The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1882-07-13
Miscellaneous Neeus Notes.

A meeting of the Utah commission will
be C lied by Gov. Ramsey as soon as the bill
now before congress, appropriating the
money needed to carry out the provisions Of
the Edmunds law, and increasing the sal
aries of the commissioners from $1,000 to
5000 per annum, passes, which it will prob
ably do within a fortnight. The date Of the
meeting is likely to be the early part of All
gust and the place Chicago St. Louis was
urged by Commissioner Pettigrew Of Arkan-
sas, but other members objected on account
OF the intense heat sure to be encountered
there during this season, The Utah election,
proximo, will have to be postponed, as the
voters could not be legally registered in
time
& Magill elevators on the Northern Pacific
by the millers has not been consummated,
nor is it likely to be. Special privileges are
inal owners by the railway company which
it is now impossible to transfer, and other
considerations have arisen which have con-
spired to defeat the sale.
The crop reports from thirty eight coun-
tics in Nebraska show that rye and barley
has begun in the eastern and southern coun-
ties and all the crops promise a fair yield.
Corn, wheat and oats are in unusually large
yield. In three counties where damage was
done by hail the corn is recovering and the
yield of those counties will be as good as a
whole. Fruit will be abundant along the
Missouri river
An autopsy on the remains of James H.
Madden of Leadville dscloses the largest
brain on record, sixty-two and one-quarter
ounces. The autopsy, however, doesn't dis
close the texture of the fibre nor the quality
that the dead gamblers mental mechanism
was sadly misapplied or better results might
have been obtained.
Ten thousand acres of land in the James
River valley, Virginia, have been purchased
by the Hungarian colonization society of
New York, which is seeking similar &C
QUESTION in New Jersey. The purpose Of
the society is to settle Hungarians whom it
will bring from their native country on these
lands.
The Winneagoshish and Leech Lake In
dams have not yet been paid the amount
awarded them for damages on account of the
construction of reservoirs on their lands, and
Indian Agent C. P. L,lsc is being put to some
Inconvenience ard trouble in consequence OF
the delay.
At the meeting Of the st. Paul council the
fire commissioners asked authority to pur-
chase two engines of the third or fourth class
for the fourth and fifth wards respectively,
together with 800 feet Of hose for each,
and, also Babcock extingllisher on wheels.
Chicago's new directory contains Isl, $50
names, on which her enthusiastic editors es-
innate population for the city
Of 1890, bringing the garden city to
the front as the second in rank Of the cities
of the Union.
During June 9G19 immigrants passed
through Milwaukee. OF this number 1853
found homes in Wisconsin, 4, 1O1 in Min
nesota, 73O in Michigan and - in Iowa.
DR.. ]. C. Hartzell of Cincinnati and New
Orleans is busy arranging for nationa
educational assembly, to be held at Ocean
Grove, n. j., August and 9.
The Russian immigration aid committee
of Philadelphia, has notified the English
committee that no more refugees can be
cared for in that city.
The signal service observer at Little Rock,
Ark, reports that the wind blew at the rate
of y to 1870 miles per hour on Monday
night.
The New York delegates to the Chicago
convention of 1880 has been notified to call
for the BOG Grant medal.
The Tobey pasture, i'll Texas, contains
45. 900 acres, and is to be encircled with sixty
miles of wire fence
Another 5000 barrel gusher oil we'll has
been struck in the New Warren Pa district.
Heavy rains and washouts have occurred
at Duluth.