St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-06-29

Y DIRK Evening Post, is among the recent
visitors to the North. He has relatives at
Jamestown.
Tie recent rains have raised the Red river
some ten feet at Grand Forks. In some
places it has been out Of it's banks and DAM
aged wheat fields.
The unusual amount of rain in Dakota is
favorable for tree growing, and has been
improved to much greater extent than in
any former season.
1t is claimed that crops in the James val
ley look quite as well as in 1882, when they
harvested from forty to fifty bushels of
wheat and seventy to ninety of oats.
There are two women in the Sioux Falls
penitentiary, not quite enough for sewing
circle The penitentiary at Bismarck is
being fitted up for the reception OF guests
j. M. TwOhy, who was appointed by
Judge Mcconnell clerk Of the court at
Pembina was the first Democrat of Fargo
to receive an appointment as result of the
election.
The Yankton Press sees the cunning hand
of Alex Mckenzie in the anti-divisiOn move
ment in the South. 1t is probably a novel
discovery. .
Judge Mcconnell has been obliged to de-
fer the term of court at Grand Forks to
Aug. 4, on account of having to go to Dead
wood to hold a term of the United States
district court.
The creameries established in Dakota all
find good market for their products and
will rapidly increase in number. The dairy
convention at Moorhead will give the pro-
duction quite an impulse.
The public schools in Fargo closed for
the year Friday with variety Of exercises
extending over two or three days. 1t is
understood that two or three of the lady
teachers are soon to be married.
The Editorial Association of Central Da-
kota has been called to meet at Watertown
July 20. 1t is expected that it will be
largely attended, and that enterprising
town will show what it can do in the way
of hospitality.
The usual rule was reversed at Steele
last week when one of the society bellies,
Miss May Simpson, was married to r. G.
Meyer of Clairsville, O. She naturally pre-
ferred to remain in Dakota, but the young
men there were too slow and timid.
Col. Packard editor of the Bad Lands
Cowboy, returned this week with the lovely
and accomplished bride he secured at Ober-
lin, o. On their arrival at Medora the cow
boys turned out and gave them hearty but
noisy welcome. 1t was the first experience
of Mrs. Packard with Dakota, and she was
delighted with the country.
A herd of forty or more buffalos was
reported day OF two ago some twenty
miles west of Jamestown. There were
cows, calves and bulls and very fierce. some
of the bulls running the party discovering
them into shelter They are supposed to
have strayed from the Standing Rock res
ervation into the coteaus and out onto the
prairies. The settlers Of Jamestown are all
going for them.
The constituents of Hon. Mark Ward at
Kimball, in Brule county, think no effort of
his in the legislature equaled his recent
brilliant achievement in cutting out the
young lawyer at Mitchell, who was about
to lead the beautiful singing damsel to the
altar, and running away to Vermont with
her. The town will turn out in blaze of
enthusiasm when the honorable statesman
returns with his fair captive.
The report from Washington that the
president will insist upon the removal of
settlers upon the reservations is reviving
the excitement that had subsidized, and is a
great disappointment, as it was the general
impression that blind eye would be turned
in that direction and the matter left for
congress to dispose of. Most of the settlers
remaining will stick to their claims until
the blue coats come and drive them away.
Many of them have small crops growing
that ought not to be lost.
The officers of the railroad recently or
ganized to build line from Redfeld to
Bismarck are raising SIS. 600 for the survey
and claim that they mean to secure the
right of way this season. This is to run
through Ipswich and fine agricultural
country all the way. 1t is understood that
if built it will be by the money of the Chi
cago & Northwestern road. Most of the
western part ofHthe route is unsettled and
there is no doubt that the right of way will
be easily secured all the way.
The question is raised whether persons
can be compelled to obey notices to appear
at the land offices and testify what they
know in regard to alleged fraudulent prov
ings of their neighbors. Many refuse to
leave their work and go, believing that the
land department. has no power to compel
their attendance. On the other hand, the
special agents who are hunting up these
cases insist that their labors will amount to
nothing if the witnesses will not attend.
1t does certainly look that way. 1t is proba-
BILE that the question will be tested. The
specials are very active in some OF the dis
tricts in hunting up cases of late.
Westport is the only town of any size in
Brown county that has not had newspa-
per, and the vacuum is now filled by the
Waterman, lively and good-looking sheet.
The town is on the Chicago, Milwaukee &
ST. Paul road, twelve miles north of Aber-
deem, four years DID, and a thriving village
in the center of prosperous agricultural
community, composed of thrifty farmers
from the East. The past week two new
elevators have been located there, and a
2OO-barrel flour mill is soon to be had.
There is not quarter section vacant within
twenty miles Of the town, and,unlike many
Dakota towns, it is hardly up with the
country about it.