Stevens County tribune. (Morris, Minn.) 1877-1880, 1878-09-19

He intends spending tie winter at Salem,
! Mass, with his folks, and will return next
February.
The State road from Morris to Lake
Whipple, has been surveyed, and mile and
angle stakes put in position. This road as
surveyed makes the distance between the
two points but 224 miles, and the surveyors
and commissioners claim that it is very
favorable route.
Somebody went into Mrs. John Land
bergs garden and took every watermelon
and citron that was there. We don't OBJ
ject to person taking one, but when a
man deliberately takes every mellon on the
| patch, we are reluctantly forced to the con
clusion that there is a good deal of pig
about him.
There will probably be shooting match
at the county fair. Some of our Bogarduses
and Caivers will exhibit their skill They
are practicing with the following crafty
ing results:
Smith, 100000 total, 0.
P.S.-The boys are doing better, accord
ing to latest advices.
Mr.. Edward Holden, formerly associated
with Mr.. Webber, in the machine business
at this point, and who sometime since left
here i'll hopes of finding better health, died
on the 18th inst, at Cannon Falls, of con-
sumption. The deceased was we'll known
in the town, and his delicate health at the
time of leaving here, led many to antici-
pate his early decease.
Academia brakeman on the st. P.
s. P, named D. Calvin, while coupling
cars, last week, had the misfortune of hay
| ing his hand hurt. He was coupling two
cars of railroad iron and one of the pro-
| jecting bars caught the hand with which
he was holding the pin and famed it
against the timber of the adjoining car in
such manner as to crush the palm and
thumb very badly.
Messrs. Brockham & Robinson, of Far
go, Photographic artists, are at the Ameri-
can House, and are busy taking views of
Morris and vicinity These gentlemen
have some very fine specimens of their
work on exhibition, and any who desire
any thing in their line should call at once
as they will not remain but a couple of
weeks longer. One of their paintings is
on exhibition at the post-off1ce.
Every day brings positive proof of the
many benefits of advertising. Mr.. ]. G..
Hancock lost team of horses, and after
spending four or five days searching for
them, concluded to come home and adver-
tise. Our press was set at work sometime
between late Saturday evening and early
Monday morning, and the ink was hardly
dry on the bills, before his brother, w. B.,
returned with the team. Now, these adj
vertisements had hardly left the Office, yet
the horses came just the same.
Matt Diedrich wishes us-else we would
not mention ito say to the Village Coun-
Gil that he would like to have had them on
the tongue of his machine wagon-where
he was-when his team ran away. The
reason for this dire wish is all on account
of their neglecting to enact an ordinance
in regard to the sweeping of waste paper
into the streets. 1t was piece of paper
that struck the off mules ear, and caused
the runaway. Our conscience is clear in
this matter, for we called the attention of
the council to the necessity of such an OF.
dinance.
ACCIDENTAL SHooTINa-A young man
named VIM. Riordan, who lives few
miles east of town, while out hunting, un
fortunately shot charge of shot through
the palm of his hand 1t appears that lie
had discharged one barrel, and thinking,
as he only had paper wads, that the shot
might be loose in the other, he tipped the
gun up and held his hand under the muz-
zle to catch any loose shot; while in this
position the gun was discharged, and the
entire charge went through the palm of his
left hand inficting terrible wound. The
young man was brought into town and
have not heard how he was progressing.
STACKS BURNED. Mr.. D. w. Grants
crew, with the steam thresher, while al
work on AIr. Monette's farm had the mis-
fortune to burn his wheat stacks. The
machine had just been set and barely be.
gan work, when an old coat that was lay
ing beside one of the stacks was observed
to be on fire. Some of the men ran TO take
it away, but before they reached the spot
the stack caught and the entire sitting, four
stacks, was burned The separator, how.
ever was saved. In less than two hours
after, Mr.. Grant, with his characteristic
promptness, had hauled grain enough from
his own granary to make the loss good.
A spark from the eng inc caused the fire.
| Local politics are red-hot, and there is
lots of fun and hard work in store for the
boys. It is rumored that orr hard-shel
democratic friend VIM. Dragoo. intends &c
challenge his competitor, DR.. Hulburd, to
| stump the county. The Doctor has the
Republican, and William the Democratic
nomination for Coroner, and the latter
gentleman considers, owing to his greater
weight physically land we presume also
mentally, that he is more competent to
sit on o corpse and Judge if life is extinct,
than is the Doctor. There is one decided
advantage on Williams part, if that body
had any life in itwhcn discovered, it would