St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-28
DAKOTA NIPS.


the occasion need not fear that there
will be no circus.
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Last fall twenty families left Forest
River, mostly for the Pacific region, few
South, to find better land for homes.
OF the twenty. fifteen have returned to
North Dakota, reporting that Washing
ton territory has nothing in an agri-
cultural way to compare with Dakota.
Those who go beyond Dakota for land
generally discover that they have made
mistake.
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Those who have the impression that
Mr.. DAY is operating mines in the
Black Hills simply to acquire wealth to
purchase Republican newspapers are
not likely to realize largely from that
source. 1t would be better for him if
some of that class of journals were less
friendly.
Those who contemplate securing gov
eminent land at some future time will
do well to cherish the belief that las
slow as congress is in reaching public
measures, 1t will probably, before it adj
journs, pass the new land bill, which
makes radical changes in the mode of
obtaining land. 1t will not then be pos
sible to obtain tillable land for S! .25 an
acre on short residence, and hold for
speculation. This new law will limit
the possessor to one quarter-sectiOn,
upon which there must be actual resi-
dence for five years to secure title. The
moral is palpable. Good lands, some of
the best, can still be had by pre-emp-
ton, homestead or as tree claims.
1t seems that the election in June for
county superintendent of schools is
only held in these counties that have
adopted the township system. Some
prominent counties still adhere to the
district plan. 1t is noted that there is a
growing disposition to confer these edu-
cational positions upon ladies.
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Any time in the past five years the
theory that Gen. HUGH J. CAMPBELL
would ever become the apologist or eu-
| logist of eX-Gov. ORDwAY would have
stamped the possessor as luny. Yet the
general now addresses this language to
the gentleman he once thought the en-
bodiment of all rascality: 81 have be-
come convinced that l was misled by
false accusations against you, and in
duced to bring legal proceedings which
| now very much regret" The general
might safely expand this into a state
ment covering the average of his utter
ances in regard to men and things that
did not operate in his channels.
The Rockford New Era understands
that Col. PLUMMER is to run the CaSSel-
ton paper to promote the temperance
cause and ''provide fat majorities for
Gen. EDWARDS in the Legislative fight"
The job would seem to leave him little
time for sonorous stump diffusion, but
Fargo has never got anything from the
legislature, and it is urged that Ed
WARDS would fall upon and crush any
body of public Doodle discussers that
did not divide fair.
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1t is understood that the cause of the
revival of the old Douglas county fraud
is the fact that the case is to come be-
fore the court in Douglas county in June,
when dispositions full of historical
matter will be read. Suits have been
brought to recover against the county
on these fraudulent warrants. AS it is
a penal otfense for any county officer to
recognize or pay these illegal issues,
the chief interest attaching to the mat
ter would seem to be in the vindication
of parties unjustly aspersed in connec-
ton with them and the development of
the exact facts. If the man BROWN is
found, he may be induced TO elucidate.
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The Republican papers take vastly
more interest in the Watertown than
the jamestown convention, and for some
reason, they all sympathize with Mr..
DAY. That gentleman is likely to worry
along pretty comfortably as long as he
keeps on the track Of rich mines in the
Black Hills, and is in no great need of
sympathy.
If the season is a little late for the
| wheat sewers, it is the general report
that the ground was never in finer
condition, and the prospect for big
yield is uniformly at high water mark.
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| The floods of new railroads in the
territory this year that were presaged
| in the winter, for some reason, are
generally deferred to another year.
| Among those in the North that seem
certain to be built are the line from
Aberdeen to Bismarck, the Dakota &
Minnesota from Fargo to Sherbrooke,
New Rockford, or some point north
west, and a Manitoba connection of its
lines at HARDWOOD and Ripon. which will
be of great advantage to the local trade
of Fargo. There may be few other
extensions in the north, but they will
| not be numerous.
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The 10Th of April was celebrated by
the New England colony in Hettinger
county with gunpowder and oratory,
and the first trees about the city were
set out. The first of the spring rein
forcements from New England had
come few days before, and added to
the enthusiasm. 1t is designed to fill
up all that remote region with the de-
scendants Of the Pilgrims, but there is
not much in the conditions of their mi
grafton 1900 miles in palace cars to sug-
gest the ancestral company reported to
have landed on the bleak Atlantic coast
in December, 1920.
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An Iowa party recently bought 1,5GC
head of cattle in the counties of Moody,
Lake and Brookings, to ship to his state
to fatten for market. This is an indica-
ton of the growth of the cattle business