St. Paul daily globe., 1893-04-21

w. e. Robinson, of Mayville, N. D.,
was at the Merchants hotel yesterday
on his way home from Chicago, where
he has been looking over the worlds
fair grounds.
IL am afraid that the storm Of today
and yesterday, if it extended into the
DakOtas, will delay the spring planting
for at least ten days." he said. II do
not know how far up it reaches, but it
probably struck the state. 1t will give
the ground plenty of moisture, but the
work of planting will be delayed as
long as there is any snow on the ground.
| cannot tell at present what will be the
outcome.
"The people of North Dakota have
been greatly encouraged by the large
crops of the past two seasons, and there
will be large quantity of wheat plant
ed this spring. All the crop OF last sea-
son was harvested in the fall aud winter
so that it is all out of the way and placed
in the bins. The chances are that the
crop for this season will be large one
also. Almost every man in the state OF
North Dakota is interested more or less
in farming lands, and every one OF US
is farmer. The state is strictly a
farming state at present. but there are
other facilities which will be developed
in the near future"
Hon. F. NJ. Wilson, of Red Wing, one
of the most Independent and useful
members of the legislature, left for his
home last evening, and remarked that
he would be very glad to get home after
the hard work of the session. Mr.. Will
son was one of the Republicans who
could not be coaXed or driven into line
to vote for measures he did not believe
in. Some of the most scathing roastS
given to party measures and party
meanness came from the eloquent gen.
tleman from Goodhue. He carries home
with him present that he says he will
cherish beyond anything that could be
given him. 1t is an elegant and costly
gold-headed cane presented by the door
keepers, gallery attendants and cloak
room keepers, whose battles he fought
successfully for salary equal to that
of senate employees.
j. G. Melrose, of Bismarck, N. D.,
was at the Ryan yesterday on his way
to New York where he will spend
number Of days on business. II am
about to take the necessary steps for
the forming of company to mine some
of the coal in the state of North Da-
kota," he said. "There are millions of
tons of coal in the state and no one
makes any particular attempt to mine
it. know of places where the farmers
go out with their teams and drive under
some projecting hillside, where they
leave the wagon and then knock the
coal off the side of the hills in big
chunks and it falls into the wagon.
l have seen many a load of coal
carried off after the wagon had
been loaded in this manner. The
coal is soft and makes a bad SCOT.
but we have no smoke ordinances and
the people do not mind the SCOT, as
the air is SO clear that 1t Is distressingly
pure to the lungs of the city people who
come out to Dakota. The best coal
mines are in the vicinity of Dickinson
and other towns In the western portion
of the state. Every farmer has his own
coal mine in this section. and he burns
very little other fuel. The people OF
the East have very little knowledge of
the resources of the state, and am go4
ing to tell them something about the
coal which we have there in such abund-
ance. | have number of specimens of
coal which will exhibit, ard it is my
purpose to organize stock company
for the working of mines. The invest
ment bears every sign of being a very
good one, ,and am confident Of success"
81 am in an awful fix" said Attorney
w. W. Erwin last evening as he leaned
against the office counter at The Mer-
chants. II have called in some of the
most eminent jurists in the city for the
purpose of assisting me in the solving
of problem which has been puZZling
my brain sadly during the past few days.
You see, my folks compelled me to go
TO my tailor and order four new suits of
clothing few weeks ago. did so. and
a couple of days ago all of the suits
were sent up to the house at the same
time. had plan all prepared for a
hunting trip, and IN ordering the suits
picked out dress suit, hunting Suit,
business suit and another suit. l was
getting ready to go hunting, and
looked at the various suits to see which
would be the proper one to wear. l
knew that had ordered hunting suit,
but when | looked in the boxes l could
not tell to save my life which would
be the one to wear. There was
coat which had the tails cut Off
in 'front.' 1t was made of a smooth
shiny cloth and thought that it was a
new kind of hunting suit with the skirts
arranged so that they would not catch
in the Driars and brush. But my folks
told me that 1t was the dress coat. There
was another coat with about 400 pockets
i'll it. My folks said this must be the
hunting suit, but insisted that it was
the business suit with the numerous
pockets to hold letters and papers fol
the various cases man might have or
hand. The other coats-well, don't
remember what they are like. l have
asked Dir. Wheaton and Judge Cory tc
| go to the house with me and help picE
out the hunting suit. L had some others
up there the other day, but they did no
| know any more about it than | did. II
| tell you that 1t puts man in an 9wfu
fix not to be able to tell the different
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