St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-01-24
DAKOTA& MONTANA.
Collected and Forwarded by Telegraph
to the Daily Globe.
Fargo Special kilograms January 90, to the st
Panl Globe
Nnrth,restern Notes..

northeastern Notes.
Interesting revival meetings are in pro-
gress at the NJ. E. church in Fargo.
The attempts to ship carp to the Black
Hills this winter have all proved unsuccess-
full.
Reports from the cattle ranges in the Black
Hills region show very little loss from the
cold.
Peach trees are being set out in the Black
can be raised there.
The Dramatic company at Port Emma a
night or two ago gave an entertainment at
Glendale and gave great satisfaction for
amateurs.
Arrangements are made to furnish seed at
Valley City to farmers who want to grow
fax. 1t is thought that quite large acreage
will be tried.
c. NJ. Cooley, of Mt. Vernon, was made
county superintendent of schools, and the
next week became the delighted male parent
of future pupil.
clergyman at LaMoure, seventy years of
age, walked eight miles one of the coolest
days recently. and enjoyed the walk, all
owing to the ozone.
A printer in Fargo lately drew one-fifth of
500 prize in the Louisiana lottery, and
good many hundred dollars will be sunk down
at New Orleans in consequence.
The Fargo Insurance company, so largely
composed of ex-newspaper men, have fitted
up an elegant suite of rooms, and it is said
have the most promising outlook.
The Dickinson Press thinks the repeal OF
the pre-emption and tree claim act will pre-
vent foreign lords and dukes from acquiring
vast tracts of land, and be good thing.
The secretary of the Lake Traverse, Red
field & Black Hills railroad, states that
active operations will commence in the
spring. 1t is to cross the Missouri at Pierre.
Flax has lately sold as high as s1.17 at
competing points in the south, aud there is
quite Juror for substituting it for wheat in
that section.
Dakota papers have been flooding Senator
Vest with their issues, but most of them
come back marked refused. He evidently
does not enjoy Dakota literature.
The young local editor of the Valley City
Times has been detected by the ladies in try
ing to get an unauthorized view Of the
L lis Cooking club, and put on the black
list.
The lawyers of Valley City will make life
burden to the wealthy miser, David Wass.
They have him indicted for seduction and
bastardy, and now propose to add suit for
usury.
Work is commencing on the foundation for
a duplicate of the Bank of Fargo building,
adjoining It, the finest business block in the
city, to cost about $25, 900. This is regarded
as a straw pointing to prosperous season.
Petitions to the legislature in favor of
woman suffrage are being largely signed in
Sphinx and other counties. 1t will not be
very surprising should there be strong sup
port for the measure in the legislature.
In some of the larger Dakota towns the
gathering Of prostitutes is regarded as sign
of prosperous times. Grand Rapids, Bis
III lrck, Fargo and some other points have
recently added largely to the propitious in
dications Of this sort.
The ladies at Ipswich have instituted a
very popular club for the promotion of Gulf
nary science, and the young men all want to
be honorary members. The club is named
the ga. A. f. club.' or the Artistic and
Aromatic Eating club.
Out Of some twenty births recorded by the
Dell Rapids Exponent in that city in one week,
only one is boy, and the paper says: The
Exponent don't like the idea OF having so
many girls born in the community. The
sexes ought to be balanced as near as pos
sible. Please remember this in the future.
Capt. Dan Marratta has secured special
rates for Democrats from Dakota to attend
the Inauguration at Washington. The round
trip from Chicago is $50, and one and one
fifth fare this side. Tickets good from Feb.
% to March 10. Quite a number will go.
Copies have been received of Col. P. Dom
ans speech before the Clover club in Phla.
delphia, one Of the most tony institutions of
the kind in the country. The colonel, of
course, took Dakota for his theme, and his
effort was one of the most glowing and elo-
quent be has ever delivered. His magma
ton never took loftier flights.
Some Of the insurance companies have
been canceling risks in Dakota, owing to
heavy losses in wooden towns" and Of the
close restrictions and heavy taxes imposed by
tue ldNs VI bhS stlAitpil luC duuilDI re-
port, however. shows that there Is but one
company that has not received more in pre-
miums from the territory than It has paid in
losses. Most Of them have done a profitable
business In Dakota.
At the Smith musical entertain meut at the
Opera house Tuesday night, attended mainly
by the elite, the only ballads on the pro-
gramme were from the pen Of the poet ed
itor, W. II. Ellis, who is termed BY the local
papers, the dakota poet" the ELLA
Wheeler" aud prolific genius. He is but
eighteen years Of age, and is really prodigy.
Like Byron he lisped in numbers in in
fancy aud his parents have had great diff
Guilty in persua1ing him to talk in prose at
ALL His friends are gathering his Adde'S
cent productions aud will publish them as the
early efforts OF the ''Sweet Poet OF the Ba-
mana Belt"
The jury Farce.