The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-10-28
MINNESOTA INTELLIGENCE.

IcSu IlN0Ts
The storage capacity for wheat in
Minneapolis Is to be increased to g.
00O, 600 bushels.
A fire at Waseca last week, de;
stroyed several buildings in the main
portion Of the town.
Diphtheria is on the decline in the
towns Of Dodge county where its ap-
pearance was recently reported.
Sugar, from the Fariba,llt refinery,
we see advertised IN some of our
exchanges. twelve pounds for 81.
Hay is only worth 81 per ton at st.
James, while here at MankatO it
readily sells for from $40 to $l4 per
ton.
Minnesota abounds with hunters
from the East, west, north and south.
1t is the duck, goose and brant season
now.
"Pinkeye" has attacked q number
Of horses in Olmstead county. 1t is
said that Norman horses suffer most
from it.
Three hunters at OrtOnville shot
l52 ducks in one day. They declare
that the finest locality for game in all
the Northwest.
David Blakely has severed his con-
nection with the Minneapolis Tribune
and accepted the position of Minneap.
oils editor of the Pioneer Press.
Editor Miller. of the WorthingtOn
AdUance chronicles the arrival of q
permanent settler, of gentleman
who has been a broker in Wallstreet,
N. Y.
Last Saturday morning, fire de.
stroyed the Car shops of the Winona
& st. Peter railroad company, located
at WinOna. The loss is estimated at
$4,000.
The New Ulm Reciep announces
the death Of Samuel Baumgartner, q
prominent citizen of that town OH FRI
day evening last. He was a member
Of the Governors Guards.
o. B. Kidder, an old and respected
citizen of ClaremOnt, Dodge county,
and recently member of the Legis.
lature, died on the 18th inst. after a
long illness. He came to Minnesota
in 1854.
At last the great air-ship with its
intrepid crew, Professor King and
Signal Officer Hashagen, has des-
cended from the clouds and landed in
Doggy swamp fifty miles north of
Chipaway Falls, Wis.
The Rutherford school district near
st. James, and in plain sight of that
city, wants teacher. The school is
to open Nov. l. Here is a chance for
Mankato teachers. Address James
Casey, st. James.
Three calves belonging to w. Z.
Hopkins, of South Branch, Waton-
wan county, died from drinking the
scum taken from boiling sorghum.
And it is said that hogs eat it with
ayidity, and grow fat on this saccha.
rine matter.
The st. James Journal of the ODD
instant says party from Iowa have
been in that town and vicinity buy
ing up all the hay they could obtain,
and that they are going to bring on a
hay press and go from place to place
putting the hay in shape for market.
Folger & Co. of Worthington, are
erecting hay press close to the rail.
road track. We shall want some of
their hay here in MankatO, before
long, as things now look. Ours is
wet, soured and rOtten-all on ac-
count of the superabundance of rain.
The Winona & st. Peter railroad
company have agreed to refund the
money paid by exhibitors at the State
Fair, for transportation, and this will
enable the payment in full of prem
iums. One half the amount of prem
iums will be paid now, and the other
half in short time.
The most unsatisfactory thing in
life is success. 1t sounds paradoXical
to say SO, but it is profoundly true.
The only thing about it that is worth
the having is the struggle for it. and
when it is attained the predominant
feeling is a question as to whether it
was worth the effort.
The Waseca Herald learns that
Lake Elysian is higher than ever be-
fore known since the country was
settled. 1t is said the water is three
feet deep on the floor of the engine
room of the Okaman mill, and that
the road between Okaman and Ely
sian Is under water for consider.
able distance.
Waseca county has a horse and
cow for each two persons. In mules
we are not so well off, there being
only one of those animals for each
148 persons. Waseca Herald.
In taking census statistics, much
carelessness often occurs. Taking
groups of persons indiscriminately,
1t would appear very singular to us if
but one mule was to be found for each
l4S persons.
Redfield Dak.) Sun: Some of the
Minnesota newspapers are vexsd with
righteous indignation because the
friends Of Gen. Hubbard and Judge
Vanderburg entered into combina-
ton by which both gentlemen were
nominated, and the slate fixed up by
the Pioneer.Pillsbury.Press folks was
smashed to smithereens. All of
which will cause the average granger
to smile as he goes on with his
'taterdigging.
Have we no better timber in the
State than Windom-a man whom
Arthur kicked ont of his cabinet q
st. James Journal
AS judge of timber, the Journal
editor is a shocking failure. A plea
of insanity might be pleaded by his
guardians in behalf for such silly
utterances. What Minnesotian will
not be proud to be represented in the
U. S. Senate by Hon. William Win
dom
Mr.. c. Bundy of Vail township
tells the Redwood Falls Gazette of a
phenomenal shower of minnows on
his place during recent storm.
Some of the little fishes were two or
three inches long, and Mr.. Bundy
offers to convince the incredulous by
showing the remains of dead ones in
the prairie grass, on high ground
several miles from any considerable
body of water, and also exhibiting
specimens preserved in bottle,
which he captured alive soon after
the storm.
The Redfield (Dakota) Sun, whose
editor served with Gen. Hubbard i'm
the army, has the following good
word to say for his old commander:
We have known Gen. Hubbard
long and well. We have seen him in
camp, on the weary march, OH the