St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-04-29
Dakota New sIets.

Fort Emma, III DIckey, also comes 10 the
front with its military company.
Tennessee has lately sent colony of eX-
cellent people to Sully county.
The local editor of the Bismarck Tribune
claims to have seen herd of buffaloS a few
miles south while out prospecting for gold.
Col William Thompson will soon be able
to prove up on a tree claim in the Bismarck
region, probably the first in that land dis
trict.
Hon. G. NJ. Reed. the chief clerk of the
lower house of the legislature, has recently
married at Sterling Ill. They will reside
in Sully county.
QGeOrge A. Strout of Lisbon has gone to
Chicago to arrange for the introduction OF
his bundle-carrier attachment to reapers,
just patented and said to operate success
fully.
The new brewery at Bismarck will open
out with free book beer and general cele-
bration. 1t is claimed to be the finest thing
of the kind between st. Paul and the Pa
cific.
Among the varieties of devices for socialS
in Fargo of late have been flag sociables,
bean sociables and mum gatherings, all of
which seem to be new and interesting to the
participants.
The new Presbyterian church is to be
dedicated at La Moure the second Sunday
in May. 1t is the first church edifice
erected there and will be an event in the
history of the town.
In Ransom county a number of farmers
will put in fax after finishing wheat seed
ing. j. E. WiSner will SOW 800 acres and
others smaller amounts. This is new
thing in the North.
The half-breeds in the Turtle mountains
are giving more attention to hauling buffalo
bones down to Devils Lake than to aiding
the Riel war. In most parts of that terri
tory the bones have about all been gathered.
The Turtle mountain region is jubilant
over the fact that the one bushel OF wheat
sent from that region to the New Orleans
exposition was awarded the first premium,
in competition with the world. 1t was
raised by A. Sinclair, on Oak creek in Bot
tineau county.
After Hon. Jud La Moure and Sheriff
Haggart had spent several weeks trying to
find out how to start reform school at Bis
mMck it was discovered that the bill didn't
quite get through the legislature, and the
governor put them ON the penitentiary
board. They will soon have the institution
ready for the reception of guests.
The friends of Maj. Butte at Lisbon were
enthusiastic Saturday over the result of the
suit that had been running several years,
involving the title to some S25, 900 worth of
town lots, which had just been decided by
Judge Hudson in favor of the major. The
major at once loaded up with taffy and
found hosts of cheerful recipients for both
solids and liquids.
a committee of the somewhat noted Yer
mont colony of 1000 have visited Devils
Lake the past week and were shown the
beauties and attractions of that country.
They expressed q good deal of enthusiasm
over what they saw, and it is probable that
there will be migration there to some extent
in consequence. They said, however, that
the nomenclature of that section created
very unfavOrable impression with the staid
people of the Green Mountain state and adj
ViSed change.
Commissioner Dunlap is getting hold OF
the run of his new position and states that
he has advertised Dakota in some of the
agricultural papers East. He does not an
ticipate any great rush to the territory this
year, but has information that many small
parties will come and the aggregate will be
large. He is now investigating the methods
employed by other states and territories.
In some parts of the territory ArbOr day
was observed Saturday, and good many
trees were planted, but in most sections the
ground was rather too wet. The impulse
given to the subject, however. will have
beneficial results.
The schools of pickerel ascending the
river at Sioux Falls are so thick that they
are thrown out at times with pitchforkS.
One of the inmates of the Jail at Sioux
Falls is there because he tried to sell books
without contributing to the city revenues.
He holds that civilization there is not of the
most enlightened species and that his efforts
are of the same character as those of the
pulpit.