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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-06-12
DAY NIESQUOTED.
ZEE Asserts That A Correspondent
EEasstated His Position.

EEsss1ated His Position.
To the Editor of the Globe:
In your issue Of June 5, / notice what pur-
ports to be an interview with me, or where
your correspondent pretends to give an ex-
preston OF my views. very seldom notice
such matters, but this is such an outrageous
nit it to go unrefuted. In the first place. L
was not interviewed by anyone while in
Washington. / have not given up all hope
of accomplishing anything for Dakota, but
still expect that the Dawes bill will become q
law, also that the Hill division bill will event
ually become q law, as 1t should, for the
reason that it is the only bill
now pending in congress that submits the
question of admission or division to vote Of
our people. l am not satisfied that we will
have no Democratic governor. 1 did not
make the statement attributed to me relative
to the president, or that the postmaster gen.
eral is the only friend the Northwest has in
this administration, or that 1 am disguised
with politics, or that expect to give up the
political ghost, or that l am Indifferent as to
when we have our territorial convention, as
[ am most emphatically in favor of an early
convention. L have no fault to find with the
support given me by my friends nor do I
propose to stop working for them and the in
terests of Dakota, and L am not aware of be-
ing away down in the mouth, nor have 1 any
reason to be, and am well satisfied with the
results of my labors, certainly so far as to
Dakota appointments. My only cause of COM
plant is that there has not been more OF
them. 1t is true that my own private bust
ness demands my attention and with this
simple exception the whole communication is
false and wholly unwarranted. Very truly
yours, NJ. III. DAY.
Tyndall, Dak., June s.
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FARE GO.
Sunday at Detroit Lake-.Return of
The Yerxa Hose Company.
Tyndall, OAK, June 8.

Sunday at Detroit Lake-.R eturn of
The Yerxa Hose Company.
Special to the Globe.
FARGO. June 11.-Fargo people go out to
Detroit lake in such numbers to spend Sun
days that the churches have small attend
once. Last week Fargo quartet, fortunately
allmales, in attempting to sail on the lake,
jibed tied sheet and upset of course, in
fifteen feet Of water The anchor held the
boat fast and they spent two hours and forty
minutes in the water clinging to the sides of
the boat before they were discovered and
rescued. Worms are so numerous on the
trees as to strip many of them of foliage, and
it is feared fatally damaged them. Picnic
parties along the river are able to have live
hash. The new Argus block is going up
about25, 900 bricks day. The two fire COM
panieS-ContineutalS and No. Hard-which
were given rest by the council year or
two ago, have been restored to duty by the
new council. The YerXa hose, which has just
taken the first prize at jamestown, is o crack
company of which the citizens are proud, but
more force has been needed. The public
schools are arranging for more elaborate ex-
ercises than ever before at the annual COM
mencement. Graduates of the high school
and the best scholars Of the grammar depart
ment will take part. The lawyers of Fargo
and Moorhead show surprising play on the
base ball grounds some indicating profess
Slondl experience III Jne game. SaC-
urday the second ga:ue of the
match will be played in Fargo.
1t is reported that J. HI. Mulcahey, one of the
popular young attorneys of the city, was
married on the 9th in New York city to Miss
Fannie Van Dusen, daughter OF one of the
old Knickerbocker families, and very wealthy.
The matter is quite surprise to some of the
young ladies of Fargo. Both the military
companies and the other fire companies
turned out Thursday night to do honor to the
Yerxa hose on their return from jamestown
all covered with laures. They took all the
highest honors in the contests there. :. Re
duced rates have been secured on all the rail-
roads for the bigFourth ofJuly celebration, and
program is being arranged that will attract
all the country. About $1,000 has been SUBJ
scribed for expenses. 1.-The boring for nat
ural gas is down about 140 feet, and all the
signs are reported satisfactory. The stock of
the company is said to be going up as the bore
goes down.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-06-12
SPARKS MALnGNED.
One of Ris Clerks Speaks a Good
Word for Him.

