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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-10-06
UPPER JAMES VALLEY.
A Budget Of Notes and News
Gathered at James
town.
A Syndicate Going to Fill
That Region With Eastern
Colonies.
The Democrats Are Lucky in
Getting Strong Men to
the Front.
A Good Deal Of Wheat There
to Take Advantage Of
High Prices.

Special to the Globe.
JAMESTOWN, Oct. 5.-An extensive
colonization scheme that will have an
important and salutary effect on the
counties of Stutsman, Foster, Barnes
and Griggs, is now being perfected by
an Eastern syndicate, which, through
its representative, E. V. Smalley, re-
Gently inspected lands in North Da-
kota and purchased $4,000 acres in the
above named counties. These lands
were mostly purchased from the North
ern Pacific at a low price. The old plan
of non-residentS
buying land and waiting patiently for
some one else to do something to make
it rise in value, will not be followed in
this case. Instead the syndicate has
adopted a new and desirable plan to
increase the value of the investment.
They intend to organize colonies in the
East this winter and send them to
Dakota to occupy their quarter sections:
What Dakota needs is development and
a few more such sYndicates will make
a long move in that direction. This
same syndicate intends TO purchase
10O.0 900 more acres of land before July l
next
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-10-06
BEST WHEAT IN DAKOTA.
Said to Come From County Surveyed
Only Five Years Ago.
THE CHAMPION FLYERS !
A Stupendous Factor in the Worlds
Markets, But Won't Stand Unjust
Taxation.
Special to the Globe.

Special to the Globe.
Roscoe, Oct 5.-The high price of
grain and the unsurpassed quality of the
Central Dakota product this season, are
drawing immigration our way again.
There have been more land seekers IN
thlS vicinity for the past two weeks than
for long time before.
This magical northwest supplies not
only physical nutriment, but food for
reflection, when it is remembered that a
portion OF our country that was practi-
caily unknown twenty-five years ago,
this year regulates the price of wheat
for the United States, and perhaps for
the world. Had the Red River valley
and the immense wheat tract tributary
to the Northern Pacific railroad. fur
nished the usual amount of No. 1 hard,
it would not have been possible for all
the men in Chicago to have placed the
price of wheat where it is to-day. 1t is
difficult to make our Eastern friends
comprehend the fact that we area
STUPENDOUS FACTOR
n the worlds food supply, and that of
this rapid nation, we people of the new
Northwest are the champion flyers.
Central Dakota that has not half a dec
ade of existence, will doubtless furni sh
a large share of seed wheat for our
Northern brethren. Wheat experts
from such grain centers as the "Twin
Cities" Duluth, Milwaukee and Chi
cagO, assert that the finest quality of
grain they have found this year is at
Roscoe and in towns on the lines of the
Chicago, Milwaukee d st. Paul railway
that radiate in four directions from
that point-and there was no govern
ment survey in Edmunds county until
the fall of 1888. We all rejoice that
our grain is bringing such good prices,
but we cannot hope for permanent
prosperity, until we are released from
the unjust taxation under which we
writhe and groan. The iron that Ten
tiers mostly deeply into the soul" OF our
settlers here, and that tears the largest
rents in his income is that i'm agricult-
ural machinery. From the fact that
the same brands of American machinery
are sold in foreign lands for much
less price than we can purchase
them, it is beginning to dawn
upon US that these ''protected' manu-
features are eXt0rting blood money
from their own cOuntrymen, because
these machines are an absolute necessity
for extensive farming. Before every
thinking man casts his vote for the next
president, | heartily urge him to read
an article in the October Scribner en-
titled PROBLEMS in American politics."
by Hon. Hugh Mccullough, secretary
of treasury under Presidents Lincoln
and Arthur. In contrast to the vapor-
ings and sophistries of these high
priced apostles of trusts and monopo-
lists, it is as a breath of wholesome
morning air to the feGd and plague
laden atmosphere of yellow fever
district, and all patriots should take
counsel from such wise and untainted
source; for we need wise counsel now,
Is greatly as when we were threatened
with disunion.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-10-06
WANTED TO GO EAST FIRST
That's What's the Matter With the Big
Injuns of the Tribes.
THEY WILL SIGN THEN,
If They Can Get All the S5,500,0 600
in a Lump in
Advance.
Special to the Globe.

