The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1881-01-27

Dairyman's association will be held at the
rooms of the chamber of commerce, st. Paul,
February 3, at 10 .. M, for the election of
officers and the discussion of different subjects
State.
The Milwaukee 4 st. Paul engineers are lay
ing out spur track from the Hastings & Da-
kota cut-off to Excelsior. This, with the con-
templated extension of the Minneapolis Il St
Louis and Lyndale railways to the same point,
will soon give the people of Excelsior ample
railway facilities.
of William Ebel, at Mortified, Mr. Adolph Ebel
discovered two copper coins, bearing the name
OF the Island Of Sumatra, one of which was
dated 1904, and the other of so old date that
the figures were indistinct. The coins, after
being studied and examined by experts, were
declared genuine.
The annual meeting of the Minnesota Wool
Growers association was to have been held In
st. Paul on the 9th, but the members who re-
sponded to the call thought best to postpone
the meeting until Wednesday, February 2.
The meeting will therefore take place at the
same place on that date, and an endeavor will
be made to secure a full attendance.
Eta W. Eggleston of Minneapolis, who mar
ried William Eggleston in 1877, when she was
only fourteen years of age, and he fifty SIX, now
wants a divorce. Her parents did not per-
init him to live with her, nor has she since been
his wife, save in name. She is now eighteen
and he is sixty. She brings an action for d.
vOrce on the ground that she was not of legal
age when married, and Eggleston makes no de-
fense
A serious lack Of discipline has prevailed for
quite period on the United States naval vessels
Alaska and Mconderoga. The former il in the
Pacific, and the latter lately arrived in San Fran
cisco. The condition of affairs on the Iicon-
deroga is reported to be so bad that the men are
on the verge of mutiny, and there are officers
here who regard it doubtful whether, with her
present crew, she can be brought around to
this side, where she is wanted
Frank Thomas, who lately decamped from
believed by his wife and father in law and those
who knew him to be none other than Frank
James, brother of the famous LESSEE James.
Letters found on his person at different times
by his wife, shows that he has been in connec-
ton with an organized band of desperadoes in
the South, and often letters addressed to him
from these parties were to be forwarded on to
some other persons by him. He was most in
imately acquainted with all the famous James
family, and knew their personal history, and
though he would most accurately describe the
personal appearance of Jesse James, he claimed
to have no knowledge of Frank James.
Minnesota Congressional AppOrtiOnment.
The Republican members of Congress from
Minnesota have been interviewed on the new
apporhonment of Congressional Districts They
all agree that fair bill will be passed this ses-
sion and that Minnesota will have five members
They also believe that the legislature would be
safe in making the superintendent of the State
at the present session upon that basis. No Off
cial notification from any department here is
required to enable the State to proceed When
the bill passes she simply takes notice given by
it's publication among the statutes of the United
States.
Mr.. Dunnell of the first district
has a scheme for apportlonment
which he outlined as follows:
make two frontier districts, one in the south
west and the other in the northwest, dividing
the balance Of the State into three districts: One
district, lot to be precise about it, would in
clude Winona, Houston, Fillmore. Mower, Free
born, Steele, Dodge and Olmstead, which has
about one-fifth the population of the State, and
about 900 republican majority.
Then for frontier district No. l, take Jack
wood and Watonwan for one-half district, and
for the other half taking part of Straits district
say LIE Sueur, Scott, Nicol1et, Redwood, 'Renville
Brown, Lincoln, Lyon, Chippewa and Yellow
Medicine counties.
Our friends in Minneapolis and St Paul seem
to want to be separated, and lam in favor of &C
cecding to their wishes.
A district for St. Paul might be comprised of
Wabasha, Goodhue, Rice, Dakota, Ramsey,
Washington, Chisago, Anoka and the east side
of the Mississippi river generally. This would
be district somewhat scattered, perhaps,
but the growth Of population would tend to con-
solidate it somewhat
For Minneapolis he suggested that Hennepin,
Carver, Sib1ey, Wright, Mcleod, Meeker,
Grant, and other counties west might go to-
gether."
Mr.. Washburn was generally in accord with
Mr. Dunnelrs suggestions: Senator Window
had no plan, but wanted five Republicans from
Minnesota; Senator McMillen did not think it
proper for him to suggest plan for division,
andhe had given the matter very little attention.