St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-08-06

One of the most noted demi monde ut
DeadwoOd has come into possession of
$40. 600 by the death of a relative. and il is
said will reform and try to regain lost
standing. She already has an offer OF
marriage.
In several points in South Dakota the
local papers say the thermometer touched
los and even 110o in the shade, last
week Still the nights were always COM
Portable and the extreme heat lasted but n
day or two.
Dugald Campbell. large sheep rancher.
twelve miles south Of Bismarck, has re-
Gently shipped to Philadelphia a clip OF
1000 pounds of wool. This is the first
shipment Of a very successful industry in
that locality.
There is a scarcity of harvest help in
North Dakota. but the country is flooded
with trampS. Few of them will condeScend
10 work. In many Of the towns they are
gathered in and required 10 work OH the
streets or travel.
1t is related that on the branch of the
Milwaukee railroad in the South weeds
grow 50 tail a TO obstrTct trains. and after
rains freight trains find il impossible to
move. Ii is proposed 10 run mower in
front of an engine.
= NnNll- ldlf NdlutN AildIlSN hGSS was
sentenced To Jail FOR four days by Justice
i'm Trail county. for the larceny of three
eggs. in company with two others. Posi-
bly, he is the lost boy of that name, and has
missed parental training.
Wheat harvest in Hughes county. of
which Pierre is the metropolis. is nearly
over. and il is estimated that after some de-
duciionS for hail the average will be about
fifteen bushels per acre. Corn is leading
crop and never looked finer.
Stock fattened I'm the Mouse river country
OF Dakota is being already driven To mar
kct. Last week a herd OF thirteen Short
horn cattle in prime condition were brought
To- Devils Lake. the market there being
considered better than Bismarck.
Stanley Huntley. who has Just died IN
New York. was one of the original editors
OF the Bismarck Tribune. and had many
friends in Dakota. who regret his death.
His wife is visiting her brother. Can't.
Chance. at Fort Lincoln. near Bismarck
The Grand Forks Plaindealer. by its en-
terprising proprietor, A. J. Murphy. an
nounces that il is hereafter to appear in the
morning field with Associated Press reports
from the world ~ large. Mr.. Murphy and
the Plaindealer should live long and pros
per.
The four government land districts in
North Dakota i'm the month of June trans
acted land business to the amount of 3SS
homestead entries. s35 prescriptions. 5g3
tree claims; 26i. 009 acres newly entered
and 4, S14 acres with title acquired by final
proof.
Prof. Baker of the veterinary college at
Chicago has been employed TO investigate
the indications of CHAMBERS among horses in
Sphinx county. This seems to be a sporadic
disease in the territory. appearing at various
points, but has not got much of fOothold
anywhere.
Gen. Fish, the census enumerator for
South Dakota, is delayed in making his
report by The failure of some of the enumer-
ators to come TO time. In the Plankinton
district the report Of the enumeration was
lost i'm transmission. and he has been or
dered TO count over again.
1t is believed the first wheat harvested in
North Dakota was that of A. IL. Moore in
Ransom county. His machines started
July %. The berry is very sound and
plump and it is claimed that much of It will
yield 40 bushels per acre. There has been
no damage TO the crop in that county.
The editor of the Buffalo County SEN
tinel says that on the hottest day of the
year. July %, when the thermometer was
l09 in the shade, he undertook 10 walk
three miles, but was overcome and became
inSensible, lying for hours in the broiling
sun. He has not fully recovered.
NanktOn and some other towns are IN
happy, and throw things at Gov. Pierce
because in a recent speech he said he was
proud of Bismarck. Mandan. jamestown
and Sioux Falls and didn't include the other
cities. which are proud of themselves. 1t
is probable the governor intended to put a
list of the other towns in foot note.
The EStelline Bell throws out this warn
ing note 10 the colonel: Pat DOMAIN is said
to be engaged TO an extremely rich. beauti-
full and educated Mexican lady. The col
Onel should have care or some South Da-
kOta member of the legislature will carry
her off 10 the warm, amOrous state of Yer
mont. Remember Marcus AuTelius Ward.
There has been rivalry between Volga
and Brookings for the county seat of Brook
imgs county. but it is believed that there is
no warrant for the imputatiOn that the
Volga people will become lawleSS and try
to destroy a court house built at BrookingS.
The county is put 10 great inconvenience
for lack OF a building, having to rent rooms.
Grant is one of the good wheat counties
form, as there are spots where the grain
seems to have died out. There has been
no damage from storms and the local esti-
mates are from fifteen TO sixteen bushels
per acre. 1t is believed the average of the
territory has never been much above those
figures, although many large fields have
gone much higher.
The Hunter Hawk is the latest flyer
among the weekly newspaper kites of
Dakota. and Hunter. CasS county. on the
Mayviile branch OF the Manitoba, encOm-
passed about with vast wheat fields. is
where il hOvers c. 5. Mckay is editor.
and intimates in few well-chOsen words
that the Hawk to keep up its courage don't
want much but wants il bad.
The size of haiiStOnes I'm Campbell
county recently may be inferred from the
fact that one of them broke off a cows
horn. = local paper relates that a lady
named Todd was hit on the head by one Of
these stones and is not expected to live.
She was I'm the house at the time with
good Shingle roof over her head but the fee
chunks didn't care for such ObstTuctiOnS.
Fortunately there were not many of the
larger hailstoneS.
Major Quinn. the city editor Of the Bis
marck Tribune, who drew such gorgeous
visions of aerial storms some time since.
employs the same vivid imagination in de-
scribing the late storm at Fargo. He
learns that several strata of tOTnadOeS and
cyclones passed from 200 TO 400 feet above
the city. while not breath of air was STIR
ring below That may have been his view
200 miles distant, but not the Fargo one.
The opponents of the new postmaster at
Sioux Falls are violating the Dakota rule
TO never explore antecedents, and claim to
have found on the United States records at
YanktOn that in 1878 he was indicted and