St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-07-10


ritory at washington. He failed to remem-
Der that there has never been any explicit ex-
| preston of the wishes of the people on the
SUBJECT or agreement among those who
claimed to represent its people and interests
at Washington. The invective of the orator
elected but feeble response from his hearers
The Dell Rapids Times disagrees with the
catalogue that takes in the Russians as desir-
| able settlers in Dakota. 1t says: 'They are
very clannish, very filthy, lack everything
that resembles enterprise are poor farmers
very seldom erect buildings worth anything
as an Improvement and last, but not least
SOCIALISTS. anarchists and toughs. We do not
hesitate in saying they are the poorest class
of immigrants which comes to Dakota Give
US anything we have ever seen in preference
to Russians
For some reason many Of the South Da-
kota papers seem unwilling to abandon the
theory that Gov. Pierce is the real candidate
Tor delegate in opposition to Judge Clifford
ana other names are used as blinds. With
out the emphatic statement of the Cover nor
that ne would not accept the position in any
event, 1t is absurd to suppose that he would
be ambitious to go to Wa shington in the OBJ
Scure position OF a delegate without vote
and almost without influence
The names and addresses of large num-
Der OF maidens in Belmont county, Ohio
have been sent to Mitchell as. willing to
marry Dakota young men, and correspond
ence Is being opened with them. The Repub-
iican is offered as bonus to each new family
established in this way in that section,
Judge Chords home organ is jubilant
over the selection of Yankton for the Re-
puphcan convention, assuming that it mean s
his nomination 1t also says that he will
soon return home, if he eau be spared at
washington, which is quite probable.
Hon Waldo M.Potter of the La Moure Prog
ress - believed to be the Oldest newspaper
man IN Dakota, as well as one of the ablest.
He recalls having put in type in New York
state notice OF the accession of Queen Vic
toria about q half century ago.
Marsha; Maratta visited Sioux Falls last
week and made himself solid by pronouncing
1t the handsomest and Invest city in Dakota
and he doesn't want to be candidate for
delegate-and is not at all concerned about
MS confirmation by the senate.
The surveying party of t he Manitoba road
have been locating the line into Watertown
selecting the mode Of entering the city. 1t is
believed the Manitoba is behind one of
the schem es to get to Aberdeen from the
East.
The editor Of the Clark Review relates that
during his absence on the press excursion
five girls and no boys were born in his town.
one family in that section has had seven chill
dren orn in Dakota, and every one girl.
In some of the southerly counties the hot,
dry winds are said to have reduced the oats
and flax fully one-half, and the damage to
that have not had recent rains.
1t is not four weeks since the town of Ar
mour, in Douglas county, was surveyed, and
there are now about fifty buildings up or in
progress. Most of Grand View, the county
seat, is going to the new town.
In Union and other counties of the south,
bee culture is becoming extensive and profit
able The abundance of prairie flowers fur
niShes Sustenance and honey, and there is lit
tie loss in wintering them.
Gov. A. c. Mellette is president of a life
insurance company and has been charged
with signing the policies as governor of the
state of Dakota. He, however, denies that he
has done so Intentionally.
In some of the counties where the vote is
mostly Republican they are kicking yigor
iously at the apportionment on population as
1t cuts down their representation in the gen.
eral conven ton.
There are residents of Bon Homme county
for twenty-five years who haven't seen hail
storm or a wind to do any particular damage.
Still it is not inferred that such do not visit
the South.
The first final proof on a tree claim, in
Grant county, was made June 26, last. This
shows the shortness of the time in which that
county has made its wonderful growth.
DR.. l.. c. Mead, leading and popular ply
stefan at Elk Point, surprised the community
by returning from a recent visit to Sparta,
Wis, with lovely young wife.
The Bismarck Journal is sturdy and able
defender OF Commissioner Sparks, and thinks
instances are very rare where honest settlers
have suffered from his rulings
Last week child asleep on the track of the
Milwaukee railroad at Memo, was thrown Off
by the pilot of the engine and is still alive,
although dangerously hurt.
A colony from Arkansas has arrived in
Custer county, south of the Black Hills, COM
ing all the way by wagon, and report that
many others are to follow.
In the Aberdeen district seventeen Metho-
dist churches are being erected, and the
membership is reported to have more than
doubled the past year.
Coles circus works its way into the towns
of North Dakota the first week in August.