St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-07-31
quiring property to be assessed at its actua
value.
TERRITORIAL TIDBITS.
News Notes of Interest TO the PEG
ple of Dakota.

news and spectators to keep their shirts and
coats on in court, but he INDUCES in very
practical suggestions. In court at Valley
City this week. where the title to span of
horses was involved, he remarked that it was
a shame and disgrace for two brothers to come
into court in this way. In another case he
regretted that he did not have the power to
punish dealers in agricultural implements,
sewing machines, etc.. for making contracts
with farmers, often resulting in taking the
property and homes from the latter. He no
doubt meant loan agencies, also. Judge Nc
Connell, in the Fargo district, lately delivered
himself of very fine piece of invectiye at a
juror. He sent out a jury in very plain
liquor case at IL m, Supposing it would re-
turn in very few minutes, in time for his
dinner, and told them he would wait for them
to come in. There was one obstinate Juror
who held out two hours, regardless OF the
cravings of hunger in the court. There was
fire in the eye of the judge, and he told the
man that he was the smallest pattern of a man
Nature had made, he was excused from fur
thur duty and could not leave too soon.
The scientists and experts say that all of
Southeast Dakota has an arteSlan basin down
from 400 to 500 feet. 1t is of white sand
thirty to forty feet thick. and was once sea
bed or bottom. The water III this sand comes
from springs in the Rocky mountains and is
ineXhauStible. On the drift formation above
this sand are found bones of fish, birds and
other animals, parts Of trees, etc., showing
that nature has been a long time in fitting
up this land for its present and future occu-
pants. There is difference in the pressure
and water in different localities, but it is be-
ieved that artesian wells may be had in any
part of the territory.
tits related that just before daybreak one
morning recently Editor Billion, of the
Wheatland Eagle, who is also postmaster and
as brave as gallant, was returning from q
visit to his best girl in the country, he was
held up by tramps in the edge of town and
robbed of all his money (S6.SO), with his rail-
road pass, gold watch, locket containing his
sweetheart and other valuables. His revolver
caught in his pocket or five or six dead tramps
would have furnished an item for his paper.
He proposes to marry at once to escape fur
Their perils, as tramps are growing thicker.
1t was designed that the state league should
be means of amassing fund that could be
used in sending eloquent orators and apostles
into the contested congressional districts, to
turn them against the Democrats. 1t is re-
ported that SIS will about cover the available
part of this fund gathered in three months.
Since the tiasco at Sioux Falls the league
seems to have fallen dead. 1t is hardly men
toned, and Eastern committees must paw for
Dakota orators if they get them. Col. Plum
mer seems to be the only one in demand.
A young man and two young ladies were
riding in a buggy in a recent storm, near
named Keely. was struck by lightning and
one side of her body partially paralyzed, from
which she is slowly recovering, but neither
Of the two parties with her felt the shock at
all. Two men in a house in the vicinity were
knocktd down and one of them had the hair
burned entirely off his head in a strip about
an inch wide.
Nick Louvinger, in Turner county, got so
lonesome in his shack that he could not wait
for his sixieen-year-old love to come OF age,
and her parents would not consent, so they
got fast horse and started for Nebraska to
marry, but the girls father got on the trail
and overlook them at a hotel at Centerville,
where they stopped for lunch, and took the
girl home. Nick says he will keep on trying.
Parties are trying to arrange an excursion
of Dakota Odd Fellows to Boston during the
session of the sovereign grand lodge, COM
mencing Sept. 20. which, it is said, will be the
greatest gathering of the order ever held any
where. SIS round rate has been secured
from Chicago, and low figures will be had
from Chicago to all Dakota points. The order
has lodges in nearly all the prominent towns.
The head officers of the Minneapolis s. Pa
cif1c and the Manitoba have recently visited
the grading parties of the two roads which
are parallel and but Il half mile apart in the
south part of Rchland county. 1t is stated
that both will commence laying rails the com
ing week, the former road laying in both di-
rectionS from FairmOnt and Sewell. They are
making things interesting for that section.
The Democrats of McCook county have al
ready elected their delegates to the territorial
convention. The delegates are: Dan Mulloy
Charles Kostboth DR.. NJ. Ware, Tim Ryan,
Barney Heying and Peter Winchie. McCook
is one of the strongest Division counties, but
it is understood that the Democrats will sup
port Il candidate in favor of any kind of adj
mission rendered by congress.
The Milwaukee officials are reported to have
fOll
solicited jobberS rates on bulk goods that it
was not the policy of the road to allow any
Dakota towns to become large enough to do
whOleSaling business. This railroad system
is not alone in this policy, and several Dakota
cities are kept back in consequence.
Parties who have recently visited Devils
Lake report the grass and grain so dry that
the railroad keeps men along the line to
watch for fires caught by sparks by the loco
motives. In several instances large fields OF
wheat have been burned. This is not the
dryest part of Dakota, and damage is being
done in other sections.
McMullen, editor of the Centerville Index,
in Turner county, has been to Waterloo Ia
and secured a lovely wife. The North Da-
kota papers are congratuating Col. Murphy
OF the Grand Forks Plaindeaer over the rare
taste of the wealthy and charming young
Chicago lady in preferring the name Of Muir
ply to Hopkins.
Judge Church, the one that did not resign,
recently gave Il district attorney in Sphinx
piece OF his mind, accusing him of lying to
to him about the paltry sum of SO. 1t was
not stated what the amount should be to war
rant alterations from veracity on the part of
attorneys in Dakota.
Some of the men with large crops of wheat
are inclined to overeStmate the shortage of
the crop, in hope to effect the market. 1t
will be found that the aggregate yield in the
TERRITORY will he mucb larUpr than
have Indicated The estimates of ten or
twelve million bushels are several million too
small.
In quite a number of Democratic towns
that are not big enough for two papers trying
to exc out Il living, the sheets pleasantly
refer to each other as the lying hypocrite
that tryS to run the Slop-bucket concern over
the way etc. In some cases personal
violence is threatened, but none has oc-
Cured.
The people of Pierre have been little ner-
Vous OF late over the fact that about 100 tons
of dynamite were being loaded at that point
to haul to the Black Hills. A party dropped
one Of the packages from his shoulder to the
ground. If it had exploded it is thought
Pierre would have become Renaissance.
1t is urged against the reelection of Dele
gate Clifford that he would regard his return
as an Endorsement of his course in centering
all his efforts upon the division scheme thus
ton. His second term, it is said, would be a
repetition of the first in this respect.
At the rate grading and track lying are 60
ing on, cars will be able to run to Newport
(near) Willard, in McHenry, on the Manitoba
extension from Devils Lake, in September
There are about dozen contractors with
large gangs at work in that section.
The Redtield Dispatch thinks that cranks at
Washington who send letters to certain Da-
kota papers are doing all they can to stir up
war of factions among the Democrats.
Aberdeen is happy in the assurance of soon
having new line to St. Paul and Chicago, not
connected with the Milwaukee, which they
regard as unfriendly to the place.
Gen. Hugh J. Campbell is to command the
forces on one side in a sham battle at the
county fair in Bon HOmme. He wants to
keep his hand in for emergencies.
The Democrats of Clark county are about
the first N oil m ha