Special to the Globe.
WASHINGTON, June lit is well to
give honor to whom honor is DUE An old
time clerk here. whom l have known as an
employee of the war, navy and treasury de-
partments, and latterly as clerk in the
pension office, spoke the words of wisdom
to me to-day. After telling me of the
transfer of his services from the pension to
the general land Office, he said:
sour commissioner, Mr.. Sparks, is one of
the best and most gentlemanly bureau officers
] have ever had as my superior officer He is
popular with all his clerks He uses them all
as gentlemen, and they regard him as q per-
sonal friend. There is none of that austere
bigness about him that characterized Dudley
in the pension Office and Crosby in the war
department.. He is one of the men, and they
regard him as one of them; but they do not
therefore forget his official superiority. He
uses all who come in from the great world
outside as gentlemen, and those who know
him best like him BEST
~ "But how do you regard his decisions con-
corning titles, and entries, and patents?'
"Weil, cannot say that we agree with him.
He came into office possessed with the idea
that there had been rOguery and thieving to
an excessive extent; and believe that he is
not far wrong in that suspicion. But he has
developed from that idea another thought and
Suspicloii, anu tuereDy ne Is LED lnCO error.
He does not believe that the land office ever
had an honest commissioner nor trust
worthy special agent. He suspects the hon
esty and integrity of all his predecessors. He
believes that he is right, and nothing can
change him in his belief
docs he not get tired Of the reyersions Of
his decisions, which the secretary is constantly
| making?
''That cannot say. He does not vent his
| ideas before the employees of his bureau; but
| 1t is the general impression that he regards
! the secretary as being in error, and he remains
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Sioux Falls.

SIOUX FALLS, June IA gentleman from
Omaha has purchased large number of lots
In CorelPs addition to Sioux Falls for $4,000
ana proposes to hold and speculate in them.
....E. A. Sherman has bought lot on Main
street north of the Insurance Company OF
Dakota block and will join with Briggs & Rob-
lnson, who own an adjacent lot in the cree
ton of fine block. Briggs Robinson will
occupy large portion of the second story in
tnelr insurance business. The Insurance
company of Dakota has concluded to make
It's block four stories instead of three, as
originally intended, and will use the two
upper floors in their business. They
will expend 81, roo in terra Gotta trimmings. -.
Inc Pallsade silver craze is not entirely
thlng OF the past, though it would be far
Detter were it so. Emory Royce will go to
Denver with specimens of the ore and pro-
poses to see them tested before he will be-
ieye that silver in paying quantities does not
exist in Palisade. We have been treated to
a d1mlnutive strike at Bucks cigar factory
the past week. Khe employees desired an ad-
vance in wages that Buck was unwilling to
give, and quit work. 1t is proposed to have
an old settlers reunion in Sioux Falls next
week, and the old settlers of Yankton and
vicinity have expressed a desire to Join
with their brethren by the Big
Sioux. In Yankton one must live
fifteen years to be constituted an sold
settler" while in Sioux Falls life of twelve
years seems to render one sufficiently anti
quated to attend the festivities The base
ball management is trying to arrange a game
with the FlandreauX Indians and with some
prospect of success. The nine will not at
tend the tournament at Pierre next week and
compete with the mines of South Dakota "
The running teams are hard at work prepar-
ing for the struggle at Pierre next week, and
have made frst-rate time in practice. The
team will be good one that takes the cham
p1on hose cart from Sioux City.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-06-12
A Hydrophobia Epidemic.

YAN1KToN, OAK, June 11.-Hydropho-
bla has broken out in this county among the
cattle, horses, hogs and dogs. 1t is esti-
mated that there are fifty cases of rabies
IN and about Gayville, Meckburg and Yer
million and stock is dying at rapid rate in
all the agonles of hydrophobia. Mad dogs
are running wild through the country. and
everybody is on the watch for them with
their guns The board of health has OF
dered all dogs in the county to be muzzled
or shot. Twenty dogs were killed yester-
DAY IN the eastern part of the county. One
child was bitten on Monday near Yer
million.
AtVermillion a man and woman and
hve children were bitten few days ago.
while cattle, hogs and horses are hourly
dying from the dreadful disease. Fifty
dogs have been killed in the county, and
the board of health have ordered ali dogs
not muzzled to be shot Immediately. Two
horses, two COWS and some hogs died of
hydrophobla at Gayville to-day. The re-
port has reached here that Bonhomme and
Clay counties are similarly affected.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-06-12

