St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-05-20
DAKOTA.
Dakota NewsIets,

| The county division scheme in Pembina
county carried by ninety-nine majority.
The handsome Methodist Episcopal
church at Grafton is to be dedicated next
| Sunday.
| st. Lawrence now has Democratic
postmaster, Mr.. Derfinger, by the grace of
Postmaster General Villas.
Col. D. M. Evans, formerly of the Phila-
delphia mint, is to deliver the Decoration
day address in Fargo on Saturday.
Hon. G. D. Austin, the handsome coun-
| Gilman of Lisbon, has been promoted to the
presidency of base ball or tennis club.
One of the staff of the Hand County
Press has time and agility to compete in a
ten mile roller contest for purse of $40.
A telephone wire strung between Fargo
and Grand Forks, seventy-ive miles. was
tested this week and worked WELL The
| telephones are in the depots of the Mani
| toba railroad.
The coroner of Walsh county held an in
quest over the body of Mrs. Mclaughlin of
Ardoch, who died very suddenly. The in
| dications were that she took poison to pro-
| duce death.
1t is thought that Attorney Martin Ryan
will be appointed clerk of the court at
Fargo by Judge Mcconnell, although the
| incumbent, N. G. Morgan, has given gen
eral satisfaction.
| The new roller rink at Grafton is to be
completed early in June and will be one of
| the largest. In most Dakota towns the
| skating fever has about subsidized. but it
struck Grafton later and will last longer.
The expert at YanktOn has made his re-
port that at depth of 154 feet the drill
| passed through six feet of good coal, and it
is thought capitalists will take hold of the
matter and test it's extent and value.
The annual concert given at Fargo Tues
day night under the direction of Prof
DenZer was one of the finest exhibitions of
amateur musical talent ever heard in the
place, and it is generally desired that it may
be repeated.
A telephone is to connect Winona, on the
the east side of the Missouri river from
Fort Yates, sixty miles south of Bismarck.
with Fort Yates, Fort Lincoln, Bismarck
and Mandan. The Winona region is being
rapidly settled up.
George S. Roberts Of Dawson, in Kidder
county, has tried sheep raising in that sec
ton two years, and gives it as his exper-
fence that there is no difficulty in wintering
them, and that money cannot be more
proftably invested in any one item on the
| farm.
E. V. Smalley, with his special car and
staff, spent two or three days in Fargo and
Moorhead, and on Tuesday went over the
| Southwestern branch to Lisbon and La
Moure. They gathered much material for
| illustrations of their sketches.
The majority in Day county for division
and the creation of the new county of Mar
II. e
Britton gave COS majority for the scheme.
as both will be county seats They voted
strong for their numbers as localities al
ways do when there is : county seat at
stake.
The North Dakota papers are puzzling
over the statement that wheat is to be
hauled by rail from Oregon to Chicago for
about 10 cents a bushel, when it costs
nearly as much to ship from Dakota to ST.
Paul. 1t is perhaps owing to the peculiar
climate.
! The Bismarck Journal says: All Dakota
newspapers are joined in commencing the
presidents selection of judge for the Fargo
district. Judge Mcconnell must be an eX-
ceptionally sound man, for the Dakota
papers will not agree when they can find an
excuse for difference.
INLAND county the Republican commit
tee have called party convention to nOmi-
nate delegates to the Sioux Falls conven-
ton. The friends of the state to be
erected by that body generally regard it as
bad policy to introduce party politics, as it
will have to run the gauntlet of Demo-
cratic congress and administration:
1t is expected that the military display at
Bismarck on Decoration Day will be the
finest ever seen in the territory. The troops
from Fort Lincoln will participate with
the local company, and probably one from
Mandan and Jamestown. The latter is to
give its military drama, "The Spy of At
lanta," that night.
The Cando Tribune, in the frontier re-
gion, in speaking of the surprise of one of
the newcomers from cultivated commu-
nifty in the East, says: Instead of meeting
when he arrived at his journeys end the
traditional half-hunter, half farmer, better
versed in the habits of 'spossumn and 81 arr
than in the usages of good society, he came
in contact with people as well dressed, as
intelligent. as well versed in the topics of