St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-03-31
PICKED AT MILLER.
Fine Crop Prospects---Effect of
Reservation Opening---Political

fine crop frOSpeCtS.-.EHcCC VI
Reservation Opening--Political
Movements.
Special to the Globe.
MILLER, Dak., March 3O.--Great hopes
of good crop year are entertained. We
have had more snow fall this winter
than ever before, and it has gone off the
ground in such manner as to be alb
sOrbed instead of running off into the
draws, and thus the severe freezing has
mellOwed the ground so as to put it in
good condition for crop. Our farmers
will not devote so much area to wheat
as heretofore, but will diversity, most
OF them being DESTROYS of running to
stock raising as much as possible.
Immigrants are already beginning to
come in, and we have assurances of
catching more good newcomers than
ever before for three or four years. Our
building boom has commenced in earn
nest. The sales of the lumber yards for
this month far surpass anything they
have done in the corresponding month
for either of the three past years. We
generally look to the opening OF the
SIOUX RESERVATION
for some benefit to US, as it will not
only open direct communication be-
tween us and the Black Hills, allowing
an exchange of commodities by making
a market for our produce and giving us
access to their coal beds. but will give
us chance to absorb some of the immi
grafton which the new lands will natur-
ally and Immediately attract this way.
Politics here is at low ebb. but
little being said or done by any party.
A few would-be politicians are endeav-
Oring to stir up diSatfectiOn among the
farmers in the interest of the Union
Labor platform, trying to make them
believe that the two old parties are
directly responsible for the past four
bad crops and the hard financial cOndi-
ton of some who, by ShiftlessnesS and
bad management, find themselves i'll
debt and unable to live very luxuliantly.
These same men will preach that the
protective tariff is good because 1t pro-
tects home industries and labor. 1t is
all done to try and lift few ''chr0nlcS"
into office, and it may almost succeed In
doing so this fall in Hand county, but if
it does, by the time Dakota becomes
state, the movement will be dead and
most of the followers ready to fall in line
with the old substantial
DEMOCRATIC PARTY.
Some move is being made by the
Democratic leaders to get in readiness
to elect delegates to the territorial con-
vention, which must soon meet to name
delegates to attend the st. Louis
national convention. This county will
send Day men.
G. E. Smith has just returned from a
prospecting tour to Washington terri
tory. He was pretty much all over that
country and now advises everybody
that Hand county is the place every
time. Several who have gone to Cali
fornia are either coming back or writing
that they are dissatisfied and would like
to be back here. Two of our citizens
spent the winter in the South and adj
wise people to rest cOntented in Dakota,
so we see the much-bOOmed places are
in reality not superior to Dakota.
We none of us feel disposed to rejoice
at others misfOrtunes, but we feel that
the Eastern blizzard has cOunteracted
any bad effect that our January blizzard
may have caused to our country,
The majority of us sincerely hope to
see Dakota admitted to the Union by
this session of congress as one grand
state.