Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-06-26

therefore has full knowledge Of the evidence
upon which to base his decisions.
The house committee on public lands has
Instructed Washburn to report favorably
Poehler'e bill, which provides that settlers
ing applications in which to commence resi-
dence upon lands under homestead entries. -
E1chan0e.
The Central Iowa Railroad Co. has taken
a fresh start. On the 18th, D. N. Pickering,
the new general superintendent and treas
urer, took formal possession Of the Co. under
the reorganization. Thus ends a FIVE years.
legal warfare.
The Hokah Herald is enabled to state, on
Milwaukee and St. Paul railroad, that the car
shops in that village ire not going to be re-
moved to La Crosse. or anywhere else, for at
least two years.
"A Red Wing correspondent writes Of
| hardware man who was married in that CITY
their Wedding trip, to,tine, sP4t Ne in Ny
Little Bed,' 'Sowing the Seed" and "What
! Notwithstanding tho hard times, the st.
Peter Tribune says the taxes have not for
years been paid up as well in Nicollet
county as they have this year, and the delin-
quent list is unusually small. Similar reports
come from other counties.
The Gary Interstate says that the engi-
PEERS OF the W1nona = st. Peter road have
the Of the OF
and it looks now as ii Watertown is losing its
grip as the terminus Of the road for any
length OF time.-WtnOna Republican.
The Mayor OF Hastings has issued proc
| lamation to the police Of that city to strictly
enforce the provisions of the Sunday law as
| laid down in the general statutes Of this State.
| Livery-stables, summer gardens, and restau-
! rants will be closed like other business places.
| The Editorial Association of.this state have
perfected arrangements to have an excursion
to Duluth, and over Lake Superior, some time
in August. The railways will pass editors to
Duluth and one of the steamboat lines will
| give day excursion on the Lake, to be fol-
lowed by an entertainment at the Clark House
in the evening.
The worst drawback on our wheat crop
this season seems to be the great growth of
weather. Counting in the weed-seed, Mime
sofa will produce yield Of about seventy
five million bushels this year a part Of
which will be wheat, if nothing gets OF its
| Court next week. Call and see us.-Jaca-
son Republic.
| We don't think it best, Geo. Counting in
public does not thrive we'll. After you are
through, and the knot is duly tied, then well
be happy to call and see you-and Mrs. Cham
berlin.
! One hundred Iowa editors visited St. Paul
last Thursday coming via special train. They
| went on to Winnipeg, and are to return home
this week. The Illinois editors have been
In Minnesota this week, and the Arkansas
editors are also about to make visitation to
Minnesota.
The pleadings in the drive we'll suits have
Col. Green and his partners in the royalty ex-
tortion. They have filed their reply, and re-
qulre, probably, several months to prepare
will not come before the United States Court
| until the December term.-Erchan0e.
! Mr.. S. W. Stone, of St. Charles, in this
State, having the western fever, went out to
! Rock county, selected fne-looking farm,
put a hundred acres into crops, and waited
! for the grasshoppers to come. They came,
and destroyed all. Mr.. Stone has returned to
st. Charles, his first love, entirely cured Of the
western fever.
-Alarge force of men are now at work build
lux u tTdCk Oh tue Minnesota size OF the f1Vef
from LaCresent Junction, a short distance be-
yond the bridge, to the junction of the South
ern Minnesota and the Chicago, Clinton, Du-
buque and Minnesota roads, q distance of
about three miles. It is being built for the
Southern Minnesota Road, and when complet-
ed that road will have track Of its own, and
will not be compelled to use the track Of an
other road as heretofore.-La Crosse paper.
"A number Of the prominent citizens of
Minneapolis petitioned the manager and
members Of the Sengerfest in session in that
city last week, to omit the programme for
Sunday, which, if carried out, in the language
OF the petitioners, twill inaugurate a move
ment and set an example full of peril to the
public welfare" If they "omit," Well add
''P. S.
The first steel bridge ever erectedhas just
been erected over the Missouri river at the
town OF GLASGOW. 1t Is described as beautiful
the rock OF Gibraltar, every pier standing on
solid rock foundation and the sub-structure
being built Of steel, every bar of which will
double without breaking: The bridge consists
tire length including approaches being S,57lh
Railroad Company.
The railroad war between the competing
lines between Chicago and Kansas RACES with
bitterness among the managers, but with pro-
City to Chicago and St. Louis were sold the
other day for ftty cents each: then one road
put the price down to five cents. and the other
it's trains, and even pre@iams s Of Seer etc., Il
is said were thrown In to induce people to ride
for nothingl Under this order of things the
Mayor Of Kansas City ie charged with having
that he could find, black and white, to st.
The burglar-Danicl Gainey was
killed by the Marshal of Rochester last week,
was hard case. He had served a seven
years sentence in the Ohio penitentiary for
murder, and was professional thief. A dia-
mond pin, valued at $3.50, was found on his
person, which he had stolen from Gov. Davis,
OF St. Paul. Marshal Kalb has been present.
ed with an elegant gold hunting-case watch
and chain by the citizens of Rochester az a
testimonial Of appreciation of his bravery.
Several of the high officials of the North
ern Pacific have Just returned from a trip
over this great railroad line. President Bill |
1ngs was especially pleased and astOnished at
the excellent condition of the road and OF its |
rapidly increasing traffic, the business Of the
re May the earnings to
more than was ever received during and pre-
vious month in its history. SO well satisfied
Is the new President of the road with the stu
otAOH u dndlCS tudC Nc Is more earnest C080
ever In his desire to push this great work on
to Its final completion, and there will be hence
forward no pause in the course of its track
laying across the continent until the CORDS
winding up the Columbia river on the west
shall be able to shake hands with the party
that will meet them at the open gate through |
the Rocky ountatns.-E1chan0e.
President J. C. Easton, Of the s. N. R.R.
Extension Co.. assures the editor of the Jack |
son Republic that it is the intention of the Co. |
to build to Flandreau, thence down the Big |
Sioux to Roscoe, Dell Rapids, and perhaps to |
Sioux Falls and from there to Yankton. cross |
ing the Iowa Division Of the Milwaukee & St. |
Paul about thirteen miles west Of Sioux Falls. |
Along the line Mr.. Easton claims several |
Scotch colonies propose to build towns and |
people the adjacent country. The names of |
Airley and Dundee are proposed for two of |
the towns, and Peterborough has been sug-
gested for another In honor Of one Of the par !
ties interested in the colony schemes. It is |
understood one Of the towns named will be !
near the head Of Heron Lake in Jackson coun- |
ty. another in Clear Lake, in Mobiles county, I
another in Murray or Pipestone, while it is |
proposed to locate the third in Dakota, |
though possibly it may be at some point on