Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-10-15
pAKorANs ANXIOUS FOR WIVES.
q Chat with Col. Dorm
out One marriageabIe Girl.
New York Tribup,

New York Tribupe.
eve can accommodate ten
thousand girls with husbands in Da-
kota on ninety days notice, said Col.
PAT DOMAIN at the Grand Union no
tel a few days ago. The colonel OF
the late confederate forces, now a
journalist 10 the great territory. tow
cred full six feet under big SLOUGH
hat.
eve have psblisaed in The Fargo
Argus. he continued. two thousand
letters from as many young women,
and have made many matches. In
Nav, 1880, there was only one mar
aiageable girl in Fargo, and to day,
with population of u 600, we have
only four unmarried girls. In Dead
wood, at the height of its mining few.
err, in 1879 so, there were five thousand
bachelors and only six manageable
girls. You get a great many tales IN
the east about the lone young women
who take up farms in Dakota and re
ject all offers of marriage. Why,
they don't live in the territory year
before they are welded.
Most of our men went to Dakota,
when they were boys, and that IS the
reason we have so many bachelors
there-thousanas of them, all willing
to marry. The strange thing about II
all is most of them know lots Of girls
in the eastern towns from which
they came, and make no effort To wed.
won't havethe girls they used TO they
know, and they can't get any others
very we'll. Any attractive girl who
will 60 there can queen it over the
whole territory Montana is older
than we are, and has plenty of mar
riageable women My, how those
girls there ride horses But in Dako-
ia l know scarcely a town with an un-
married girl in it. 1t would surprise
you to know how many army officials
and men of prominence marry SER
want girls. High or low, rich or poor
good girl can have her choice there.
| know one prominent man who mar
ried a pretty waitersgirl of one of the
hotels the other day. She gave him
as a wedding present Dakota farm,
some diamonds. and many other valu-
ables. In Dakota women are equal to
men II me cy Is VI Jl15 law
Col DOMAIN, although now a neted
matchmaker, is bachelor himself.
Mai. Edwards, editor-ln- chief, and
II. @. PlumlY, managing editor, of
the Argus. he says, are both unmarri-
ed, although they have overlooked
and published all the two thousand
let ers sent him from eastern young
women.
When asked about the alleged polk
err game between Stanley Huntly and
Maj Edwards, in which the former
threw away four queens and drew
three aces To an ace IN hand, Col. Do
nan SAID THE story isn't to be be-
lieved. Mai Edwards knows how to
deal, and having four kings in hand
and a pot of $4 400 on the table he
would not deal his opponent three
aces
What about the admission and
division of the territory as states"
was asked.
The admission and division OF Da-
kota have been agitated with us since
1870, when we had twelve thousand
inhabitants. Since then there have
been several constitutional conven>
tons which have met, resolved, and
sent delegations to Washington. Last
winter we had a delegated at the
capital which spent hundreds of thou
sands of dollars in vain There are
three things to prevent division and
admission. The south will never
permit the admission of two northern
states if it can help it. The eastern
high tariff republicans will never per-
nit two low tariff states to enter if
they can help it. The democratic
party will never consent to the ad~
mission of two republican states if it
can help it. Dakota will be admitted
only when itconsents TO come in as
one state"