St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-08-06
TERRITORIAL TIDBITS.
News Notes of Interest to the People
of Da kota.

valley City still has queer cases. In court
there the past week, Theodore Fish was tried
on the charge of rape on Minnie Root. 1t
was shown in the evidence that the assault
was committed at the residence of Miss Root
during the absence of her parents. On dis
covering the facts they continued him in
their employ upon his agreement not to re-
peat the offense. A few months later they
had some difficulty with Fish about his wages
and then brought this suit and had him sent
to the penitentiary.
Two of the newest frontier counties in the
North have appointed delegates to the Re-
publican convention at Yankton. One of
them, ROlette has even held two conventions
and will have cOnteSting delegations or proX-
les. There is something peculiar about it
when a county 500 or more miles from the
convention, with but a handful of settlers, so
early is able to hold two conventions. There
are probably rival towns or a couple of ambi-
tious politicians have convened themselves.
There are generally jobs in the organization
of new counties. In the case of Logan re-
Gently, when organized, it is said there we're
not more than thirty or forty voters, and most
of the names to the petition were of men who
were never near the county. The men who
secured the offices of commissioners, of
course, had good thing in the location of
the county seat and, it is said. they con-
tracted for q court house and school lot at
$3.50 each.
The cases of parties coming to Dakota
courts to secure divorces in order to marry
again, are becoming more numerous. 1t is
stated that in the CaSs county court there are
at present two such cases pending, in which
the parties admit that their object is to marry
parties waiting for them. In one of these
cases the complainant is not citizen Of the
United States.
The Prairie Home. edited by the secretary
of the State league, thinks the proposition in
the platform of the Farmers alliance, to tax
all mortgages recorded in the territory will
stop the flow of capital from abroad and be
very damaging. 1t SAYS thousands OF mort
cages are written at Z and per cent, and
the taxation in the low assessment section is
generally from to per cent.
No nomination vet made has elected such
enthusiasm as that of Maj Burke, to the
Aberdeen land office. He is very popular
personally, and there seems to be special sat-
isfaction that the president did not go out of
the territory for q man. Republicans and G.
A. r. boys claim to have had Influence in the
case, and allege that they are very happy at
the selection.
One man with one machine in Edmunds
county last week cut l40 acres of wheat in 95
consecutive hours 1t is said his only stops
were to change horses. He ate his meals on
the machine. The wheat in that section is
proving much better than was feared and it
is believed will average twelve bushels
mOSUly Oh NO. 4 nara Qual1Uy.
The secretary of the state league saws:
''Messrs. Kanouse, Elwell s. Co., the thirty one
who dug the grave for the Sioux Falls consti-
tuition, at the same funeral buried the state
league" The question is not now about
sending apostles and orators into the states
to beat Democrats for congress, but how to
pay the debts of the league.
In Sully county Judge Church attempted at
the late session of court to break up the free
and easy methods prevalent. He fined several
jurymen for being late, one for attempting TO
instruct the court, and witnesses for going
home without leave. He created the impress
sion that he was man of business not
words.
The statement in some South Dakota papers
that the gophers took what wheat was left in
the North by the drouth is great exaggera-
ton. In spite of the gophers. hail and drouth
the North will have at least three-fourths of
an average crop of No. hard.
The St. Lawrence Tribune, in the Rec val
ley, says on the hottest day in July the ther-
mometer there touched liz . in the shade. 1t
was not during the chinook or hot wave per-
iod, but it was conceded to be too warm for
comfor
In Kidder the county board has lately paid
out about $4,000 in premiums on gophers
killed. Still there seems no danger of the
boys losing all chance for that kind of sport.
1t is expected that Congressman J. J. Klelner
of the First Indiana district will remove to
the Pierre region. where he has invested
largely, after the next session of congress-
The Miller and Yankton wells have given
the arteslan system boom, ana soon there
will hardly be a town east Of the Missouri
river without similar water supply.
The first gathering of Democrats ever had
in Mcintosh county was held at Haskins last
Saturday to orga nize the party and elect two
delegates to Aberdeen.
A farmer named Standsh in Charles Mix
county, standing upon stack of grain, was
killed by lightning, but the stack was not
hurt.
A farmer named Kay. near Yankton, claims
thirty acres of fax that averages seventy
bushels per acre.
"Giford and division" is the war cry of the
late supporters of the league and Campbell.