St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-02-23
DAKOTA NIPS.

UAkUIA MIS-.
For number and enterprise The Da-
kota papers are indispensable. This is
a conclusion not to be avoided after 60
ing over 800 or so Of them each week.
Some of them have novel features.
Here is the Great Rea Valley Eagle and
Orient Enterprise. The Orient has ref
erence to the town of Orient. and was
adopted because it was Oh the western
border of the west. The town is moi SO
well known as some others, probably
being newer and more modest, but the
paper creates good impression for it.
And just here it may be noted that peo-
pie are not apt to realize how much Of
their portraiture is looked for abroad in
the local paper. This Orient probably
has less than 500 people, but the paper
would do credit to a town of Loco. 1t is
full Of lively local matter, with pictur-
esque illustrations, and the only short
age is the lack of the German depart
ment, which is attributed to the loss of
the German editor III the snow some
where between Orient and st. Paul.
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In the contest in the legislature be-
tween Valley City and Fargo over the
location of the agricultural college both
towns sent to Bismarck large boxes of
soil to show the respective fitness of the
localities. 1t is suspected that the labels
on the boxes were somehow changed,
and Valley City got away with the
prize.
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Probably no appointment of the new
administration would give more salts
faction in Dakota than that of Col.
LoUNsBERRY as secretary. 1t is not
likely he will urge any claims, as he is
noted for his modesty. but he has all
the claims that a good man, who
wouldn't do mean thing even for his
party, can well have on the administra-
ton. He Was soldier. and one OF the
pioneers of the North-a Republican, Of
course. and on tue wrong side of about
everything in politics. But he is ca
pable, clean-handed gentleman, and
would do credit to the administration.
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There are a good many people in
North Dakota who would be glad to
have Col. DOMAIN return to his home on
the shores of the saline and satanic
lake, if he still has hold of his claim
there, i'll time to be seen when the North
state is looking up senatorial timber. Ii
the colonel has been off the political
track q little at times, he can leave that
record in the states. The politics is
not so much the concern as an adyer-
tiser who eau he heard in the senate
and get his speeches on the wires. 1t
is believed that he could do the new
state more practical good than any
other man i'll sight.
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The "reminiscences Of the departed
Gen. WARD are being gathered up by
the Dakota papers, and his name will
linger about its prairies and convention
halls with weedy perfume until some
other windbag is tlattened. 1t is found
that the most flattering reports of his
efforts ever published in the Grand
Forks papers were written by the
gentleman himself, and are, therefore.
dutHODJtCs LNO niStii tilC DupiIC eye
enjoyed posing in the focus as he did.
There is good deal of curiosity as to
where he will next loom up, and under
what name.
As pleasant contrast to the disagree
able sort of way in which the legisla-
ture and the governor argue their differ
ences, is the controversy going Oh in
the press between Mrs. BARKER, the
head Of the W. c. L. {. organization,
and Mrs. BONES, another prominent
public champion of temperance and
reform. The first sides with the third
party prohibitienists and the latter
would work inside the Republican
lines. They both WELD pointed tongues,
or pens, but they do not imperil chigil-
ons or good feeling. Both have hus-
bands and families. and are models in
the domestic sphere. and thus illustrate
the compatibility of public and private
duties.
The legislature saved a blunder in
sitting down on the movement to dis
penSe with the immigration commits
sioner. and it would do good supple
mentary act by continuing Mr.. Nc
CIURE in the position as long as pos
sible and giving him generous appro-
priation to operate with. No one man.
en- do all the advertising work needed
for all the localities. He may help to
start the caravans toward the promised
land, and the counties ustappropriate
the results. The late biennial report of
the commissioner is good reading for
those who want to know what has been
done.
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A good many people in the north part
of the territory will be almost forced to
use for seed wheat that has been
touched by the frost. This has been
presumed TO be unsafe. but the tests re-
Gently indicate that much of it may be
sown with safety. though there is doubt
that it will mature quite as we'll as that
not touched. Mr.. AMB. in Trail, re-
ports as the result of experiments in q
box in his house that he got twenty-five
stalks of wheat from twenty-one kernels
of the hardest frozen he had. Most will
be satisfied with one stalk from a kernel.
Went to Mitchell.
CDooial to tba Gloha