St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-02-23
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Pembina county lately bought large safe
for the use Of Clerk Tuohy, the ambitious
young statesman who is 10 take the tiit
against the waning old mOTul. hon. Jud Ia
Moure. and the freight charges on it from So
Paul to Pembina were greater than from New
York TO ST. Paul. II will require many Polled
Angus bulls to enable the people TO see the
need OF such discrepancies.
Pierre is justly proud Of its success in
securing the fremen's tournament for next
June. IL promises 10 be the largest and
most brilliant affair OF the kind vet held. The
cit zens have raised $1,000 for the occasion.
IL is expected thar the Dawes bill will have
passed and the approval of the Indians
secured by that time. when Pierre will be in
tue mood for grand jubilee.
A somewhat novel suit was before a Dell
Rapids justice the past week. a Mrs. Bachus
was up for assault ana battery. The charge
was that she pushed girl years old down a
fight of stairs. There was a long arrsy Of
witnesses on both sides. hut the most effect
i've was the little four-year-old child. whose
artless story was very amusing. The fine and
costs were about 81.
Hon. Alexander Mckenzie. the noted rust
Ter, adds his opinion 10 that of other discern
ing men in the North. that they must raise
more stock and other products and place less
reliance upon wheat. He does not anticipate
a return of the high prices or other years for
the great cereal but SAYS IL still can be grown
part Of the country.
There was a suspicion OF offensive person
atty in the announcement by the superin-
teudent OF the Sunday school az plaukintou
that temperance meeting would Toe held and
cordial invitation was given TO "all the
business and professional men with the cx-
cepton OF the editor Of the Standard" Tie
editor OF that paper requires several columns
10 express his opinion OF that superintendent.
Mr.. and Mrs. Cumming of Leola were found
insensible a recent morning from coal gas
which had escaped from hard coal stove
and were barely saved from death. A sim
liar case also occurred at Flandreau last
week and others have been reported.
The Med0ra Cowboy thinks that the short
methods of dispOsinC OF horse-thieYCs in that
region have proved elective: so much so that
IL says il has not heard OF a horse stolen from
white man west of the Missouri river in the
north for nearly year. Lynchn- is APT 10
stop the lawless work of individuals.
The town OF Steele. the home Of noted rustler
Of that name. and headquarters for the new
county OF Logan. which is Just being settled
up, keeps cornet band To play ut every
train. New corners and strangers take il as
personal and complimentary 10 themselves
and are favorably impressed.
The large colony from Fulton county. Penn
sylvania, which is to settle up Logan county.
is 10 start the last week in March. The local
paper say II viii be quite an exodus COL
Steele in his recent tour East, visited them in
his 500 overcoat, and told them thar WAS the
usual thing in Dakota.
a Nebraska sheriff lately traced 10 Brown
county party implicated in polygamy or
| bigamy and arrested him. but the local
sheriff insistedlupon the prisoner being turned
over to him. The Nebraska sheriff then
drew pistol on the Dakota sheriff, which
was effective.
a. a. liners, in Nelson county, adds one
more 10 the small list of persons frozen To
death in Dakota this winter. He started
/ from Niagara for his home, ten miles north,
and week later his body was found. Ii was
in that region that the two Norwegians were
| frozen recently.
His fellow townsmen at Casselton arc more
! enthusiastic than ever over their county COM
missioner, Capt. J. c. GU, since he returned
! from the ice palace IS ''John. Baron de Fargo,
| Marquis of Cass and Lord High Duke Of Gin.
! By order of His Imperial Majesty Borealis -
| Some effort is being made to form a new
| county out of part Of Barnes with Orisha as
/ the county seat. Valley City overshadows
| the other towns win its numerous dstin-
| guished citizens, so that they want TO get into
another county.
Ex-editor II. s. Harcourt OF Lisbon, who Is
| perpaps only second 10 Maj. Butts in wealth,
/ is about to erect q beautiful villa in a grove
on the river, modelled after that of jay Cooke
| in Pennsylvania, but Of course not so eiab-
crate.
Valley City lost one or its leading aud most
| valued citizens in Judge Seth Mills. The Ma
| sonic and Odd Fellows lodges, q. A. r. and
! Bar association and most Of the citizens
! formed a procession at the funeral Sunday
last.
The loss among cattle in the Bad Lands
! from severe weather is estimated at less than
| 3 per cent. and smaller than the year previ-
Gus. Very little danger is unprecedented from
/ weather yet TO come.
The highest point on the Northern Pacific
railroad in Dakota is Fryburg In the extreme
west, $500 feet above the sea level. II is
! LIS feet higher above Mandan. on the Mis-
/ souri, river.
in several counties the county boards have
\ extended the time of paying taxes without
/ penalty 10 March /. The law fixes II At Feb