St. Paul daily globe., 1888-06-16

DAKOTA NIPS.


DAKOTA NIPS.
Some of the Republican papers insist
that there is gail in the resolution at st.
Louis that all federal officers in terri
tories should be selected from residents.
Did the Republicans select territorial
appointees from residents when they
were in power?. Neither party has been
as liberal with the territories as desira-
bic in this matter, but the present adj
ministration has come nearer than any
of its predecessors to recognizing home
rule in the case of Dakota. Never have
so many of the offices in Dakota been
filled with residents as now, and the
tendency is in that direction. What
ever party is in power, there will be no
retrograde steps in this matter.
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This will be something of Dakota
day in st. Paul, judging from the num-
Der that are arriving to join the process
sion to Chicago tonight. Gen. ALLEN
will have his hands full to take care of
them.
the township school system, fourteen of
them adhering to the district plan,
under which they have no election in
June, the superintendent holding till
November.
Perhaps because it is a territory Da-
kOta is very little troubled with the in
sect or other animate enemies to crops,
the gopher excepted, that so annoy
farmers in the states: but one of the
papers in Grant county says that cut
worms are getting in work Oh corn so
destructively that many are putting the
land into mIllet.
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Old settler reunions are becoming
quite numerous, the date of eligibility
generally this side of 1880, and fire.
quently not more than two or three
years 0ack. In Brookings the old set
tier came before 1881, indicating that as
one of the older of the central counties.
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The Chamberlain Democrat states
that last week an Indian brought IN
vial OF what was pronounced by experts
as gold. He would not tell where he
found it, but said it was four days ride
away. For years there nave been ru-
mors OF rich gold deposits in the reser-
vation. Such discoveries now would
cause a stampede of fortune seekers
that could not be checked more than
were the first immigrants to the Black
Hills. 1t is known that there is good
coal on the reservation, and quite likely
some portions of it will prove to pos sess
valuable minerals.
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The secretary of the editorial associ-
alton says that arrangements to visit the
National park have not been concluded,
out are in favorable stage. The reg
ular business meeting will be held at
Big Stone, and if they do not take the
excursion, there is a splendid lake there
with good fishing, and probably camp
meeting will be in operation.
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The railroad managers look compla-
Gently upon the remarkable tide of
immigration going past Dakota to the
Pacific regions, as they believe the bulk
of it will return to the peerless territory
in the fall. They will find that they
have gone by the best farming lands.
There is quite sprinkling of those
who went out earlier now coming to the
Dakota lands. The big crops now well
assured all along the line of the North
ern Pacific in Dakota will have great
effect in stimulating immigr. ton.
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The visitor to Sioux Falls will hear
with surprise the statement that one of
the graduates of the High school this
year, less than sixteen years of age, is
the first white boy born in the present
limits of that beautiful city. His name
is DICKSON, and he dates from Sept. 81,
1872, and first saw the light in the old
barracks of Fort Dakota, without sus-
picion that he was to see a vast en-
pOrium grow up there.
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1t is understood that the finances
available for that purpose will not admit
of the holding of an encampment this
year for the Dakota militia Some of
the people Of Grand Forks, however.
are agitating the question of inviting
the soldiery to meet at that place during
the North Dakota fair, and propose to
raise $1,000 to meet the expense. The
only difficulty seems to be the uncer-
tainty whether Gov. CHURCH and his
staff can be secured. The energy which
| the managers of the fair are displaying
| seems to assure even greater success
than last ear.
1t is not generally understood that the
Sioux have federal government of the
various tribes. Such seems to be the
fact. Each year the several tribes elect
members of a general council, and what
this body approves the tribes agree to
Members have recently been elected tC
this council, which is soon to meet, an(
it is understood that they are favorable
to the opening of the reservation, which
insures approval of the bill.
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Dakota is still too young and new tc
! have all the outgrOwths of hoary ciyili-
ization, and one would not expect to fine
full-blown, bona fide ghosts there, but
nothing seems impossible in the inspir
ing ozone. Sturgis. in the Black Hills
claims to have regular old-fashioned
spook. 1t always appears at midnight
and has been seen by score of repu
table citizens. 1t has not yet been iden
tilted, but the older settlers recall hall
dozen or more persons who have dice
there by violence. and newspaper par
ties are trying to secure an interview
and learn the object of its terrestrial
visitation.
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In spite of the publicity given the
school chart dispensers. the Plankintor