St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-03-28
Dakota Ne,csfefs.

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| Progressive euchre is about as popular in
Dakota towns as roller skating.
| P. F. Mcclure of Pierre is now in Wash
ington hoping the president will get an eye
on him and send him back governor of Da-
kOta
The grocery dealers at Fargo this week
have been making a cut on eggs, getting
down as low as 1917 cents. A week or two
previous 80 cents was the price, and they
have rarely gone much below.
The Fargo Broom brigade will give a
second of their admirable entertainments
at the roller rink about April 10, and it is
understood will visit Fergus Falls by invita-
ton the next night an / give an exhibition.
Parties are sinking for coal near Raymond
in Clark county. Fine specimens of Ignite
have been raised, and it is believed that
good quality of bituminous coal will be found
at a lower depth. Cheap fuel is the great
need of that section.
The Bismarck Journal has dropped its
daily edition since the legislature dispersed.
AS Col. Lounsberry, the editor, is postmaster
and willing to continue he has little need of
daily to furnish vent for his Republican
views. He doesn't care much for politics at
present.
Mr.. Wells, one of the embassy from Pierre
that came so near to securing the capital, is
named by his townsmen to 90 after the Bur-
lngton, Cedar Rapids 81 Northern railroad
to bring it to Pierre. There is a strong i'm
preston there that this can be accom-
plshed.
The Russians who came to Hutchinson
county last year and stopped with their
friends, thousand or so, had the good for
tune to be ready to take advantage of the
| opening of the Crow Creek reservation, and
have secured. much of the choicest land.
They will have a strong colony there.
Probably no returning legislators received
liveler reception from their constituents
than Gamble, Washabaugh and McVey at
Yankton. The military and citizens ovated
them in royal style. Probably they were
happy because they had escaped the perils of
Bismarck and had brought back their usual
com plement of virtues.
Charles Haines of Pierre. the young man
who excited so much admiration by his gal
LIANT and lonely ride over the wild prairie
forty miles, one of the coolest days of Feb
ruary, to keep an engagement to marry an
amiable and charming young lady, is to go
to Wiuona, Mimi, to take charge of Dem
ocratic paper to be started there.
Some of the early settlers insist that the
| fact that there is 20 snow on the ground is
not an assurance that there will not be high
water in the Red and other rivers. One of
them recalls that eight years ago the ice
D ont rft b,,f
water was the highest known, with the ex-
ception of the big flood three years ago:
Col. Plummer, the jovial Bohemian and
former Pennsylvania statesman, who
stumped the East for Blaine last year, has
! returned to Fargo from his winters abors
upon the Bismarck Tribune, which he
made a power during The session. Gov.
Pierceidesired to give him an appointment.
/ bat tke colonel prefers the freedom of pri-
/ vate life.
Many of the friends of Gov Ziebach think
! be has made mistake in going to Washing
| ton to urge his appointment in place of Gov
| Pierce, although some insist that he goes at
1 the instance of the president. VINO wants to
| size him up from personal observation. II
/ he is sueeessfT the president will have q
/ chance To size up good many residents Of
! Dakota who want positions
Since Rapid City in the Black Hills has
taken the land office from Deadwood, tits
/ becoming ambitious and proposes to be the
Denver Of the Black Hills country. Several
/ handsome new blocks are being erected. and
! effort is being made to introduce watervorks
/ and utilize The water power. Ii has great
/ natural advantages, and when railroad con-
/ neciion IS secured it will have boom.
Elmer Wilson of Blooming in the South
/ has been put under bonds of $50 on charge
| of The seduction of Miss Hattie Bailey under
promise OF marriage. There is probably some
/ relation between this statement and the fact
that Que NJ. F. Bailey, who fred st charivari
I party sud crippled Que of the number, was
arrested on a warrant sworn out by Elmer
/ wilson This vas in AURORA county.
/ 7. Boufeld Of Pierre has been promoted
/ to the staff Of the Chicago Inter-Oeesn, vice
I Lauren Dunlap appointed Dakota commission
er OF emigration. Parties who claim to know
/ the inner history OF things at Bismarck state
/ that Dunlap's appointment: was effected and
/ the emigration bureau established bv fasciu-
| atiuz snd importuuate female influences,
/ and the governor regretted that he had prom
/ ised the appointment before the bill ras
passed.
( The WATERFOWL News Il enthusiastic over
/ the reports Of coal found north of IL, aud
/ says home coal field only Is needed to make
/ South Dakota the garden spot Of the word
I Il claims 70 have seen fine specimens taken
/ from veiL Of hard coal eight feet thick and