St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-05-19
TERRITORIAL TIDB1Ts.
Brief Items of Interest From All
Parts of the TERRITORY.


Last week a grey bearded, unkempt old
man, with a dilapidated apology for horse,
and canvaS-covered vehicle, passed through
Grand Rapids. and was intervied by the
Journal. 1t was with some difficulty the man
was induced to talk, but he proved to be a
man well educated, who had seen prosperous
times. His story was, that many years ago
his wife died in an Eastern city, leaving one
little daughter, who grew up a beautiful girl,
the pet and solace of her father. But 1.-THE
villain pursued her, and effected her ruin.
She left home without word or sign, Her
father was nearly demented, and when he
learned that she had been deserted, in Michi-
gan, he started in quest of her, but failed to
find her. He continued the search, and soon
exhausted his means, when he procured his
present outfit, and for five years had
been travelling the country hunting for
his lost Lora. He heard she had come to
Dakota, and is now going over the territory
in hopes of finding her.
The Hamline Times says there is a good
deal of Indignation in the Watertown land
district over the course of Special Agent
Bevans, who is charged with being ION the
make at the expense of the settlers. Ac-
cording to the paper it is his practice to ride
over the district, select few valuable quarter
sections of land that suit his fancy and then
proceed to have parties contest the same,
basing as foundation for his action that the
''claims are weeds, and in his opinion the
persons filing upon the land have not placed
thereon the required improvements or estab-
hshed a residence, etc. Possibly Mr.. Bevans
may take a different view of the situation.
Some of the discerning politicians see
chance for such division among the Repub-
lica ms this fall as to give Democrat show
to slip in as the delegate to congress. The
theory is that the Campbell faction, who are
pronounced revolutionists and impracticables,
will, by the leagues, control the Republican
conventions, or If they fail will bolt, and the
quiet, conservative, law-abiding Republicans
will refuse to follow the Campbell lead. 1t is
presumed the Democrats will be harmonious
and united and suppress the shrieks of To-
cality in the interest of the party. 1t is too
early to do more than guess a little.
Emmons county, on the Missouri river, sees
great encouragement in the fact that J.. W.
Cobb of the engineering corps of the Milwau-
kee road is az n in the county adding many
sections to the 5000 acres of railroad lands he
bought last year. The road is being built to
Kellig, only seventy miles distant, and this
gathering in land by its representative is
taken as pretty fair assurance that the road
will not be very long in pushing through to
the river. That region only needs the railroad
to fill it with settlers, as it is among the best
sections of the territory.
Some Of the South Dakota politicians and
papers have been endeavoring to excite the
fears of Bismarck over the retention of the
capital, in case division fails Their efforts
apparently are having some effect. At least
no opposition to the passage of the division
measure is now visible to the naked eye in
that quarter. There are two seemingly in
separable obstacles to the removal of the
capitalize inability of the rival towns of
the South to unite upon location and the
veto of the governor.
The Volga Tribune says Of the late conven-
ton at Sioux Falls aud its scheme to try to
run state outside the Union: "This
fu rHerrr ~
was fully represented, while the conservative
was not, but will be in July. Most of the
businesf was done in the way of a conference
and informally The indications now are
that the expression of public sentiment will
be so emphatic that even Gen. Campbell and
his following win hesitate to carry out their
plan.
1t is just six years this month since Peter
Folsom drove the first stake where Huron
now is. There was but one shanty ON the
TOWNSHIP at the time, and a couple of ante
lopes were seen standing few blocks away
Its enthusiastic citizens believe it will have