St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-08-28

! ton could pretty safely agree to that propo-
| sition, as the Republicans II in control of
both houses Of congress would certainly pro-
| vide for two states, and it is about equally
certain that Democratic house will not con-
| sent to divide the territory simply to give
the Republicans two more senators.
| The Sioux Falls Leader enumerates dozen
or more of the best known Republican papers
| OF the South that do not favor the candidacy
of Judge Clifford. and good many others are
only mildly for him. But the judge will at
| tend the county conventions wherever posi-
| bic, and secure instructions. His friends are
sending out word that it will not do simply
| TO select delegates supposed to be favorable.
| They must be instructed. They strong oppo-
sit1on made by few papers to him is evil
| IDENTIFY shaking the public mind.
Three brothers, living near Milbank, in
Grant county, thought they could be better
suited On the Pacific coast and one went out
to find locations. He writes back from Wash
| 1ngton Territoy that he can find nothing
equal to what they have in Dakota, and they
will remain Another party from the same
county went to Tennessee, then tried Iowa,
and is now back in Dakota. There are some
parts of Dakota that have suffered from
drouths, but these are exceptions, and those
not suited with Dakota are not likely to be
contented anywhere.
In recent case Commissioner Sparks is
said to have reversed the ruling Of the de-
partment that woman making homestead
claim can go on and complete her title after
marrying. Mr.. Sparks insists that she for
feits her rights by taking a husband. This is
not in the interests of matrimony or appar-
ent public policy, and it is hoped will not be
sustained by the secretary of the interior.
1t is taken as evidence that Gen. Sparks does
not want to increase the popula ton of Da-
kota.
The Glendale Commercial regards that sec
ton as furnishing the finest hunting ground
nfrvf nr foo nrndOr Qr cax-c
nearly every hunting party brings in fifty or
sixty prairie chickens in an afternoon, and
one man has been known to kill $50 ducks in
8 day, all within few miles of town. Camp
ing outfits go to the coteaus, forty or fifty
miles, and find deer and antelope, and every
season few buffalos are found in the hills.
A farmer Gin the Darlington region has
threshed his wheat on 400 acres and got 500
bushels bushels an acre. Some of
his neighbors are threshing from 1G
to Is bushels an acre. The difference
is attributed entirely to summer fall
lowing and deeper seeding. The care
less farmers are in the majority in the
region west of the James and north, and
many of them will have hard work to hold
their claims and pull through to another crop.
Delegate Clifford has been of late indus
triously inquiring in the central region who
| the people want to send to Washington. AS
piece of disinterested advice he suggests
that it would be wise to send one who has
learned the ropes. AS result. SPHINX has in
structed for him. Mr.. Clifford is not hopeful
that the Democratic majority in the house
will be wiped out at the next election, al
though he thinks it will be reduced.
large grading outfit is at work on the ex-
| tension of the Northwestern from Doland, in
| pink county, to Groton. 1t is said that track
| laying will be rushed on this branch. The
Milwaukee is grading on both ends of the con-
nection between Madison and Bristol This
| Gan
and at Lake Preston The route is nearly the
| same as that surveyed for the Dakota g. Great
| Southern.
| Some of the new settlers in Campbell, Nc
| Intosh and Mcpherson, mostly German Rus
| slams, who came with nothing to live on IN
case of failure of this years crop have lost
| all their crops by drouth, and parties who
| have visited them to inquire into their condi-
| ton report that they must have aid to get
| through the winter. They are remote from
railroads and difficult to reach. Collections
are being made for them in some of the South
| counties.
In some quarters there is loud bowling over
the act of congress prohibiting special legisla-
| tion-one paper terms it the ''senile act of an
| imbecile congress" 1t will cut into lots of
| jobs and local and personal schemes, and make
| it difficult for year or two for some compan-
| les TO meet legitimate claims, but it will still
| be popular and no party will call for its re-
| peal.
| The farmers in one locality in Foster
| county lately put in a day on the gophers and
| the tally pooled up 4, 600. One of them says
| that while the grain fields suffered severely
| from drOuth, the gopherS and badgers did
more damage. In some of the counties in
| that section the county board furnishes every
! farmer with gopher poison.
Roette, in the Turtle mountains is the first
county In the north to elect delegates to the
Democratic convention-Ole Peterson, H. D.
o7,I
instructed for any candidate, but for one
| vigorously opposed to division and in favor of
admission as one state, and giving the offices
| to Democrats.
| Dakota will be represented by six delegates
and much larger number of volunteersat the
| triennial conclave of the Grand Commaudery
at st. Louis in September. The six are: D.
| S. Glidden, Sioux Falls; NJ. A. Brewer Fargo;
| j. a. Colcord, Huron; G. B. Little, Bismarck;
| S. Roy, Deadwood; L. B. French, Yankton.
| Watertown pays some $4,000 for the Mani
| toba railroad, and expects to save cents a
| buShel IN shipping wheat by it to Duluth and
| get coal at nominal rates. Grand Forks and
other towns that are dependent upon tn at
| road fail to enthuse over the iberaiity d is
| played in their interest by it.
The Leola Northwest, in Mcpherson county,
| reports Rock Island grading parties at work
from that point east to Aberdeen. The Hos
| klns Herald, in Mcintosh county, also states
| that effort is being made to complete the
| grading to that point by Jan. l. 1t is not
expected that rails will be laid Until spring.
1t is claimed by the local papers that the
! counties west of the Missouri river have Suf-
fered less than those east. and that there Will
| be an abundance of hay to feed the stock
and some to ship. The outlook, then, though
not specially good, is not so bad as in other
parts of the territory.
| In Dickey county a boom for a lady super
| inteudent of schools is said to be sweeping
the field, and many of the ladies insist that
| they are entitled to more than one of the
! county Off ces. A large number of counties
will have lady candidates for superintendent
| of schools.
| If all the railroads adopt the reported
| course of the Northwestern and require the
conductors of all trains to stop and eXtin-
| guish prairie fires near the track, travelling is
| likely to be slow on some of the lines and the
| trainmen will not lack for exercise
Cornelius Vanderbilt and a party of his
| friends are expected out the coming week to
hunt and fish about Lake Madison and inter-
view the sea serpent in Kampecha. Mr.. Van
| derbilt has farm or claim in the South, but
has not acquired residence on it.
Some of the finest specimens of wheat and
oats taken to the Minnesota State fair and
Minneapolis exposition from Dakota, were
grown in Eddy county, in a severe drouth.
| The producer plowed deep and attributes his
| fine yield to that fact.
|
two years ago there were but nine Sabbath
schools. Now there are fifty-eight. This not
only shows that the county is filling up, but
that the capital has difused moral and re-
| ligious influence.
Legal minds are wrestling with the connun-
| drum as to how the counties that have debts
in excess of the new per cent. limit pro-
vided by congress can issue further warrants
for current expenses. No solution has yet
| been reached.
The county commissioners of Roberts
county have instructed the treasurer not to
pay any of the $4,000 warrants furtively is
! sued during the county seat fight. 1t is in
sisted that the act of the legislature legal
lied them, and it will be costly fight to beat
them.
The two young men charged with stealing
the boat of Thomas Roeoevelt, the New York
| reformer and Bad Lands rancher, and whom
he followed 100 miles, plead guilty and were
sent TO the penitentary twenty-five months.
| The agents of one of the loan Syndi-