St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-04-10

same. Horses In one are 80 anu III luOobhSt
S22; hogs, 81. 80 and so cents. with other
articles in proportion. This gives the i'm
preston that the older section of the South
has less wealth than the new regions Nortn,
and works disadvantage to the South without
escaping any taxation.
The Volga Tribune relates that one or It's
dealers lately shipped over sixty-ene eounas
of butter to a commission firm in ST. Paul and
in due time received his returns in the shape
of an order for 81 cents. If it had been even
IS, he would not have felt so bad out ne ms
no use for one cent pieces. The butter was
admitted to be u good article and seld Tor
four cents pound, but freight and comlnls-
sions used up all but about one and one-quar-
ter cents a pound. The low prices are charged
TO the flooding or the markets with outterine
and the bogus products. The remedy pro
posed by the farmers institutes IL 10 make
the quality Of dairy butter so good that IL
cannot be mistaken for the manufactured
stuffs, and it is believed consumers VIII pay
fair price for what they know TO be genuine
butter If il cannot be sold Mt st. Paul senu
it to Chicago and East
pThere is in Dakota quite spr1nkling OF
Fins, Laplanders and other people VINO llNe
ND near the North pole. There are few tribes
or people in the known world that DO hot
have representatives In Dakota. one or the
most popular preachers and even an editor
in Fargo was born In India, and there Is little
difference in complexion or culture petWeen
any of these people OF frigid or oriental
izen of the United States. T. a. Fleming,
prominent resident of Ipswich, who died the
past week. was born in Bengal, East indies
A great many of the farmers about Wah-
peton had storage tickets against the elevator
company that suspended there recently. AS
Room as they learned that there was trouble,
many of them went for their wheat. forced
their way IN and helped themselves. IL is
stated that at Page there were seventy teams
at one time after wheat, working night and
day to get it, until stopped by the sherin,
who placed an attachment on 1t.
The Young men from Towner county, who
visited the states during the winter, In addl-
ton to looking up wives where there were
vacancies of that sort, also looked up I'M
proved breeds of stock, which they are bring
ing back with them. The statement is by no
means limited to Towner 1t will not be long
before Dakota ranks among the best Seeuons
of the country in such matters. Ihere are
very few of the kind of settlers who are sat
fed with the scrubby varieties.
The visitor to the populous and well i'm
proyed county of Brown can hardly credit
the statement that the first white child was
born in it only six years ago last December
n daughter OF John Everson-that the first
death and marriage occurred In 1851. 1T is
noticeable that the first birth was that or
female the first death was that of woman,
and Il female was the principal party in the
first wedding The first buildings at Aber-
deem were erected In 1850.
In Towner county the first wheeled vehicles
of the season were on the road April l. The
sleighing was still fair, but the ground bare
in spots. That, however, is about as far
north as one can get in Dakota. There is
still nearly 4 half million acres OF govern
ment land in that county-only three OF the
thirty townships being entirely taken up. The
reported railroad extension from Devil
Lake will go in that direction and give it
quite boom.
Legal processes are generally supposed to
be slow. out Captain and Attorney Keller of
Elk Point recently performed feat worthy
of note He went TO Sioux Falls the other
day, hired driver to make extra time from
the depot to the court house, got Judge
Palmer to stop q case, hear and grant his
motion, and in twenty minutes from the time
he struck the town was on the train to re-
turn.
Probably nearly every well-settled county
in Dakota will have more or less OF the Farm
ers' alliance organizations this season, and
there will be great temptation to them to
take the field as political party. Some con-
servative observers warn them that this is a
danger-One that wrecked the farmers
movement in Illinois and other states. Ad-
vice will be rendered them freely.
1t is claimed that, had it not an area OF
some fifty miles radius to draw from, the
cemetery at Grand Forks could not be mad c
self-sustaining. Although the place contain;
some 5000 souls, q funeral is so rare thin
as 20 attract general attention. Sanitary reg
ulations are enforced there rs if the atmos
phere was not so healthful as almost TO debal
the entrance of disease.
Freeman A. Cole of New York state, the
originator and breeder of the American
Holderness cattle, now claimed as the bes
dairy stock in the world, has ranch in Doug
las county which he is stocking with his fin
breed His son has just come out TO look
after the matter. The animals on his plac,
near Grand View are a great attraction t,
that section.
If the territory is not divided II is com
puted that the names that will be proposed
for delegate TO congress by the time the con
vnntion meets will fill newspaper column
The present delegate, Clifford, will have thu
inside track and can only be ousted by com
binatiou or the impression that he puts OF
too much starch in Washington for q ter
ritory.
Some of the officers OF the proposed Wool
sey 81 Bismarck railroad have been over thu
the several proposed routes, and, tits claimed
give the preference to the line through Wal
mouth and Campbp rather than furthe
east They state thai Chicago capitalists arr
ready to furnish the money, and the rOat
will be built this year.
Matt Gering. fOrmcrally of Elk Point ha
held position in one Of the departments a
Washington for several years, but has now re
turned to his old home and opened a Law
office. Some OF his friends are pressing hi
name as a good man for assistant attorne!
by Arthur.
In the county seat matter in Rolette count,
parties swear that at one of the three votinl
places there were I5T legal voters in MAJ
last, while a month later the census ma
swears there were but 51l adult males in tn
county. This shows that there is no way {
boom population like having q county sea
contest.
Some boys from Eau Claire came out to tn
booming county Of Brown expecting TO m
choice claims awaiting them in sight OF til
best towns. and perhaps bonus offered 70
their valuable presence, but were Of cours
disappointed and took the return train to re
port that Dakota is not what they thought
was.
Some experiments made in parts of Dakot
with alfalfa have proved quite successful
Cattle and hogs luxuriate in it and fate
rapidly, and 1t is claimed that 1t will be 81
inches high in the spring before cattle ca
feed upon prairie grass. Ii will soon |
widely sold in the territory, apparently.
Yankton cast 1893 votes at the recent ele
ton, and gave Harris the Democratic cand
dat, majority OF 25T, with majority
Democrats in the council. Local issues he
something to do with ii, but there is no doul
that the Democrats can do the most votiI
there on straight pull
In view of certain recent failures of banl
and mills in Dakota, and the wrench given
great number of private individuals, OIL
familiar with the situation says there a
calamiIies quite as severe as destruction I
fire without insurance. He whispers so
tons" as the solution.
The board of trade at Elk Point have dol
good thing for that place in securing a I
duction of freghts on the Milwaukee, fro
Sioux City, nearly one-half. If similar bodi
at some other points touched by that syste
could do as well they would help their tow
wonderfully.
Trovare, in Roberts county, is immediate
on the edge of the Ssseton reservation a
for ic nd