Special to the Globe.
CHAMBERLAIN, Dak., Oct. 5.-Our
people are now confident that the reser-
walton will be opened and that the
matter will be settled before the 1st of
January. The visit of the chiefs to
Washington will result in much good,
and had they been allowed to go to
Washington last winter when they
were all ready and had offered to pay
their own expenses, the reservation
matter would have been settled favor
ably before this time. Your cor
respondent has been told by different
Indians and interpreters repeatedly,
that the opposition of the chiefs was
owing to the fact that they were dis
pleased and fell sighted at not being
allowed to make
THE EASTERN TRIP
when they requested to be allowed
to do so. Had they then been
permitted to go and talk the
matter over with the persons who
drafted the Sioux bill and expressed
their wishes before the bill had been in
troduced in congress. one or two slight
changes could have been made that
would have pleased them. and the COM
missioners on beginning their labors
would have met with little, if any, OPP
opposition. A visit now, of course,
IS NOT TOO LATE,
and will yet result in the signatures
being secured. TIE only opposition
now, and the one question that the In
danS wish to have settled. is that the
sum of S5,50000O be at once placed to
their credit, before the land is sold to
actual settlers, and if this is granted
them they declare they will sign. This
was the decision Of the chiefs at the
council at Lower Brule agency, not
withstanding other reports that have
been sent out i'll regard to their de-
piSiOu
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-10-06
OUGHT TO BE ELECTED.
A Strong and Able Man for the
Council, and Good Representa-

A Strong ana ADle MAN Tor the
Council, and Good Representa-
tives.
Special to the Globe.
Roscoe, Oct. 5.-The Edmunds coun-
ty delegates to the Democratic legisla-
tive convention at Aberdeen, returned
this morning jubilant over the nomin-
alton of Mr.. Charles Prefer, of McPher-
son county, for councilman. He was a
resident of this county for. four years,
and gained the respect of all classes of
people by his honorable and upright
business character. He is one of the
finest types of a self-made Western
man to be found in the whole North
west. He was born in Wisconsin, has
spent much of his life in Minnesota, and
has been for the past five years resi-
dent of Dakota. He lived at OrtOnville,
Mimi, for some time, where he is well
known and highly respected. He is now
conducting banking business at
Eureka, Mcpherson county, and is also
owner of large Touring mill that has
just been completed at that place. He
had refused the nomination OH the
ground that his extensive business in
terests would not allow him to make
the canvass, but when he found that all
the counties were unanimous for the
nomination, he telegraphed his accept
ance to the convention, and was NOM
mated in ringing speech by Capt. f.
NJ. Hopkins, chairman of the Edmunds
county central committee. The two
representatives nominated are excellent
men. Fred B. Smith, an energetic
young farmer from Brown county, was
the choice of the young Democracy.
Capt. q. E, Dyer, of Marshall county,
was former register of deeds of that
county and is very popular throughout
the district. All on the ticket are
pioneers to Central Dakota.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-10-06
POLITICAL CHOWDER.
Some of the Men in the Field and
the Aspect OF the Parties.

