St. Paul daily globe., 1885-06-12

| Fargo has closed them out, so far as known
to the police. They have appeared hitherto
| like truth. able to rise again after being
crushed.
| The Devils Lake Democrat says the Re-
publican paper at that place is supported
largely by the land and post offices and con-
cludes that if the administration is Demo-
cratic, the other side should have this aid
Devils Lake proposes to have among its
Fourth OF July incidents a war-dance by
Indians from the reservation. A beef is to
be roasted for them. The other features OF
| the celebration are to be of the liveliest SORT
The towns that have failed to organize
military companies have lost their chance
| for the present, so far as the militia of the
| territory is concerned. Adjt. Gen. Fee
says that the two regiments provided for
| are full.
In Hand, Sphinx and some other counties,
| the Republican committees have called
| straight party conventions to nominate can
didateS for the Sioux Falls convention, but
some of the papers kick at making it a party
affair.
The Grand Forks Herald Is so intense in
it's hatred of ex-GOv Ordway that it read
lily credits the notion that he has still a
hand i'm Dakota appointments 1t is prob
| able that Mckenzie has influence, but not
Ordway.
The new maps of Pierre show very at
| tractive grounds set apart for the location
| of the capitol. The Bismarck papers find
| good deal of satisfaction in supposing they
will grow very large trees before they are
needed for the seat of government.
Joe ROlette, whose name that county
BEARS states that at the late voting on the
county seat at st. Johns, five minutes be-
fore the polls closed there were 392 votes
in, and the feat of getting in 400 more in
five minutes, without visible voters, was re-
garded as a remarkable one.
1t is noted that if the newcomers in Da-
kota this season are not so numerous as in
some former seasons, they are generally
men OF larger means and able to look for
the most desirable locations for homes.
There are more small colonies.
There are half dozen parties working
for the postoffice at Grafton, and they rely
| almost exclusively upon influences abroad.
Mr.. Chandler, the incumbent, is an excel
lent official, and not charged with being an
| offensive partisan. It is not likely there
will be any change until his term is out.
The discrepancy between the mayor and
council of Fargo is in fair way to be COM
| promised through the agency of the Repub-
| lican, which has acted the role of mutual
| friend and published interviews with prom
| inent citizens deprecating the wrangle as
| without good ground and injurious to the
city.
Chief Justice Edgerton is strongly in
favor of the appointment of Hon. Bartlett
Tripp as his successor next December,
when his term is out, and Judge Gamble
has been circulating a petition for Tripp
among the Yankton attorneys. The selec
ton will give high satisfaction.
Wahpeton promises an unusual show in
the way of building this year. Stores and
residences are going up all over the city,
and are in greater demand than the supply.
A Fargo party who owned lots there has
decided to build six residences, and they
| will be good investment, no doubt
In some sections insurance agents have
been very numerous and some of their op-
| erations not satisfactory. The Redfeld
Journal relates that as the assessor started
ON his circuit in that county in some in
stances farmers came out with shotgunS,
supposing him to be an insurance man.
Three little girls near Mimic, while out
in the woods, dug and ate little of the
| wild parsnips. They fortunately went i'm
mediately home before taken with convul-
sions, and two doctors and several ladies
worked most of the night and saved their
lives. Two of them came very near dying.
The handsome young editor of the Wah-
petOn Mercury is reported the favored ap
plicant for the hand and farms of Miss
Taylor, the girl who secured so many
claims and was sought so much after in
marriage. He says townsite has been
laid out on one of the claims and will net
her $50,000.
Young King, editor of the Caledonia
Times. who was reported in dispatches as
having disappeared mysteriously and sup
posed to have been made way with for the
large amount of money he was presumed to
have, spent the time incognito in Fargo,
watching the exhibitions of public curiosity
and grief with much interest.
One of the settlers on the Crow Creek
reservation was on his way back to Michi-
gan last week, swearing that he would not
vote the Democratic ticket any more, as he
had invested his $500 in house and improve
ments on the Crow lands and the Indians
had driven him off. Probably some squaw
had frightened him. He is not the stock
for good in Dakota or anywhere.
So far the members of the Vermont
COlOuy UlldG 1ldFC lCdCllCu tllCll oCStlilitlOI
in Edmunds county are even better pleased
with the country than they anticipated.
One of them remarked to the editor of the
Roscoe Magnet: ''If things are as they ap
pear to be, if the land is as good as what we
have seen, you are upon the eve of one of
the greatest immigratiOnS Dakota has ever
known There is room enough if all of
Vermont will come.
The Rapid City Journal, which is in
South Dakota, says: ''Of all the papers
we have read referring to the division pro-
| ject in South Dakota there is not one out
side the territory that expresses the opin-
ion that the movement will succeed. Con-
gress is the obstacle not to be forgotten,
| though some of the Dakota divisionists seem
disposed to reckon without it."
Peter Hanson went up to Fargo from
Ransom county last week, found young
woman willing to marry him and on their
bridal trip home finances grew scant and
the conductor stopped the train and put
them off. They walked to town and the
fair bride came up fresh and merry, but
Peter was cross. The Dakota girl generally
thinks little of walk of ten OF fifteen
miles, even on bridal tour.
Sheridan Jones, the superintendent of
public instruction appointed by Gov. Pierce,
has the inspiration to say: ''When we look
over the short career of Gov. Pierce it
strikes us that he has made pretty fair
governor, and it would not surprise us if
the authorities at Washington look at it
pretty much that way too" He supposes
there will beno change. He thinks also there
has been no election more important for a
full vote than that of June 80 in the South.
Col. Simmons, editor of the Dakota City
Advocate, is victim of misplaced con-
fidence.. He intrusted $75 of his wealth
to young man, A. NJ. Crotsley, claimed