St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-03-10
TERRITORIAL TiDBITs.
Brief Items of News FL ON All Parts
OF Dakota.

The editor of the Casselton Blizzard. who Is
a man OF more than avSrage oiScernment,
gives the policy OF the land department care
full consideration. and while finding that some
of the rulings work temporary Inconvenience
TO honest settlers he is able to perceive q at
the intention OF Gen. Sparks is 10 protect
the honest settler. as against the foreign spec
ulafor, aud TO stop the prevalent practice OF
proving up on 'uninhabited claims, pretended
residence, entries in fictitious name. or
for the mere purpose OF speculation"
He finds this pertinent illustration OF one of
the results OF the policy that has been per
sued; In one OF our exchanges are six solid
columns of mortgage sales on over 5000 acres
of land. all of the mortgages about to be fore
closed by a foreign syndicate. The scheme is
very simple. Tue syndicate employs num-
Der OF irresponsible parties 10 make fictitious
entries, loan a small amount OF money on the
papers and when the hnal proof IS made.
forecloss aad secure the land. In the case
Just spoken OF an analysis shows that six
contiguous sections are covered. and all with
leans of the same amount, about 1910 each.
IL is TO stop such wholesale plundering as
this, TO which Commissioner Sparks Is direct
ing his efforts, and in which he should have
the encouragement Of all honest men. or
course in a few Instances. the suspe nsion OF
entries may work a temporary hardship, but
this will soon be remedied.
Some Of the papers have drawn unfavor-
able differences from the number OF mortgage
/ sales aQfertlhcu IN u lew pdptse IN tue NOTtu.
The Grafton Times In It's last issue has some
forty or 1fty of them, and makes this expla-
nation, which will apply no doubt TO other
counties OF that section: THE whole number
of mortgage sales in year in this county Is
not likely TO exceed l25. On the other hand,
the whole number OF drst mortgage loans Is
about 2 500. II will be seen from this, that
the foreclosures are not likely TO be more
/ than 5 per cent. Of the number OF loans.
| When all the circumstances are cor sdered.
This 10 y good showing rather than an indica-
/ ton Of insufficient security"
The looseuess and favoritism that has
/ marked the admiuistrai ion of the land de-
| partment Ia past times has illustration in the
= case OF one OF the present republican men,
/ bers OF the supreme court who was given a
/ special dispensation from Washington to
/ prove up on n claim In the extreme North
needed for a town site and county seat with
| out any requirement Of residence No one
believes this could be done under the admin
lstration OF Gen. Sparks
There is much reJoic 'ng I'm the we 81 part OF
/ Edmunds county over the announcement
that the Milwaukee railroad Is TO extend its
| line thirty miles west of Ipswich this season.
i This Will give Roscoe boom and start up
Il one or two brisk towns. a well as bring a
/ large number Of settlers and all the country
/ through TO the Missouri river. IL Is some
l what OF a disappointment 10 Ipswich As Il
| was conadeut of remaining the terminus a
| year or two longer.
II is understood that W. W McTlvaine, the
superintendent Of the land inspe tors in the
E-rTo land district, Is soon 20 resign and en-