St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-06-02
DAKOTA NTPS.

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There is one quite able and influential
Republican sheet that indorses with
emphasis Gen. CAMPBELL's promised
litter of conventions - the Yankton
Press and Dakotian. 1t speaks of the
general as that grim and griZzled vet
eran of division who nursed the project
in its infancy, encouraged it IN its more
robust strength" and has finally
brought victory" The general is to
be congratulated if his arduous labors
have brought victory. Is it the James
town triumph that is referred to, or sue
cess in defeating statehood in the only
feasible way-that of admission as a
whole?
Reports seem to disagree as to the
amount of opposition there is among
the Squaw Sioux to the opening, but
there is no doubt that the requisite
names will be secured and the lands
thrown open TO settlement within the
year OF limitation.
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pOrteur and Drecentor of the great mu-
steal symposium of the Northwest,
which is to flood Fargo with mel
ody on three days from June &c,
protests against the prefix of pro-
feSsor to his name by the GLOBE, as
he prefers to leave that title to the CHR
opodiStS and tonsorial artists. 1t is a
very miscellaneous sort of handle to the
name, but without it Mr.. MAXEY will
apparently succeed in making his col
location of sweetness and beauty in
sound the most notable and copous ever
seen in the wild West.
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One of the Dakota papers is unkind
enough to intimate that if Col. PLUM
MER is with the delegation to Chicago
and unhinged from his local option at
tachment. there will be no chance for a
brass band to get in any work. There
should be no ladies uDon the train,
judging from reports of his verbal eX-
udations at jamestown. The Wahpeton
Times alludeS to it in this:
Nov every time the Hon. John G.
ocrats, he disperses them by rehearsing
a dirty old gag gotten off by Col. PLUM
MER at jamestown. The colonel got the
thing off with ladies in the house, too {!
Oh, the old Blizzardp
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1t was quite a disappointment to the
DeadwOod boys, latter they had organized
a fine militia company, to learn that the
governor could find no room for them
in the D. n. G. 1t would seem that
there should be at least one company of
soldiery in the Black Hills.
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The Huron Herald speaks of Col.
PLUAINTER as worker" for the North
ern Pacific railroad. If he is, the work
is light and the pay heavy, for the col
onel has always tried to have all his
work done by proxy. He is willing that
all others shall work.
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1t is now charged that Mr.. DAY at
one time used to peddle lightning rods.
The imputation is serious, but it is evil
dent that he never became so expert in
their manipulation as to draw the office
seekers lightning either for himself or
his friends.
The Grand Forks Plaindealer has
always had both feet in the Republican
lines, and yet it says: The West is in
terested in the MILLS tariff bill, and any
party that will pass it will receive its
commentator"
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The present rulings of the land office
in regard to tree claims are not calcu-
lated to provoke enthusiasm among
holders of such who have hoped to
prove up by an easy method. In years
past many claims have been proved I'D
in eight years from time of filing, the
last planting of trees being but three to
five years out. The law specifies eight
| years as the time the trees must be in
cultivation, and, of course, they cannot
| comply with this requirement if out but
four or five years. Unless special cir
cumstances have enhanced its value. a
man generally earns his tree claim by
the time he gets his patent.
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Dr. BERT ROBERTSON was character
| of good deal Of note in North Dakota
a few years ago. He resembled Col.
| PLUMAIER as an orator and in other re-
| spects, but, unlike the colonel, adhered
to the Democratic party, even when its
pasturage was short. He was one of the
most effective stumpers for C. f. KIN
DRIED in the big fight with KNUTE Nell
SON over the Red in 1882. The story
has been told in the GLOBE of how. at
the Instance of PLUMMER, then holding
down claim at La Moure, that place
stole the unsuspecting doctor from the
rival town, Grand Rapids, and had him
deliver the Fourth of July Grafton at the
wrong place, freely praising the other
| town. The crowd shook with poorly
suppressed laughter as he extolled the
rival place. The doctor was hot when
he found out the trick, and has never
liked PLUMSlER since. When some re-
form era dropped him out of sanitary
bureau at Fargo he disappeared a few