St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-06-15

One who claims special inspiration from
| Washington stakes fair reputation as q
prophet on the prediction that Ziebach will
be governor OF Dakota OH and after July l..
Tramps are very scarce in Dakota of late
The towns generally put them at work upon
| the streets, and the country does not seem
adapted to their calling.
"A man digging well near Tyndale, in
Bon Homme county, last week, took out
some mammoth bones about ten feet down,
but does not know how to classify them.
Mr.. M II. Day, the committeeman, has
returned from Washington and is being
anxiously interviewed by office expectants.
He is expected to visit the North before he
returns.
The lightning became an agent of retri-
butive justice in killing cow belonging to
George Cobb, near Flandrau, which had
gOred a valuable horse to death short time
| previous.
A paper in Carthage, in Miner county,
speaks OF recent rain and hail storm in
that section in which six inches of water
fell. 1t was heavy rain, but six inches OF
water at one time would be a destructive
food
The New Rockford Transcript states as a
fact that in that county, Eddy, potatoes of
this years growth were eaten May Is.
They were probably not larger than an
apple, but it shows that the season was
early.
An Indian who stole horse in one of the
northern counties on his trial claimed that
he did not mean to steal, but was afflicted
with emotional insanity and took it in one
of those spasms. 1t is thought he is becom-
ng highly civilized.
The sixty days allowed by the presidents
proclamation to get off the reservations ex-
pires June II. There are no indications
that force is to be used. 1t will require
blue coats to dislodge large portion OF the
occupants.
Sheridan Jones wants it understood that
his Office of territorial superintendent of
public instruction is located at Olivet,
HUTCHINSON county. 1t is five miles from
Merino, the nearest railroad point. He
publishes the Olivet Voice-S2 a year in
advance.
The University of Dakota at Vermillion
has sustained severe loss in the death of
it's president, John W. Simonds. He came
out from New Hampshire in 1888. and last
year was elected president Of the University.
His remains were taken East.
1t was somewhat of a novelty to see peo-
pie in Dakota last Sunday going about
with straw hats and overcoats. So cool
passage in the summer months is rare.
There was frost enough to blight beans and
some few plants, but no great damage was
done.
A farmer in Campbell county missed sew
enteen head Of fine cattle from his herd at
the roundup, and finally got track of them
in butchers herd at Ipswich. The young
man who sold them to the butcher con-
cluded to turn in his land in payment to
avoid trouble.
The mysterious disappearance of A. A.
Anderson, a lawyer at De Smet, reporte'
some time since, is explained. His mind
was unbalanced by business depression and
he wandered away to the Missouri river.
where one who knew him had him returned
1t is believed he will fully regain his mind,
1t is claimed that the experiments had
shown that in the Missouri valley in South
Dakota tobacco of a superior quality can be
grown, and at a greater profit than any
other crop. In Clay county several farmers
have from one to ten acres and will give it
more attention hereafter.
There is some prospect that the Method
list college, located at Fargo year or two
ago. will have financial life infused into it
this season and be put into operation to
small extent. Some educators from the
East are taking an interest in it, and only
endowment is now needed.
President J. 81. Easton Of the Bon
HOmme bank, was boy with Chief Justice
EdgertOn, but they had not seen each other
for forty years till they met the other day
at Yankton and recalled the frolics of
adolescence. They went back half of
century and tried to be children again.
There is much satisfaction at Bismarck
over the statement of Bishop Walker that
it has the finest scenery of any city he has
seen in Dakota. There is some inquiry as
to what places he has seen. The view from
the capitol along and beyond the river is
thought to resemble that on the Potomac at
Washington.
The condition of Hand county is ind
Gated by the Journal in this: Wheat was
never known to look better, flax is giving
splendid promise of monstrous yield,
while oats, corn, potatoes, grass and other
crops are pushing ahead with every symp-
tom of giving the most abundant yield in
the history of the county.
The Steele Herald, in Kidder county, on
the Missouri slope, claims wheat eighteen
inches high, and says it promises to go
ahead of the yield of last year, which was
claimed at thirty-fve bushels per acre.
With plenty of rain, there is hardly limit
to the product of that section, and there has
has been all the rain needed.
Peter G. De Sinde, the secretary of a
Farmers alliance in the South, calls upon
the alliance to send the delegates to the
Sioux Falls convention and keep out the
politicians. He says the organization now
VIZ PrO-
hibitiOnists and woman suffrage people also
want to control the state movement.
A young man named G. G. Ross, small
dealer in Bismarck, was drowned in small
lake in that section few days since being
seized with cramp while bathing His father
saw him drown, but could do nothing. In
accordance with the views of the young
man, he was buried without ceremony of
any sort or word. He was an atheist.
The Brookngs Press says the feeling in
that county is in favor of sending delegates
to the constitutional convention for the
south who will oppose any action whatever
except to adjourn. The Press rather rude
" says: ''This convention is financial
calamity to Dakota, and now let us bury
the maggotty carcass as cheaply as pos
sible"
An officer In an insurance company at
Fargo, who prays with much fervOr, after
recent effort, said he wished it would hail
enough to scare the farmers so that he
could write more insurance There have
been few liltle hail storms, but they have
done no damage to speak Of Hail seems
to be about the only peril the wheat grower
will encounter this season.
1t is said that government detectives are
causing good deal of trouble to parties
who have proved up in the Aberdeen land
district. Probably nine out of ten substan-
tiate their claims, and are put to needless
trouble on account of the few. One of the