Morris tribune., 1883-02-07

WILL J. Gordon, agent of Keith Bros, of
Chicago who died recently at Fargo,
leages G widowed mother in Sank Rapids,
and wife, the daughter Of leonard Robin
N Of Haven, with child, now living IL
st. Paul.
The state grange of Minnesota will meet
at the agricultural college, Minneapolis, on
Tuesday, Feb. Is. A feature Of the meeting
will be the electing Of officers for the ensu-
ing year.
Moorhead was lighted last week for the
first time with the electric light, the iorssFt
lamps hui ming with great brilliancy.
"Uncle" Dick Smith who lived a
bachelor life on a homestead in the town of
Alberta, about twenty-five miles from Sank
Rapids, week ago last Friday, returned
home after walking long distance through
the cold, put his stock in the barn and went
into the house to kindle fire, but was I'M
able to do so, and took to the bed. A few
days afterwards he was found badly frozen.
He was taken to Sank Rapids where he soon
after died.
D. S. Hall, register of the y. s. office at
Benson, writes: We are instructed by the
commissioner of the general land office to
notify parties whose land patents are in this
Office ready for delivery, that upon the sur
render of their duplicate certificates of entry
their papers will be delivered to them
There ere now IN this Office over 5000 pat
ents for land in Hennepin, Wright, Renville,
Kandiyohi, Swift, Pope, Chippewa, Lac qui
Parle, Yellow Medicine, Stevens and Big
Stone counties. Many of these patents, for
lands in Hennepin and Wright counties es.
pecially, have been issued for more than
twenty years. They should be delivered and
recorded in the proper county. 1t is lmpos-
sible to find the pos Office address OF many
who doubtless own much land and have neg
lected to receive and record their only evil
dence of title. A publication of the above
condition of affairs may bring it to the no.
tice of some of the parties interested.
At DasseI, recently, at midnight, A. D.
Stages farmhouse burned to the ground, and
four children, two boys aged four and seven,
and two girls aged ten and twelve, per-
ished In the flames. The family slept up
stains, and the fire caught in the kitchen,
giving the parents barely time to escape.
Mr.. Stage, clad only in his night dress,
tried to reach q neighbours but lay down in
the snow and would have died if he had
not been found. Mrs. Stage had her names
and feet badly frozen before assistance came.
Frank Rose Wilmar butcher was fined
ST. the other day Tor cruelty beating an old
WORKOUT OK he had bought for So. The
beast fell down from weakness, and Rose
drove his team over it, after beating it a
long time.
Judge NJ. L. Brown says that if the offer
of $3.50 reward for the detection of the Shak
opee grave robbers is put in some tangible
shape, he will reveal the names of thu
guilty parties.
wv. Emery has been appointed post
master at Pennington, MINI.
Joseph Holton, not A. r. Bolton, was
caught out in the blizzard north OF Lake
Park last week, and 1t was not until the next
nothing that he found his way to the
d'Englebronner farm. He dug his way I'M
der huge snow drift, and managed to keep
from freezing during the night, though the
mercury registered on that morning in tbs
neighborhood of 30 deg. below. The team
he drove was valuable. One horse was fro,
zen and the other escaped all right.