Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-05-11
Minnesota Matters,
OLx,IrED.

UeOISe imposed nne OF $/o ana costs.
One William Smith who lives in Olm-
sted Co., took his team and dragged in
wheat all day Sunday. Squire Morrow.
seeing him, Smith had the little sum
of five dollars to pay for his Sunday
work. He is noted for working Sum
days.
Every quarter section in the town of
Pennington, available for agricultural
purposes, has now been brought into
requisitiOn, and the town for real
wealth and financial prosperity ranks
foremost with any in the county or
State.
Last week Mr.. J. O. Morris sold his
farm of $50 acres, lying in Cascade
township, to Mr.. j. G. Gillespie for
$4,000. Mr.. Morris has, since the sale
purchased a section of land in Mower
county near Grand Meadow.
A citizen of Rochester, writing from
Tioga county, N. Y. May lst, says:
This May Day we find about two inches
of snow on the ground which is frozen
hard, and no prospect of its thawing
out to day, as the wind is still bowling
in the north. l trust our Olmsted
county farmers will remember that
Minnesota is not the worst place in the
world nor has it the latest spring
Seeding is about half done here. 1t
has rained every day except two s;nce
the 18th Of April.
The Centennial will be celebrated at
Dodge Center and Philadelphia. There
will probably be some small gather.
ings at intermediate points.
We understand that the three-horse
evener men have secured the services
of Ex-Governor Davis, to defend their
rights in the approaching Infringement
suits.
There will be meeting of an exec
utive committee of the Old Settlers
association at Mxntorville, May the
10Th, to consider propriety of holding
the next meeting of the association on
the 4th of July, either in connection
with or separate from other celebra-
tions.
There are three settlers on tho St.
Paul & Pacific road who will each
break one thousand acres of land this
season. while there are some who will
break in the neighborhood of one hun
dred and fifty acres.
A correspondent of the Litchfeld
News Ledger, writing from Medford,
Mass, says: ''A1innesota is, to-day,
better off than Massachusetts. In Min
ncsota about everyone inclined to be
industrious can earn his living; in
Massachusetts thousands are living on
the earnings of the past, and thous-
ands of others on hopes that may new
er be realiZed.'
FARIBAULT.
The Winnebago City, (Minn.) Press,
speaking of the transfer of the Min
nesota Central railroad to the St. P.
& S. G. company says: "From our
stand point we cannot regard the
Sioux City railroad and Southern Min-
nesota railroad in any other light than
that of being rival interests, (espec.
tally if the latter is extended to Wor.
thington,) striving largely to control
the through business of this section.
We hope the approval of the transfer
will be defeated, and if a change is
made the Southern Minnesota will con
troll the Central.'' 1t strikes us that
ssa rival and Independent line" east
and south would be just the thing
which the people of Wells need. Com
petition is the life O. business.
wAsEcA.
The editor of the Waseca Leader
paid a visit last week to GAINESVILLE and
to C. A. DeGraff's 1900 acre farm,
1900 of which are in high state of cul
tivation. The Leader says :-''There
is now OH the farm sixteen head of
thoroughbred horses and colts; five
pure-bred bulls; forty fine breeding
sows; seventy head of sheep; large
number of blooded COWS, etc. Among
the novelties to be- see:l, we may men
tion that four elk, two deer, and q
number of wild geese roam at will
over the fields, seemingly contented.' .
| sTEARNs.
A carelessly and unlawfully started
prairie fire burned the grainary stable,
fanning-mill, reaper, harvester, ,sundry
tools, 400 bushels of grain and other
property of John Joyce, of Orange
His loss is heavy. No insurance. He
has refused to accept as sufficient in
demnity 100 bushels of wheat offered
by the party who set the fire.
| WASHINGTON.
Awaiting shipment at the Saltwater
depot are 1850 barrels of flour, 42,00(
bushels of wheat and five cars o.
mixed merchandise. This is not bad
for small sized town, with a branch
railroad. We are not proud, but WI
are workers, as summer statement.
will clearly show.
A well was being dug on the poo
farm of Rice county when the man il
the we'll struck his pick into the ella,
and the water burst forth in grea
force. and in five minutes rose in tn
we'll to a height of twenty-five feet
Great exertions were necessary t.
save the digger from perishing in tn
water.
LIE sUEUR.
The steam saw-mill at Sharon, owne'
ed by Jas. King, was totally destroye
by fire one night last week. The EN-
ployees of the mill went through it a
nine o'clock but discovered nothing
that gave evidence of danger, and a
eleven o'clock Mr.. King again examin
ed it without discovering anything
wrong, but in about an hour from tina
time it was a mass of ruins, It i
supposed that the fire originated from
spark in the sawdust that wa
smouldeirng for hours. No Insurance
This State~is looming up in the eye
of Eastern people. immigration i
slowly coming in to become perma
nent citizens, and the grasshopper
must hop out of the way, or be mad
up into soup for the poor Indians.
Many people may not know tha
more than $4,000 acres of land wa
taken up for actual settlement in thi
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