Stevens County tribune. (Morris, Minn.) 1877-1880, 1878-10-17
Herman Items.
Yours,
Morris, Oct. 16. 1877


From our own Correspondent.
Lawyer Bevans, of Morris, was in town
Monday.
Wheat begins to move more briskly
Saturday was the first day that we have
noticed several teams waiting fer chance
to unload.
P. III. Clague has sold his half of the old
r. r. "Emigrant house" to VIM. Brown,
of Red Rock Lake. Pqilip will continue
to occupy, however, until he completes
new dwelling on his lots south of the depot.
At the Governors new elevator, the en-
CINE and lofty smokestack are in place,
and wheat will be received within week.
The fine structure, in all its appointments,
is a credit to its gentlemanly builder, Mr..
| Watson.
! A. c. Earsely has lately sold to G. II.
Rines, of Princeton, two business lots on
Atlantic Ave. @ Consideration $4OO-and
they weren't corner lots either. Mr.. Ears
ley is putting up another store. He seems
to be the champion builder just now.
A large hunting party from the far East,
is quartered here at present. They come
in special car fitted up with oil the con-
veniences for eating. sleeping and loung-
ing. A ''cullud genlum" accompanies to
perform the duties of ''dish-boiler and
chamber-maid"
On last Thursday, we met the enemy
and he is ours A destructive prairie fire
swept down upon US, from the west, but
1--WE routed him, we secuted him, nor lost
a single man." The town barely escaped,
however. When will our citizens learn to
take precautionary measures in time?
John B. West, of St. Paul, was in town
on Sunday. He announces that the new
compilation of the Minnesota Statutes will
be ready for distribution about Dec. list,
and informs US that our County Commits
sioners have ordered eight copies for vari-
Gus officers This is as it should be. Pub
lie money expended in this way will brig
speedy return in roads legally laid out,
taxes legally assessed and collected, tax
titles that are regular, and more intelligent
administration of the laws in our inferior
, courts.
A few evenings ago, one of our citizens
, went home at late hour, and found the
, front door step occupied by dark colored
: animal having three white stripes along
the back and an erect bushy tail When
discovered, the charming creature was
| ''discoursing sweet strains" of-anything
but Night Blooming Cereus," or ''Jocky
Club" 1t was evidently case of 'Folci-
BILE Entry and Detainer," but the rightful
proprietor employed counsel and prepared
himself to maintain suit in 'Ejectment,
having provided himself with an arsenal
p consisting of shotgun, a revolver, and a
;, huge club. Case finally decided i'll favor
of plaintiff, but near approach to him will
covince any one that he had to stand
. "costs!'
:, Fifty cases of bicarbonate of soda-of
9 one hundred pounds each-were received
at this point, for the Sisseton Indians, q
o few days ago. We do not wish to be over
. sanguine, but do we not find flood" here
o for the most cheering reflections? Arough
o estimate makes it seem probable that about
. 5000, 900 soda biscuits can be manufactured
from the above amount of bi carb Now
a very limited clearinghouse experience
= will clearly demonstrate to any one that in
!, the hands of very few cooks is the soda
:, biscuit anything less than deadly weapon
- and it must appear evident to the most SUI
> perfcial mind that Lo cannot hope to com
y ;. pete, in the matter of bisuits, with ever
: the murderous cook of the boarding house
:. for salvation, in the shape of the Buckeye
! Cook Book, cannot, as yet have penetrated
: to the Sissetou Wilds. The conclusion il
: irresistible that, in this soda consignment
= we have discovered on the part of Uncle
:, Sam, a deep and dark design to bring abou
speedy solution of the troublesome "In
= dian problem" Sitting Bull may plan
= himself on inaccessible rocks and defy US
the Isannocks may rob, and murder, anc
elude our Towards and Mileses for a time
= few more gallant Clusters may find thei
y. final resting place on the bleak plains O.
y the West; but sooner or later, under thi
y new method of warfare, vengeance will
overtake the foe, and he must certainly
fall before the insidious but deadly sod
!" biscuit. Much dissatisfaction has beer
. expressed concerning the method of exter
= mination heretofore employed by the gov
" eminent. War is perhaps effectual, bu
careful computation shows that it require
: the lives of three and half soldiers t.
= compass the death of one redskin. TIL
plan of educating and civilizing the Ind
= ans, as a means of wiping him out, is, W
:, will admit, successful in its way, but it i
: too slow and expensive. Neither of thes
: objections can be urged against the sod
!, biscuit scheme. 1t is inexpensive, it j
: speedy, it is surel