Some of the Men i'm the Field and
the Aspect of the Parties.
Special to the Globe.
JAMESTOWN, Oct. 5.-Now that the
Democrats have placed a county and
legislative ticket in the field in this
county and district, the political situa
ton has taken more active and nervey
aspect. The nominees on the county
ticket are in every instance strong ones,
while the legislative ticket is conceded
by Republicans and Democrats alike to
be a formidable one. This district
is largely Republican or was two years
ago, but a favorable combination
of circumstances, popular nominees, a
strong platform and united DemOc
racy make the local partisans feel hope
full, and lend not only possibility but
probability to the claims of many that
the governor will get one of the much
talked-of t.nineI from the Twenty-sec-
ond district The Republicans have not
vet made their nominations, either legiS-
lative or county. Candidates fol places
on the county ticket are numerous, and
the convention Oct. 20 will undoubted-
ly be
A LIVELY AFFAIR.
The Republicans do not now present
an united front, nor does it seem likely.
that they WILL There is a division Of
interest and a tinge of feeling among
the leaders that makes Democrats hope
full that the campaign Of 1886 may be re-
peated. In that year, through the split
of the Republicans and the multiplicity
of tickets in the field-there were four
they succeeded in electing five of the
nine county officials. Sutsman county
will present the name of s. l.. Glaspell
for councilman, and he will probably
be nominated at Darlington, Oct. II.
There are several candidates for the
nomination for the house, among the
most prominent being Wellman, of
Eddy county, Dodds. of Nelson, and
Shook
GOPHER TAIL SHOOK
of Benson. The latter two were MEM
bers of the last house. 1t is uncertain
who will he the nominees for the house,
but the question will be settled by com
binatiOn The most likely result is that
the three strongest cOuntleS-StutS-
man, Nelson and BensOn-will combine
against the ''smalI fry'' as in the past,
and take the honors for their favorites.
The Democratic legislative nominees
were named at Darlington last week.
and are: For the council-Cavt t. w. 2.
Farrell, Stutsman county; fer the
hOuse-W. L. Perkins, of Nelson, and
A. d. Greene. of Eddy.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-10-06
The PULPIT SAYS SO.
A Sioux Falls Preacher De-
clares That Local Option
Is a Failure,
And That High License; Effects
the Most Good Where
Tried.
A Pair Of Kids Likely to Be
Sent to the Coming
Legislature.
The Fair Such a Success That
Sioux Falls Will Bid
for 1t.

Special to the Globe.
Sioux FALLS, Oct. Sin the opera
house here last Sunday evening, Rev. p.
E. HOlp, who has just left the COngre-
gational church here for a charge at
Watert0wn, delivered a temperance
lecture under the auspices of the w. c.
L. U. The opera house was packed
from gallery to pit, and the good women
of the association thought that here was
a splendid opportunity to open the
LOCAL OPTION CAMPAIGN
for prohibition. But they had not evil
IDENTIFY read the proof on the reverend
gentleman'S address, for after few
genessssss remarks on temperance as a
moral issue, he waded into the local
option question as practical issue in
this country. He surprised the good
ladies by declaring that prohibition had
been complete failure after years
trial here; that the saloons of Sioux
Falls had been run openly in defiance
of law; that PrOhibItiOniStS who had
promised such great things before cleo
ton were somewhere else when the
time arrived for its enforcement. and
that from now on he wanted to be
claSSed among those who favored
HIGH LICENSE
as practical restrictive measure. He
Introduced statistics to show that high
license had always been more success
full than prohibition, taking his figures
from cities and counties which had
tried both. The sermon created as
great cOmmOtiOn as rat in draw
ing room. PrOhibiuonists condemn
Rev. Holp for taking advantage of the
time and place to strike blow at the
cause which it was understood he had
been secured to favor, while high license
people say the gentleman
WAS ALL RIGHT,
inaSmuch as no one had asked him
which side of the question he was going
to take. and no one had a right to as
sumo that he was going to speak in
favor of prohibition. The w. {. Il. U.
Wednesday adopted resolutions critics.
ing Rev. HOlp and repudiating the posi-
ton taken by him.
The local option campaign is warming
UP here. The prediction is that high
license will carry in this county, but
ante-electiOn predictions are, of course,
not worth vast amount in the open
market.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-10-06
NOT FOR THE WORLD.
Pat Ford Sending His Wild Blaineisms
to Dakota.
HE IS PAID TO DO IT
He Attempts to Excite Prejudice
on the Sectarian
Lines.
Special TO the Globe

