St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-05-19
DAKOTA NIPS,

blackboard.
DAKOTA NIPS.
There is a great deal of jealousy
among some of the ancient maidens
who have come out to Dakota to teach
school, over the success of Mrs. CHAsKA.
A good many of them would be willing
to become a museum freak for $500
week, even with One-fourth OF one
eighth Indian. There has been some
doubt cast upon the genuineness of the
woman on exhibition. Her friends
East refused to believe she would enact
that role, but they have been forced to
accept the palpable fact
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The head of the local option league in
Walsh relates how he skirmished around
among the blind pigs himself and saved
the expense of hiring spy from st.
Paul. He says:
cat the end of three weeks, from our
starting out, we had learned the rapS
and password, had ridden the billygoat,
and had been initiated into the secret
workings of every saloon in Walsh
county. We found the sticking place to
ties, and sampled their contents. We
found poor whisky by almost every con-
ceivable name. We succeeded in secur-
ing evidence of a multiplicity of viola
tions of the local option law against
every SaloOnkeeper in Walsh county,
upon which about thirty injunctions
have been served
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The Dakota Blizzard had Col. PLUM
MER in mind when it gave this as a brief
synopsis of the average Republican
campaign speech: ''Ths speaker then
referred to the late war;
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The assessed valuation of Dakota in
1880 was 500, 1921 800, and in 1887 it was
1851, 0S4, 365--an increase in seven years
of Sl36, 1872, $50. Where is the territory
or state that can show so large per
cent of increase in those years? And as
great as it was, it will no doubt be still
greater in the seven years to come.
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If the Democrats should manifest the
same zeal and activity in trying to elect
their candidates that they do in the
effort to get ahead of each other, as
lately shown at Watertown, they would
make lively work for the Republicans,
and might come out ahead in the gen
eral race.
The statement of Prof. Smith, of the
Fargo schools, is one of the most signifi-
cant evidences of the healthfulness of
the Dakota climate. He says that the
past four years the average attendance
on the public schools has been 150-the
highest 1,030-and in all that time there
have been but two deaths in term time,
or four or five in all. This is but one a
year among 800 children.
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One of the best drilled companies of
| the Dakota militia, Company FL, of
| WatertoWn. leaves for Tennessee to-
| day to compete in the interstate en-
campment to be held at Nashville. Col.
NJ. w. Sheafe. of the Second regiment,
and other citizens will accompany them.
They go through in special car deco
rated with Dakota legends and devices.
This is the only company from the
| Northwest going to compete with the
| crack companies of the South and East,
and if the boys win in the contest they
will give Dakota good advertising.
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| Local option will not settle the tenn
| perance question in many of the coun-
ties. In those without any large towns,
and in which there was an overwhelm-
ing vote for expulsion, the matter will
| 10 h .lSto no INT m
great number of counties there will
be a strong effort to secure the requisite
| one-third of the voters to the petition
for a new vote. and it is claimed that
the opposition to the law is stronger in
most of the larger towns than it was be-
fore the law was adopted. The town OF
Clark, in Clark, is cited as one of this
class. Prohibition swept everything
there last year. but at an election last
week the license ticket was elected by q
large majority, and the men on the pro-
hibition ticket offered to pledge them
selves to grant license if the people
voted that way next fall. The papers
of that section speak of this election as
an evidence that the people are getting
tired of law that does not prohibit and
will substitute for it high license.
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1t was probably an oversight on the
part of the Democratic conventions al
Watertown that no mention was made
of statehood. There should have beeI
a sharp hint to congress that there was
a disposition to kick enough to wake uI
the national sanhedrim On this subject
OF course, the kicking between Music
and ArmOry halls engroSSed the ener
gies, but it was no less blunder, that
should not be repeated at the next con
vention at Jamestown.
The Northern Pacific has taken steI
in the right direction in reducing the
passenger tariffs on its eastern divisions
to cents a mile-a reduction of 81. l;
between st. Paul and Fargo. 1t ha:
been several years since there was mucI
excuse for a higher rate-and there i:
as little for the present freight tariffs
The great need of Dakota is cheap rate:
for getting its wheat and other product:
to market.
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There is strongly developed flavor
of monotony in the reciprocal belching:
of sour stomachs in the Democratic fac
tions, and it is not seen how any publ,
or party interest can be promoted by
continuance of the unsavory delivery
If there is any principle involved in tn,
wrangle it is not seen by the unaidet
vision, and, if discovered, can be left t,
those who are able to magnify it int
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