St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-04-27
DAKO I A
The CRkSMS ALL CLOSED.
And Hands United to Secure the New
Railroads Wanted.
WATERFOWL WILL FAVOR
Grant, as 1t Wants the Votes to
Bring 1t the Capital
Prize.
Srecial to the Globe.

Special to the Globe.
MrLBANK, S. d.. April 26.-On Tues
day night rousing meeting OF the
citizens of this place was held at the
opera house to discuss the question OF
inducing new railroads TO extend to
Milbank. Watertown, Huron. Sioux
Falls and Redfeld are looking with
looking with longing eyes to the votes
of this section for capital hOnorS, and
each is holding out inducements i'll the
way of assistance in the matter OF rail-
road extensions to Milbank, While
THE IRON Is HOT
the citizens of Milbank propose taking
advantage of the opportunities offered.
and. also, to avail themselves of the
new law passed by the late legislature
authorizing cities and townships tovOte
aid towards securing new railroads.
Watertown is negotiating with the
Illinois Central to come to that city, and
offers to secure the right of way and
nav the expense of q survey from that
point to the county line between Cod
ington and Grant. and the disposition
upon the part of Milbank is to step In
and complete the survey to the latter
place. 1t is in the wind, also, that the
graded to the state line, nine miles
southeast of here, will make for this
place as soon as certain negotiations,
now pending, are perfected. j. j. Hill,
who is generally regarded as being far
seeing and shrewd, has for the past two
years been IN mood to cOnnuct his
line at Browns Valley, forty miles
north of here, with his line at Albee.
fourteen miles south of here, but unless
he
KEEPS A WEATHER EYE
open he will some fine day suddenly
discover the territory he covets will
have been jumped by some other
scheme now in process of incubation.
With these questions before them, the
citizens of Milbank at the meeting on
Tuesday evening entered heart and
hand into the work of planning for the
future. A barrier in the way of rail
road building into this section has been
the Sisseten and Wahpeton Sioux In
dian reservation, lying TO the west and
northwest of us. An invitation has
been issued 10y the board of trade of
WATERFOWL to the counties interested to
send delegates TO convention to be
held III that city May l for the purpose
of taking action to secure the immediate
opening of the reservation to settle
ment. The citizens meeting here on
Tuesday evening heartily Endorsed the
object, and selected Messrs. D. W.
Diggs and w. B. Saunders as delegates.
The meeting was addressed by num-
Der of prominent citizens, who urged
the necessity of casting aside for the
time being
ALL OTHER QUESTIONS
upon which the town may have been di-
Vided. and to pull as one man for the i'm
portant objectin view. Upon motion the
following resolutions were unanimously
adopted:
Resolved, That we, the citizens of Mil
bank, in mass meeting assembled, realize the
importance of putting forth the most siren
nous efforts to secure the extension of some
of the railroads in course of construction to
our city even to the voting of the aid pro-
vided by the law passed by the last legis-
lature.
Resolved, That it is the sense of this meet
ing that the opening of the Sisseton reserva-
ton is of vital importance to the citizens of
East Central Dakota, and that we will render
any aid in our power.