St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-02-18
DAKOTA NIPS.

DAKOTA NIPS.
If Delegate CLIFFORD really proposes
to guarantee that the senate shall reject
any Dakota admission measure that
does not provide for division, he has
taken large contract, much larger than
he has shown ability to carry out.
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The Church'S Ferry Sun complains
that the romantic stories of the St.Louis
papers have prevented the return to
Turner county of number of persons
from Missouri who had taken claims
there last year. These sheets report
over thirty deaths from the blizzard in
Turner county alone, when there was
not single one. There is no excuse
for such malicious fabrication-but
Turner is in the finest wheat part of the
territory, and cannot be permanently in
jured by such ISLANDERS.
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There is no doubt of the sincerity of
Dakota people in offering to send aid to
the sufferers from storm and cold in the
old states of the East. Why not? They
have plenty, and their hearts and hands
are always open.
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The Heather Chinee is reported
seducing the Bismarckers with opium.
1t is to be hoped he will be suppressed
before the legislature meets.
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AS new signal service district called
Southwestern Dakota has been estab-
lished west of the Missouri river, it is
hoped that the Montana gusts that take
that route to the East will be better
taken care of.
j. o. B. SCOBEY. former member of
the Dakota legislature, who has the
chief credit of the establishment OF the
agricultural college, and could sing
baSSly ''There's hole in the bottom of
the sea-" is now publishing the Farmers
Voice in Chicago, and wants to intOne
for his former constituency.
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In contrasting Louisiana and Dakota
in some points, the Chicago Times per-
tinently says:
nor typhoid-nor fever and ague. One hun
dred times as many people die of these
diseases yearly along the Mississippi and its
tributaries as have ever frozen to death
in Dakota.
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Intelligent parties write from the East
that the people are coming to Dakota
this year as they have not done for sew
eral years. although some are detained
by the blizzard stories. 1t will be big
year for Dakota if it secures statehood
and the opening of the Sioux reserva-
ton.
Fargo will be apt to lose its place as
the largest city in Dakota unless it gets
up new directory. 1t puts its figures
at 5000, but Sioux Falls is going to put
5000 names in its directory and multiply
by three. A new directory is the only
chance for Fargo.
The summer promises to be remark
ably warm in the Fargo region if Major
EDWARDS is in the field for the legisla-
ture. He is probably not quite satisfied
with the experience of 80.
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NoIud IlUuIlC UOtS uOU uU well
to try to spoil good story on account
of the parSimony of the historian in the
use of facts. A good thing should not
be emaSculated for so trivial cause.
There are many big Dan Yonkers''
in Dakota.
A good many people in Dakota, whose
business has been interrupted by local
option, are looking anXiOusly to Bis
marck for the action of the supreme
court.
GEORGE T. ANGEL, the Eastern
apostle of kindness to dumb animals.
publishes in the papers of his city the
suggestion to Dakota people that if they
will always carrya pocket compass they
never need be lost in storm upon the
| prairies. The sugg estion is all right,
but there evidently are some people in
| the East to whom the expedient may he
| of value, according to reports the past
| month.
Some of the wheat growers in Barnes
county, who have been trying to induce
| British buyers of wheat to come into
that market and compete with the
American purchasers, are encouraged
to believe that syndicate of foreign
millers will come there for this pur-
pose. The inducement is to obtain
hard wheat in its purity. 1t is claimed
that the figures now obtained are lower
than the Liverpool market warrants,
and to compete with these foreign buy
erS the home purchasers will be forced
up to better prices. The experiment
merits success.
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The views gathered by LoOi1er-In OF
the political policies at Washington
likely to delay statehood are not of the
cheerful order, and can evidently beal
revision. No mere partisan consider
atiOns should be allowed to obstruct the
way to admission.
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! Some of the papers that believe
BLAINE knows all about the tariff are
worried lest President LoUCKs, of the
Farmers alliance, shall beguile the
| farmers into free trade heresles. Mr.
LoUCKs has clear head, and has
studied the interests of the farmers from
business. not political, standpoint
The farmers know him.