St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-02-15
DAKOTA DOTLETs.
An Il pitome Of the Doiurs of N Pros
porous People.

In the county seat contest in RoIette
county, in the Turtle mountains, IL is alleged
that the census returned but 5Il males oves
Il in the county, while one of the towns Ger
tilted 10 100 votes polied. Such facts are often
achieved In county seat voting. The census
OF that county is stated as giving les more
females than males under the age of Fl. This
+ the general fact In the new couuties-only
he proportion of girls is usually greater
At Northwood, in the Grand Forks region.
public meeting has been held TO devise
means TO procure seed wheat for the farmers
who lost their crops 10y hail last year. Ii was
proposed to give the wholesale houses OF
minneapolis and st. Paul an opportunity to
aid in the movement. $780,
The recent county prohibition convention
at Ipswich was one OF the largest gatherings
ever held there. and a thorough organization
OF the county was effected. The county boar,i
mas refused TO grant license, and any settler
who want 10 locate in settled prohibition
county will find Edmunds OF that stamp.
Brookings county has probably the Oldest
man in Dakota in PA O'Leary." who is SAID
90 be Ill years Of age. He lives with his son
Con, who is by no means a young man anu
looks about as old as his father. The old man
was born across the water before the declara-
ton of American independence.
Frank Pettigrew, who perDetrated the Gu
rious freak in bis census report of the par
entage of Attorney General Rice, lately sold
out his Fiandreau Herald and a few days later
broke IN the door to recover possession Of the
office. No blood was she'd but a contest Is
10 be had In the courts.
The miscellaneous music brigade was
greatly disappointed when editor vallandIng-
ham returned to Valley City from the carni-
val without a wife. The instruments were ali
tuned for small carnival. Ii Is Intimated
however, that the editor made a good start
The local papers generally are complaining
that the parties who insured against hail In
the general companies are not getting fair
settlement. All the companies lost heayily
and are trying 20 save themselves. and nearly
all of them will 40 out OF that speciality.
Jud ge Church gives Huron an extra term
OF court, commencing Feb. %. That place Is
10 have a street railroad. and capitalists from
the East are investing largely there. Even
as temporary capital OF a paper state IL is
getting large returns for its efforts.
Bismarck has tender spot for DeIegate
Clifford since he introduced the bill appropri-
atiug 100000 for a public building there. II
he can secure its passage he can have his
statue placed high In IL.
Judge Mooney OF Cavalier has been in ST.
Paul the past week comforting with the Man
itoOa people In regard to the proposed ex-
tension 10 Langdon. He feels quite encour-
aged.
Some OF the farmers In Rolette county
claim that they can get more for their wheat
by hauling It to the terminus of the new rail-
road IN Manitoba rather than TO Devils Lake
The largest fire In Dakota for a long time
was that recently At the new town OF Sun
dance in the Black Hills. The losses were
put AT So. 100 and the insurance slI,OOO
II is reported that Delegate Clifford has in
troduced a bill for the Improvement Of the
NAVIGATION Of the. James river. Its chief
need Is more water.
Editor warnock Of the jamestown Alert is
making his seni-annual visit to his family in
Mason City, Ill.