St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-06-09
IN CENTRAL DAKOTA.
The Prospect of Good Crops Is
Encouraging and Weather
Favorable.
The Season Is Like That Of
'82, When the Yields Were
Phenomenal.
Lands Cheap, and the Induce
ments to Newcomers Not
Surpassed.
Farmers Allianee--Failure of
Notwithstanding Of
Local Politics.
Special to the Globe.


era OF unusual business activity and
rapid development, bringing substan-
tial prosperity to all classes OF our peo-
pie. The spring opened auspiciously,
and the weather continues cool and IA
vorable, with occasional warm showers.
There is splendid stand of wheat and
other small grains, and the outlook for
an immense yield has never been more
promising. Old settlers say there is
marked similarity between this spring
and the spring of 1882, that witnessed
such phenomenal yields all over the ter
ritory. Of course 1t is impossible at
this Stage of the game to speculate with
any degree of certainty on the yield of
grain, as the weather for the next two
months will have a decided effect on
the crops. 1t is safe to predict, how
ever, that should there be no disastrous
hot winds, there will be an enormous
yield of small grains, and consequent
prosperity amongst all classes. Al
ready there is noticeable activity
IN REAL ESTATE
circles, and actual settlers are begin
ming to invest in adjoining land held by
spectators and nOn-residents. There
is small but steadily increasing stream
states, being attracted here by the in
ducements offered in the shape of cheap
lands, salubrious climate, good mar
kets, railway facilities, schools, churches,
and an intelligent, enterprising people
to welcome them here and assist them
in obtaining an Inheritance of broad
and fertile acres in the most favored
portion of Dakota. The fact is gradu-
ally beginning to dawn upon the minds
of the Eastern people that
MARSHALL COUNTY
is second to none in the territory in the
fertility of her soil, healthfulneSS OF her
climate and the advantages and induce
ments offered to intending settlers.
Why should rational men invest from
S35 to 500 per acre in land in the older
states in the Union and be reduced to
the condition of Russian serf or Indian
ryot the rest of their lives, when they
can Just as we'll come right here and
purchase the finest land in the world at
from IS to so per acre; right here,
where wheat growing and stock raising
are carried on successfully and profit
ably? The only answer we can give to
the question is the blind prejudice con-
corning Dakota which permeates the
people of many of the states-a preju-
dice created and fostered by the mis-
representations of the Eastern press.
But truth is mighty and will prevail"
and the wrong impressions and ideas
are gradually giving way to facts and
figures. Our citizens have recently Or
ganiZed
BOARD OF TRADE,
every member of which is agen-
uine Dakota rustler, fully alive
to the interests of the town and sur
rounding country. The efforts of the
board in behalf of the town have been
successful so far beyond their most SAN
guine expectations. A $4,000 bonus has
been raised to build a Seventy-five-bar-
rel roller process grist mill, and az
rangementS have been perfected for its
immediate construction. Steps have
also been taken for the erection of a
large creamery in the fall. Other sub
stantial Improvements are projected
and the board is now busily engaged in
getting out advertising matter for dis
tri button in the East.
THE FARMERS ALLIANCE
has strong organization here, and is
agitating the feasibility of building and
running a large general merchandise
establishment. They also purpose to
build. farmers elevator. We hope
both projects will soon materialiZe and
prove an unqualified success. We
haven't much faith in thes permanency
of cooperative concerns, however, as
their history has invariably been one of
failure, after a fitful struggle of one or
two years. Much good can be accom-
plished by an organization of farmers
when confined within proper limits, but
the sooner they cease mingling in poll
tics, and sthe sooner they disabuse their
minds of the popular fallacy that they
HI LOTT ia
better it will be for them. An effort is
being made by the
SALOON ELEMENT,
backed up by contingent of dissatis-
fed Prohibitionists, to bring the local
option bill before the people again at
| the November election. According to
the provisions of the bill it will require
| a petition to the county commissioners
signed by one-thirds of the legal voters
| of the county to bring the matter to a
| vote this year, but every subsequent
year the question will be voted on regu-
larly at the fall election without petit
ton. The local option law, if enforced,
would effectually settle the liquor prob
| lem, but the friends of temperance
seem to lack the moral courage required
| to prosecute the eyil-doers who violate
| the law. Hence many persons of marked
temperance proclivities are beginning
| to debate in their own minds whether a
| stringent license law, judicious and
| comprehensive in its nature, is not pref
cradle to local option law, which, on
account of its attendant violations, eva
sions and blind pigs is in many in
stances virtually
DEAD LETTER
| on the statutes Of the territory. The
law has been reasonably we'll observed
in Marshall county, however, and an
| other vote would probably result in a
victory for prohibition.
The chronic Officeseekers are begin
| ming to lay plans for the capture of the
county convention, and are calculating
! the effect of possible moves ON the po-
| litical chess board at the fall election,
| which promises to be an unusually spir-
tied contest. Ever since the Organiza-
| ton of the county in July, 1885, clique
| of politicians at the county seat have
manipulated the conventions and filled
| the principal county Offices. The peo-
| pie of the county are getting tired of
| taxation without representation. They
are determined to break up the ring,
| and lively political shindy may be eX.
! pected, as the clique have good thing
| and will not loosen their grip without
desperate struggle.
An Accouchment in Transit.
| Special to the Globe.
JAMESTOWN, D. T., June 9.-While
| the Northern Pacific train was coming