where he is to correct the errors which he be-
heves the secretary is constantly making. He
is patriotic and earnest. He believes that
posterity will write him down as one of the
greatest and most comprehensive of reform
ers."
''Do the clerks implicitly obey his orders in
the matter of obstructing the settlers in the
Northwest, say in the Mouse river and Turtle
mountain regions
Eyes sir, they do. They do not consider
MS impressions and orders as anywhere near
right in those matters, but they do know that
ne is the boss, and they obey his Instructions
as well as they can. They know that any
effort on their part to obstruct his will and
desire would be followed by immediate ana
merciless official decapitation."
''Ihen you mean to say that the clerks Will
do what they regard as wrong because they
fear Mr.. Sparks
mo, don't mean anything of the kind.
mean that while they differ with the commits
sloner IN Judgment, they realize that he is the
responsible party, and that they are under
his orders, and they obey him literally,
You must know however much we may
differ in opinion, we realize the fact, that,
AFTER all, the commissioner may be right, and
we wrong. Besides, he is responsible for the
conduct of the bureau, and we are merely his
hands, or fingers, or feet. He is the will and
the intelligence. We are merely the instru-
ments of the will and that intelligence. See?'
IL Is pleasure TO record the gOou tnlIlgS
said of Commissioner Sparks, for he has
been the best abused man of this admins
tration by the people of the Northwest.
Who knows but that after all it may be that
Mr.. Sparks is right in his exceptionally
close scrutiny of all land matters? The
general public temporarily suffers. it is true:
but suppose he is right. 1t would be better
IN the long run to have all those matters
settled now while the country is young,
rather than to let them stand for years and
then be contested In the courts
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-06-12
AndOVer.
Special to the Globe.


ANDovER, June 11.-Crops in this vicinity
look well. We have had no dry weather here,
but have had two heavy rains in the past two
weeks, one each week. The acreage of this
county is about 25 per cent more in crops this
season than last. Of wheat there is about Is
per cent more. There is some talk of erect
ing nice hotel in this city, which is needed
and would be a paying investment The
railroad company has got the round house
well under way, and has also erected q good
section house and has commenced on the di-
vision coal sheds, size, 20x20G. These build
ings are on six acres that the railway COM
pany recently purchased Of T. B. Davis for
500 per acre. which seems a good price for
land that was worthless prairie only about
two years ago. 1t is expected that the iron
will be laid on this northern extension of the
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railway as far
as Britton, distance of thirty-five miles, by
July 4, and all anticipate free excur-
sion. This city is located in as fine wheat,
stock and agricultural country as there is in
Dakota, and is destined to be the banner town
between Minneapolis and Aberdeen. We
have few good openings left yet for men
of energy and capital. =. More freight has ar
rived at this place within the last sixty days
than at any place double this size in the terri
tory. The I. o. of 6. T. held a strawberry
sociable Wednesday evening, which was
success. :. The new church is progressing
finely.
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Grand Forks.

GRAND FORKS, June 11.-H. S. Cummings,
an old resident and o prominent citizen died
at his residence in this city. He had held
many high positions of trust, and was. es-
teemed by all who knew him. John Nc
Kelvey has returned from trip to his
ranch in the James river country and reports
the stock in good condition and as having
wintered in good shape. The firemen who
attended the tournament convention at
jamestown, speak in the highest terms of
fremens at that place c. A. Hale was re-
elected secretary of the association F. J.
Drew is the advertising agent for the North
Dakota exposition, and is meeting with good
success in his efforts B. f. Warren, a
prominent farmer from Arvilla, was in town
during the week basking in the rays of the
electric light. .GeorgeE. Ross, the genial man.
ager of the Hersey at Arvilla, was doing the
town this week. "A. @. Labrie has taken one
of those pleasant Riverside park cottages
and will spend the summer there. The Of
f1cers of the Minneapolis s. Manitoba road
have subscribed $1,000 for the exposition.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-06-12
"A GROWING CITY.
Something About the Industries and
Institutions of Yankton.

