St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-01-02
Dakota NewsIefs.


Two farmers In Kidder county. Kepler and
Raymond. have tried the past two years as
an experiment the plan of sowing only the
largest and plumpest grain and giving a little
extra cultivation, with average yields of about
| tbirty-two bushels per acre OF quality of
wheat so superior that they are offered Is
cents above the market price. All the labor
was hired and accounts Of expenses kept,
showing that the crop cost them little over
rs cents bushel. Their profit is about 90
cents a bushel, or from SIS TO $50 an acre.
This shows that good culture and seed will
pay in Dakota as In the old sections, and a
| little better.
| Col. Richardson, who is only second TO Col.
Steele as an ornamental feature Of the gov
ernors military staff. expresses the opinion
that when the latter reaches Washington as
committee to express 10 Mr. Sparks the views
of the people of Kidder county in regard to
his rulings, there will be delivery that would
starue the average driver Of the government
mule. The Dakota ozone has invigorated and
intensified the vocabulary the colonel ac-
quired In the army. and II he expresses him
sell FULLY TO the land commissioner. that gen.
teman will have a new impression OF the
vigor of frontier speech.
The incidental losses in connection with the
burning of the skating rink at Grand Forks
bring the total up nearly 10 $1,000. The
building belonged to J. N. Bartlett of Mime
apolts, whose loss is put at s., 900. Private
parties had skates burned valued AT 500; the
cornet band lost instruments worth $500
The piano belonged to Tom Hill There was
no insurance, as the companies had Cancelled
all policies. The fire was no doubt caused
by cigar stumrs left from the ball the night
before.
The Aberdeen News, in its review of the
situation In its political aspect concludes
that the most hopeful chance for admission
In the next three years will be to divide on
the Missouri river and Offset the Republican
state with Montana as Democratic 1t finds
that the solid South. with New York and In
diana, have just the 20l electoral votes
needed TO choose president. and thinks the
Democrats will not endanger the result by
aking in Dakota bv itself.
The Fargo Republican learns that contracts
have been let for the completion Of the grad
ing and the ironing of the portion of the Da,
kota a. Great Southern railroad from An
dover. in Day county, to Tower City, on the
Northern Pacific, and that IL will be contin-
ued TO Crookston, Mimi, work to commence
as early as possible in the spring. The Re-
publican understands that the Milwaukee
people are behind it.
There is some warmth Of Imagination ia
the conceit of the Valley City Democrat that
the ladies, with their fans and sunshades
suffered from 1.-THE hot sun beating down
upon them, at the game of base ball the day
after Christmas. IL should be remembered
that extreme weather would be unhealthful,
and impeach the salubrity of the Dakota
climate.
The Fargo Argus states that Gen. W, II.
Clark, who has been general manager of that
establishment, has resigned to accompany
agents OF great land and mining syndicate
10 Arizona His knowledge of Spanish, Mex
lean and Indian languages and militar, ex-
perience are regarded as valuable in that sec
ton.
The reason Sheriff Dick of Pembina county
came down 10 jamestown to arrest Sheriff
Hawk of Cavalier county, who was out on
$4,000 bail for shooting the man who declined
TO be arrested, was that the bondsmen had
become uneasy at Hawks absence and
wanted 10 be released. He was taken north
Friday. 1t was held also that the Justice had
no right to admit him to bail.
John Fiocati, a German farmer was the
first settler in the southwest of the populous
county of Miner and came there in 1879. He
went TO Iankton Tor his supplies and often
saw herds of hundreds of antelope feeding
near his shanty. He prefers the early con-
dltion, but don't know where to find q section
that will not be flooded with population.
Little Hattie Cleveland, nine-year old girl
in Buffalo county, herds 100 head of cattle.
riding her horse often on the dead run''
with all the expertness of q COWBOY. She
has not written the president claiming recoO-
milton on account of the name but is the
pride of her locality.
John Minor, who went from Edmunds
county 10 Huron, Mich, to find mild winter
weather, wrote back that the weather there
was so stormy and severe that large numbers
of sheep had persisted. Word was sent him
that plows were running on his Dakota farm
when the letter was received. At Christmas
the thermometer was 90 : above zero at Ros-
coe.
The effort of a few of the papers in the
North to give the call for the convention in
Fargo, Jan. IL, coloring in favor of division,
is diminishing the interest felt in it. as the
masses OF the people have no disposition to
engage in wrangle over a matter not likely
to have any practical value.
Letters from Washington state that the
claim patents in the land office are being ex-
pedlted and the land Offices taken up alpha-
betically, which brings Aberdeen first. Some
l, 200 cases at that Office have been sent 10
the board for examination.
The Deadwood Pioneer and other ardent
champions OF the South state call upon the
state is admitted. 1t is said that Gen. Camn-
bell and other leaders will urge this course
upon the Republican senators.
The court at Bismarck in a case a few DAVIS
ago decided that a Jewish witness must take
the Hebrew oath, but as neither the attorneys
or court could md out what that was, the
witness did not testify.
Ben Holloway, an Indian in the Turtle
mountains. generally known as skunk" is
so far civilized as to circulate petition for
Office. setting forth that he is Democrat II
is not stated how he found out his politics.
New Years eve the police force and many
citizens Of Fargo presented Chief Wood with
$3.50 gold watch, and a general symposium
was had on the occasion.
At Roscoe the other day Fort Yates. seventy
miles distant, was plainly visible In a mirage.
also less distinctly Aberdeen and other dis
tant points.
The practice of receiving calls on New
Years day was not observed to the usual ex-
tent in most Dakota towns this year for some
reason.
One farmer on the Missouri slope, near the
Northern Pacific railroad, sowed wheat in De-
cember.