The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-08-12
AN ENTOMOLOGIgT.
MINNESOTA INTELLIGENCE.

Jens TOrs0n, county treasurer OF
WatOnwan county, died at st. James,
the 4th, inst.
Col. Edison estimates the wheat
product of Minnesota this year at
about $4,000. 900 bushels.
A boy with head three feet In
circumference has been exhibiting
himself to the people Of Faribault.
The st. James Journal warns farm.
ers to keep their barns locked nights
to guard against the horse-thieves In
that section.
Over $40 has been contributed by
the citizens of Rochester, for the re-.
lief Of the sufferers from the New
Ulm cyclone.
The report that the Republican
State Convention would DO held at
Minneapolis during the fair week,
proves incorrect.
The Sanitary Conference will be
held in Albert Lea, August 3lsr and
Sept. lst, instead Of the week after,
as heretofore announced.
The Albert Lea Gun Club will pay
1926 90 for evidence that will convict
anybody Of having killed prairie
chickens in this county before Sept.
LIST.
A. J. Good, of Marion, Olmstead
county has been awarded a pension,
which dates back to 1855 am0untingt0
81, 1855 and regular allowance Of %
per month.
| The Minnesota Annual Conference
of the M. +. church will meat this
year at Fargo, Dakota, on Wednes.
day, September 28th. Bishop F0ss
will preside.
Mr.. Watkins, superintendent Of the
fish hatchery, has just returned from
brownsville Houston county, where
he put $500 trout into the streams In
that vicinity.
Arrangements are on foot to run
the Southern Minnesota trains from
the east and the west to Albert Lea
for dinner as soon as the track Is laid
to Sioux Falls.
Board d" u Trade With the following
officers: President, A. M. Ozmun;
vice.presidents, Z. Damon, F. T..
Odds; treasurer, A. T. Stebbins; secre.
tary, J. w. Booth.
Bishop Whipple says that while we
are talking about the decadence of
the Christian religion in England and
America, 1t is taking first-rate among
the savages Of Central Africa and the
North American Indians!
Capt. d. f. Goodman, of Cannon
City, graduate of Shattuck School,
Faribault, class 1881, and Cadet Capt.
Of Co. A, left for California, Monday
July 25th, to accept the position Of
military cOmmandant and teacher Of
English, in st. Augustine Military
School for bOys.-Fari6auh Republican,
G. w. Moore, of Cascade purchased
100 fine-wOoled Merino sheep, in Wis.
consin, last year, at 81 per head.
The flock yielded him. an average of
twelve pounds of wool per head, and
he has over eighty young lambs. He
has just purchased another carload,
and says that number of his neigh
bors are about to engage in the same
business.
The Minneapolis Tribune says that
the Millers' Association of that
city are laying their plans for a cam.
paign Of larger dimensions in purchas.
ing wheat than in any previous year.
The Minneapolis mills during the past
year have ground about 100000
bushels of wheat. 1t is estimated
that they will need thirty million
bushels of the new crop.
Last Sunday morning when the
night freight from Minneapolis ar
rived in this city the arm of a man
was found hanging to brake beam
under the train. The passenger train
north left soon afterwards and on the
bridge near II. BickfOrd's found the
other arm. A few rods farther on,
the body was found cut and mangled
in q terrible manner. The trunk lay
between the rails. with the head
severed and on the outside of the
track.-AiJert Lea Standard.
The Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul
road have executed mortgage to
the Farmers Loan & Trust company
of New York, which provides for the
issue Of $500, 900 in bonds to be used
for the payment of the construction
of the short line and iron bridge from
Minneapolis to St. Paul. Also So.
600 per mile for the purchase or
construction of road from Austin,
connecting with the Hastings & Da-
k0ta and terminating at Minneapolis
with branch to Saltwater. ZumbrOta
and Eau Claire.
The pride of the farmer should be
in his fields. In their beauty, in their
order, in their product, he should
place the qualification Of his humble
and honorable ambition, says a con-
temporary. This is all very we'll as
far as it goes. but we would add, the
pride of The farmer should be in his
wife and children - in their health
and culture, mental and social. A
farmer with family Of seven, eight
or ten children, well bred and trained
up, has something to be proud of, and
what should crafty an honorable
ambition.
A meeting of the state fair COM
mittee was held on Monday night.
1t was estimated that about 100000
feet Of lumber will be required for
erection of the additional buildings,
stalls, etc., for the use of the society.
The exhibition Of live stock promises
to be immense, and there is an evi.
dent disposition on the part of those
having the fair in charge to leave no.
thing undOne to insure the complete
Nf ha Ensv
determined to make thorough can
vass to secure the requisite funds to
carry forward necessary preparations.
Secretary Juds0n says the state fair
promises to be better exhibition in
every way than any one ever yet held
by the sOciety.-Roehester Record.
The Supreme Court has affirmed
Judge Buckham's decision, from
which the county commissioners of
Waseca county appealed, relative to
tax cases in which money was asked
to be refunded on account of mistakes
in assessment. There are two in
stances only in which parties have
been bidding off land at tax sales for
the last seventeen years. 1t was
finally ascertained that by mistake
of the land Office in entering the re.
cord of the issuing of patents, the
land was wrongly located, the land in
question being located in Blue Earth
county instead of Waseca. When this
mistake was ascertained the commits
sioners were asked to refund the
money that had been paid at the sever
al tax sales, together with IL per
cent. interest on the same from the
time Of payment. this being the rate
nroocrihoI hv 1aw Thio fhav r0.