Special to the Globe.
BRIDGEWATER, Oct. 5.-Not even the
''tatooed man" from Maine is so Jealous
for Republican success as the soi-disant
Irish patriot, Pat Ford. The gratuitous
distribution of Irish Worlds is daily
multiplying, and stale ''stories," ac
centuated by sloppy cartoons, bespread
the raw pages of that purchaSable
weekly. Pro-Britishism, the Golden
club, Observation-Disclosures alliance
and divers Democratic delinquencies
are paraded ad nauseam by this prose-
lyte to Blaineism.' 1t is to be devOutly
wished that Pat will so continue and
EARN HIS MONEY,
for Irishmen, irrespective of party, feel
that scandal-nOnging of this kind only
helps the march to tariff reform.
Among some samples of Irish World
Republican politics this week is
one called THE Modern Luther" where
comparison is set up between Con-
gresham Mills and Martin Need. We
may say it is an attempt to introduce
sectarianism into our already red-hOt
NATIONAL POLITICS.
We may, ell PEASANT, remind Ford.
that as far as we have noticed, his pa
per has been the first to resort to this
contemplate method, and we feel GER
tain that the manhood of the country
will stigmatize it as 1t should.
Mr.. Mills. whatever his shortcomings,
is entitled to the credit of devoting time
and labor towards formulating a great
constitutional question, and the earnest
ness of his convictions is conceded by
opponents, while even Republicans
ADMIT THE VENALITY
of the Irish World. Mr.. Mills has
persuaded great national party
that our taxes should be re-
duced per cent on the average,
and in his strenuous efforts to better the
wage-earners has incurred the hostility
of monopolies and millionaires, to sup
port whose injustice, this editor has be-
come, for a consideration, the willing
tool. 1t were unreasonable, it is true,
to expect anything impartial from
partisan bought, whose work is already
designated, and whose quid pro quo is
properly agreed on by the price in hand.
All this, we are sure, is as it should be.
But the public has right to firmly re-
sist any attempt to introduce Sectalian-
ism. The Irish World editor must be
sadly destitute of material, wherein to
build that great column of Republican
protection, which he claims is the safe
guard to our prosperity, when he in
vokes the blackguardism of the bigOt.
w. j. u.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-10-06

The progress of the campaign LOT
delegate vindicates the wisdom OF the
Democrats in selecting candidate VINO
is virtually a new man in politics, ana
who, while possessing all the essentials
for useful and efficient delegate, also
possesses.the element of availability to
rare extent. Mr.. HARDEN is loaded
with none of the weights that encum-
Der so many of the men who have min
gled prominently in affairs in Dakota,
Not even partisan mendacity seeks TO
cast a shadow upon his unblemished
character He has earned all that
he possesses by the toll or hand
and brain. He has not been
an OfficehOlder, fattening at the expense
of the people. He is a plain, toiling
farmer-educated, cultured and brainy-
a leader among those who would lift
burdens and make life brighter to the
struggling producers of the new land.
While firm supporter of the economic
and governmental policies of the Demo
cratic party, he was not a mere paru-
san. He acted with that party not from
accident of association or training, but
because he believed that its measures
would insure better results to the
masses of the people than those of the
opposition. Mr.. HARDEN had never
been a manipulation of party machine.
He followed ideas, not banners.
Consequently, he was not at all
mixed up with any of the fac
tional conflicts of the Democratic
party, and his selection was equally &C
ceptable to all. 1t is believed there is
no paper in the territory that has ever
claimed to be Democratic which does
not give him its heartiest support.
None are more earnest in this direction
than those which most emphatically
dislike the governor, such as Maj. BAR
RETT's Aberdeen Republican and Col.
WARNOCK'S jamestown Capital. These
sheets are edited with such ability as to
give them recognized leadership. Their
practical common sense keeps them
from falling into the palpable blunder
of making disagreement with the tenn
pOrary executive disturbing factor in
the congressional contest. There never
were $4,000 members of any organiza-
ton that did not number a few
specimens of the crank species.
Here and there a deserter may
perhaps be found. but they are the
units, while the accessiOns number hun
dreds and thousands. 1t may safely be
presumed that all who expect to sit
around the Democratic table in the fut-
ure will vote for the only candidate
whose support can be made test of
party fealty. Mr.. HARDEN has, by his
iudicious canvass. done much to har-
monte and cement all the elements of
the party, which before his nomination
seemed almost hOpelessly discOrdant.
1t would lie uncandid to insist that his
election is assured, in the face of the
$4,000 and $4,000 majOrities of two and
four years ago. He is doing such work
as never has been seen in the political
history of the territory, and he will at
least merit success. 1t is noticeable
that those most familiar with the situa-
ton are the most hopeful. They be-
lieve he can be elected.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-10-06
WILL BE ALL RIGHT.
And Get Through the Winter by
the Assistance Furnished.

