St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-07-20
TERRIToRI4E TlDsaTs.
Brief Etenls of News From All Parts
OF Dakota.


There has been and still is in Barnes
comfy great deal of litigation over school
tax matters, and the Sanborn Enterprise an
tioipateS general resistance to tue tax by
nonresident land owners on account of the
increased valuation this year. 1t is stated
that in some cases the land is assessed above
its present cash value and discrimination
made against non-reSidents. The latter claim
that in some districts there is u conspiracy to
compel the owners of decided lands. mostly
non-reSldents, TO pay the school debts, in
Guiding the cost of fine school houses, before
government claimants, who are residents
generally, acquire title and their lands be-
co.1e taxable. But this is not a new thing
pusaing taxes OF onto non-residents. The
opportunity is very alluring.
Reeent interviews with 4 number of the
lage farmers IN Cass county. Oak, and Clay
county MIMI, which are divided by the Red
river, f1kd them in high spirits over the pros
poets of sheir wheat-some of them say their
yields viii, be larger than ever before ar ID
range fron twenty-five to thirty bushels
The great oonanza farms about which so
much has been said, never average high as
their wholesale style of farming is very SUPER
fetal. but they will have about the usual
crop. In Clay it is believed the average will
be about thaI of last year, and in Cass but
little less, although in few few localities
there is considerable damage. With proper
drainage the Red river valley will raise good
crops, both in wet and dry seasons, while the
higher and more sandy regions need wet
seasons.
The North does not take kindly to the prop
osition of the late Sioux Falls convention TO
have the county commissioners submit the
question of division at the fall election. One
paper says it is an exhibition of colossal
cheek. The North will have its share of the
$4,000 appropriation for that convention to
pay, and has no fancy for being made tail
piece to the farce. OF course that conven-
ton has no power to submit anything or re-
Quire county authorities to do so, and it is not
likely that any attention will be given to
suggestions. The leagues did not turn out in
their might OF numbers to give the Campbell
faction courage as expected. and they are
now willing to concede the North the name of
North Dakota. 1t will probably insist On the
name without the North.
It is claimed that the grasshoppers that
have appeared about Sanborn in Barnes
county are the native sort and not the migra-
tory, destructive pests, and that they have
not done the damage reported. 1t is stated,
however, that in that section the gophers
have done more damage than the drouth, and
the wheat will not average over ten bushels
Farmers are petitioning the county board to
offer bounties for the destruction of the
gophers, as has been done in other counties
there is also great need of rain in that section
The information leaks out from g membe,
of the Democratic territorial committee that
the reason assigned at the meeting of thai
body for not choosing Fargo in place Of Aber
deem for the convention, was that it was
feared that Maj. Edwards would control il il
at Fargo. Marshal Maratta had two or three
proxies from the North, which he threw
against Fargo for this reason, as alleged by
the member referred to.
Mention has been made of the departure oil
J. W. Fleming and d. A. Yarton from the
vicinity of Mapes with good deal of prop
erty not belonging to them. 1t seems they
rented large farm of w. A. Baugbman s
Son, with the stock and machinery, and early
this month skipped out with seven horses
wagons, etc., valued at $1,000. They were no,
missed for several days, and probably had
time to get into Manitoba.
1t is q matter Of surprise to many that the
foreman OF printing Office, at Huron should
enter the pulpit. In Dakota the pulpit and
press are often found interchanging. Elder
Cressey, another Huron newspaper man,
often breaches. and Fargo has more than one