The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-11-04
MINNESOTA INTELLIGENCE.

season @l ,lSl, UOO WOTCn Oh HUI uia-
chinery.
One man near Red Wing has manu-.
featured over 5000 gallons Of amber
cane syrup this fall.
The editor of the Crookston Journal
raised four hundred bushels of pO-
tatoes from one acre of ground.
The Red Wing Aduance says that
the net earnings of the mills at that
place last year amounted to 100000.
Saltwater high school Is among
those recommended to receive the
sum of s400 per year from the State
treasury.
The North Star Publishing Com
pany are having trouble collecting
the subscriptions to their history Of
Dakota county.
"Olmstead County Democrat" Is the
title of local six.column folio paper,
imported inside, just started in RO-
chester by o. S. Reed.
Auditor Whitcomb sold $1,000
acres of school and internal improve
ment land in the Red River Valley
last week, at an average price of 81
per acre.
In grinding $50 bushels of wheat at
the City roller mill in Waseca the
magnet-separator gathered one and a
quarter pounds of bits of wire that
had been used in binding the grain.
J. S. Shuck. Esq, has sold his pa.
per, the Mantorville Express, to
Messrs. Smith & Lorraine, who will
| continue it's publication, while Mr..
Shuck will continue the practice of
law.
A petition largely signed by the
voters and taxpayers of the 18th
| judicial district has been submitted
to the legislature asking that body
to abolish the Office of district at.
torney.
1t costs the city of Albert Lea $50
a day to keep the coffer.dam at the
mill from being swept away,
| If such piece of extravaganza
continues very long the people will
damn the coffer-dam.
Official statistics show that during
the past ten years the annual produc.
tion of buckwheat In the United
States has increased about 100000
bushels. Barley has increased 5.OOO,.
600 bushels, and rye 5000, 900 i'm the
same period.
One evening last week as Hon. d.
A. Morrison, Senator from Olmstead
county, was walking along ore of the
streets of st. Paul, he was assaulted
and knocked down by barber with
out provocation. He is said to have
| mistaken the senator for quite an.
other and different man.
Ell Peacock, of Lexington, Le-
Sueur county, threshed $50 bushels
of wheat from eight and a half acres
of landau average of over l7H
bushels per acre-which is the largest
yield yet reported in the county.
The same land last year yielded 202
bushels of wheat.-Le Sueur Sentinel.
The preliminary examination of
Rogers and Clark, the young chaps
charged with breaking into and rob
bling the Preston pOstoffice, was held
at st. Paul last week, and resulted In
their commitment in default of $500
bail each, to appear in June next be.
fore the United States District Court.
|-Lanesboro Journal.
st. Peter Tribune: Mrs. Griefer
Cranky deserves special notice. Eight
years ago her husband was caught in
that terrible snow storm at Nicollet
and was frozen to death. Since that
time she has run her farm without
hiring any help. She has 90 acres
under cultivation. She cuts her own
grain and hay, and has never hired q
particle of help. She and her girls
has no boys) do all the work them
selves. She has not only run the
farm the past eight years, but has
run it successfully, and is making
money.
Mr.. Irving Todd, editor of tho
Hastings Gazette, says that the bill to
abolish the Office of railroad commits.
sioner should pass both houses of the
legislature under suspension of the
rules, as the position is mere sine
cure, costing $1,000 in salary and as
much more for blanks, stationery,
contingent expenses, etc., and all we
have to show for it is a pamphlet Of
statistics which properly belong with
those of the assistant secretary Of
state.
Mr.. Todd has probably forgotten
that he was candidate tor this same
SO, 900 plum only two years ago. but
nevertheless we think as he does that
the duties could be combined with
some other office.
A writer in the Candy Neps com.
plains that that town is out of meat
and flour, and says that as the roads
to Granite Falls are impossible, there
fore they must depend on the rail.
road.
If we were a citizen Of Candy, and
out of meat, we think we could
manage for little while to keep
Robin alive by slaughtering some of
the myriad ducks, geese, brant and
sandhill cranes which just now every.
where abound. Why, any of the
above named birds nicely dressed,
stuffed, baked and thoroughly basted,
is fit for an alderman. We hope the
citizens of Candy will survive the
present scarcity Of meat and take to
a higher order Of living. Powder
and shot are cheap.
The Rochester Record d Union,
publishes the bill presented to the
legislature asking that the voters of
Olmstead county may vote bonds to the
extent of Sic. 600 for the purchase Of
the State Fair grounds, sheds, ma
chinery &c, and establish permanently
at Rochester an annual agricultural
fair for Southern Minnesota, and
adds: The last two state fairs held in
this city have demonstrated beyond
doubt that fairs are very valuable to
the county. The country must, of
necessity, change from grain to stock
raising, and at these annual exhibit.
tions the best stock Is brought. thus
giving farmers an opportunity to
examine and select that which they
consider will prove the best adapted
to their wants. At the last fair there
were many purchases made of stock
brought for exhibition, and the bene.
fit will soon be apparent in improved
flocks and herds. A large amount Of
expense will be saved by the stock
being brought here for sale, for
otherwise journeys would have to be
made to examine 1t. And where 80
many breeds are exhibited compari.
sons may be made at one place, while