Special to the GLOBE.
VALLEY CITY, OAK, Oct. 5.-This
beautiful fall weather has been very
favorable for thrashing operations, but
the hum of the thresher is not so gen
orally heard as in former years. As has
recently been anticipated. the guam
THY of No. hard is extremely limited,
and even inferior grades show great
shortage compared with preceding
years. The increased price, however.
furnishes considerable compensation
for the decreased yield.
In cases where small farmers. who
were struggling along and have lost the
greater portion of their crop by rust
and frost, the want of means to pur.
chase fuel is far from cOnsOling for the
approaching winter. A movement has
already been inaugurated looking to-
ward the assistance of such families by
aiding them in the purchase of their
winter fuel. The Northern Pacific
Railway company has greed to furnish
fuel free of transportation to the indi-
gent settler, which, with little aid from
the county, will provide against suffer
ing in this regard.
The question of seed wheat is one
which farmers are already discussing
with animation, as the present prices
prompt the farmer 10 SOW all available
land the coming season.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-10-06
DAKOTA NIPS.

A late Fargo paper states that that
city has thirty blind pigs now in full op-
Grafton, although the term is of doubt
full application when there is so little at
tempt to shun the public eye. POpu-
lar sentiment there seems to look upon
this condition of things with so much
cOmplacency that it seems very difficult
for the good ladies of the w. G.. T. u. to
prod any portion of the male element
up to the point of driving the law evad-
ers into court occasionally. In view of
this statement it is little surprising to
find prominent attorney, alderman
and president of the Republican club,
Mr.. FRANCIS, in public speech, re-
ported in a local paper, denounce these
blind-pig keepers as virtual asSaSSins-
men who would as soon take human life
as to keep fuTtive saloon. A man who
has so sanguinary view of so many of
hisfellOw citizens would naturally either
carry full value life insurance or seek a
climate where premature Obliteration
was not so constant a menace.
~
The candidate for the council on the
Republican ticket in the Sioux Falls
district writes personal letter to the
editor of the Press at Iiillsboro. one of
the most outspoken Democratic papers
in the territory, warmly indorsing his
sentiments and using the following
language: Il commend your stand on
the labor question, and hope that men
will be elected to the various Offices
this fall who have no fears of the party
lash, and whose sympathy will be en-
listed in the emancipation of the white
slaves Of the Northwest" This candi-
date displays fearless disregard of the
party lash for which there are very few
presidents. Although desiring the
nomination at the hands of the Repub-
licans, he has held to his convictions
with a courage that challenges admira-
ton. He has not hesitated to avOw his
support Of Mr.. HARDEN as delegate,
and it is not easy 10 see why the Demo-
Gratis should care to put man into the
field against him. As they were first
in the field, 1t may be difficult to make
exchanges, but that district evidently
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-10-06
THERE is GOOD WHEAT YET
In the James Land, and 1t Is Prov
ing Better Than Expected.

Spec1al TO tne GlODe
JAMESTOWN, Oct. 5.-While politics
have received their full measure of at
tention, the great local sensation of the
week has been the activity of the
wheat market, which affects Dakota
people where they are, particularly at
present, the most sensitive-in their
pockets. The balloon-like ascension Of
prices at Chicago and Duluth, and the
consequent elevation here, has created
a better feeling among all classes than
has existed since the frost Of August.
In this connection it may be well to
state that the farmers of Stutsman
county are
NOT NEARLY so BAD
off as was generally thought before the
thresher began to tell its more encOur-
aging tale. 1t is now seen that frost
damage came in strips. There is more
first grade and less last grade wheat in
the county than was looked for. 1t is
true that in the southern half of the
county a good portion of the grain that
escaped the frost fell into the devOur-
ing hands of the recent prairie fire. But
i'm the northern half a fair average is
being threshed out, and i'll most cases
the grade is either No. 1 hard or No. 1
northern.
The situation as it stands here may
be summed up about as follows: There
will not be as much wheat as there was
either of the two preceding years, but
the wonderful advance in price will
make the crop moresEaluable and bring
more money into circulation this year
than during either of the last two.
Dakota peoples happiness is meas
ured to great extent by the condition
of the wheat market, and in those local
tiles where the husbandman reaped an
abundance of natures fayOrs that feel
ing was boundless and as rampant as