Stevens County tribune. (Morris, Minn.) 1877-1880, 1878-10-17
Herman items.


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. H. 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 smoke-stack are in place,
and wheat will be received within a week.
The tne structure, in all its appointments,
is credit to its gentlemanly builder, Mr.
| Watson. a
! A. G. Earsely has lately sold to 9. d.
Rines, of Princeton, two business lots on
Atlantic Ave. @ Consideration $4OO-and
they weren't corner lots either. Mr.. Ears
lev 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." rs ~
t On last Thursday, we met the enemy
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swept down upon us, from the west, but
1--WE routed him, we secuted him, nor lost
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
a 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 citizen.
J went home at late hour, and found TIT
J front door step occupied by dark coloret
r animal having three white stripes along
the back, and an erect bushy tail. Whei
: discovered, the charming creature wa
Of irs
: but might Blooming Cereus," or "Jock,
Club" 1t was evidently case of "Foici
Bile Entry and Detainer," but the rightfu
proprietor employed counsel and prepared
himself to maintain suit in "Ejectment
having provided himself with an arsena
, consisting of shotgun, revolver, and
> huge club. Case finally decided in fayo
of plaintiff, but a near approach to him vii
covince any one that he had to stan
: "costs!"
:, Fifty cases of bi-carbonate of soda-o
: one hundred pounds each-were receive
! at this point, for the Sisseton Indians,
> few days ago. We do not wish to be owe
. sanguine, but do we not find flood" her
! for the most cheering reflections? Aroug
. estimate makes it seem probable that abou
. 5000, 900 soda biscuits can be manufacture
from the above amount of bicarb. No,
very limited boarding-h house experienc
: will clearly demonstrate to any one that i
: the hands of very few cooks is the sod
!, biscuit anything less than deadly weapon
and it must appear evident to the most s,
:, pericial mind that Lo cannot hope to con
s, pete, in the matter of bisuits, with eve
the murderous cook of the boarding houst
: for salvation, in the shape of the Buckley
!, Cook Book, cannot, as yet, have penetrate
: to the Sissetou Wilds. The conclusion
: irresistible that, in this soda consignmel
! We have discovered on the part of Uncl
:, Sam, deep and dark design to bring abo,
speedy solution of the troublesome III
: dian problem" Sitting Bull may plal
: himself on inaccessible rocks and defy u.
the Hannocks may rob, and murder, an
elude our Towards and Mileses for tim,
{ few more gallant Clusters may find the
: final resting place on the bleak plains
= the West; but sooner or later, under tn
, new method of warfare, vengeance wi
: overtake the foe, and he mdst certain
: fall before the insidious but deadly soc
: biscuit Much dissatisfaction has bes
. expressed concerning the method of exte
: mination heretofore employed by the go
: eminent War is perhaps effectual, b
carefulcomputation shows that it requir
: the lives Of three and a half soldiers
!, compass the death of one redskin. tt
: plan of educating and civilizing the Inc
! ans, as means of wiping him out, is, v
= will admit, successful in its way, but it
: too slow and expensive. Neither of the
: objections can be urged against the SOC
:, biscuit scheme. 1t is inexpensive, 1t
: speedy, it is surel aass
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