St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-04-23
Dakota NeMsIets.

Pierre now has but one daily, two having
subsidized to weeklies.
The bonds of the territory to be issued in
June amount to S176, 200.
Hillsboro has shipped 500, 900 bushels Of
wheat and still has 100, 600 in the elevators,
besides good deal held by the farmers.
There has been of late quite a flood Of
saloon men in South Dakota from Iowa,
looking for openings for the liquid bust
ness.
A regiment of eighteen companies of the
Dakota National guards has been formed
and another one will be organized III the
South.
One firm at Glendale has just shipped
2, 900, 600 trees from Iowa. That number
set out in that section would make quite
start toward trees.
Rev. w. S. Stevens of Fargo, who was
born in Burmah, is delivering very inter-
esting lecture upon that country. A greatly
pleased audience listened to it at Lisbon
Saturday night.
A Sioux Falls paper notes that those in
that section who grow wheat mainly drive
OK teams, while the farmer who diversilies
and has corn and stock, rides in spring
wagon with high steppers.
last week were sold to the home bank at
1O4A. 1t is claimed that this is the high
est price ever obtained for county bonds in
Dakota. They draw Z per cent. The
credit of the county is evidently high at
home.
Judge w. B. Mcconnell returned to
Fargo from Washington and Indiana this
week and still has confidence that he is the
10, 10 Ira n
claims the earnest support of Senator VOOr-
heeS Mr.. Hendricks and all the prominent
Indiana men.
During the absence of Judge Becker Of
Glendale, who is urged for governor, the
Capital bank of st. Paul, through its Fargo
attorneys levied on his law library on
some claim growing out of the old Dickey
County bank, and he proposes to make it
lively for them
The reason Dakota is allowed $4,000
more than Minnesota for taking the census
is that the per cent of increase of popula-
ton since 1880 has been greater. Each
state or territory is allowed half the cost Of
the last census, augmented by one half the
percentage of the increase of population.
A peripatetic representative of the Chi
cagO Inter-Ocean lately wrote up Moorhead
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by the appearance in the article of cut of
the Grand Forks university for the Grand
Pacific hotel, and certain business houses at
Grand Forks for Moorhead houses. 1t is all
laid to the printers.
Delegate Clifford says that not single
vacancy has been filed in Dakota yet, even
in the smaller class of offices, and after he
had vOuched for the men as sound Dem
ocrats The delegate himself is charged by
one of his town papers as leaning towards
the Democrats. The term of the judge in
the Fargo district expires the 1st of May,
but Judge Hudson will hold until some one
is ready to take his place.
The contractors who graded about 100
miles of the Dakota Il Great Southern rail
road last year are again at work with double
the force. The work lacks but a few miles
of being completed from Elliot, on the
Fargo IL Southwestern, to Bristol. on the
Hastings and Dakota. Col. BrittOn, the
general manager, writes that track laying
will commence by June 1. 1t seems about
certain that portion of the line will be
put in operation this year.
There was no difficulty found in filling an
order at Fargo. Tuesday, for 100 men. for
the service of the Hudson Bay company. to
go to the Riel war region to drive teams.
Some were rejected, not passing the requis-
lite examination. They are to have S25 a
month. 1t was more difficult to make up
the 100 teams needed. These, it is said,
are hired at 81 day. They left for Winni-
peg Tuesday evening, to 60 west on the
Canadian Pacific to the points needed, to
haul supplies for the forces.
Mayor Mccormick of Grand Forks is
working for the appointment of f. NJ. lie
bach as governor. He states that when he
was i'm Washington not long since the pres
dent expressed to him his intention TO
change the governors of the territories at
an early day. as he deemed it important
that they should he in political harmony
with the administration. 1t is believed
there would be little question as to lie
bach'S appointment if he had not spent so
much time at Washington pressing his own
claims. Still he seems to be in the lead
since the retirement of Hon. j. Il. Wilson.
who could have had the position Mr.. Me
Cormick is confident the change will be
made very soon.