St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-09-18


week the other fellows, who have the party
machine will hold their convention and put
up another set.
| Louis II. Breum Is wanted in Stark county
| to respond to an indictment charging him
| with the murder of Sam johnson, prosper
Gus farmer who went hunting with him about
year ago, and of whom trace has been
had since. Breum never gave any plausible
| account of the disappearance OF Johnson, but
! took possession of his property and when
! suspicion took the form of an Indictment he
| lied to Canada, and has since, as reported
| been operating with a band of horse thieves
on the border. Effort is being made to Sc
| cure his capture.
| 1t will be noted that none of the counties in
the North in their conventions pronounce for
! division The Democrats uniformly resolve
in favor of admission as one state, and in sew
eral instances the Republicans have in
structed their delegates to Yankton to sup
| port candidate who will work for admission
| as whole. Still there is hardly question
that the general conventions of the two par
ties Will make up an issue on this question.
| On his recent visit to the territory Con-
gresham Kleiner, of Indiana. took trip to
the Black Hills and expressed good deal of
enthusiasm over the resources of that region.
| He bought there 200 brood mares, which he
will have driven across the reservation TO the
| Big Horse below Pierre, in which he has a
| large interest. He expressed great confidence
| that the reservation would be opened by con-
| gress next winter and state admitted.
In spite of Gov Pierce's proclamation to
officials to let the political machines alone on
| civil service principles Auditor Caldwell has
gone to South Dakota to spend month man
| ipulating polical matters. NOminally, of
course he is editing his paper during the
campaign. 1t is evidently matter of some
annoyance to the governor, as the auditor is
one of his appointees.
| Five years ago this fall Rev. James Will
| Jams, leading preacher at Deadwood,
wagered handsome Bible against the finest
rid ing horse in the Black Hills that Dead
wood would not have 5000 population in five
years. The referee decides now that the
| divine wins the festive steed, and it is eX-
! pected that the presentation will be made a
festive occasion.
The Yankton Press argues with much plauS-
| Slblity that the governor miScOnStrued the
law i'll holding an encampment ard issuing
| warrants in excess of the appropriations. 1t
| hopes an injunction will be served upon the
treasurer to stop their payment. If it had
| been held at Yankton or Canton. it is proba-
! BILE the Press might have seen the matter in
q different light.
| The Fargo Insurance company, a. though
removed to Sioux Falls retains the old name,
and the bereaved city of the Red is not happy
over it. 1.-THE Fargo Of Sioux Falls may do
| some advertising service, but is not the
| kind that the city of the name
cares to pay for. The men who captured the
company with their money would crafty it's
friends in the North by hunting up a new
| name.
Hon. J. H. Westover, of the Hughes dis
| trict, was president of the last council, and
apparently was having an easy time for
his party nomination again, but when war
| was opened on him as a disciple of IngerSoll
ia theology. he weakened, and was defeated
in the recent convention. But the Democrats
have good show to beat his more devout
opponent.
At Vermillion an issue is being made up
| over the statute that prohibits the sale of
liquor within three miles of the university, as
that covers the town. 1t is said that in the
town the majority favor the repeal of the
law, but in the county the dominant feeling
| sustains it. 1t is not likely the legislature
will be induced to meddle with the matter.
The object of the Milwaukee railroad in
running south from Faulk through Hand
county is said to be to connect with their
! extension is made to Bismarck it will have a
| through line to Chicago. 1t seems to have a
| little the start of the Northwestern in pushing
| into the Missouri region,
A Deadwood gentleman is trying to disturb
the theory that nearly all crime is caused by
| liquor. He reports having examined the
records of the courts of that city and in
twenty-six cases finds that six were due to
whisky and the other twenty had no relation
| to beverages of any kind.
The editor of paper in Charles Mix
! county is in hot water. In givin g the names
| of the teachers attending an institute there
| he also gave theIl ages those of the ladies
| included. The ancient maidens are making
| him wish he did not publish newspaper.
off 1laa Wis MIL
| ler il Hand county, last week, and assured
the people that their line coming to that
| town sure, but probably will not reach there
| this season. Graders are at work ffty-five
miles north, and coming in that direction.
William Hall, colored man, and Miss Liz
ze Spring, 81 white girl, at Sioux Falls, could
! not find q justice or judge who would marry
them for love or money, on account of the
matter of color, but d clergyman finally per-
| formed the ceremony for them.
| Five years ago last week the first lumber
was unloaded for buildings at what is now
the hourishing town of Miller, in Hand
county, with 1000 people. This is but an
illustration of how the central region has
| filed in the last half decade.
Gov. Ziebach and Gen. Hugh J. Campbell
| did escort duty for Congressman Hill and
! Kleiner on their visit to Yaukton the past
week, and no doubt is felt that division will
| hereafter have two fervent supporters among
! the Democrats in the house.
Mrs Linda Slaughter, the authoress and
| teacher who is u candidate for county super
intendent of schools of Burleigh, is said to
have taught the first school in North Dakota,
! and is the leading female Democratic politi-
clan in Dakota.
| There has been a great deal of sickness in
| some of the new regions near the Missouri
| river At Oneida. it is said, that maj orit v
! of the population was recently on the sick
hPan PhiQf
plant.
The Brookings Press has abandoned its
daily, and the Yankton Press, after years of
| trial, has given up its associated press re-
port. The ambition to run metropolitan
Journals in small communities is generally
| costly.
Editors Campbell, of the Sterling Farmer,
| in Burleigh county, and Corwin, of the Steele
| Ozone are among the sufferers from the
more stringent rulings of the land depart
| ment, having lost homesteads by non-resi-
| dence.
Most of the papers in South Dakota have
| secured gorge of watermelonS by Offering
the paper as a premium for the largest
melon. Some of them had wagon loads of this
sort of fruit turned in.
| In spite of the reported desire of Marshal
! Maratta not to have his name used Union
| county has instructed its delegates to Aber-
| deem in his favor. after a contest in the con-
vention.
The Democrats of the Black Hills now have
q strong and able organ in the Herald the
new paper at Deadwood. It is said to be the
only Democratic paper in the Hills.
The river is so low and no boats running,
that it Is proposed to put in some sort of q
temporary bridge at Yankton, to secure the
| Nebraska trade.
Commissioner Sparks has made one ap-
polutment of a Dakota man-P. C. De Linde,
| of Bon Homme county, for Dakota commits
sioner to the American Forestry congress, at
Denver, Col.
Some two hundred families Of German
speaking Russians are expected in Mercer
| county, west of the Missouri river.
The Iroquois Herald voucheS for the killing
of sixty birds by two shots in fock-black-
birds.
Domestic help at Rapid City is so scarce
that $50 month is said to be no inducement.
Hay is being shipped from South Dakota tc
Montana, as well as from the north.