St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-04-11


| lators.
The militia at Valley City had their first
public parade in uniform the past week and
made a fine appearance. When they are
| fully armed it is believed they will be able to
preserve the peace among the preachers and
churches.
If England and Russia were aware OF the
anxiety felt in Dakota for them to tight ana
keep it up as long as possible they would
have the courtesy to go at it. The wheat
growers will be glad to supply all the bread
| stuffs for both sides.
]. F. Gleason, the new school superintend-
ent of Cass county, who is Democrat and
elected on account of his personal popularity,
| is more than meeting the expectations OF MS
| friends and will do much to raise the stand
ard OF the public schools.
The increased prospect of foreign war and
good prices for wheat is stimulating Dakota
farmers to put in more acreage in wheat than
they had intended. The ascent OF the wheat
figures will greatly mitigate the horrors OF
war as seen from Dakota.
House stealing is not uncommon in Da-
kota. Last week James Caugney, in Aurora
county, was absent few days and on his
return found his house gone. He traced it
to another county and had one James Nc
| CURE arrested and fined $50 and costs.
Dr. Wilson of Port Emma, in Dickey
county, has an ice boat, and one day re-
Gently himself and little son took sail over
the soft ice down to Eaton, making the five
miles on the James river in just five min
utes, which is fair time for even rapid Da-
kota.
Faux county, in the central Missouri
river region, holds out as inducements to
settlers that it has no saloons, no poor house
and no county debt, with very few lawyers,
preachers or politicians. 1t is the home of
Maj. Picker, the gallant champion OF wo-
man suffrage.
St John, a Frenchman, who has lived on
the Missouri river in central Dakota twenty
four years, recalls the fact that for years after
he. located there he could kill buffalo near
his home at any time, and deer and elk were
plentiful, but there are now no buffalo and
few OF the other game.
The new mayor of jamestown has still
5000 bushels of potatoes on hand, and some
attribute his large majority partly to his gen.
erosityin loaning this useful vegetable before
the election to voters who were not expected
to remember to return them. That is an
improvement on the drinks.
The Magnet, at Roscoe, in Edmunds
county, reports the immigration the past
three weeks beyond all anticipation, and in
dicatiDg the greatest boom that section has
ever had. At the present rate in three months
there will not be desirable claim of govern
meut land south of the 46th parallel.
The two young attorneys at Valley City
who had arranged to complete the quartet of
new benedict lawyers at an early day dread
the ordeal of the calathumpians, who design
| 10 give them an extra touch, and will per-
haps defer the happy days until some way of
escaping the infection can be devised.
A procession of Turtle Mountain Indians
and half-breeds, with seventy-eight teams,
strung out mile, and comprising all sorts
of primitive vehicles and com inations of
animals, passed through Minnewaulon,
few days since, on their way for supplies.
They made an interesting spectacle for
strangers.
Grafton has followed the example of the
Deyils Lake beer-sellers and reduced the
price per glass to 3 cents. The brewery at
Grand Forks is so indignant that it refused
to sell to the scent men and they go down
to Fargo. This new departure at Grafton
and DEVILS Lake is giving those places quite
little boom.
The Fargo Democrat insists that Judge
Francis of the Bismarck district should be
removed as incompetent and a crank. On
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acted as the prosecutor, and in another case
wrote the governor urging him not to par
don a certain party. He is no doubt pecu
li..r in his methods.
Word has been received that E. B. Bruce,
the well known joVial bachelor of Fargo,
who has spent several months in Scotland,
sailed last week and when 800 miles out, the
ship was so badly damaged in a storm, that
it was obliged to put back to Queenstown for
repairs. The Scotch citizens will give him
reception when he reaches Fargo.
Dr. Du Bots has returned to Faulk county
from n winters soiourn in Canada and
Michigan, preaching Dakota and its glores,
and as a result large numbers are coming
from those parts. He claims that he met
frantic opposition from the local papers in
those sections, which were Iilled with lies
about the fair land to stop emigration.
1t is expected that G.. B. Vallandigham,
the talented editor Of the Democrat at Valley
City, will be appointed postmaster there
He spent two years running a bonanza farm
in order to acquire the means to start a Dem
ocratc paper, the only one on the Northern
Pacific in the 200 miles between the Red and
Missouri rivers and has made it a strong
political force.
II. w. Goodale, one of the heavy sheep
men of Montana, is looking over Barnes
county, Dakota, with view of establishing
sheep ranch and bringing few thousand
of the flock from Montana. The recent leg
islature passed a bill designed to protect
sheep husbandry from dogs and it is believed
that many sections of Dakota are well
adapted to make it a success.
From Democratic standpoint, Mr.. Red
dick, the Democrat and the Democratic club
of Fargo deserve high credit in the late mu-
nicipsl campaign for their gallant stand BY
the old lines. II they had secured the entire
party vote and had the fluent arguments so
freely used on the other side they are conf
dent they would have swept the field. But
they are now in good condition for future
contests.
In nearly all parts of the territory the land
has never been in q finer condition for
wheat seeding than this year, and the grain
has been going in rapidly of late. There has
been just rain enough and light snow to ger
inmate the seed, and all the conditions are
extremely favorable for good wheat year.
Sowing is earlier than the average of years,
and only improbable accidents viii prevent
one Of the finest crops ever harvested.
The sweeping Republican defeat at Bis
marck is attributed partly to the Temporary
absence of Col. Plummer aud the tying of
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