Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-07-31
OUR HAkvE<r FIELD.

Lake City IS infested with house thieves.
The chintz bugs have damaged the wheat
badly in northern Iowa.
Air brakes are soon to be placee on all |
passenger trains on the s. N. railroad.
The crazy Hembold is after the newspa- |
pers again with his column advertisements.
-Four Winnebago Indians are binding grain |
near Lanesboro. They receive $3.50 per day |
each.
The Lake City Leader, II years old. has
changed from 4 pink to q white dress this
warm weather.
Orange Judd, publisher of the American
Agricultural, accompanied by his son, spent
Sunday. 18th, in Owatonna.
1t is said that Goodhue county, in this
state, produces more wheat than any other
county in the United States.
-Flandrear, Dakota, the probable terminus
of the Southern Minnesota Railway for this
winter, is distant from La Crosse over 900
miles.
-Dalrymple has $1,000 acres of wheat this
year, and better crop than he has heretofore
raised in Dakota. He commenced harvesting
the e4th.
q, 900, 900 acres in wheat in Minnesota this
year. At an average of II bushels to the acre,
We have 100000 bushels. We are sure of
10000. 900.
Persons living in Genoa and Pine Island.
in this State, gathered 800 pounds Of ginseng,
which they sold last week to a Rochester flrm
for over &500.
The editor Of the Worthington Journal has
been dining on prairie chickens recently, con-
trary to law and the peace and dignity Of the
State Of Minnesota.
The Chatfeld Times is authority for the
statement that a snake, thirty-two feet in
length, was killed recently in Rockdale, Ohm
sted county. 'Important, IL true.''
The Lanesboro mill-pond has again been
made famous. There was big swim on its
quiet waters last week. Mat Leahy won first
money, g, swimming half mile In 10 minutes.
The winona Herald Is in the lap-board
business. Whipple has just completed the
manufacture Of 3O0 Of them, and offers them
for sale at less than half price. Send US one,
w. j., we're out.
"A moving machine in Howard county,
Iowa, last week, cut OF z boys leg just
to pull weed for whip, and In doing 20. put
his foot just over the sickle bar. and 1t was
sawed OF in an instant.
The editor Of the Lake City Leader has q
Is cent hat which he will wager against a
| thousand dollars that Minnesota will produce
over 4, OO0, 900 bushels Of wheat this season.
As usual, the yield in the Northern Pacific
| and Red River countries is very large.
"A farmer came into our Office few days
ago and declared that, from actual examine
| five per cent. He has since cut his wheat,
and informs us ',osv that it will yield twenty
live bushels per acre, Of No. wheat-the
blight, he discovered, only existed around the
| The poisoning Of the pic-nicers at Lanes
boro July 4th, still remains q mystery. A
quantity Of the water and lemonade had on
the grounds has recently been analysed by
the professor of Chemistry of Rush Medical
College, Chicago, and no poison found in
either.
! Though they are all dressed rather rough
| ", you can easily distinguish the harvesters
that are docktng here from below, from the
! tramps. The former have frank, honest
face, and are able to look you in the eye; the
latter carry mug that they seem to be
ashamed of, in spite Of their impudent
!
Lake CITY Leader.
The first locomotive engine ever run IN
the stase, Is now In use between st. Cloud and
Alexandria. 1t was brought to the state in
1859, and named 'Wm. Crooks" but is now
known as mo. l." It was first used between
St. Paul and Minneapolis on the St. Paul and
Pacific Railway.
The contract has been let to Mr.. C. C.
all but eight miles of the Caledonia marrow
gauge railway beyond that village to New
burg, distance of about twenty-five miles
making thirty-five miles of line from the river
west. The contract for the additional eigh'
-:'-- 49, " Svss'sssil
The Davenport & Northwestern (formerl,
Davenport & St. Paul. railway has been pur
chased by the c.. N. 4 St. P. Co. This roat
runs from Davenport to Fayette, and Is ia
miles in length. The purchasers VIII take