Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-03-21
NORTHWESTERN NEWS.
MINNESOTA.

NORTHWESTERN NEWS.
MINNESOTA.
NoRTHcoTE people are anxious to give
a bonus of $4,000 toward the erection of
a Touring mill.
L. L. MINER, of Eagle Lake, Blue
Earth County, in period of ten days
lost five children by diphtheria.
J. HARRowsM1rH, living in Pipestone
County, was frozen to death, on Thurs
day evening of last week, while return
ing home intoxicated.
STEVENS COUNTY will issue $50, 1000
bonds OF which 500, 900 will be issued to
build a court house and Jail and the
balance to pay the floating debt.
The Chatfield Democrat gives an ac-
count of the death of Mr.. 81. p. Cole
man while under the influence of chloro.
form in dental chair. The case is one
of peculiar sadness.
A SYNDICATE of gentlemen of Winona
have purchased 10000 acres of pine
lands in Mississippi and are contemplate
ing still further Investments in the val
liable pine regions of the south. The
extensive purchase made by them is
located on tributaries of the Pearl and
Wolf Rivers in the state of Mississippi.
The estimated stumpage on the land
purchased is 250,000 feet to each forty
acres.
Mr.. DAVID BRowE, a well-to-do far.
mer who lives near Reinbeck, came to
his death by drowning Thursday night.
He left Morrison about I'D o'clock in the
evening with a load of corn, and was
never again seen alive. The theory
which obtains among those who discov-
cred his body is that his horses became
unmanageable and entered Mosquito
Creek; that he there attempted to un-
hitch in order to lead the animals from
the water, and in doing so became en-
tangled in the harness and was unable
to extricate himself, and drowning was
the result. Mr.. Brown leaves family.
Dakota.
A MAN named Ford, living just north
OF Firesteel, Aurora County, has strucka
vein of coal eight feet thick in digging
we'll.
AN old man and woman having lost
their way on prairie near the Little
Missouri, lived for three days in snow
house without food or fire and we're
found afterwards by party of hunters.
The man died in few days from the ef-
fects of the exposure.
JOHN LIND, David Evans and H. n.
Moline received the contract to carry
the mail between Tracy and Water
town, a distance of 100 miles, for $40 q
trip. The department at Washington
cancelled the contract, claiming that $50
trip was sufficient pay.
SHERIFF CoMFoRD, of Fort Pierre,
Dakota, brother of Sheriff .Comford, Of
Dawson County, and we1 known to
many citizens of this place, was attacked
by three cowboys at Pierre few days
ago and received q bullet through the
shoulder. he retaliated by killing the
trio with his unerring "44."
DELEGATE PETT1aREw has succeeded
in inducing the commissioner of agricul-
ture to set aside a portion of the fund
appropriated by c@agress for sinking
arlesisn wells; for Expenditure in the
sunk on the line of the Northern Pacific
and the wagon road from Pierre to the
Black Hills.
The commissioner of agriculture has
just completed an official report upon
the resources of Dakota for the benefit
of emigrants. It embraces the descrip-
ton of the soil, climate, topography and
natural resources of that section. 1t also
gives the official record of the rainfall
and temperature from the different sig
nal stations in Dakota. It gives the To-
cation of the timber, and the heights
above the different portions of the terri
tory. For instance, it shows that the
James River valley is much lower than
the Missouri River valley. It shows that
Huron is 1000 feet above the sea, while
Pierre, which is exactly west, is 1900
feet above. jamestown is 1880 feet
above the sea. The Red River valley is
from $50 to 900 feet-70O feet at Penn
bina, 900 feet at Fargo. The report also
shows the population and material devel-
opment of each of the organized counties,
what kind Of grain flourish best in, each
county and the adaptation of the Black
Hills country for grazing purposes.