St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-05-09

MUCH q low WCChS cSoO w p SiiAeeh ~
and fears some of his horses will go also.
Parties in Sargent county have grown the
Russian mulberry and hardy catalpa trees
from the seed. 1t will take much time to
determine exactly what varieties OF trees
and fruits are best adapted to North Da-
kota.
Bishop Walker held service in the new
Episcopal church at jamestown Sunday,
but did not consecrate it as there is still a
debt on it, and it is held that the Lord will
not accept divided ownership. 1t is a
nice house.
Work has commenced on the three-stOry
brick hotel, 100X150 feet, to be erected at
Dunseith. Only part of it will be COM
pleted this season. For town long ways
from railroad this is to be quite house.
The city has recently taken up the street
car track on one of the principal streets in
Fargo. 1t was laid in balloon period and
a little in advance of the needs. The first
line really useful will be between Fargo and
Moorhead.
The assessors in Pembina county have
decided to assess the best horses at $50,
mules $40, cows $50, sheep So, swine ~,
land from 81 to $3. These are hardly more
than half the figures in some other counties,
although all assess at full value under pen
atty of $500.
The Glendale Commercial says John
Haggerty of Keystone returned last week
from Minnesota with two cars of fine
young mich cows and thoroughbred
Holstein bull. Most of the local papers
record similar items indicating that the
farmers generally are engaging in stock and
dairy business and looking for the best
breeds of animals.
A high officer of the Milwaukee railroad
writes that the extension from Ipswich to
the Missouri river will not be greatly de-
layed, but nothing definite can be said until
after the meeting of the directors in June
Surveyors of the Rock Island have been
running near the south line of Edmunds
and Walworth counties to the Missouri
river
1t is believed that Pierre will lose much
of the Black Hills business as the railroad
extension from the south pushes up. Track
laying is going on at the rate of forty miles
month. When completed ninety miles it
is said that freight line will run to the
Hills, 100 miles, and it is possible that DE
Mores will build his Medora road down.
The Indians of the Turtle mountains
came into Dunseith last week with all 1.-THE
pomp and circumstance of aboriginal
pageantry and gave seance and war dance,
speeches, paint, feathers and horrible
racket generally They were not tuning
up to join Riel, but to attract attention and
draw out the people to beg from like the
hand-organ and monkey man. They were
about out of provisions and too lazy to work
they are not too proud to beg.
Park River, in Walsh county, expects to
have the largest elevator capacity of any
town in the North. Two are built and three
more are under way, with a lot selected for
the sixth. In that section there will be
cne-third more land in wheat than last
year; and it is expected that 1900, 900
bushels will be marketed there this year.
Farmers in Kidder county complain that
the s cents tail paid by the county for
gOphers is too much, as it pays the young
men better than farming, and they wont
work while they can hunt the little pests.
At the meeting of the county board last
week there was good deal of fun when
The siX-year-old son of Postmaster Bark
man of Steele presented three tails and de-
manded his pay. He received county
warrant for "a cents.
The Scranton Pioneer regards the infor-
nation as authentic that the railroad from
3ledora to the Black Hills will build seven
ty-fve miles this year. 1t probably de-
pends however, upon De Mores' success in
selling bonds in New York. This, it says,
will be formidable rival to the Northwest
ern building to the hills from the South.
The Rock Island and Milwaukee will not
be far behind it is thought.
Capt. Murphy, of the Grand Forks Plain
dealer, and Col. Jewell, of the Bismarck
Tribune, and some other notables have been
in conference at Fargo this week. Many
have supposed that some mysterious enter
prise in connection with the Riel affair was
involved, but it is learned that the rapid de-
velopment Of the Democratic party in the
North, as shown by the almost unanimous
vote for Democrats at Devils Lake, Bis
marck and Grand Forks, is causing much
apprehension, and as they were Democrats
in old times they are considering whether a
gradual return in that direction would not
be polite. 1t was deemed best to climb
upon the garden wall and take observations
for time.