St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-10-06
will have a good representative in the
next council.

will have a good representative in the
next council.
There is a conspicuous lack of en-
thusiasm in the support given MATH-
Ews by many of the CLIFFORD papers
i'll the South. There is nothing but the
mere party name to stimulate them, as
they remember that the delegates from
the North reported on their return that
they had achieved their great object, to
down the CLIFFORD men. Then they
are red-hOt divisionists, and they
understand that under a thin coat
of veneer WatertOwn was good deal
of a Waterloo for division. One of
GIFFoRD's home organs was several
weeks in finding room for MATH-
EWS' name, and a few others do not
seem TO remember who was NOM
mated. The Parker New Era is one
of these. The BrOokingS Seminal, at
MATHEWS home, looks over the Era
and accuses it of grumbling and sulking,
but says MATHEWS doesn'tneed its sup
port. If the MATHEWS vote in the
South is not somewhat like the wheat in
the North. appearances are deceitful.
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1t is gratifying to see that the veteran
Journalist of jamestown, Col. WAR
MOCK, has been able to resume the daily
publication of the Capital. There are
few ADLER writer's on the Dakota press,
and the revived diurnal looks as if it
had come to stay.
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HERBERT Roof, at Valley City, is a
Rev, as well as banker and politician.
In fact, he at one time about owned a
| church and ran the preacher-out of
town. He was lately candidate be-
fore Republican convention for the
legislature, but did not get quite votes
! enough. In order, then, to get chance
TO express his feelings, he bought
daily paper and became its editor. His
method of eating crow is certainly
unique. He says of the party ticket:
"While on the whole it is ticket well
calculated to bring the blush of shame
to the cheek of a brass monkey, yet, as
it is the regularly nominated Republic
can county ticket, it shall receive our
hearty support. 1t will be a cold day
when we go back on the Republican
party-cold enough to freeze the hair off
cast-iron dog-even though its ticket
was placed in nomination at the dicta-
ton of DARBY O'MALLEY, president of
the Valley City Saloon alliance" lie
adds further that to say anything good
of some of the candidates will be like
drawing blood from turnip, but he will
tackle the ugly job.
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There are some sections of Dakota
that will find no satisfaction in seeing
wheat return to the boom figures of
seven or eight years ago. The Herald,
at Tower City, in the bonanza region of
Western Cass, says the report of the
threshers does not indicate an average
of over two bushels an acre, and that of
an inferior grade. In Barnes, just west,
the shortage is such that it is proposed
to loan the farmers $4,000 of county
funds to take them through the winter.
There is some protest that the extreme
views indicated in these statements are
based upon eXaggeratiOns, and that
with leniency on the part of creditors
all will be able to get through the winter
somehow. 1t is beyond question that
many people in tie North have lost
their wheat almost entirely, and have
nothing to i've on till they can grow an
other crop. Such cases are confined
probably to few counties, but should
receive attention, and such aid be ex-
tended as will Obviate suffering or not
compel abandonment of claims.
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When reports are going abroad of the
lure of the wheat crop in Dakota
from an untimely and almost unprece-
dented frost, there are few facts, such
as these, that should accompany them:
In about three-fourths of the settled
portions of the territory the wheat was
an average crop, and all other crops
were good. In such districts the adj
vance in the markets is making the sea-
son one of the most profitable ever
known to the farmer. This is true gen.
orally of the South and Center, the
Black Hills and portions of the North.
In the frost regions the seeding was
very unusually late, and the frost about
the earliest ever known. Some points
in the South this year are afflicted W it'll
a fatal epidemic; still the South in the
main is a healthful region, and will be
sought for its climate. Some individu-
ais and localities in Dakota have had
streak of bad luck, but as whole the
territory is all right, and in the end will
be all the more prosperous from present
experience, as it will expedite diversity
of production.
A little colony went from Fargo to
Honduras year or two ago, expecting
to make a fortune mining or raising
bananas. They found that there was
an abundance of undevelOped wealth
there, but a good many obstacles in the
way of utilizing it. One of the most
notable of these was the climate in
some portions of the country. Several
of the company suffered severely from
fevers. one or two died last year, and it
is reported by Fargo paper that word
has come that f. j. HUNKINs has Just
died of yellow fever after an illness of
three days, and I.W. MIIIIGAN, a former
Fargo man of note, had been very sick.
These parties are said to have been in
the mining regions in the hills back
from the coast, where it might be sup
posed there would be no malaria. 1t
will be remembered that Col DOMAIN
came back from there sick and has
never returned. Dakota people would
seem 10 DE very imprudent to go to
Honduras unless their lives are fully in
sured and they want their widows to
realize.
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