The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-11-25
GRAND FORKS.

About the most profitable crop reported
bv any one in this section was that OF
sioner of this county Mr.. Murphy re-
ports that the value Of his crop OF pold-
toes on one acre was $l15. He Kept care
full account of all the work he put on the
land and says that the value OF work ana
seed together would not exceed Sl5
There is general complaint over the
scarcity of hotel accommodations
throughout the state. Travelling men say
that it is almost impossible to get bed
in the hotels in most Of the small towns,
and this in spite OF the tact tnat notei
men all over the West have been BUSY
all summer making preparations Tor the
fall trade The trade has been so mucn
greater than they anticipated that they
are literally swamped. This conoltlon
cannot last much longer, as most OF tne
trans:ents Will soon have gone, put II
there are good prospects next spring the
following summer will witness building
at such rate that the sellers of build
ing material will find it difficult to Keep
up with their orders.
Never before in the history of the
Northwest have crooks, gamblers ana
grafters of all kinds been so numerous
as they are today. The season has been
an unusually prosperous one for the resi-
dents of the Northwest, and there has
b been greater demand at better wages for
laboring men than ever before. Follow
ing the army of laborers there has come
an army of harpies who seek to gather
in the greatest possible share of the
money which the workers have earned.
During the summer these tough char-
acters have been scattered through the
state picking up a little as they could
around the edges, but now that the farm
work is over the laborers are headed
for the pineries or for their homes In
the East, and many of them make in
the first place for the larger towns along
the border of the state and proceed TO
understood to mean big drunk with all
the trimmings. In order to make the
most profitable use of their time the
crooks follow them, and the towns along
the border are now filled with about
tough a population as 1t IS possible
to imagine. Petty thefts and robberies
are of nightly occurrence, and many
men who have worked hard all summszf
and who have stopped off for a little time
before going farther East, wake up in the
morning with empty pockets.
North Dakota hunters have been more
fortunate this year than those of some
person shot in the woods yet this sea-
son. This is probably due to the fact
that the hunting grounds are pretty far
West and hunters are not as numerous
as they are nearer the large cities. The
season will be over next week, and it IS
to be hoped that the good record will
be kept up.
President Carhard, of the Mayville
normal, viii speak at the university on
Monday night on The Ethics of Shake
speare." This is one of the numbers in
the lecture course oITdiS6O- ny IISSl-
dent Merrifield Lectures have already
been delivered by Judge Templeton,
Senator Hansbrough, Prof. Perrot, and
Rev Mr.. Fisher. During the winter there
will be the following Hon, j; S: Muir
ply, on "Our Indian Wards; Father
Conaty on abraham Lincoln; Hon. NJ.
N. Johnson on The Tariff Question;
Hon. j. M. Devine on North Dakota;
Rev. w. P. MacVey on China and Her
People; Hon. George 3. Winship on
"Old Times in North Dakota; Hon.
Charles F. Amidon. Maj. John S. Frame,
Hon John F. Cowan. George Il. Alton,
DR.. Gottfried Holt Bishop Stanley, of
the Catholic church, and Bishop Mann,
of the Episcopal church, on subjects not
yet determined.
Judge Morgan. of the supreme court
passed through the city Wednesday, says
that the court will probably have all
its decisions handed down by the end
of the year. Judge Morgan was the pur-
chaser of several tracts of land at the
Ramsey county sale. He says that sec
ton of the state is developing wonder
fully, and he expects to see large i'm
migration in the spring.
Taxes are being more freely paid now
than ever before in the history of the