The Yankton Wooden Mill, owned by
Mr.. G. A. Wheeler of Preston, Mimi, is
kept busy in the manufacture of blankets
and WOODEN cloth. George E. Hawley &
Co., who are extensively engaged in the
manufacture of tinware for the wholesale
trade, have large contract for plumbing
and gas fitting at the asylum, and have just
begun the erection of large brick block
which they will occupy. Since the opening
of the Chicago & Northwestern railway
Yankton real estate has advanced fully fifty
per cent. Geo. W. Roberts, who has fol-
lowed the real estate market very closely
during the past ten years, declares that city
property will advance in value to more than
twice it's present worth within year.
The telegraph college, under the direc-
ton and management of E. M. O'Brien
and w. B. Dean, is one Of the promising
institutions of learning of which Yankton
is Justly proud. 1t is the only school of
biography and stenography in Dakota, and
although but two years DID, has been a
great success.
The Yankton Driving Park association
has determined upon holding fair this
fall upon their grounds, which are the
finest in the territory. On July 1. and
3 there will be a series of horse races, and
as the purses offered are very liberal, it is
expected that some fast stock will be
imported for the occasion. Deputy United
States Marshal Young is taking an active
part in perfecting the arrangements, and
expects to have his efforts crowned with
success.
One of the principal attractions here on
the Fourth of July will be 200 Sioux In
dams, who will do some fancy dancing,
and indulge in imaginary scalp-lifting esca-
pades. These Indians are always fond of
showing how Custer and his men were
massacred in 1876. and, never neglect an
opportunity to entertain their visitors with
the ''Custer death dance"
Since the mayor ordered all the saloons
closed on Sunday the brewers do fair
business on that day. 1t is amusing to
hear those who were strongest i'll favor of
closing the saloons, advocate their doctrine
in various ways during the week, and on
Sunday find that they spend one-half of the
day at the brewery, where they indulge in
beer by the quart. But so it frequently &C.
ours.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-06-12
DAKOFA,S DAY.
Matters Concerning the Territory to
E8e Considered To-day.

Matters concerning the Territory to
8e Considered To-day.
Special to the Globe.
WASHINGTON, June 1.-THE day fixed
for the consideration of bills from the house
committee on territories is here at last
Tomorrow it is hoped that nothing will in
tervene to prevent Chairman Wellborn
from inviting the attention Of the house to
the matters of Importance which are COM
mtted to his care. May 81 and % We're
the days first agreed upon for the territorial
committee, but you will remember that we
were knocked out by the bogus butter bill
In lieu of those days we have June ~ and
also June Is as a continuing ORDER on the
subject. 1t is commonly understood here
that the committee on territories has not
pushed the Dawes bill as it might have
done, and as We think it ought to have DONE
Each member of that committee has had
his own irons to keep hot in his district
fire, and when the oeomargarine bill was
started booming along the floor OF the
house each member dropped his interest in
committee affairs and jumped into the
arena to make a little political renomina-
ton capital out of the pending excitement
Since the nervous thrill has passed away,
those members who have acquired no ex-
tending to business, and promise to look
after the great interests committed to their
care tomorrow. Chairman Wellborn has
promised about thousand times this week
that he will devote the entire day and night,
if necessary, to the passage of the most i'm
portant bills. He has not directly promised
that he will push the Dawes bill as the first
measure. He has intimated to several
gentlemen that he considers that bill as one
of the
MOST IMPORTANT MEASURES
before his committee. but he does not show
up as the best champion of it. I venture
the prediction that if the Dawes bill comes
to the front tomorrow, it will be because
of the persistent friendship of Hon. Knute
Nelson for the bill. In brief, it is not at
al likely that the opening OF the Sioux res
ervation, as great public and philanthropic
idea, has fully comprised the gigantic in
telligence of the house, nor of the entire
committee to whose care it has been COM
mitted. The fact that 10000 miserable
unkempt, dirty, worthless, copper-skinned
loafers occupy al area of land twice as
large as Indiana, to the exclusion of pro-
gressive white people, and to the almost
irreparable injury of all the settlers along
the Missouri river, has not yet permeated
the great intellect of Americas representa-
live house. The further fact that the in
telligence, culture and progress OF the
Northwest have been asking for relief from
this untoward state of affairs for several
wears seems to make but little difference.
The people change their representatives
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-06-12
ManGan.
Special to the Globe.

