The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-08-26
MINNESOTA INTELLIGENCE.

been placed along the line OF the
Southern Minnesota R'y from La
| Crosse to Wells.
The FairmOnt Sentinel says that
| spOrtsmen from adjoining counties
are Strengthening prairie chickens, re-
CARELESS of the law.
A farmer in Fillmore county
threshed his flax the other day and
realized 1000 bushels from 40 acres.
He got $l.00 per bushel for the seed.
G. Crawford of Rochester has a
prodigy in his door yard in the way
OF a large sun flower, which is seven
feet high and supports over thirty
blossoms.
The estate of the late Il. G. Nc
| Clure at st. Cloud is estimated at
$500, 900. The lumber business of
| Clark & Mcclure will be continued
without change.
A German farmer from New York
state, en- route for Lake City or a
| visit to his son, was caught to the
tune of 500 by confidence men at La
Crosse, Wednesday.
There will be $50 stalls for cattle,
$50 for horses, and seventy-fve pens
for sheep, all covered, besides the
usual number of open pens for sheep,
hogs, ETC., at the state-fair grounds
in Rochester.
Apple trees in Wright county are
troubled with I" re.blight," the ends
of the branches commencing to die
and wither, the leaves dry up, and
the trees present a fOrlorn and blast
ed appearance.
The prospect for the amber cane
crop is very encouraging. 1t is gener-
ally well advanced for the time of
year, and the hot weather has been
very beneficial in increasing its sac
charlne qualities.
James S. Mills, editor of the
Hastings News, has brought a libel
suit against II. Gillett, of the Hastings
New Era, on account of an article
published in the latter paper above
his own name on the 5th of last April,
and claims 10000 damages.
The Martin county Sentinel says
that Mr.. II. F. Sherman sailed from
London. for this country, on the 4th
inst. He is at the head of a large
corporation which has its object the
placing Of pupils in Iowa, Nebraska,
NJ ssOuri, Kentucky. Tennessee, Vir-
gfhia. Maryland, New York and
Canada.
Rev. Father Friedrich, a Jesuit
from Mankato, has been in the city
during the past week, giving a retreat
to the sisters, at the Academy of
| LOurdes. He is an eloquent divine,
as all are aware who assisted ut high
mass i'm st. Johns church on the 18th
inst, on which occasion he delivered
a most impressive sermOn.-Rochester
Record.
The %cOdiication of school laws, pre-.
pared by Hon. David Burt, assisted
by AttOrney-G General Hahn, is in the
hands of the binder, and will be ready
for distribution next week. 1t is a
neat looking pamphlet Of siXty.three
printed pages, and the arrangement
of the statutes and decisions relating
to schools and school property seems
admirable and convenient.
On Tuesday, August 10Th, about
AIS bushels of wheat was received at
the elevator of G. w. Van Dusen &
Co.. Rochester, and 400 bushels by
Written & Judd. The price paid was
S1.18. The railroad company seem
to have inaugurated a new policy this
year, along this line of road, which
enables buyers to pay full Chicago
prices less freight. The Milwaukee
line has heretofore carried a good
share of the crop, but the Northwest
ern is going to get its proportion Of
freight this year if it has to fight for it.
The Rochester Record. in speaking
of the success of a farmer in Olmsted
county says : He has half a section of
land. but he so diversifies his crops
that he makes real progress every
year. As the farm is devoted to a
little of everything, if one thing fails
something else takes its place. This
year he has a remarkably fine crop Of
corn, some barley, oats and wheat, a
few acres in clover and timothy,
pasture and meadow. He keeps 40
or so head of sheep, a herd of hogs,
Is to 20 swarms of bees, and a small
herd of cattle. He has a number of
Devons, one four.year.old having
taken a premium at a Minneapolis
fair. He has a Devon heifer which
gave birth to a calf July 10, and the
dam will not be two years old till the
Goth of September. He prefers them,
for dairy purposes, to the Short
horns.
The stone quarries recently dis
covered at Dresbach, near Winona,
are exciting not a little interest, and
a reporter of the st. Paul Dispatch
having examined the same in COM
pany with a g~eologist, tells the fol.
lowing relative to them: The stone
is of a superior quality Of building
stone, easy Of access and easily
worked, being 80 soft that it can be
cut with a knife. On exposure to
the open air the water evap0rates,
leaving the stone compactly hardened.
The supply is seemingly unlimited,
millions on millions Of cubic feet
being accessible. The stone is in
every respect equal to the best Berea,
Ohio, sandstone from which the best
quality Of grindstOnes are made. The
Berea quarries are the only other Of
this kind in the United States. The
extent of this deposit comprises an
area of several hundred acres. A
stock company with a capital of
500 900 has been organized and
chartered under the mining laws of
the State to further develop and work
the quarries.
Ex-Governor Stephen Miller, died
at WOrthingt0n last Friday night.
He was born January 7. 1915, in
Perry, Cumberland county, Pa. He
settled at st. Cloud, this state in 1858.
In the spring Of 1851 he enlisted as a
private soldier, and was appointed
observation-disclosures of the First Min.
nesota infantry, serving in the army
of the Potomac until September, 1852,
when he was promoted to the com.
mand Of the Seventh Minnesota in
fantry, and went with his regiment
to the frontier Of Minnesota to put
down the Sioux massacre. In the
fall of that year Col. Miller caused tho
execution of 80 of the captured
Indians, who were hanged at Man
kato. After the war Gov. Miller
went with his youngest son to Mon
tana, and engaged in farming and
general business. But the undertake
Ing did not meet with that success
which justified remaining there. and
Gov. Miller returned to Minnesota,
and from 1871 to 1873 made his home =
ut Window. and was employed as
field agent Of the st. Paul 4 Sioux
City railway company. He then re.
moved to WorthingtOn, where he has
since lived in very comfortable cir.