St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-12-24
DAKOTA DoVs AND DAsHEs.
News Notes of Interest TO the People
of The Greaf VerriIorY.

DAKOTA DOTS AND DASHES.
News Notes of Interest TO the People
of the Great Territory.
The Clark Democrat, at Clark, in the county
of that name, relates that the past week a
warrant was sworn out against the city mar
shal charging Je and put in the hands of
the sheriff and deputy. who served it at mid
night On the marshal at his room at the hotel.
The prisoner was taken from his bed, hand
cufed and led through the streets toward the
justices Office. On reaching the pOstofice a
mob of twenty or thirty enrHged citizens met
the officers, prese lted revolvers and told
them to disappear AMI leave the prisoner.
After show of remOnstrance. the prisoner
WIS left with the mob, who hustled him to q
blacksmith shop, reduced him 10 Adam at
tire and then invested him with complete
covering of hot tar and feathers and turned
him loose, with the advice to be seen no more
in that place. The Democrat saws: Tue
cause of the charge against this victim nj t:-
ana feathers is that for nearly year past he
has been engaged in witt ng obscene letters
and making an indecent exhibit of his person
to several young girls of the village with the
Ob ect in view of seducing them" The name
OF the offending and departed marshal is c.
+. Berdan. The editor says he has read some
of the letters. and they are enough to cause
the blood Ct any father to turn colG with hOr-
ror. None care to critciSe the action of the
mob, although the evident collision of the Of
ficerS, as shown in the hour of the arrest, is
not just the thing.
A recent case at Devils Lake indicates that
wives are so scarce there that they have
value, even if somewhat SOied occasionally :.
An attractive young woman, married four
years, clipped with man named w elch, leav-
ing her husband and two children. He fol-
lowed her to Grand Forks and found her act
iDu n wifi n
preferred her new man and would not return.
Welch was arrested and the case brought be-
fore justice, and although both husband
and wife thought they wanted divorce, their
hearts finally melted together. they embraced
and wept. he paid the costs of suit. and they
returned to Devils Lake as happ, as if re-
turning from bridal tour. The court was,
however, somewhat shocked, freed its mind,
and gave WEIGH twelve hours to depart, and
the woman about the same time.
Charles Mix county has temperance al
lance that is making vigorous attempt to
eliminate the liquor traffic in the county. 1t
is asserted in this connection that high Ii
cense is the best that can be had under the
existing law, as it is alleged that in test cases
where the county boards have refused license
liquor men have always come out ahead. 1t
is a mistake, it is said that the Dakota law
gives local option. Some changes will be
asked of the legislature.
appointed q Huron to labor in the South to
convince the people that they ought to stand
by the state machine erected by few Re-
pubhcanS. the Sioux Falls Argus suggests as
their text books Mother Goose stories" and
also Ell mentary Directions on the Use of Good
Common Horse Sense" The whole thing is
made matter of ridicule by a great portion
of the papers South of both parties.
Most of those who talk loosely OF the popu
laton of the territory multiply the vote cast
by five. That is near the proportion in old
settled communities, but the census of 1855
affords quite accurate test ano shows that
in Dakota there is little less than Al of pop
ulation to one VOTE which applied to the
recent election falls little below O,000 pop
ulation. Those will do very we'll for round
figures.
Tue Yankton Telegram, in its indignation
over the timidity of the minority of the al
legged Huron legislature in not going ahead
and attempting 10 operate state, says there
is now justification for admission as a
whole" Congress would do well now to ten
der the people chance to accept an offer to
come in as one state, and settle the whole
matter
1t Is taken as a settled matter that the
legislature will defer the tax paying time, as
was done TWO years ago. In the Red River
region taVes are being freely paid as the
people had good crops and can pay at one
it is nearly impOSs bic for large part of the
land cutivators to pay until they can raise
crops.
Dakota will warmly welcome to its borders
all defeated candidates for congress or other
positions. but il any of them are expecting to
be elected TO Office in the territory or state they
will do well to remember that quite an army
of such eXpectants have preceded them and
there is IN. teri.u on the ground to ill all
offices, from United States senator down.
In many of the Dakota towns there is quite
an influx of pei sous VINO have been trying to
hold claims without means. and having failed
to raise crops. they e forced to leave during
the winter. Some of them fail TO find any
thing to do in the towns, and are likely to
have hard winter, possibly having trouble
also TO hold their claims.
The artist of Frank Leslie's Weekly, who
pictured as an actual scene trains on the
Northern Pacific in D kota buried in snow
drifts three ana iour feet @ on the prairie,
probably took the sketch in summer, as the
Dakota division OF the NorthCtn Pacific is
never seriously obstructed with snow drifts.
1t is understood that congressman Ka-
mouse will be the CHIEF lobbyist for the Good
Templars at Bismarck to secure temperance
legislation this winter. He was elected as a
Prohihitiolist &c represent the state at
WASHINGTON, but will hardly spend further
effort there to secure a seat.
The Walworth Pioneer insists that the OPEN
ing of that part of the S Oux reservation de-
sired by Pierre will be an injury TO that place
and all Central Dakota. 1t wants the region
opened e.ween the Cheyenne and MORGAN
rivers wnere the beds of fine coal are known
TO exist.
Before there was a railroad to the Black
Hills DeadwOod paid S1l hundred on
freight from Chicago. Now with road
within forty miles the rate is Sl1.40 and there
is much bowling.
With the opening of the new connection
with the South via Cakes and Jamestown
cars of ha; and grain are shipped from the
south to Montana.
The Milwaukee road has just completed a
handsome dcrot at ias. formerly Howard.
in Miner coun y, and the citizens are proud
of il.
The oil taken from the well near DeadwOod
at depth of 575 feet is pronounced the finest
lubricant found anywhere in the country.
Bets that Aberdeen will have 500 new build
ings in 81 find no takers. 1t promises TO be
the great railroad center.
Gen. Wallace. the author of ben Hur, has
been secured to lecture at several points in
South Dakota.
Ladies'. Look
At the marvelously low prices of dry
goods. notions, etc., etc., at McLain's. 3S4