St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-04-29
TERRITORIAL TIDBITs.
News Notes of Interest TO the People
OF Da kOIa.

A writer in Turner county in the south
pays Col Donan a handsome tribute, and says
that il was through his untiring exertIons
mainly that the Indian title was extinguished
10 u vast region by executive order OF Presi-
dent Arthur in lS62. The colonel has INDUCED
in some vituperative rhetoric about promi-
nent persons and the bifurcation scheme, but
personally he is almost universally popular.
More trees are going out on timber culture
claims this season than in any former yea
one man in Douglas county last week, who
was pressed for time TO avoid contest, with
the aid of two noys, set out 29, $50 trees in two
days That looks like pretty rapid work, but
they were not working on the eight-hour plan,
and didn't stop 10 see the trees take root.
The fight made ON /. G.. johnson as the
member of the Democratic congressional
committee for Dakota is believed by many 10
be inspired chiefly by the fact that he is one
OF the most active opponents Of division q
fayors admission as IA whole. His SCI
is taken as an indication OF the policy o. iu
party at Washington on that question.
The body recently found in the Missouri
river in the Pierre regions was decided by the
inquest to be i. b. Lane, who fell through the
ice Jan. i, but those who knew Mr.. Lane best
do not believe il was his body. Papers found
IN the pockets and the dress indicate another
man. Lanes family now live near Geneva,
n. Y.
Mr.. E B. Chambers, one of the pioneer
newspaper men of Fargo, now a bonanza
farmer, strongly urges mixed farming in that
section, and especially the growing of lax.
He predicts that in ten years there will be As
much fax grown in TINT section as wheat
and with larger profit To the farmer.
The good people of Scotland gave the fam
lily of Gov. Ziebach a parting benedictiOn,
thronging the residence one evening before
their departure to Yankton. They will be
greatly missed at their old home. The son OF
the governor remains at Scotland to con-
duct the paper and postofice.
Two men in Bon Homme county are under
indictment and out on bail for buying some
cattle from Indians on a reservation. The
liberties of white men are great Y restricted
in their intercourse with the red men. They
are not allowed TO trade much with them or
even shoot them.
it is stated that the proprietor of hotel in
Yankton county will bring suit for $1,000
against parties who petitioned the county
board not 10 grant him license TO sell LIQUOR
He views il as a conspiracy TO deprive him of
the means of subsistence. The idea is some
what novel.
The inauguration of lodge of Odd Fellows
was made gala occasion at Parker, with
delegations from half a dozen towns, the band
from Canton, a grand parade public meeting,
speeches, jubilee and night of dancing.
In addition TO fighting firewater, the men of
Roscoe have had TO fight prairie fires OF late.
On a recent Sunday III of them were counted
on the line of the threatening flames hard at
work
A five-year-old son of James Bouska, near
Tyndall, received the contents of a gun his
brother was fooling with in his Leg and the leg
was amputated, with much danger yet TO his
life.
Judge Church has been on a visit to his old
home in New York of late, but will be back i'm
time to sit with the supreme court at Yank-
ton, in May.
The Harrison Globe in Douglas county
prints one of its pages in the Dutch language,
as that section is largely settled by Holland
ers.
Grading is expected to commence the com
ing week on the extension of the railroad
west from Ipswich.