. Benton of Fargo and Hon. ID. M. Kel-
leher of jamestown are active in the mat
ter. Gov. Il. made fine impression on his
visit to Fargo and the North seems to be
quite as much in his favor as the South. A
telegram from home required him to return
without reaching Bismarck. He proposes
to return at an early day.
Mr.. De Bell, at a recent farmers meeting
in the Sioux valley, urged special attention
to fruit culture He had found that all the
small fruits could be grown in abundance,
and as certainly as corn in that section. He
set out one of the first apple orchards in his
county, with 200 trees. half brought from
Illinois. The latter all died, but those grown
in Dakota are all doing WELL and most OF
them are bearing fruit 1t is extremely de-
sirable that early attention should be given
this subject in all parts of the territory.
The Devils Lake Inter-O Ocean thinks some
of the dispatcherS in North Dakota who
send sensational reports about aid being
sent to the Riel rebellion eXaggerate grossly.
There is good deal of willingness to see
the trouble go on, as it benefits Dakota, but
very few care to get near the scene of oper-
atiOns, and it is doubtful if Riel will ever
discover that his forces have been visibly
swelled by accessions from Dakota. Most
of the aid has been to the government side.
The editor of the Aberdeen Pioneer, who
has been boycotted by many of the bust
ness men, and had his forms pied by mis-
creantS, on account of his opposition to
county division, shows manly spirit, and
announces that he cannot be driven out, or
his paper crushed. The great majority of
| the farmers are with him, and are likely to
be embittered against the absurd actions
| tolerated in Aberdeen, and that place will
| suffer seriously, as well as fail to get the
county seat.
Col. William Thompson, the veteran
| Democrat and pioneer, was the first man to
enter a tree claim in the Bismarck district,
and he has demonstrated that with proper
care the law can be complied with on the
Missouri slope and forest trees secured. He
has in eight years fully half million trees,
some foot in diameter. The great need of
that region is trees, but few have patience
to produce them, as they have many obsta
cles to contend with, including all sorts of
animals.
The Mimic Journal relates that dudish
traveller, said to be named Cummings, from
Michigan City, captivated a foolish girl at
Grafton named Hanson, and they went to
Mimic and registered as Mr.. and Mrs. B. G.
Kelly of Michigan City. The next morning
he slipped away, leaving her. She applied
to justice stating her real name, and had
constable sent after him. He was cap
tured at Inkster and brought back. On
being brought before the justice he pleaded
not guilty, and asked for an adjournment
for a week to procure witnesses, and was
placed under bonds. He will, it is thought,
pay dearly for his Dakota lark before he
gets through.
One of the economical blunders of the
late legislature was in not making provision
for the Immediate publication of the laws
Parties interested are put to great deal of
| trouble to know what laws were enacted.
| 1t is found in several instances that impor-
| tant changes were made at the last moment
OF certain bills did not quite get through as
| supposed. For instance, one of the leading
| lawyers in the council was not aware that
| the time had been extended for certain le-
gal noUices, although himself on the judi
| ciary committee, and was put back in a suit
| and had the laugh on him in consequence
II. B. Blanchard Boston capitalist, is
| largely interested in the noted Grandin
| farm, which grows such an immense acre
age of wheat, but he expresses the opinion
| that the climate of the north is specially
| adapted to the raising of stock, and the
| farm is being gradually converted into
stock farm. 1t has already some of the
finest breeds of animals, especially short
horn cattle, Cotswold sheep and Berkshire
hogs The latter, Mr.. Blanchard says, do
better than in Iowa and Illinois. They are
not subject to so many diseases. One buck
raised on the farm, when two years old.
weighed 400 pounds and sheared twenty
| two and one-half pounds.
Sheridan Jones, the new superintendent
| of public instruction, lives at pretty little
| town, Olivet, five miles from a railroad. 1t
was the site Of some fighting when the
| Sioux had possession of Dakota, and the
| great chief, Lone Tree, was buried there on
suburban hill. Mr.. Jones says the scenery
would throw into the shade that of the Kill
| larney Lakes of Ireland, and adds that for
| hunting and fishing, Olivet is almost
paradise. The waters of the Dakota river
and Lone Tree creek TEEN with fish, both
large and small; birds of the snipe family
have their abode near the lakes and in the
meadows; ducks swim in the lakes and
river or feed in ravines, while prairie
chickens and rabbits abound everywhere.
The town is in the valley of the lower
| James.