The Western advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1872-1874, 1874-04-11

The law passed to extend the time
for payment Of taxes on personal prop
erty, applies to the following counties:
Jackson. Cottonwood, Murray, Mobiles,
Rock, Watonwan. Redwood, Lyon and
Lac qui rarle. The time is extended
to the first day of November next.
49, THE FENcING1N Law
The tencing-in, law makes some i'm
portant changes in the old law. About
One-half the counties of the State are
exempted from the operation Of the
new law and hence the old law applies
there. The law is amended as to the
following counties, so that cattle, hor-
SEES and other animals are trespassers
on the lands Of another. at all times
and seasons, and without regard to fen
ces, and no provision is made to allow
them, by vote, to modify the law:
Dodge, Goodhuc, Lac Qui Parle, Lyon,
Martin, Steele. Wabasha and Yellow
Medicine.
The following counties have power
to call special town meetings and pass
a bylaw allowing stock to run at large
in the daytime, between the first day
of April and the fifteenth day Of Octo-
Der: Blue Earth. Carver, Cottonwood,
Dakota, Faribault, Fillmore, Freedom,
1Iennepin, Houston, jackson, lie Suer,
Mower, Murray, Nicollet, Mobiles, Ohm
sted, Pipestone, Ramsey, Renville,
Rice, Rock, Scott, Stevens, Waseca,
Washington, Watonwan, and the ten
western townships Of Winona county.
WHO ARE PA CPERSs
A writer in the Spirit Lake Beacon
asks whether the unfortunate settlers
OF the frontier, whose crops have been
destroyed by the grasslloppers, are to
be looked upon as pa',lers? The wri-
ter answers it himself and does it cor
rectly, when he says that they ale no
more parptrs than those who suffered
by the Chicago and Boston fires. The
world poured out its money freely to
relieve these stricken cities, and Il Ca
lamity no less great, though longer and
more quiet in its operation, las fallen
upon many of the settlers IF the West.
This is no new experience i'll the West.
Scarcely Il new State has been settl: Il
that did not, during its e9rly settle
ment require lid at some time from
the older and richer parts Of the coun-
try. Kansas has several times expert
enced famine. Let the settler take
heart. lie is still better off than the
poor Of the large cities, thousands of
whom are now ont of employment, and
living in unhealthy rooms with starv:s-
ton staring them in tie face. Here
there is pure air, good health, and Il
good harvest only a few months off,
New York city is now sending circll
lars over the West asking for aid tc
support its poor, who live within 4
stones throw Of the palaces .. the mil
lionaires. The settler who accepts
seed wheat from the state, Or relief
from the older pc: tons Of the State
SO than he would III to borrow enough
Of friend to tide him over the bar he
? tween AIS and harvest.
ccIlE WI.yONA t. ST. PETER Rail ROAD
Considerable complaint is made
against the Winona & st. Peter Rail
road because in February trains were
taken off and the country beyond New
Tim is left to he supplied by wagon
The excuse is that the road has bee,
blockaded Ivy SNOW and that it has moi
been possible to keep it open. The st
Paul Press says that the road need moi
have remained blockaded fortyeigh>
hours. This is probably correct, for thu
Sioux City 4 st. Paul has been blocka
ded only twice during the past Winte:
and never more than two running day:
at I. time, or three days includin!
Sunday. The Press says justly Of tin
Sioux City & st. Paul road:
The Sioux City railroad, differed b,
kinuhearteu and efficient mer, recOgni
zed this claim upon it winter before
last, and operated the road ut a loss o
more than $lOO. lNN. Had the trains OF
the Sioux City railroad been withdrawn
who could calculate tie suffering i
would have caused?
We have been visited by the grass
hopper, and have had some destitutio,
among settlers, but we still believe tina
there is no more highly favored frontie
region than that penetrated 10y tn
Sioux City s. st. Paul railroad.
A writer in the Western Rurul, VIII
has been to Colorado, says it is no pl;.c
for a poor man. lie says:
For u stock country it can't he beat
I saw, in my rambles, thousands of cat
tie, and never saw one in poor cOnd
ton. There are some us pretty it'll
farms south Of Colorado Springs a
any one would wish to see. But
would say to farmers, don't go to Colo
RADIO, unless you have plenty of capital
or good stock Of cattle to start Will
for it is the worst place in the WORT
Tor a poor man.
But Minnesota Is 4 State for poo
men. This State ahounds in example
Of men who came here with just enoug
to bring them here, and who, in a fe,
years, were in independent circcmstal
ces, They took claims or bought land
worked for others fora while, grad,la
ly brought their land under cultivation,