The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-11-06
Dakotans Anxious for Wives.

UakOtanS Anxious for Wives.
Eve can accommodate ten thous.
and girls with husbands in Dakota on
ninety days notice." said Col. Pat
Donan at the Grand Union hotel q few
days ago. The colonel of the late
confederate forces, now a journalist in
the great territory, lowered full six
feet under a big SLOUGH hat. 1--WE
have published in The Fargo Argus,"
he continued, 1.-TWO thousand letters
from as many young women, and have
made many matches. In May, 1880,
there was only n marriageable girl
in Fargo, and to-day, with a popula
ton of $4,000, W. have only four un-
married girls. In Deadwood, at tho
height of its mining fever, In lS79-8O,
there were five thousand bachelors and
only six manageable girls. You get Il
great many tales in the east about the
zone young women who take up farms
in Dakota and reject all offers of mar
rage. Why, they don't live in the
territory Il year before they are wed.
ded.
"Most of II men went to Dakota
when they were boys, and hal is the
reason VIC have so many bachelors
there-thousands of them, all willing
to marry. The strange thing about it
all is most of them know lots of girls
in the eastern towns from which they
90 N n and n,nl-n No nfGn,t fN yynI
them. They won't have the girls they
used to know, and they can't get any
others very we'll. Any attractive girl
who will go there can queen it over
the whole territory. Montana is older
than we are, and has plenty of mar
riageable m My, how those
girls there ride horses! But in Dako.
TIA l know scarcely a town with an I'M
married girl IN it. 1t would surprise
you to know how many army
officials and men of prominence mar
ny servant-girls. High or low, rich or
poor, a good girl can have her choice.
l know one prominent man who mar
ried a pretty waiter girl of M of the
hotels the other day. She gave him
as a wedding present a Dakota farm,
some diamonds. and many other val
ables. In Dakota women are equal
with men before the law"
Coz. Donan, although now a noted
matchmaker, is Il bachelor himself.
Maj. Edwards, editor.inchief, and H.
c. Plumley, managing editor, of The
argus, he says. are both unmarried.
although they have overlooked and
published all the two thousand letters
sent HIM from eastern young women.
When asked about the alleged
great poker game between Stanley
Huntley and Maj Edwards, in which
the former throw away four queens
and drew three aces to an ace in hand,
Col. Donan said: 1.-The story isn't to
believe. Maj. Edwards knows how to
deal, and having four kings in hand
and u pot of $4,000 on the table he
would not deal his opponent three
aces"
.What about the division and adj
mission of the territory as a state?'
was asked.
''1he admission and division of
Dakota have been agitated with us
since 1870. when we had twelve thou
sand inhabitants. Since then there
have been several constitutional con-
ventions which have met, resolved.
and sent delegations to Washington.
Last winter we had a delegation at the
capital which spert hundreds OF thou
sands of dollars IN valn. There are
three things to prevent division and
admission. The south will never per-
nit the admission of two northera
states if it a help it. The eastern
high-taritf republicans will never per-
nit two low-taritf states to enter il
they can help it. The democratic
party will never concent TO the admis-
sion of two republican states il it can
help it. Dakota will be admitted only
when it consents to come in as one
state. '-NcW York Tribune.