St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-06-17
DAKOTA.
DakOta NeWSletS.

A pleasure steamer is to be put on the
river at Canton.
A man in Brown county measures barley
sown the last Of March now twenty-five
inches high.
A Democratic paper is to be established
in Clark, new and very fine county just
west of Watertown.
Ripe strawberries will be picked from the
vines in Dakota about June 20. The season
lasts five OF six weeks.
jamestown has invited the military at
Fargo to help celebrate July 4, and provides
transportation for them.
The camp meeting of the Second Adj
ventists is to be held in grove at Sioux
Falls commencing June 90.
The first monthly stock show of that Sec
ton was held last week at. Crandon in Sphinx,
and made good beginning.
The city council has closed out the vari-
ETY. theater at Aberdeen, and the play peo-
pie have gone to Pierre to open out.
A recent hail storm in Steele county
broke good deal of glass and cut some
fields of wheat down, but the damage was
not great.
A man at Milbank has a chicken with a
head at each end, one white and the other
black, but no tail. 1t is attributed to the
climate.
One undertaken at Mitchell has in the
last eleven months provided for seven per-
sons drowned, one burned and one frozen
to death.
A good many farmers expect to harvest
an acre and sell it for 81. 1t is cheerful
contemplation.
The 800, 600 required for the Farmers
Insurance company in Grant county has
nearly all been subscribed and the company
will soon issue policies.
Delegate Clifford has been relieved from
duty at Washington, and has been fishing
at Lake Herman. He had better success
there than at Washington, it is believed.
Judge Clifford thinks start should be
made at Mitchell toward the 800, 900 home
stead monument, and to trust to luck and
effort to induce congress to put up for it.
This week two nine or ten-year-old boys
arrived at jamestown, making the 5000
miles from Norway alone in good shape,
with the aid of caps labeled, Jamestown,
Oak"
The need of a new frst-class hotel at
Fargo was shown last week. The two lead
ing houses were more than full and had to
| find sleeping quarters for guests in business
blocks.
Young lady ushers at Mitchell greatly in
crease the attendance upon the public gath
erings where they are employed. 1t is pro-
posed to have them pass the contribution
boxes.
Redfeld is one of the patriotic points that
| is to have the ''grandeSt celebration" of the
Fourth of July ever known in Dakota.
That county acquired some military fame
last year.
| A daughter of Joe Howard, successful
magazine writer, has been reading the
| DOMAIN Dakota literature, and will spend
| the summer at Standing Rock agency, near
| Bismarck.
| Aberdeen has had two general conven-
| lions the past week, the Sunday school and
bankers. 1t has good hotels and railroad
| facilities and is a good point for holding
conventions.
| The editor of the Aberdeen Pioneer re-
ports and vouches for corn seven inches in
height just two weeks after planting. 1t is
| believed no editor out of Dakota can beat
| that without lying.
| The prediction of the mayor of Water
| town that $50 houses would be built there
| this season is likely to be within bounds
as over 100 are already counted, completed
and under way.
The census of 1880 gave Dakota a popu-
| lation of only 1856, 600. If the one now be-
ing taken shows an increase of 200 per
cent in five years it should stop all question
| as to the right of admission as state. It
will be difficult to find a like growth in the
history Of any part of the country.
The Aberdeen Republican regards the
candidacy for governor of j. II. Mcnamara
reported from Freeport. H., as joke. 1t
says he was one of the owners of a defunct
town site called Freeport in Edmunds
county, and has never been suspected of be-
ing Democrat by those who knew him in
| that section.
The Sioux Falls Press claims to know all
about duel in the Black Hills in early