St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-12-05

There are scores of places in Dakota where
there would seem to be fine openings IOr
-four mills. One at Faulkton in Faux county
would have a scope of good wheat country
twenty miles on the east and sixty west to
the Missouri river. A farmer in Griggs
county states that Valley City, thirty-fve
miles south, is his nearest milling point.
There are good many farmers in that Sec
ton who have late wheat frosted. The ele-
vators will only take it as rejected, but 1t Is
claimed that it makes as good -four as any
wheat. They lack means to utilize it.
The receipts of the Eastern railroads are
now being swollen by the haul of Dakota
statesmen to Washington. They will throng
the federal city and many will camp there for
prolonged siege. The reserves will come in
after the election of senators at Huron, and
Dakota will be kept at the front there. The
bulk of them will be noisy and persistent adj
vocates OF the division and South state
scheme, as they generally hold Offices depend
ent upon admission. Those opposed or indlf-
ferent will mostly stay at home.
One o. G. Berge, who used to sing in the
choir in Minnesota town, now sings in Jail
at Minnewaukan and probably will abide in
the penitentiary few years for exercising
his gift for filling his pockets with that which
belonged in other pockets. Hc was doing
thriving business in a small way before inter-
rupted. He confessed to grand larceny, the
penalty OF which is eight years.
The suicide of the old farmer, E. P. Erick-
son, near Salem seems to have been caused
by modification at having been placed in con-
finement over night, as he had INDUCED in
drink too freely On coming to town. He pro-
cured strychnine and took it mile out of
town on his way home, where his son found
his body. He was an Industrious man, with
family and property.
1t is estimated that nearly three thousand
settlers have come from Manitoba and located
on the Mouse river since the census was taken
in June, and still larger numbers from the
early summer is now believed TO be not less
than eight thousand. That is q choice farm
ing as we'll as agricultural region.
Several loo alities will watch with interest
the result of the suit for $4,000 brought by
Brown county against Aberdeen to recover
license money paid to the city and which the
county claims. Canton thinks that $500 col
lected in that city from saloons should 20 to
the city and not county, and there are other
cases.
1t is assumed by the Prohibitionists in the
South that their 1923 majority has definitely
settled their hobby whenever a state is ad-
mitted, whether under the Sioux Falls con-
stitution Or another. They are jubilant over
the claim that it will be the first state ever
admitted with prohibition.
The pioneer settlers of Eddy county,
at New Rockford Dec. 2, and Hon. Mark
Dunuell is to picture the hardships under
gone in coming to that country in palace
cars. Mr.. Dunnen expects to open his bank
there this week.
Last spring oats were so cheap in the North
that farmers failed to SOW much and as re-
suit not enough was grown TO supply the local
consumption; the figures are going up and q
large quantity will nave to be shipped in. 1t
will be good deal like shipping wheat for
-four to the wheat belts.
A great deal Of credit is given Mrs. Marietta
Bones the noted suffrage orator and cham
pion of Webster. for recently routing the
confidence jewelry swinders on their visit to
that place. She had them arrested and fined
Most Dakota towns have been infested Of late
in that way.
Hon. II. 8. Oliver, the granger statesman,
is fortunate man. He marketed his W heat
recently, and not being able to obtain q grade
above No. Northern at Lisbon. shipped to
Duluth and got No. hard, gaining 81 cents a
bushel. A good many others will follow his
example.
A wedding at Lander, in the Black Hills
region, Is recorded in this way: Big Charley
and Meeteetse Nance were married the other
day on Owl creek, the first wedding in that
section. The ceremony took place in a COW
corral, and it Is said that the bride had to be
hobbled.
There is good deal of bitterness about
Deadwood and other towns in that vicinity
over the aclion of the county commissioners
in raising the liquor license from $3.50 to $500.
1t is claimed that the chief result will be to
raise the price of some drinks from one bit to
rs cents.
The Ipswich Tribune has published list of
all the eligible bachelors of the place. with a
bunch of tafy for each, and is following it
with the marriageable young ladies, and their
points. The life insurance companies now
regard the editors risk as extra-hazardous.
The farmers ere endeavoring to organize a
STOCK company to establish an independent
system of elevators along the Manitoba rail-
road in the northerly counties to compete
with the present ones, which they allege are
in the interest of the Millers' association.
@. @. Nichols, man of some note and
standing at Bookings, has been placed under
$500 bonds to appear at court and explain
why he signed the name of another citizen,
Thomas Bigger, to various legal papers. His
course is surprise to his friends
]. G. Madland, one of the pioneers at
Fargo, remembers that in 1877 the winter
was open, with little freezing till after jan
uary-Such as has been had so far this sea-
son. There is no apprehension, however,
that the ice crop will fail to mature.
1t is given out upon authority accepted as
reliable that the Milwaukee company has de-
ClU0u W Uullu u0AG year IFOu OrIOQVllie TO
Egan, from Defiance to Sioux City, from Scot
land to Mitchell and from Chamberlain to the
Black Hills.
Ex-Gov. A. J. Faulk and wife the past
week celebrated the first half century of their
welded life at Yankton. The governor is ~
years of age, and he is remarkably vigorous
for man celebrating his golden wedding.
The Walsh county farmers have just re-
ceived a very fine Short-horn bull from Presi-
ant h1If fhau cfi 1irr1y
should give their agents equal show with the
elevators IN the shipment of wheat.
W. S. Girard. at Caledonia, after danger
ously cutting Nels johnson, fled across the
river on the ice, breaking through and get
ting cold, but was caught and lies in Jail in
default of $500 bonds.
1t is noted at Sanborn that in place Of hav-
ing to buy. as heretofore, poultry hogs, but
ter, eggs, etc., the wheat growers have them
to sell, and the cost of living is greatly re-
duced.
The statement going the rounds that Wa
tertown is the only Dakota town that voted
in favor of prohibition IS not correct. Half
dozen or more of them gave majorities that
way.
The Chicago & Northwestern railroad is i'm
mensely popular with the 140 students at the
Brool1ings Agricultural college, as it took
them home to Thanksgiving at one-fifth rate.
John H. King of the Chamberlain Register,
has gone to the new railroad town of Buffalo
Gap, on the Black Hills line, to sell town lots
for the railroad and publish q boom sheet.
Sully county has about $500 population and
has never had a saloon, a criminal imprisOn-
ment or pauper. At least so It advertises.
1t has two or three excellent newspapers.
A Frenchman near ex-Marshal Aliens
rancho. on the Belle Fourche, in the Black
Hills, lately fell into the FIRE in fit and was
burned so that he died in great agony.
W. j. Kneeshaw has rendered his resigna-
ton as United States commissioner at Penn
bina, and the Express says Judge Mcconnell
will appoint Clerk ]. M. Tuohy.
The Grand Forks Plaindeaer has raised
about $3.50 toward procuring carlord of
-four to send to the sufferers at Galveston.