St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-04-21
Dakofn NeMslefs.

Walsh county has lately sent three of its
wheat thieves to the penitentiary at Sioux
Falls.
\ town is growing up rapidly at Key
stone, in Dickey county, to support its To-
cal paper, the Optic.
A daily line of stages runs from the Man
itoba trans al Devils Lake to the Turtle
Mountain towns.
Neil Murray, son of the city attorney of
St Paul, has been given a position i'll the
land office at Devils Lake.
The county board of Cass county adver-
tise for bids for the completion of the court
house, to cost S25, 900 or more.
\ party of twenty families from Douglas
county, Minnesota, are headed for Ok
Creek, in the Turtle Mountain region.
The statement of an Eastern paper that
one-half the land in Dakota is held by
women is absurd. One-tifth would be a
large estimate.
Tower City has just dedicated its fine
roller rink and don't care very much
whether that new railroad and S125, 600
college are built or not.
The cornet band at st. Thomas have re-
ceiyed their instruments and the citizens
are petitiOning the council to require them
to 90 out of the city limits to practice.
Medora. in the Bad Lands country, has a
skating rink, society enough 10 give mas
Querade ball. and recently a preacher has
been cOTraled and made to hold forth in the
rink.
The 5 cent beer at Devils Lake is now
followed by 10 cent whisky. warranted to
be from Kentucky. II there was a capital
TO be located now the place would be a
strong contestant
If the city council ut jamestown persist
in requiring license of the roller skating
rink, the manager proposes TO close it and
open variety show with permission to the
audience To skate on rollers.
The Keystone Optic says the Dakota
Midland railroad is surveyed To that point
and viii be built in season for this years
crops. The surveyors are headed for Fort
Yates. on the Missouri river.
There are Sixty-one families and fifty
half-breetiS that receive nations i'm the Tur-
tie mountain reservation. The government
agent does not believe that any OF them
viii join their friends north in the Riel war
Ii Is stated by some of the Fargo papers
that the new mayor has decided 10 close the
saloons ON Sunday and at all other unlaw-
ful times. run out the gamblers and social
evils aud put 4 restriction upon the thea
tiers.
Capt. Dose of the Bismarck Blade has
gone East to procure material for the ''larg-
est and best equipped publishing and print
ing house in North Dakota" That is the
claim of each of the principal offices in the
North.
{. A. BiriSeye returns TO Diekey
county from winter in Minneapolis. t.
find only burnt ground and broken crockeTy
and iron where he left his house. aS the re-
suit Of prairie ire. His IS not an insulated
experience.
Several citizens Of Valley City who went
to Oregon for homes have returned. They
say il was too dull and monCtonous ont
there after having enjoyed the social hilaT-
ity of Valley City. and the country did not
suit them as well.
The Grafton Herald reports great enthu-
SiaSm in that city over the action of the
beer vendors in reducing the tariff Tor a
mug Of foam from ten 10 i've cents The
people come from quite distance 70 enjoy
the nickel SeanceS.
\ Democratic paper, the Times. has been
started az Caledonia. at the junction OF the
GsoSe and Red rivers. thirty miles north OF
Fargo. Caie,lOnia has recently BEEN made
the permanent county seat Of TFaill, one Of
the great No. 1 hard counties
4 man az Devils Lake has received and
| put on exhibition in his store the photo