St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-06-09
Dakota NewsletS.

Lahota has set out 400 shade trees this
spring, which is good start for so new a
town.
The subscription has been nearly com
pleted for flax mill at Carthage, in Miner
county.
Pierre has just secured at Chicago
material for its street car line Two miles
of track was provided for.
A German Democratic paper has been es-
tablished at Bismarck and is probably the
only one in the territory.
Hon. Frank Palmer, the late postmaster
at Chicago, is looking over North Dakota.
He expects to return to the newspaper bus
mess
The Redfield Dispatch says the Demo-
Gratis of Sphinx denounce the Sioux Falls
convention and will have nothing to do
with it.
The young man Wheeler, who killed a
man at Michigan City while guarding the
elevator, is held in $4,000 bonds for man
slaughter.
The work of taking the census is in prog
ress all over the territory this week. Many
believe the figures will fall below the usual
estimates.
The Russians in Mcpherson county have
put in some -, 900 acres of flax this season.
They were too late for other crops to. any
great extent.
Most of the farmers who had land avail
able have been sowing flax the past week.
The first half Of June is regarded as the
best time for sowing.
The hose company at Kimball, in Brule
county, claim it as an achievement to run
800 feet, lay 100 feet of hose and have
a streamon in sixty seconds.
Miss Horning, successful young teacher
near Bookings, retired in good health one
night recently, but was found dead in the
morning. No cause is assigned.
The Democrats of Chamberlain met the
past week and decided that Dr.. S. w. Dun
can was their choice for postmaster at that
place. He is a very genial, capable man.
The samples of coal brought from the
Sioux reservation, west of the Missouri
river, leave little room for doubt that there
is wealth there for somebody in the future.
George T. johnson, the One-Iegged vet
eran and statesman, has started for Port
land, Me-, as che Dakota representative of
the G.. A. r. at the national encampment.
June 30.
Judge Mcconnell has agreed to hold
term of court at Devils Lake sOOn much to
the qualification of that section, as they
have had to go to Grand Forks and Fargo
heretofore.
W. A. James is quite hero at Redfeld
since his return from Minneapolis, where
he took some of the best prizes in shoot
ing match, competing with several of the
finest shots.
The improvements at Huron this season
to June are figured at about $40. 600 among
which is the fine opera house. That place
is not in advance of the country and it's
growth is healthy and solid.
The chief of the tribe of Yanktons. in
South Dakota, Strike-the-Bee, is nearly 100
years of age. That is one trouble with this
climate, it keeps Indians and bad people
alive too long.
The past week the advance of the Yer
mont colony, SO id number, arrived at Ips-
witch and were escorted to the hotel and
given a banquet. The other 800 are ex-
pected in few days.
Hiram Sheridan of Elkton, formerly sta
ton agent in Denver, in the Brookings
region, is, charged with leaving with more
money than he had a good claim to and
officers are looking for him.
The First National bank of Columbia
was organized the past week, with III. C.
Sessions as president and Charles A. Baker
cashier. Ithas $50, 600 paid up capital, and
is one of the solid institutions.
1.-THE recent ruling of the land office that
postal orders, checks and drafts cannot be