St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-07-11
Dakota SeVsIefs.

Dakota NewsIefs.
The exact population of Huron is given
as ., 796. 1t is big town for its size.
Prairie chickens are unusually numerous,
and shooting next month will be fine.
jamestown claims five live eagles recently
captured in the cOteaus west of that place,
one of them measuring ten feet, two inches
from tip to tip of its wings.
Hardly day passes that some one, most
frequently BOY, is not drowned in Dakota
waters. At least three editors have lost
children iu this way lately.
La Moure county will withdraw its
bounty for gopher tails, as the expense is
too great and the boys try to work in tails
OF other small animals.
ID. NJ. Kelleher, the Jamestown war
horse, claims to have a whisper from Wash
ington that sixty DAYS will end the official
life of about all Republicans in the territory.
At the serenade by all parties to the new
| land officers at WateTtown they said that
for beauty the place was without peer in
Dakota, which insuTes their local popular
ity.
At some of the land offices the clerks or
dered by the department 10 be discharged
are retained at the expense of the local
officers, as they say they cannot do without
them.
President Blackburn has about decided to
accept the presidency of the college at
Pierre, and let the directors of the Grand
Forks university do their quarTeling with
out him.
The jamestown Alert finds something
over $50, 600 being put into new buildings
there this season. 1t is noticed that they
are all costly structures, only one of them
so low as So, 900.
The substitution of the word ''snow" for
rain in recent item giving the rainfall at
Fargo for June was a cold reflection upon
the climate. Eight inches of snow in June
would be phenomenon.
Col. Sheefe, the colonel of the Second
regiment, is trying to persuade the gov
eTnor that Lake KampeSka, near Water
town, is the best point for the military en-
campment in August, and is quite likely to
succeed.
Minnewaukon is not satisfied with one
| tri-weekly railroad, but is building a pier
600 feet into the lake i'm order that boats
can land and connect with the Manitoba at
Devils Lake. This will give daily cOmmu-
nication and competition.
DIR. Hale, the publisher of a health Jour
nal in the East, has been testing the water
of Devils Lake and claims that IL contains
medicinal properties of high merit. and pro-
poses TO remove his publication there and
establish a Sanitarium.
If the Northern Pacific shall extend its
| Fargo-LamOure branch 10 Glendale and
the Black Hills, it is believed that il will
make a cutoff by pushing its Wahpeton
branch to La Moure or Glendale, making a
very direct route from st. Paul To the Black
| Hills.
The jamestown papers regard it as GER
| tain that the James River Valley railroad
has passed into the hands of the Rock Is
land company, and will be completed this
season. 1t is also expected that the Chi
cagO, Milwaukee 81 st. Paul will push up
the valley from Glendale very soon.
The grand jury in KingSbury county have
! found an indictment for libel against j. c.
Stowe editor of the Winfred Ledger. The
complainant is Rev. Shetland, a Methodist
preacher of De Smet. He thinks Stowe
| damaged his character in a story connect
ing him with young woman living in his
| family.
The census in Dakota has been taken
very rapidly. and with insufficient pay 10
the enumerators in the spaTSer settlements,
SO that il is believed it will fall much below
| the actual numbers. Additional names are
| being found in most localities since the
enumerators made their rounds. Mandan
was first reported below 2.O0O but now
claims 2,435, and Morton county nearly
$500.
In Center township in Aurora county
recently mob, partly composed of women
| dressed in mems clothes, taTred and feath-
cred Mr.. Fuller, who was accused of hay
ing wronged a girl. He urged and en-
treated the girl 10 marry him, but for some
reason she refused. 1t is said that some of
the masqueraders will have a chance to ex-
plain their conduct in court, aud will not
feel proud oft.
The senate committee on Indian affairs
is expected to visit the Crow and Winnie
bago reservations next week and hear what
the settlers may have to say. 1t is sup
posed they will also investigate the Sioux
reservation. with a view to recommending
its being open TO settlers. Pierre and the
other towns along the river will present the
strongest points obtainable TO promote this
action.
Several of the papers warmly approve
the order OF the land commissioner in sus-
pending the completion of title TO lands I'M
til the proofs can be examined. The Wash
burn Times SAYS those who expect to re-
ceive patents at the end of six months upon
the strength OF so snack ana acre or two
of breaking, and then remove to town and
hold the land for high price, are the only
ones who will suffer, and they are not de
serving of sympathy.
Judge Sage, editor of the st. Lawrence
journal, relates among the incidents of the
tornado that recently did so much damage
in Hand. Hyde Sphinx, Faulk and Beadle
counties. that his stable was scattered in
fragments over a wide scope of country,
lifted into the air and dashed to the ground.
but his $50 matched team escaped without
a scratch, and his elegant barouche was not
harmed in the least. He believes in special
providences now, especially for Dakota edi-
tors.
Before her escapade, Miss Bernard. the
heroine of the jilting and elopement sensa-
ton at Mitchell was regarded as angelic
and perfect Now this picture is drawn for
that latitude: Miss Bernard was a spinster
of so. To a lover she might have been
beautiful, but the average unbiased man
would look in vain for the charms so cur
rently deScanted upon. in a woman with
large feet and fiat; stumbling end awk-
ward gait, and a most commonplace figure,