St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-12-11
DAKOTA DOTS AN DASH
News Notes of Interest to the PeO'
nla OF HE Greaf EerrifNrX.

There was good deal Of surprise in the
North that the large and productive county
of Trail should, with its mixed population,
have elected prohibition county ticket over
the efforts of both parties and COL Plumner.
The explanation given is that the large popu-
latiOn of NOrweiganS has been taught by
their preachers to sit down on the saloons
They are not prohibited to drink, but are adj
vised if they will use liquor to buy it by the
quantity and use it at home but never to
enter saloon. They go to town and buy
alcohol by the gallon, take it home and dilute
and drink, but do not enter saloons. Those
who can are advised to practice total absti-
nence but the point insisted upon is to do all
their drinking at home and break down the
saloons. Hence they are found voting
against license. Col. Plummer thinks this is
the most sensible temperance movement yet
inaugurated.
The old Campbell influence and scheme are
believed to be behind the project to convene
the South Dakota constitutional convention
and legislature. The programme is evidently
for the legislature to request the convention
TO unlock the wheels of the alleged or fiat
state, which the people refused to sanction
by vote, and for the state officials to dis
charge the functions of such and the legis-
lature to pass laws to be a real legislative
body. IL is conceded that congress will not
admit that state, and this movement is the
last effort to save it and force an ISSUE Some
papers insist that Gov. Pierce should dis
perse these gatherings at Huron, but Le
hopes to be relieved before the matter takes
such shape as to demand his attention, If it
ever does reach that point.
A few papers find some fault with Judge
Church. but, generally, he has gained the
confidence of all parties who want to see the
laws enforced. The Aberdeen Pioneer says
of his recent term in Brown: Judge Church
is winning new laurels at each term of court
by his business like way of conducting the
business that comes before him. and by his
impartial ruling, and the way he has OF exc
cutting the law as put down in the code, re-
CARELESS. of the old cliques and rings that
have been in the habit of managing matters
so that the viest criminals could go free and
ply their nefarious schemes in defiance of
law.
AS an attraction for the coming legislature,
1t is given out that on the coolest days bril-
liant meteoric displays are visible near Bis
marck. One recently seen by Capt. Quinn,
the poet editor, came like a blazing cannon
ball and shattered the ice on the river, and is
supposed to have gone through into the
water, as no debris was found. The captain
reports taking cooked fish from the ice holes
lower down. Still finer displays are promised
during the winter.
Congressman La Toilette, of Madison,
Wis, has recently visited friends in Dakota,
and stated that the Sioux reservation bill
would pass the house early in the session, but
he did not think there was any chance for the
division measure.
The young ladies at the university at Yer
million are advised by their teachers to reject
all offers of marriage from young men who
use tobacco or liquors, and society or league
is formed among the fair ones pledged to that
platform.