The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-12-14
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George S. and John Ruble mentioned,
above are residents of Albert Lea, Freedom
county. They laid out that town in 1856.
They are among the best and most enterpri-
sing citizens of Southern Minnesota. The
other brothers reside in Wisconsin. They
are all noted as having raised some Of the
finest and best blooded cattle and horses in
the West.
WE have received the first number of the
La Crescent Houston co., Plaindealsr,
published by II. E. Purdy, Esq, late of
Minneapolis. The paper bears the impress
of Mr.. Purdy's usual industry and ability.
We wish it every success, and heartily COM
mend Mr.. Purdy to the people OF
Southern Minnesota.
We hear many instances of Minnesota
-four being shipped eastward. John P.
Beach, Esq, proprietor of the Rollingstone
Mills, near Winona, shipped a short time
since fifty barrels Of No. Flour, to Quincy,
N. H. This is only the beginning.
JOSEPH R. BROWN, Sioux Agent, differs
from many traders, and others, as to the
effect of Missionary operations upon the
Sioux Indians. In bis last annual report,
he says:
To overcome the prejudices of early associa.
ton and education can only be effected through
long and patient exertiOn, and careful attention
to the objects sought to be obtained. Hence,
in contemplating the present 6atteriug advance
of the Sioux in the path of improvement, we
are irresstably led to attribute the change to
the labors of the Missionaries among them
since 1885. They sowed the first seeds of CIV
iZatiOn, which sprOuted after many years, and
and are now under successful cultivation, under
the philanthrOpic system engrafted in the
treaties of Traverse des Sioux and Mendoza"
Col. STEVENS, of the Glencoe Register,
thinks that in few years, sportsmen will
have an opportunity of chasing the wild
boar, in the Big Woods. He says:
The Big Woods are full of hogs. They are
about as wild as deers. The farmers have
much trouble to get them up to feed them on
corn, and We learn that not over half of them
can be secured at all. For the past year or
two they have been suffered to hunt for their
own living, and have increased in numbers be-
yond all account. In the fall, winter and
spring they obtain sufficient food on nuts; in
the summer they live on grass; and now they
seem to be inclined to cater for themselves;
and whenever it is possible for them, they oh.
ject to the civilzing process OF corn and pork
barrels. In few years we may expect that
one of the amusements of the people in the
woods will be ito chase the wild boar"
FROM all parts of the frontier, we hear Of
trapping parties going out for the winter
months. 1t is a very profitable occupation,
when skilfully followed. The st. Cloud
Visitor says:
A gentleman, who had been gone for a short
time, informs US that in one week he caught
forty dollars worth of fur-principally fox and
mink..-and that he had but third rate grounds.
He says that one man near whom he was, had
already caught fifty dollars worth of otter fur.
This gentleman has returned to White Bear
Lake, where he intends trapping during the
winter. 1t is almost impossible to estimate the
amount of fur that will be expected from St.
Cloud durin snthe coming winter and spring.
The official majority of Thomas M'Rob-
erts for State Senator in Houston county,
is 43, DR.. LIE Blond has % majority for
the House. The Democratic Register,
Auditor, Surveyor and Commissioners were
elected. The Republicans elected Sheriff
and Prosecuting Attorney. The majority
against Brownsville for county seat was
529.
The Dodge County Democrat says, the
general irregularity and want of confidence
in business transactions of every kind, occa-
stoned by the success of Republication, has
so reduced the price of breadstuffs that our
dealers can hardly afford to pay the farmers
of Dodge county thirty-fus cents per buahel
for their wheat, to ship to an Eastern
market" tEe.E ti<3N#
The, wheat crop Of George Steele, Of
Dodge county, yielded over fifty buassls. per
acre. This county appears to beIprosper-
ing. The Democrat says:
Within the past twenty days, over thirty
purchases have been made in this county, by
farmers from other States, after they have
travelled through the counties oil msted. part
OF G0OQnue, hlce, ana SCeele. Iney nave
finally settled down in Dodge caunty. because
nowhere else could they find beautiful rolling
prairie farms. well watered. handy to timber
and building stone. The area of Dodge
county is twelve townships, containing in all
276, 4SO acres of land. The town of Mantorville
contains the largest population of either of the
twelve townships, and the town of Milton the
next largest.
We should have stated before this, that
Maj. Van Worries, of Saltwater, had located
the land (6,4OO acres) donated by Congress,
in aid of the erection of State capitol.
The Glencoe Register says:
Mai. Van Worries has now located these lands
in the center of the Kandiyohi group of lakes.
An elevated plateau of level ground, with soil
two feet deep, embracing in all about ten thou.
sand acres of land, bounded on the east by
lake Elizabeth, on the north by Minnetonka,
Kazota, and Wacouga lakes, embracing some
forty miles of coast, with the big Kandiyohi
lake on the southwest, and lake Lillian on the
southeast 1.-THE whole skirted with timber and
prairie. forms the most beautiful land scenery
for a town, unequalled by any other spot, we
ever heard of, on the globe.
There is no use talking about st. Paul with
her sombre lodges and bluffs. Minnehaha is
nowhere, and st. Anthony's Falls may be
good point for grist mills and turning lathes.
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