St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-07-26
TERRET0REAL TIDBETs.
News Notes of Interest to the People
nf MI


Among the railroad extensions of which q
bird eye view may be had near the 46th
parallel, are the three ofshotS of the Dakota
s. Hastings division. The Ellendale branch is
under construction to St George, and the To-
cal paper says it will reach jamestown next.
summer. Another branch under way runs
from Ipswich to Roscoe and on to Hoskins III
Mcintosh county, and eventually to Bismarck
The third extension leaves the Milwaukee
near the Minnesota line, and will hardly get
beyond Day county this season. The North
western follows the plains nortnG from Column
bia TO La Moure, and it is said will continue
the line from that point to Jamestown, and
some predicts will obtain control of the
branch from La MOure to Fargo. The Mani
toba and Minneapolis and Northern Pacific
are with all speed building parallel lines in
Sargent county half mile apart, pushing
for the James river, the Manitoba several
necks ahead. Something is also being done
on the Dakota s. Great Southern.
The hail in Roberts county last week was
largely in chunks of ice big enough to break
through roofs, and cattle exposed had patches
OF hide as large as mans hand knocked
loose. Some tree claims had the bark torn
from the trees SO as to ruin them. Some
seyenty-five farmers in that county lost their
entire crops, and perhaps as many more half
or less. These were all small farmers, the
largest having but 200 acres; many of them
had been obtaining supplies to be paid for
out of the wheat crop, and now this is gone
and they are entirely destitute. Their con-
diton Is hard one. Several houses were
blown down and one church wrecked. This
was the same storm that did so much damage
in Grant county.
The Scotland Citizen has the details of the
fatal trifiing with a gun by the Brown boys
near that place. In the absence of the older
members Of the family the three boys and
girl thought they would play Indian. They
had shot gun, and snapped it several times
to be sure it was not loaded. One personated
the attacking Indian and another the farmer
defending his house. But the gun went of.
and the little fellow acting as the Indian re-
ceived the charge in his side, killing him. The
boy who did the shooting was so crazed at the
result that he ran twelve miles before he was
caught. The case furnishes another illustra-
ton of the danger of unloaded weapons.
The Prairie Home, one of the strongest
supporters of the Campbell movement saws
the action OF the Sioux Falls convention is a
surrender to the admission as whole policy
that it is an ignobe surrender to the dog
mas of Vest, Butler and Judge Edgerton, that
congress is supreme and the people of ter
ritory have no rights that congress is bound
to respect. The editor of this paper is secre-
tary of the Dakota State league and was so
indignant AT the action of the convention that
he rendered his resignation, but it was not ac-
cepted. He is mad.
In the counties that have had an efficient
organization hitherto there is good deal of
kicking over the basis of representation
adopted for the Democratic territorial con-
neutrality-suspicious. and not party votes IT
gives some counties nearly as many delegates
as they cast Democratic votes, but allowance
should be made for the fact that there was
no party organization, and that encourage
ment was needed for the Democrats in the
strong Republican counties. No interests will
suffer from this arrangement.
D,,H
Black Hills, says they will support for rep
reSentative in congress one who is thoroughly
schooled in the ms and outs of political life
at Washington, and one who is acquainted
and personally interested in every section of
this great and growing commonwealth, it
matters not whether he resides in North or
South Dakota, the Black Hills or on the Sioux
reservation That excludes Judge Clifford.
and evidently points to Gen. Allen, who is
well known in the Hills.
The local papers give lists of a hundred or
more farmers who suffered more or less in
the recent hail storm in Grant county. Some
fields were totally ruined, while others suf-
fered 30 to rs per cent. The width of the
storm was from eight to twelve miles, coming
from Roberts county into Grant, and taking
in Milbank. The losses to crops are put at
not less than 100000. A few thousand dol
lars damage was done to buildings.
There is yet no solution of the cause of the
the Northwestern railroad, whose body last
week was found in front of the hotel in
Tracy. He was exhausted sitting up several
nights with sick wife and had gone to the
hotel for rest. His skull was crushed and his
body covered with bruises, leading some TO
suppose he had been murdered.
In the southern counties. where fay is
largely grown, 1t seems to be more seriously
injured than the wheat and other crops.
Early wheat will make fair crop. but the
late is badly affected Corn is generally good
and Cd the whole the farmers come through
the hot, dry season in pretty fair shape
much better than in most regions further
north.
Hundreds of farmers suffered severely from
a recent nail storm in Clark, Kingsbury Lake
and Il corner of Brookings counties. Hail
stones fell as large as hens eggs and com
pletely ruined many of the fields The ele-
ments seem to have conspired this season
to make Jobs out Of many Dakota farmers.
In sections where there is plenty of good
grass il is believed more money can be made
putting up hay this season than in any other
crops, as the indications are that there will be
demand for it both in Montana on the west
and several states east, as well as in other
sections of Dakota.
farmer named Bradford and Postmaster
Dickinson, at Ayr, in Cass county, the past
week fought ap impromptu duel with knives.
The postmaster had his face cut open from
cheek to cheek, with severe cuts in the thigh.