St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-01-06
DAKOTA DOTLETs.
News Notes of All Sorts from the
Land Of No. 4 Hard.


Capt Burke OF the jamestown Capital takes
q humorous view of the voyage 70 Steele
under the escort OF the sheriff TO answer to
the Indictment for libel upon certain officials
OF Kidder. He regards IL as a fight on him
by Col. W. F. Steele and proposes 10 make
the matter interesting. While his charges
relate to the management OF public affairs,
there Is an impression that u good deal Of
personal jealousy is involved, as both are
members OF the governors military staff.
Burke has been designated as beautiful, and
Steele claims TO be the handsomest man upon
the staff. Ii is thought the governor should
appoint a military commission to determine
the relative merits and pulcbritude of the gem
tlemen-
As specimen of Dakota humor this is re-
lated by the White Lake Dispatch upon
Brother Pratt, newspaper man: He was at
friends house not long ago. and picking up
book he exclaimed on seeing picture rep
resenting a man kneelng at a womans feet,
I'D hang myself before / would kneel to a
woman" And then, turning to young wo-
man, he inquired; "Don't you approve OF my
assertionS' at would be the best for the
woman" was the lady's reply.
The report is confirmed that representa-
tIves OF the Milwaukee road are buying large
tracts OF land in the southeast part of Hutch
inson county, evidently for railroad town
site. This Is south and a little east of
Mitchell. and IL is alleged that the road will
uidhc luls punt JuuCllOu OF u me north 10
Mitchell and one more 10 the west through
Douglas comfy. This win be done to keep
pace with the extensions of the Northwestern
in that quarter.
Since Denny Hannafin, the typical pioneer
OF Stanley Hnntley's sketches. has gone TO
Washington and put in a successful claim for
a pension for service in some of the early
wars of the republic, il is said that Hon. d.
NJ. Kelleher, the similar type OF character,
viii revive his recollectionS of frontier and
Indian service, and put in claims. He wants
no Office, but since his admiss on TO the prac-
tice OF law is anxious to distinguish himself
Ut the bar.
Marshal Maratta has surprised his friends
By the beauty and merit of a poetical tribute
he has written to the memory of Vice Presi-
dent Hendricks. He has had IL framed under
portrait of the dead statesman, with artistic
devices by q lazy friend, and hung in his Office
at Fargo.
were being set out the last days of December,
and Mai. Flynn, the Bismarck Donan, claims
to have seen flowers In bloom at that time.
Some allowance. however, is made for the
fact that he has been under treatment for his
yes
The first child ever born in Newark, in Mar
shall county, was Christmas present to Mr.
and Mrs. +. T. Allen, and a writer says: "Ev-
cry one was pleased, and Newark's new era
dates from Christmas, 1885,"
Col. w. G. Plummer is delivering in the
Northern towns his lecture on the Tower Of
Babel He claims to have gathered some new
points In reea d to that ancient structure
ST nee he wrote the lecture last year.
In Douglas county the farmers organized
a three-days' hunt TO reduce the annoying
population OF wolves, coyotes and foxes.
There was quite slaughter of the pests.
Many of the members OF the Huron legisla-
ture are puzzled to know whether they are
entitled to the designation Of "Hon." II will
be given them whether the state Is admitted
or not. Titles are cheap In Dakota.
At the reunion of the Stebbins family at
Blunt In the holidays there were twenty-sx
members OF IL present and It was stated that
there had never been death in the family
tribute to the climate may be found in
this.
S. W. Lockwood and family OF Brookings
have gone to Ohio TO spend some time. The
band escorted them to the depot, and q hand
some souvenir was present TO Mr.. l..
The Dakota Loan and Trust company, with
a capital of $5O0.0O0, has been organized at
Watertown in connection with the National
bank of that place.
Marshal Maratta has appointed Dennis
Crowley. a French citizen of Columbia, in
Brown county, deputy marshal of the Central
region.
Russian settlers in the northern portion Of
Burieigh county have opened up several coal
mines. and are getting fair quality of col.
In the Brookings region, blowing and bar
rowing were stopped by frost Dec. 20.
An educational endowment association has
been inc orporated at Huron.