CPeCldl W tu0 OlODG
MANDAN, June 1.-THE case of Bateman
vs. Backus, involving the title to several lots
in Mandan, was decided last Tuesday by
Judge Francis in favor of NJ. Bateman. The
gentle rain fell steadily all the afternoon of
last Monday and gave the ground a good
soaking. Several families Of Russian immi-
grants with lot of stock came up from
South Dakota last Tuesday and will settle
near Hebron. Rev. I. o. Sloan, formerly of
Mandan, was in town W ednesday The dele
gates to the Masonic grand lodge in session
at Bismarck the fore part of this week, came
over to visit Mandan and see the big bridge
last Wednesday afternoon. They were much
pleased with our town.. Mrs. Brewer of
Fargo, sister of Mayor Rice, is visiting in town
this week. IS. G. Lauterman of Hillsboro.
OAK, was in the city this week visiting his
brothers. - large party Of Indians arrived
in town last Monday on their way to Fort
Berthold. The school board met last Mon
day and reappointed all the present teachers
for the ensuing year. Mrs. A. S. Parsons
and children left for a visit to Southern Ohio
and West Virginia last Monday and will re-
main all summer.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-06-12

Capt. Griggs of Grand Forks would not mind
running him as delegate to congress on the
Democratic ticket. The city council will
PROBABLY contract with A. Klaus q Son for
boring an artesian well and subsequent cree
ton of water works. Out of half dozen
bids Klaus s. Sons, for $4,000 for one thou
sand-foot well, was lowest. A large acreage
in fax has been sown during the past spring,
farmers anticipating that it will prove profit
able crop. E. Fishing at Spiritwood lake is ex-
celent and teams are run every Sunday to
and from the lake by liverymen OF this city.
Hon. Abe Boynton OF South Dakota was
busy as q bee in the city one day last week,
comforting with leading Democrats about the
timeiof the convention and other matters of
Importance. :. Capt. Griggs Of Grand Forks
was also looking the field over from the other
side of the fence
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-06-12
BARRETT s60R Es ENGLE,
And Hints at Financial CrOOkednes
by the Latter i'm Washington.

And Hints at Financial CrO0kedneSS
by the Latter i'm Washington.
To the Editor OF the Globe:
In the last Dakota edition of the GLOBE
appeared special telegram from Aberdeen,
containing certain resolutions adopted by
few Democrats Of this city. The facts in the
case are these: A recent meeting of the
Democratic club of Aberdeen was called for
the purpose Of indorsing George S. Engle,
hoping thereby to further his political ends.
Of the sixteen or eighteen members of the
club who were present, out Of a total OF over
14O, some eight or ten took occasion to pass
resolutions denunciatory of the course had
taken in regard to his candidacy. am
Democrat and my earnest desire is to see the
ancient glory of the party sustained. This
can alone be accomplished by men in whose
characters are some of the principles OF
truth and sincerity. How this aforesaid Engle
conceves in his brain that the Democrats OF
Dakota are in any way under obligations to
him for services rendered the party would
take more than a coEnoiSSeur to determine.
That Ordway johnson conceived this en-
bryonic, would-be statesmen that he is now
trying to nourish and give strength to- is a
political
SECRET KNOWN TO ALL.
That fact alone should be sufficient to con-
vince the thinking Democrats of Brown
county that to instruct the delegation to vote
direct their next steps into pitfall, loathsome
indeed. am aware that the aforesaid would
be statesman banks on the services he claims
to have rendered his party and the people OF
Dakota during his stay in Washington, which
services were performed, in fact, by none
other than Jim Hill and P. H. Kelly Of Min
nesota. However, when we consider his
pocket wore a s'cadaverouS'' aspect prior to
his going, and had assumed a corpulent ap-
pearance upon his return, we are led to be-
lieve that the great services he claims to have
rendered were not solely for the love of the
dear people of Dakota. do not desire to an
tagonize any faction of the Democracy that
may exist; but to put in the BACKGROUND such
men as John R. Wilson, NJ. L. Mccormack and
a score OF other old resident Democrats who
have rendered service to Democracy and
fought it's battles against such odds, for the
purpose of Haunting before them the red Fl ag
of the political prostitute, Crdway johnson,
in disguise, is more than I can endure.
G. BOYD BARRETT.
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