St. Paul daily globe., 1891-11-12
CAUGHT IN THE HOTELS.

CAuUH1 In IHE HUIELS.
Col John W Bennett, the editor of the
Botti:Ieau, n. D, Pioneer and president of
the North Dakota Press association, was in
the city yesterday attending 10 business mat
ters, and improved the opportunity given by
calling on numerous friends in the city,
Col Bennett was one of the early settlers of
Minnesota, and in 1857 and 1858 published
the Inquirer, staunch Democratic paper of
the Douglass persuasion, at Belle Plaine.
Scott county. lie was then associated with
the late Judge Chatfield in business, and was
one of the members of the Belle Plaine Land
company. When the psnic of 1857 struck
minnesota the land company assigned to D.
w. Ingersoll. of this city, and Col. Bennett
sold bis paper to Frederick Driscoll now of
this city. The paper had been solidly Dem
{ ocratie up to this time, but the new proprie-
tor changed its politics, and afterward re-
moved to st. Paul and commenced publish
ing the Press.
Il received pay for the paper" said Col
Bennett, mournfully, "but did dislike to see
the paper change sides. Belle Plaine aud
Scott county were solidly Democratic then,
as understand they are to-day, and so do
not think much damage was done
Col. Bennett is about sixty years of age, but
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class of men who love to be right in the front
column in the march of progress, aud is good
for many years of hard work yet He has
been in Bottineau county, North Dakota.
nine years now. and for 81 years has pub
lished spicy Democratic paper there. with
the result that that section of the new state
is usually reliably Democratic At the
Democratic state convention held in GraIid
Forks last year he was chosen
chaITman- aud made an admirable
presiding officer He has for several years
been at the head of the state editorial asso-
citation. He is farmer as well as an editor,
and is enthusiastic over Col. o. NJ. Towner's s
new scheme for the settlement of that sec
tiOn of the state.
"Bottineau county is the banner county
of North Dakota, he said. in speaking of
the condition of affairs. "Our first crop
was raised i'll 1894. aud at the New Orleans
exposition when North Dakota carried off
the award for the best specimens of spring
sown wheat, the award was made on sam
pies grown on the site of the present town
of Bottineau. sour wheat this year is
all No. 1 hard. and beats that
the state. Our farmers are of the best class,
and are prosperous. They have learned two
valuable lessons in the past four years. In
the first three of these they learned to buy
only what they need. and in the present year
to farm only what land they can farm prop
erly.'
How far along is threshing in Bottineau
county,"
Not over one-fourth of the crop is
threshed," answered the colonel I'VE shall
have at least 1.000,00O bushels in the county
altogether. and of this about 250,00o are
threshed. The rest is all in stacks, however,
and none of it will be lost or damaged Our
farmers devoted themselves to stacking and
so have hardly any plowing done for next
year. This is, of course, bad, but 1 think a
great many of them will do as propose to,
bug disc harrow and run it over the land
and SOW the wheat without ploWing"
''What do you think of Col Towner's
scheme for colonizng settlers in North Da-
kota:' was asked Col. Bennett
II think it will prove great success" he
replied. ii understand Col. Towner is backed
by abundant capital. and, if that is correct
he will make it great thing for cur coun-
try, as well as realize handsome profits for
himself. He has had considerable expert
ence in managing farms in North Dakota,
and has made money. We have the soil and
all we need is hardy class of settlers who
are willing to endure some privations for the
sake of making money in the future"
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- A. Lamb, the Clinton 10. lumberman, was
registered at the Merchants yesterday Mr.
Lamb is one of the leading lumbermen of the
West and has been largely instrumental in
building up the vast lumber interests of Clin-
ton.
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Senator Kyle, of South Dakota, was in the
city yesterday. In the morning he called
upon Secretary Hart, of the board of eorrec-
tons and charities, and in the evening re-
turned TO Aberdeen. Senator Kyle, although
he has been in the thick of the e'political fight
for nearly Two years now, has hardly worn
off the clerical air, and does not impress
the observer as a practical politician,
which, he says, he is happy to say he
is not. He was feeling in good humor yes
terday, and did not seem at all disappointed
over the Alliance defeat in the South Dakota
congressional election.
'Our farmers were too busy taking care of
their crops and preparing for the next one to
attend the election" he said, ''or we should
have won by good majority. The voters in
all the towns and cities turned out and voted.
with the result that we suffered greatly from
the decreased vote in the country. The'old
parties are strongest in the cities, while we
have everything in the country on full vote
l do not consider the election OF Mr.. 10 LEY
in the light of a great Republican victory,
nor can it be construed into meaning that
the state will go Republican next year"
Il
DR.. W. W. Mayo, the popular Olmsted sena-
tor. was familiar figure i'll the Merchants
lobby yesterday.
Representative Joseph Roach, of North
field, was at the Merchants yesterday. Mrs.
Roach was with the popular representative
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Hon. John J. FurlOng, of Austin, was in
the city Yesterday, looking after some busi-
ness matters. Mr.. Furlong has been casting
up ,his farming accounts lately, and finds
some amusing facts. my crops were very
large" he said. For example, had twenty
bushels Of fax to the acre. but L had to sell
ii for 81 cents per bushel, as against Sl.3S a
year ago My wool also brought less. These
two crops were remembered by Maj. McKin-
ley in his tariff bill, and so 1 think it is in
order for some good proteetionist to explain
why things are thus"