St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-07-10

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not authorized TO employ a teacher i'm Op-
position to the wishes of the patrons if they
express themselves in public meeting
Judge Palmer has recently dissolved the
injunction. affirming the issue of bonds to
build city hall at Vermillion. The in
junction was secured last year by faction
opposed TO the location OF the structure.
Nearly all the Indians at Fort Bethold on
the Upper Missouri river have gone out and
taken claims, and are putting them into cul-
tivation. Ibis is believed to be the true
way TO settle the Indian questiOn-make
them self-supporting.
Steele county reports i'm the census 8, 100
population, one Confederate and fifty-one
Union soldiers nine hundred farms under
cultivation. and only fourteen deaths i'm the
the year ending June 80. That indicates a
reasonably healthy country.
a farmer named Pritchard. near Clifton,
built a fire in his stable to smudge
out the mosquitoes, but left some
embers which caught the hay and not only
drove out the mosquitoes but burned the
barn and all his stock.
The Pembina Express learns that it is the
intention of the Canadian Pacific railroad
TO run steamers up south on the Red river
TO fTand Forks, and perhaps as far as
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than willing TO take business away from
the Manitoba road.
That was a somewhat extrayagant Joke
that took the party of officials and others
nine miles out of jamestown to exhume
pair of boots with potatoes cut to represent
! toes, and gave rise 10 dispatches i'm the st.
Paul papers that murder was being dis
covered.
1t is estimated that {, 900 people witnessed
the sham battle OF the G. A. r. and cadets
at Valley City on the Fourth. Everything
was so realistic, including the assault upon
and capture of the fort and explosion of the
mine, the artillery retreat and pursuit. as
TO make it thrilling scene. There were
fortunately no dead or wounded.
Some of the Prohibitionists in the South
are policy men. They urge that prohibi-
ton in the constitution might lose them
support in congress, and they propose to
get admitted as a state and then put on
prohibition as an amendment, and probably
woman suffrage. Nearly all the delegates
selected are Prohibitionists.
Almost every nation and state is repre-
scented in the population of Fargo, even the
Oriental lands. The Baptist pastor. Rev.
5. w. Stevens, was born in Burmah and is
delivering a series of lectures upon that
country, and Z. \. Webb, publisher of the
Farmer and circulatOr of the Argus. is a
native of India. Both are sons of mission
aries.
In addition 10 the buffalo found in the
coteaus east of the Missouri river there are
reported there deer, antelope, wild horses
and other game. Parties have captured
several buffalo calves and refused $3.50 each
for them. The big game in that region will
not last long. as great number OF sports
men are on their trail and much of it has
been killed.
Judge Mcconnell has issued writ of
mandamus retuTnable at chambers, in
Fargo, July 10, requiring the county conf
miSsloners of Sargent TO show cause why
they do not recognize FOrman as the county
seat. Minor received large majority of
the votes returned last fall, but it is claimed
that great portion of them were fraudu-
lent, and Forman had the legal majority.
In cases where men have come TO Dakota
leaving families in the states to shift for
themselves, and have passed themselves off
III their new home as festive bachelors. de-
voted To the sex, it is annoying to have the
deserted wife and several children drop in
upon them and claim their rights. Such
case was recently reported at Caledonia.
where gallant doctor and statesman was
the perturbed party. He is not happy.
Mr.. Hall of the Fargo Democrat. himself
candidate for the position, and who has
interviewed Mr.. NJ. ii. Day. the accented
referee of Dakota appointments. expressed
in his paper the opinion that Mr.. Judd. the
son of the Chicago postmaster, holds the
lead in the race for the Fargo postofice.
and states that he does not patronize the
Democratic paper. and it is said has never
h.,Hs r~ia# l.Fr# e
containing his biography and portrait
It's thought that extracts from Col. Plum
mers Fourth of July Grafton at Flandreau
will be used in the future school books of
Dakota, with those of Col. DOMAIN, as mod
els of oratory and patriotism. 1t was
thought by those who had heard Ingersoll
that Col Plummer not only reSembled
him in appearance and speech, but in elo-
quence. He is, however, strictly orthodox
in his views and has at times exhorted at
meetings.
Mrs. Mary Bishop affords a good Illus
tration of what an energetic woman can do
in Dakota. She came to Cass county in its
earliest settlement with her husband. who
was afterwards killed by the cars. She
now owns 500 acres of the finest lands at
Mapleton, as much more at Cottonwood
Lake in Dickey county, hotel and other
property at Glendale. She has laid out a
town at Cottonwood lake, which is a very
beautiful body of water, and will open
summer resort there, seven miles from La
Moure. She is likely to become a mill
ionaire.
The inquest held in the case of Mrs.
Harold Sunde, the wife of a prominent
Swedish citizen of Fargo. this week. who
died suddenly, returned verdict that she
died from opium poisoning, administered by
hands unknown to them. 1t was shown
that she bought the morphine at Moorhead
couple of days previously. She had at
times threatened to take her life, but the
facts developed were too meager to base
conclusions upon. 1t is thought there were
peculiar circumstances connected with the
case.
Col. Domains case, where he was put to
great trouble and expense to meet a bogus
contest on his claim, is not an isolated in
stance of the operation of the land laws in
causing annoyance and cost to honest men.
=. a. Van Nice has a tree claim near
Flandreau and had met one contest for il
with man who had been indicted for per
jury. Recently the same man again con-
tested the claim and required him 10 pay
his witnesses to 90 TO McCook county. a
long distance, to meet the contest. Such
cases are outrages, and possible under the
practice of the land Office.
Lesson from N ITastodon.