The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1882-06-30
MINNESOTA INTELLIGENCE.

able dimensions is now making things
lively i'm WOrthiDgtOn.
The house of ID. f. Sawyer of Pine
Island was burglarized the other
night to the amount of S400 in money,
watches and other articles.
Last week 10000 trout were re-.
ceived from the state fishery to be
placed in the streams of Olmsted
county.
The smallpox in Culdrum, Morri.
son county, is believed 10 be under
control, and no new cases are now
expected.
A second child of Mr.. and Mrs.
Wagner. of Hastings, died last week
of diphtheria after a sickness OF nine.
teen days.
The State Auditor says that the
seed grain tax must he included in
the tax of 1881 and collected the same
us other taxes.
A COW thief was arrested in Min
ncsOta City the other day and was
| lotSCu AL jail. 1lc isVi StOlcIl IWO
cows from widow woman.
Dodge County Express: The dun
nell whisky bill' is dead. Window
killed 1t, and now the Dunnell organs
are madden at Window than ever.
The Sherman guards of Neillsville,
Wis, have applied to the WinOna
guards for permission to join them
in going TO the State encampment at
White Bear Lake.
The Minneapolis lumbermen are
about to commence the biggest sea-
sou on record, and the number of feet
sawed this year bids fair to exceed
by 40 per cent. the amount turned
out any previous year.
Cargill Bros Mule farm" over
in Martin county this year sheared
1000 pounds of wool from 600 sheep.
The wool sells at profit of Sl.88
per sheep. This demonstrates that
there is money in sheep.
Burglars entered the residence of
Frank Frost at AnOka and secured
$l4O in cash, a gold and IA silver
watch and other valuables. Several
other citizens were visited and contrib
uted small sums in money and
trinkets.
| During the past week the Touring
mills of Minneapolis have made an
average daily production of 1000
barrels, which is thought pretty good
considering some of the mills are only
running to a small portion of their
respective capacities.
Jackson Republic: We commend
to our Alliance friends the resolu-
tions passed ut the Mankato cOnven-
ton. and the speech of Mr.. Wake
field. 1t may occur to them that a
better man than James b. Wakefield
Ia protect their interests can not be
found.
Young wolves are again numerous
at Cedar Lake. Few have been
trapped this season, hence chicken
rOosts and sheep pens will suffer by
and by. A grand hunt in the fall is
being agitated. Some might be killed
and many frightened further back
into the woods i'm this way.
The big ilouring-mill of Winona is
running regularly night and day,
turning out seven hundred barrels of
-four every twenty-four hours. The
wheat problem is becoming IL serious
one with this mill, us 1t has only
about two weeks supply i'm sight,
with wheat growing scarcer every
day.
Browns Valley is going to cele-
biate. Fifteen hundred Indians will
hc present, and will be the actors in
the exercises of the day. There will
he sham battle, Indian games, an
Grafton by Chief Renville and music
by the only Indian band i'm existence.
a local paper says the programme
will eclipse anything of the kind ever
seen. 1t will surely he a novel
method of celebrating to most peO.
pie.
New Ulm fully comprehends the
terrible condition of the Iowa suffer.
ers, and at u meeting recently held
raised fund OF $3.50 for the relief of
the cyclone sufferers of Grinnell and
Malcolm. 1t is less than an year ago
that New Ulm was nearly demolished
by hurricane, and remembering how
magnifcently the call for aid was re.
sponded to, return their gratitude by
prompt reciprOcation.
Martin County Sentinel: Mr.. Wake
field has some very bitter opponents
among the good Republicans of Mar.
tin county. Whether there is just
cause for their opposition we shall
not now stop to discuss. He is their
candidate, fairly and honestly chosen,
and it is their duty to throw aside
personal prejudices, gracefully sub
init to the will of the majority and
give him their support and votes.
The St. Louis accommodation going
west over the Chicago. Milwaukee &
st. Paul railroad, ran into q washed
out culvert at Aurora about three
O'Clock, Saturday, the engine and
three freight cars going down into q
heap. Musser, the engineer, was
buried beneath the engine and crushed
to a jelly. The fireman sustained
serious injuries, and was taken out
and sent to Austin on a special train
sent from that place. No other
persons were injured.
st. Cloud JOurndi.Press The air
has been full of rumOrs during the
past week of the mutilating. manning
for life, death, destruction and total
annihilatiOn of the tramp Dale, caused
by the thrashing given him by Officer
Becker, rs us reported in last weeks
Journal Press. We can assure our
readers upon reliable authority that
the man was not seriously injured,
and that, If he were not living SO
sumptuously ut the expense of our
neighbOrs across the river, would
doubtless have resumed his travels
long ago.
Rochester Union d Record Our soil
is prone to weeds, more so than most
of the States in the Union. The
only safety for the farmer is to keep
the upper hand of them all of the
time. This can only be accomplished
by starting in as soon as they make
their appearance In the spring and
wage eternal war on them all sum.
mer long. Some way or other the
seed appears to be in the virgin soil.
How they get there no one can tell,
but they spring up spontaneously
after one or two crops have been
gathered from the land.
A correspondent writing to the
GlyndOn Netcs. saws that Winninao 10