The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1882-05-19
MINNESOTA INTELLIGENCE.

the present month.
A fine specimen of Mankato cemen,
is on exhibition in Land Commission
er brakes Office.
Red Wing talks of organizing q
stock company to manufacture grain
binding Irvine.
A fire at Rushford on Monday de-
stroyed property to the value Of $50,
600.
The county commissioners Of Nee.
ker county have let the contract for
building u county Jail in Litchfleld.
Judge Start and wife arrived at
home from their trip to Vermont, on
Friday Of last week.
Two cows were found i'm the reel.
tatiOn rooms of Carleton College,
Mortified, one day last week.
Hon. S. 8. Beman. State senator
from WinOna county, died at his
home in st. Charles Oh the 9th inst.
Nearly five thousand guests can be
accommodated at the hotels and
boarding houses at Lake NinnetOnka.
An offer of $4,000 has been made
to build hotel in CrookstOn, contin-
gent upon furnishing the site and u
bonus.
The Minnesota State Sunday School
ing at Rochester from the 9th to the
9Th of June.
Mrs. l.. l.. IIerrick and daughter,
who live near OrOnoco, came near
dying from eating popcorn that had
been soaked in arsenic water to kill
mice.
1t is reported that the Red river
has been twelve miles wide below
Grand Forks and extended across the
country to Grafton.
A Mr.. Fellows, of East Castle
Rock, has discovered that ChinclI.
bugs will not injure wheat grown on
land on which salt has been sOwn.
An Emergency Fire Company"
has been organized in st. Peter, COM
posed entirely of ladies'. This COM
pany did good service ut "a recent fire.
Duluth has the meanest man i'm the
world. He went into Berkelmann's
furniture store the other day and
asked for second hand coffin.
Rochester is endeavoring to secure
the construction of the Chicago,
DEBORAH & Minnesota railroad, a north
and south line from Iowa to the twin
cities.
1t is rumOred on good authority
that the Minneapolis millers will
build an elevator or 10000 bushels
capacity ut Willmar this summer:
that the plans for it have been an.
proved and the lumber ordered.
The county of Big Stone will vote
on the 3Oth inst. upon the question of
issuing $50, 900 in bonds to aid in the
construction of the Little Falls &
Dakota railroad from OrtOnville to
Morris.
The granite block pavement scheme
for Washington avenue, Minneapolis,
was formally abandoned by the
council the other evening, but its adj
herents died hard, and carried their
cedar block opponents down with
them.
A prominent breeder of thorough
bred stock near Rochester, has a
flock of 400 MerinO sheep. On May
. he Sheared rs of them, and they
averaged III pounds of wool per
head, One eve sheared % pounds of
wool.
1t is said that Thomas Taylor, ex-
county attorney for Scott county will
appear at the June term of the court
and prove that he did not write the
bribery letter attributed to him. The
forged promissory notes are "a different
matter.
Those who have examined the fruit
trees carefully say that the prospect
for good crop this year is very good,
and unless something happens Mime
sofa VIII raise more fruit-this year
than ever before.-St. Peter Tribune.
The Red Wing Adcance well says:
Let it be once understood, that
drunkenness is u crime and will be
punished ;ls such. and this pleading
of drunkenness as an excuse for other
crimes will soon become unknown"
The State board of health have in
structed DIR. Mayo to go To the town.
ship of Pleasant Grove, Olmsted
county, and collect the water from
several different parts Of the town.
and forward it to Red Wing to be
analysed. twenty nine persons have
Iin1 in Dlnnc,nt
epidemic. and the State board pro-
pose to know the cause of it.
III. =. Miller. of st. Peter, was on
Tuesday nominated to fill vacancy
in the United States consulate at
Guayaqnil, Ecuador. The salary is
$3.50 and fees amounting to about
81 800. The new counsul served
several terms as senator from the
twenty-fourth district. He is ma
tive of Germany, and his parents
moved to Minnesota in 1856.
THE FREE PRESS of Mankoto says
that Mayor Maxlield has given orders
to close the saloons on Sunday. In
doing this he has merely complied
with the requirements of the State
law, as well us, doubtless of the local
ordinances. The same action ought
to he taken in every city of the State,
and the order enforced. There is 10
reason why salOonkeepers should be
made a favored class, to be allowed to
disobey with IMMUNITY such laws as it
does not suit them to observe.-St.
Cloud Journal Press.
At the sale of State and school
lands ut Warren in 1881. Rev. G.. Il.
Brecount, then pastor of the NJ. f.
church at CroOkstcn. bid in an eighty
acre tract at SIS per acre. He has
just completed the sale of his contract
to HARDWOOD & BrinkerhOff of Fargo
for Sc, 900 in cash. AS the first pay
ment to the State together with
breaking cost less than $500, the
reverend gentleman realizes over
IS 500 net. The purchasers only
bought his right, and have to com.
plete the payments to the State.
Mr.. J. S. Whitney, of Pleasant
Grove township, Olmsted county, has
very fine farm of 400 acres. On the
farm he has 400 fine merino sheep,
rs Berkshire hogs, and 10 red Berk.
shires, all registered stock. He also
has one ShorthOrn bull which weighs
1900 pounds, and ten ShorthOrn
cows. On Monday of last week, Mr..
Whitney sheared rs merinO sheep
which averaged Tx pounds of wool
each, one eve shearing % pounds of
wool. The balance of his sheep will
be sheared in June. Mr.. Whitney
has only IS acres sowed to wheat this
year, the balance being sOwed to
timothy, clover, corn, etc. He sold
last wear $l $50 worth of speds nrin.