The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-03-10
State News.
Wassca is now an incorporated vii

Wassca is now an Incorporated vii,
!age.
The Glencoe Register is twenty-five
years old.
Waseca county has an anti.horse
thief association.
The Jackson Republic says that the
blockade is nearly raised, but as the
assertion was made about the middle
of February. no apology is required.
VIM. Lamont Of Jackson, has just
received q pension with arrearages
amounting to $1,000. Lucky Lamont.
The Duluth Tribune calls for
street railroad, electric lights for the
streets, and Turkish bath establish
ment, as three necessary improve.
ments to make that city truly metro
politan. We expect the first candi-
date for that bath establishment that
the ministers of that city could sug-
gest would be Mitchell, the Tribune
editor, and see if he would not be
purged of some of those skeptical
ideas.
A Currie, Murray county, paper,
printed on brown paper on account
Of the non-arrival of its patents says:
sit has been 80 long since we had
a mail that our town people have
read all the old papers, advertise
ments and all. Arch Currie read
cook book through last Sunday, and
one man was seen reading his wife's
last years dress patterns, which had
been cut fIvn al vid newspaper. We
heard of one man that was reading
the Bible. He said he was never 50
hard up for reading matter before"
We would like to be informed which
of the citizens of Mankato owns and
rents the low house of i'll fame near
there, just on this side the river, for
the benefit of that city. We are in
formed it is a man of some charac-
ter ~ We should judge so! And if
the nuisance is not abated by the
proper authorities of that town, we
will endeavor to see that the soil of
Nicollet county is purged of the pol
luton which seems to find congenial
nourishment in the atmosphere of the
adjacent borough. We think the
facts in the case can be elected for
the benefit of those most nearly
interested by the next grand jury
impaneled in Nicollet county; and
the proprietor should he sent to join
the notable eight OF the same ilk at
saltwater. What are the newspaper
press, the city council and the honest
citizens of Mankato doing about it!
st. Peter Tribune.
We doubt not but that the proper
authorities of this city will gladly CO.
operate with those of Nicollet county
in suppressing the nuisance.
Jackson county-says the Jackson
Republic-bids fair to become a hunt
er's paradise in addition to the many
other paradisiacal qualities she al
ready boasts of. "Big game" in the
shape of numerous herds of deer are
seen roaming over our
prairies, and every year seems to in
crease their number. 1t has been
that these handsome animals
during the Fall down into
Des Moines Valley from the big woods
in tina northern part of the State lint
there are good reasons for believing
that they are "old residents" of the
county and that this is their breed
ing place. 1t is said that they have
their summer haunts in the vast area
of rushes and wild rice which sur
round Heron Lake, in the northern
part of the county, and residents OF
that vicinity inform us that they are
occasionally seen Whereabouts during
the summer months, although the
habits of the animal are usually to
secrete itself and remain within it's
haunts during the summer or breed
ing season. During the winter they
are driven from the brakes about the
lake by the drifting snow and are thus
found wandering on the prairies.
Nearly fifty have been killed about
Heron Lake this winter, and they
were seen in large numbers after the
October snow storm, which goes to
prove the theory that their summer
haunts are about Heron Lake.