Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-07-27
MINNESOTA STATE NEWS.

MINNESOTA STATE NEWS.
ABOUT five tons Of butter is being
shipped from Jackson every week.
The rea1-estate transfers in st. Paul,
thus far this month, aggregate $685.
554.
A MANKAro dealer has bought wool
this season sufficient to load train OF
eleven OF twelve cars.
Tie personal-property assessment
rolls of st. Paul aggregate $S, 90O,563,
against 81, 1905 last year.
JACKSON is the distributing point for
large quantities of supplies for the rail-
road now being built to Spirit Lake.
WHEN the two new elevators at Min
neapolis are built, there will be storage
capacity of 4, 200, 900 bushels in that city.
TIE Manitoba road is putting in new
station below Ashby, between Pelican
and Christina lakes, to be called Inter-
laken.
D. RosENHunrz, rag peddler from
st. Paul, was killed by his team run
ming away near Zumbrota on the 18th
instant.
The loDg-legged birds on Crane
Island, Lake Minnetonka, are source
of much admiration to all newcomers to
the lake.
JAMES LAIRD, ESQ.,, of Chatfeld, re-
Gently sold eighty acres Of land in Dover
township, belonging to the Desmond es-
tate, for $4,000.
IT is said that Bishop Foss will not
allow the use of his name for the presl-
dency of the board Of trustees OF the
HamGne University.
The big wheat county Of the state is
Goodhue, which has 191, ,942 acres in that
cereal this year. The next largestis Ohm
stead with 1O9, 500 acres.
On the morning Of the 18th terrible
hail-storm visited Long Prairie, and the
largest hail ever seen there fell, one piece
tipping the scale at five ounces.
The Minneapolis doctors report an
alarming prevalence of sickness in the
city, more especially among the chill
dren.
The new city directory of Minneapolis
contains %, ,222 names, which, at the
customary computation, will give $4,000
population.
THERE are now over 500 dwelling
houses in course of construction in Min
neapois, and nearly all have been en-
gagged in advance.
The total inventory of the Ovid Pin
ney estate, at Minneapolis, as per ap
praisment upon file in the probate court,
amounts to $212, 136.48
FARMERS in Jackson county who have
engaged in wool culture, state that they
have this year received so per cent. on
the investment. This is certainly better
than wheat raising.
Waltham, died the other day, having
been bitten by rattlesnake two days
previous. These venomous reptiles are
very numerous this season.
FRED WnMET, proprietor Of the VIII
met House, at Saltwater, was fined $40
and costs for giving sick boarder some
liquor last Sunday. The complaint was
made by rival saloon-keeper.
The Minnesota fish commissioners are
distributing a good many fish this year.
At the rate they are putting them into
the lakes and streams they will distrib
ute during the year probably not less
| tnan Z,UUU,UUU.
EVERY log of the Suabe river, amount
ing in all to 80,000,000 feet, has passed
the Chengwatonna boom. It is the
cleanest drive ever known on the river,
not even one log being left behind.
The quartermaster's department is to
send from St. Paul to Fort Assinniboine,
to complete that post, one hundred
laborers and mechanics, and from st.
Paul to Fort Maginnis one hundred and
fifty, to build that new point.
CAPT. QUINN, U. S. A., is in Still
water, to contract for the material for
the construction of one hundred fiat
boats to be used on the lower Missis-
sippi in government service. It requires
100000 feet of lumber, and will give
employment to large number of men
for two or three months.
Work has been commenced on the
new coal-dock at Duluth, and will now
be pushed to completion. A space of
$50 feet between the two coal-docks will
be left for the purpose Of making anoth-
er slip, which it is now said has been de-
cided upon. Two other slips ale also in
contemplation, all within the limits Of
the St. Paul and Duluth property.
DR.. GOULD, of Jackson, and DR.. Rice,
of Fairmont, recently performed most
difficult and dangerous operation upon
the person of Mrs. NJ. V. Pulver, who
was suffering from an abdominal tumor
of a most dangerous nature. It proved
to be large sized tumor, and the pa
tient is now rapidly recovering her
health.
Two-TH1RDs of the qualified voters
and property holders of the Lake Crys-
tai school district, Blue Earth county,
have voted in favor OF building a new
school house, to cost not exceeding five
thousand dollars, and committee Of
three, consisting of Lorin Cray, Norman
Beebe and W. B. Marston, have been
appointed to assist the board i'll secur-
ing designs and making estimates.
GEO. G. CHAMBERLAIN, editor of The
Mankato Free Press, formerly of The
Jackson Republic, was il the city yes
terday, consulting DIR. Atwood, the
noted oculist, as to his eyesight.
Mr.. Chamberlain's Observation-Disclosures
in the state, and his friends generally,
will regret to hear that Dr. Atwood pro-
nounces his sight seriously affected, and
ordered him to desist entirely from read
ing or other pursuits requiring steady OF
concentrated use of the eyes, upon
penalty of total blindness If a contrary
course is pursued. Newspaper men will
fully appreciate the force Of such all editc.
Minneapolis Tribune.
Funny Old Story.