St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-03-04
DAKOTA DOINGs.
News from All Parts of the Great
Territory.


In connection with the convention of
March IL, and the effort 10 have the Sisseton
reservation opened TO settlement. IL may be
stated that the Indians are friendly to the
move. A census takJn not long since made
their number l,453. They are surrounded by
white settlers aud pretty well civilized, hav-
ing churches, schools and generally very
comfortable dwellings. They have lands in
severalty, with farms well stocked and In
good cultivation and do not receive annuit Q 4,
or rations from the government. In 1858
there was an issue OF stock and farm imple-
ments Of which they have made good use.
and are now self-supporting. They wish TO
retain their farms and have the lands they
have no use for sold, and do not object to
having white settlers among them.
A committee OF Democrats at Huron, Of
which Mr.. Love is secretary, is sending out to
Democrats over the territory a circular with
blank petitions TO be signed and sent TO WASH
ington. urging the Democrats in congress to
admit South Dakota with the Sioux Falls con-
stitution and Huron state government. One
OF the inducements presented in the circular
for Democrats TO sign is that the constitution
has a prohibitory feature adopted by the
Republicans, and that this will tend TO de-
moralize that party and strengthen the Demo-
Gratis. Huron Democrats are of curse inter
ested in retaining the capital at that place,
which explains their special activity. 1t is
not believed that any considerable portion of
II Is learned that much OF, the ANNOYANCE
to which those N. X ng claims In good faith
are subjected is due TO malicious neIghbors
or those who have grudges against them.
These persons write to the land officials max
ing complaints and then a special agent is
sent To investigate. He of course does not
want to report that he has been on a fools
errand and picks up technicalities that can
nearly always be found. but there is no dan
ger OF any honest claimants losing their land
a result. Still they may be put to needless
vexation and expense.
S. Il. Church. the noted song and music
composer Of Fargo, has In process of puhlica-
ton by Oliver Ditson, new piece dedicated
TO the travelling men of America.
entitled "The Knights OF the Grip and the
Sample is King" The author sung II to
house full OF commercial travellers this week
and they were delighted with II and all want
IL. The fronticepiece will have photograph
of the travelling men at the St. Paul fee
palace. II will probably net the author sew
eral thousand dollars.
Sheriff Hawk OF Cavalier county has for
some time been held IN Jail in Pembina
county on the charge of killing man unjust
ihably. whom he was serving q paper upon.
He still held his position as sheriff. but as IL
was found such an Inconvenience TO 20 to
him to do business, he has the past week re-
signed his office.
In some sections where fuel is expensive
farmers VIII next year grow an acre or two
of fax for fuel, as II Is said that fax straw is
the best for that purpose. II is claimed that
a ton of the straw has more fuel I'm IL than a
ton OF SOFT coal and the new apparatus for
consuming il is becoming very popular.
Some rare curiosiues have been found In
digging wells at Steele. down some seventy to
seventy-hve feet. One was crystal conch-
shell with a blue rock grown through the
center of it; another was piece OF the blue
rock with the print of an oyster shell upon It,
and brown sandstone with a leaf on it.
Emigration 10 Dakota by the ''prairie
schooner" route has commenced this season,
several having reached Pierre who report
lots more to follow. 1t is little early TO
travel that way, but they report less discom-
fort i'm Dakota than further south.
Parties who have been quarrying rock on a
school section IN Hanson county have been
required to let IL alone. but there Is no
serious attempt TO disturb the large farmers
who are using go or more OF the school sec
tons in the territory for crops.