St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-05-17
TERRITORIAL TIDBITs.
News Notes of Interest to the DAT Ota
People.

People.
| Mr.. Payne, who was the bugler boy for
for Gen. Sully in the Indian campaign of 1852,
| lately visited a battle ground near Cranden
! in Sphinx county. He says 200 Indians were
killed there and all buried in one grave by
| the soldiers. Skulls are now seen lying on
the ground turned up by the plow 1t was
not known before by the settlers whether In
dams or whites were buried there. Mr.. Payne
also locates the spot not far away OH the east
side OF the James river where twenty-nine
soldiers were buried. 1t is probable the at
tention OF tho war department will be called
| to the matter and proper care given their
burial place.
| A farmer in Tower county, lately from the
stony hills of Connecticut, was impresse |
by the contrast when he found himself plant
ing corn in the mellow, stoneess soil with
not a fence in sight and heaps of rich manure
thrown into Il ravine to get il out of the way,
as it IVES not wanted on the land that will
grow thirty bushels of wheat to the acre year
after year. He says it is picnic 10 farm
there to what he had been accustomed in the
| sterile East.
| Rev. 6. Y. King, one of the pioneer preach
ers Of Deuel. county, died week or two ago
| somewhat suddenly, having already written
his discourse for the Sunday evening service
of Candy. Another minister took the dis
course and delivered it at the hour it would
have been preached by MIR. King had he lived
1t seemed to the hearers voice from the
grave, and it is said the effect was magical.
When man went to prove up on Ms claim
| last week, in one of the northern districts. the
| fact came out that he came to this country
when year old, and did not know whether
| his father was naturaliZed or not
| He had been voting for years, but was
obliged to wait six months more and take out
papers before he could get his land.
Many OF the business men of Grand View
| in Douglas county are arranging to move
! their buildings to the new town of Armour
four miles away, on the railroad. The latter
| place is having a paper started, & town
| mapped out, and the indications are that it
| will become big enough to show on the map
| in single season.
The Buffalo Sentinel estimates that each
| gopher near corn field will destroy one
| buShel Of corn, and they do more damage
| than all the hail and storms. 1t thinks there
| is fortune in store for the man who Will
patent a cheap method of DISCRIMINATING
them.
The Port Emma Times in the James River
valley says gang of swinders is working
the insurance racket in that section, by in
ducing person to sign an application for a
little insurance soon to in1 his name to q
note and mortgage Tor all he is worth.
A Norwegian, who not long since removed
from Minnesota to Tower county, has lately
become the male parent of triplets. He saws
he cannot stand so much happiness as reer-
| lar thing, and if it is kept up he shall go back
to Minnesota.
In Stutsman county there has been so much
horse stealing that the farmers have organized
company for the purpose of pursuing the
thieves. They drill and train their horses
in cowboys evolutions and revolver practice
| The Estellne Bell, the only strictly and
purposely humorous paper in Dakota, ema-
| mates from city that could poll but sixty-six
votes at the election last week.
1t is estimated that the implements and
force now put on the extension of the
Manitoba west from Devils Lake will be able
to build 100 miles this season.