St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-08-28
TERRITORIAL TIDBaTs.
News Notes of Interest to the People
of Dakota.

The man who claims to have Travelled over
Cass and some adjoining counties and re-
ported to the GLOBE that the yield is so per
cent. is singularly at variance with the i'm
pressions of the wheat growers of that Sec
ton as they harvest the crop. Before
harvest there was some anticipation that the
yield would fall a small per cent. below the
average, but it proves to be one Of the largest
and finest yields the country has ever known.
This is true of CaSs and of most of the peighbor-
ing counties both sides of the river. Clay, on
the Minnesota side, claims yield of 2, 000 600
bushels of wheat, and to be the banner wheat
county Of Minnesota. A woman in Ransom
county had 120 acres, and her neighbOrs
laughed at her for insisting that it would
yield twenty-five bushels an acre, but it was
threshed last week, and by machine measure
the yield was Az bushels per acre. Similar
cases are quite numerous as to yield. West
OF the Red River valley the crop is light, and
more so as you go west, but the Red is the
boss on wheat this year.
Hon. Melvin Grisgby, one of the Republican
statesmen of Sioux Falls. is quite willing to
be the candidate for congress in case Judge
Clifford can't get there and Mr.
Grigsby evidently has strong doubts
on the subject, though not ex-
actly painful ones. Mr.. Grigsby was the
South Dakota commissioner to the New Or
leans exposition, and ii is said that he had
the expenditure of $4,000 of the S25, 600 APP
intimated that he has never made satisfact-
DRY report of its disposition. His associate
Maj. Fleming of the North, made a prompt
and explicit report of his share of the bust
ness. and some think Grigsby should show up.
Iu view of the stories being told by the har-
vesters, the Red river valley prides itself upon
being the banner wheat section of Dakota.
The yield is proving so much larger than any
anticipations that good deal Of enthusiasm
is excited. 1t is claimed that fields of hun
dreds of acres average above thirty bushels,
and forty bushels is no rarity. Eight of the
counties, it is estimated, will market more
wheat than all the rest of the territory this
year. and one, Cass, will have more than one
sixth, nearer one-fourth, of the Dakota crop.
There has been less drouth there, and it is
claimed that the soil of that section can stand
a severe drouth, and only need fear a wet
season, before there is sufficient drainage.
The Plankinton Free Press points a temper
anee moral with the sight of lady removed
from that place suffering from delirium ire
mems and clergyman dead drunk. The son
of this preacher was one of the principal
speakers at the indignation meeting at Sioux
City after the murder of Haddock. Some re-
form would seem to be needed at Plank1nton,
although it is claimed that the editor of either
of the papers there can repeat the Lord s
prayer in either version of the Testament.
The Flandreau Enterprise, paper of con-
siderable influence with the republicans IN
the South, some time since proposed as q
compromise that the Republican delegate to
congress should favor division in case the Re-