The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1883-05-31

4uc SCdle UOdIu VI COIIeCt1OuS duu CllarlCleS
met at the capitol Tuesday morning. There
were present Gov. Hubbard, Gen. Berry OF
Winona, Hon. H. r. Wells Preston, Judge
Young, Minneapolis, Hon. W. w. Camp
bell. Litchfeld, and DR.. Dana, st. Paul.
The Office of permanent secretary was ten
dered Rev. 81. II. Hart, of Worthington,
and lis understood that he will accept.
Rev. DR.. Dana, q member of the board,
submitted lengthy port on the objects
in view, which was spread upon the records.
It showed the uses OF boards of inspection
in general-the statements covering the
same ground as did those made at length in
the last legislature when the bill creating
the board wis under discussion. It will be
necessary for the board, and especially its
secretary, to be thoroughly informed as to
the methods obtaining in public institu-
tons of other states, and correspondence
with similar boards must be opened and
kept up. DR.. Dana flu ther says:
10 an extent we may not anticipate will
careful and thorough inspection reveal
abuses existing, particularly in city jails and
county poor houses. 1t is in the county
most likely to exist, because of INSULT
clent appropriations, or because county
boards are constituted without reference to
the duties they have to perform. Hence it
comes to pass that the insane have been
found SO often mingled with the inmates of
the poor house; that young children have
been found growing up therein in idleness,
and lothing habits of vice; that in country
jails the sexes are not separated properly,
and that the cells are overcrOwded; that Of
tenders committed for the first time are
often imprisoned with hardened criminals
while awaiting trial, and are by the latter
initiated into ways of crime, and our city
prisons thus converted into schools of vice
and crime.
The board, after transacting other bust
ness, adjourned to meet July 10 at 10 a. m.
E. s. Sprague, the bonanza farmer of
Moorhead, has put in 5000 acres of wheat
this spring.
Secretary OF state Won Baumbach has re-
ceived letter from the secretary state
of Michigan, stating that from reports of
farmers abont 10 per cent. OF the winter
wheat was killed and that the spring wheat
would be about an average of IS per cen
of the usual crop.
The ten-year-old girl OF Sumter, Mcleod
county, on the charge of raping whom Ed
ward Coffin of Hutchinson was arrested
few days ago, is the daughter of William
hauken. A medical examination revealed
no positive evidence of ravishment, and the
evidence against Coffin appears wholly con-
fined to the child's story.
Mrs. Holmes assaulted her husband with
a razor at Pennington, and he beat her Sc
verely with a club. She was arrested, but
slipped out of custody, and is still at
large.
DR.. Sheldon Brooks, a prominent pionee
citizn of Winona, died in that city on the
10th, within one day of his seventy-second
birthday. HIS wife and three sons sarvive
hilr-l. r. Brooks of Winona, D. F.
Brooks of Minneisks, and A. 8. Brooks OF
Grand Forks, Dak.
At the meeting of the Olmsted county ag-
ricultural society it was decided to hold
their annual fair. here in connection with
the southern Minnesota fair association,
from September 10 to Is.
Hon. John Franks cheese factory, at lie
Roy, Mower county, started up April l, and
is turning out $50 to 800 pounds of Limburg-
or and cream cheese daily. He is milking
eighty COWS of his own. He expects to
make nearly forty tons of cheese this year.
J. s. Harris president of the Minnesota
state horticultural society, was in Rochester
recently in consultation with the southern
Minnesota fair association. The horticul-
tural society will make large exhibit at
the fair in September In Rochester.
Msnkato recently paid out SIS, 900 for cat
tie, to be shipped to Montana and other
western points.
Prof. Charles II. Cooper of Dartmouth is to
take the chair of history at Carleton College,
Mortified. He is graduate of Dartmouth,
and stands very high in the appreciation of
those who know him. His wife is an hon
ored graduate of Wellesley, and Mortified,
as well a. the college, is TO be congratulated
on this accession to its Christian AID liter
ary society. ID.
A large delegation Of Minneapolis Odd
Fellows are to attend the meeting Of the
Supreme Temple Patriare q Circle % be
James and J. a. Washburn Of Nam
kato have gone. on trip to the Pacific
CO Il. They will visit especially Washing
ton Territory and Oregon.