St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-02-25
the grand marshal of the grandest territory
In Uncle SANS dominions.
DnL:OtGr NeIcSlet9.

District Attorney Butts of Lisbon who ad-
vertised for IL wife has had to employ q
stenographer to answer the applications.
One farmer in Cass county relates that last
year he drilled his wheat instead of sowing
broadcast in the usual way, and harvested
forty bushels to the acre.
The Montana legislature evidently does
not take much stock in roller skating, as 1t
proposes to put the license on Kinks at 500
quarter, which will be nearly prohibitory
in many places.
1t is stated that in a recent criminal trial
before justice in Stark county the judge,
attorneys for both sides and the accused, de-
cided the case by game of cards. But that
is frontier county in the Bad Lands.
Huron, too, organized a military company
the past week, with J. L. Salinger as captain.
If it is necessary to fight its way into the
Union, Dakota will soon have grand army to
put in the field with broom brigades as re-
serves.
Dakota temperance people are asking the
legislature to pass local option law, and
thus take the matter of liquor licenses out OF
the hands of the county commissioners.
The rule said TO have been laid down by
Gov. Pierce not to approve appropriations Tor
new institutions will not require veto Oh
the S45, 900 appropriated for the agricultural
college at Fargo, as that was established TWO
years ago, on paper 1t is thought that he
keeps away from all banquets and receptions
given the legislature in order to avoid any
| obligations of courtesy.
The old pioneer and sturdy Democrat,
Terrence Martin, has come to the front as a
candidate for postmaster at Fargo. He built
the first hotel there and has been identified
with all its history. 1t is supposed he has
powerful backing at st. Paul, and among
Others high in the councils of the new admin
| istration. Mr.. Judd has been working of
| late with Chicago as base line.
Lisbon is proud to learn that It's two mem
bers of the legislature, Oliver and Austin,
who are 66 and 6.S in height, and as straight
as pine trees, are pronounced by the ladies
| at Bismarck as the handsomest members of
the legislature. Still both are opposed to
woman suffrage.
A bill has been prepared and will be
pressed in the Dakota legislature prohibiting
the sale of oleomargarine, butterine and the
other compounds, rs genuine bovine pro-
ducts. 1t is said that great portion of the
alleged butter used in Dakota towns comes
| from st. Paul, and the majority of it is
| fraudulent.
In a recent interview Lyman Loring, one
of the most successful of Red river farmers,
expresses the opinion that the permanent
prosperity of this country requires more COW
and less reaper. He says the grasses of this
section are very nutritious, and that in nc
part of the country can better butter be made
or stock grown more protitably, or Of a better
quality. He has tested it for eight years.
He thinks there should be line of railroad
to Duluth run in the interest of the wheat
section, and provision made for sending the
superior breadmaking grain to market as a
specially, with no mixture with other
wheat.
The Mitchell Capital claims to have private
information from the Dakota Democrats a
Washington that the senate bill dividing thu
territory will pass the house at this session
without a mission. This will evidently nee(
confirmation before it is credited fully.
Among the pictures of the press gans
| tdhCu III dlSO Cuuudl was Ouc ChllCu Ih'
group of heavy weights, comprising Maj
Edwards of the Fargo Argus, $40; Col
Lounsberry of Bismarck Journal, $50; E
| w. Caldwell of Sioux Falls Press, 25S; NJ
H. Jewell, Bismarck Tribune, 100; Charles
Richardson, Valley City Times, ISL.
Geo. Miller, the butcher of Mrs. Smell ant
little son, has been taken to Jail at Grant
Forks without the Threatened lynching, aut
there is an effort in some quarters to excite
sympathy for him on the ground that he wa
drunk or temporarily insane. The facts g
to show that if he was in liquor he drank i
for the purpose of ncrving himself for tn
dastardly deed. He was sober enough to lii
down with his clothes on until his victims
were sound asleep. There was method in hi
madness, aud If he is not hung by law h
probably will be by lynch law.