The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1882-10-06
MINNESOTA INTELLIGENCE.

a new hotel costing SlOO, 900 is to
he erected at White Bear Lake. Truly
Minnesota is growing in favor AS a
| place of resort"
A bear weighing 300 pounds was
killed within seven miles of Fergus
Fails. Fergus must be quite we'll
"ut in the wilderness.
The Steele County Herald estimates
The average yield of wheat In that
county at fifteen bushels per acre. of
unusually good quality. -
The estimate wheat crop of Min
nesOta is 10000, 900 bushels, and of.
Dakota 90 e00, 1000. The Minneapo-
lis mills will require 20,000,000 bush.
| els.
A. p. Miller, late business manager
of the New York Tribune. has pur-
chased an interest In the Minneapolis
Tribune, and will take business charge
of the concern.
Waseca Radical: Mr.. C. F. Ketch.
um from six bushels sOwn. harvested
| 100 bushels of wheat all No. l. That
is just thirty bushels per acre at one
and one half bushels of seed per
,cre.
The superintendent of Castle Gar
den, New York, reports that Mime
| sofia received over fourteen Thousand
If the immigrants landing there du-
| ring he first six months of the year.
A special train of seven coaches,
carrying party of $50 land hunters
went west over the st. Peter 6 Wi.
mona road last week. They are des-
tined for different points along the
line of the road;
They are digging for gold again ut
Granite Falls. Gold is found in pay.
ing quantities. Some of the specimens
of quartz have been assayed at 1926 a
ton. Fifteen dollars a ton rock Is
considered paying.
DR.. Atkinson, of Chatfield, went
out hunting OIL Sunday, the 10th inst,
and in attempting to take his gun
from the wagon by pulling it toward
him by the muZzle, 1t was discharged,
killing him Instantly.
An accident occurred at Atwater,
kandiyOhi County, last week, an ex-
press train having run into a freight
train which was switching, killing
TWO men. Conductor Huntington of
the express train, has been arrested.
a meeting of the wheat operators
along the WinOna & st. Peter rail-
| road was held at Winona recently. at
which the price Of wheat along the
western end of the road and its
'"anches was fixed ut s59S0 for No.
l hard.
Mr.. Millet, farmer, 10 years old
living a few miles southwest of High
Forest, committed suicide Monday
morning. by drowning himself in an
old unused well. A natural predispo-
siion TO insanity, aggravated by fin
ancial troubles was the cause.
In Byron, Waseca county, a child
was born to Paul Billiar and wife
having but one hand and one foot.
Onr leg contains two knees, and there
are other peculiarities which are out
side the usual order of things, attribute
able d"nlil+ss tn marriage of very
close consanguinity.
Austin Transcript: Chinch bugs are
now injurihg the corn. They prefer
heat hut are not at all averse to
corn. when the wheat crop Is har-
vested. The bugs penetrate the
hIIskrs and suck the juice from the
soft kernels. Were the corn crop less
advanced they would completely ruin
it.
Officer McCarty, of Lake City, took
charge of Il team Of sorrel horses on
ihe 2Oih. on suspicion Of their having
been stolen. One of them is a mare
ana has white face, the other is
b. horse slightly knee.sprung. with
white hind left foot. The team was
left with West Albany man for
sale un,ier suspicious circumstances.
The Minneapolis Tribune says:
The trustees of the Minnesota Col.
lrge Hospital at recent meeting
elected VIM. ii. Byford, Jr., to ill
The chair of physical diagnosis. This
is IN important chair. and the trustees
have done well in securing the servi-
ces of one with the opportunities and
experience of this medical gentle
man
w. +. Canneday of Rochester is
harvesting his potatoes on his farm
i'm Bancroft. He has over 100 acres
there and elsewhere. He is not dis.
couraged at the present low prices of
the articles, and says he would not
take so cents per bushel for his crop,
prefering to hold them until spring,
when he thinks they will bring
price.
st. Peter Tribune: Last fall one of
the best farmers In NicOllet county
told us to put it in the paper that the
corn husks were very light and that
there would be i'm open winter, and
we SAW the same farmer again last
night, and he requests US to say that
the corn hnsks this fall are exceed
ingly heavy and for the natives to
look out for Il severe winter.
A gentleman from WinOna who is
travelling in Scotland, writes home
that the millers there are very eager
to obtain minnesota hard wheat"
unmixed with the soft varieties. 1t
appears that nearly all of the hard
wheat. SO called, sent to that country
from America, Is largely mixed with
soft wheat from Illinois, Iowa and
other States, the result being to de.
tract from the reputation of the Min
nesota product, which these mixtures
falsely profess to be.
Two confidence men of Minneapolis
fair opened conversation with a gen.
tleman of innocent appearances, said
to hail from KandiyOhi county. They
wanted him to risk something. on a
.'strap game" but he declined for a
time, and then expressed a desire to
put up 800 provided they could change
il $50 bill. They took the $50 and
gave the $50 difference, and he lost,
of course. The granger man left the
scene hurriedly. and the $50 proved
to he Il counterfeit.
Last Thursday Mr.. w. II. Rounse-
vile. proprietor of the st. Peter
creamery sold and shipped 10000
pounds of butter, and on the same
day Mr.. Schimmel sold about 5000
pounds When a town of this size
ships 1900 pounds of butter in one
day it is no wonder that butter is
scarce. On Friday butter was ad.
vanced from 25 cts. per pound to 80
cents. Those who have to buy butter
con ,ider it a little steep and good
many will try to get along with as
little as possible.
Millions Given Away.
Millions of Bottles of DIR. Kings New